spiralpolitik

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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Watch what happens when the bottom finally drops out of Intel and the cloud retreats behind their own custom ARM or RISC-V server optimized SoCs. Open hardware sources will dry-up. There are very few OSS hardware vendors that are in a posit
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The latest Ergodox model now has USB-C.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
It's the same everywhere. Right now everyone in the chain is squeezing the level below them for as much as possible. The coffee shop near where I work is a small business and their landlord increases the rent regardless of market condi
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The fact that the UK government allowed ARM to be sold to Softbank in the first place speaks volumes for how much the UK government values engineering.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Pretty common in the US verses the EU/UK. The basic middle income set would be: A checking account A savings account (might be at the same institution as the checking, might not) From your employment you may have. - A 401k Account - A
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The main issue with Amtrak is the delays. Freight is prioritized over passenger trains on a lot the lines so you can quickly fall behind schedule. This is compounded over the distance so can add up. If you don't need to be at your dest
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
No issues with eSIM on my end. I switched my number as soon as it was supported 3-4 iPhones ago and have migrated it myself between devices on each upgrade with no issues. Similar for my iPads. No issues moving eSIM between iPads on upgrade
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
A future for Emacs would be to separate out the underlying engine from the ui layer. That way the TUI and a more GUI based Emacs could evolve separately without one being hamstrung by the other.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
In the UK a lot of NHS trusts now require you book doctors appointments via the internet. The majority of UK government services now push you to self service via the internet. At this point life in the UK without an internet connection woul
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The intention of privatization in the UK was never to improve service. It was to transfer wealth from the public to the private sector. From this perspective it's been successful. From the perspective of the British public it's be
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
I remember when they rolled out DNS over HTTPs and set the default to "Fallback Mode" effectively highjacking DNS for most users. Good times figuring out why users couldn't access certain sites after ignoring the vague opt-ou
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Deno is great. I put together a website using Lume super quickly and it was a refreshing change from using Node etc. Some annoyances, mostly around the Deno Deploy side of things, but otherwise I'm a huge fan.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
The NHS has been driven to the point of bankruptcy over the last 13 years with austerity and underfunding. In the UK if you can afford it, you go private for most common procedures. Most people can’t so are stuck with long waiting times and
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
My guess is the fact that existing jpeg images can be transcoded to jpeg-xl losslessly is the driving feature. This gives an easy migration path for existing sites that don't have high resolution masters that can be re-encoded into AV1
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
If you use a service like Cloudinary then it will detect the appropriate image format to serve to the browser based on the request. I would expect JPEG-XL to start being served to Safari clients once macOS 14 and iOS 17 are released. Chrome
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Only Google can make changes to the WebP specification and can do so unilaterally. The JPEG-XL specification is governed by a recognized standards body (ISO).
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
See the link below for benefits and examples: https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im... The big one is that you can transcode existing JPEG files effectively and reversibly to JPEG XL without any
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
On MacOS/iOS the ImageIO framework handles encoding and decoding images. Adding support for your image format to that framework means everything else just works once the image is decoded. Another framework, CoreImage, provides generic
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Lying to a federal investigator is an offense. It's usually how the feds get you if they can't make anything else stick (see Martha Stewart). Usually with the border patrol stops a vehicle they ask if there are any non-citizens in
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
This matches my recent experiences in London. Almost every major street in the center had office space available to rent and if you take a walk through some of the newer "residential" developments south of the river in Vauxhall an
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
You don’t have to replace them. You just need to reduce the income from search based ads by enough to cause them to implode. Hard to fund loss leaders like Android with say 20% less revenue.
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Google right now are Netscape in 1997. They see AI in the rear view mirror. They think it’s going to eat their primary revenue stream. The question is are they going to keep staring in the rear view mirror and go over the cliff or can they
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
Not surprising given that the Westfield was in decline prior to the pandemic. When the Apple Store moved up to Union Square it seemed to shift foot traffic patterns so that there wasn't any real reason to cross Market Street to go into
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by spiralpolitik 3y ago
> however if the suit is successful: every company/individual that has used it is likely suddenly liable for millions of claims of copyright infrigement Only if you can prove that you are the copyright owner of the original work. Th
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
Huge world-view shift from Intel. Likely the precursor to splitting the fab part of Intel from the design part with the intention of spinning one or the other off. It also underscores the reality that Intel doesn't think it can keep it
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
I recently rewatched the first season (and some of the second) and it stands up pretty well. The first season is uneven as the show was finding its feet and the stuff that feels dated are the early 90s TV Tropes that every show from that pe
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
Short answer is no. In terms of co-ordinating the work, it's not about make sure that work is getting done, it's about making sure that the right work is getting done at the right time. Usually the role of the manager becomes wran
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
From my experiences there are two lessons: There is usually a sweet spot in terms of size where being on the public cloud makes sense, both from a cost and management perspective. Once you go above that size then having to manage IAM starti
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
This is 100% what prevents me from using paid fonts with views/month. In a lot of cases, you cannot predict ahead of time what your page views are going to be. All it takes is a page to go viral on social media and you've blown th
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by spiralpolitik 4y ago
POSIX was largely an attempt to get everyone to agree on the bits that everyone agreed on, which turned out to be not a lot beyond the basics. There was no political will to standardize the layers above POSIX and the standards that attempte

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