trollied

64 ms·

901.
by trollied 7y ago
> May be had Apple created their own MVNO this problem could be solved. I think the only reason they haven't is because they don't want the customer service headache that running & supporting a network generates. Bad signal
902.
by trollied 7y ago
For security reasons, I guess. You can't really just let people load any old .so that could happily fopen() anything it wants on the host etc. They need to vet them.
903.
by trollied 7y ago
A good modern day story of how not to hide $4 billion is Jho Low: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jho_Low The book that chronicles (Billion Dollar Whale) is a real page turner, with lots of it being unbelievable. Seen
904.
by trollied 7y ago
I find Slack to be terrible unless used properly. Non-developers really don’t understand how bad it is to be interrupted when “in the zone”. I am way more productive if left to check email/slack of my own accord, when an appropriate ti
905.
by trollied 7y ago
Definitely waiting for Apple to buy them & integrate into macOS/iOS/iPadOS. Apple use 1Password themselves.
906.
by trollied 7y ago
That's amazing. I love watching things like this. Any idea how much it costs to hire such a ship?
907.
by trollied 7y ago
I have a spare Lite key if anyone wants it
908.
by trollied 7y ago
The CPU in your machine probably doesn’t support native video encoding extensions, thus taking a massive performance hit encoding the video stream for Sidecar. I believe that’s why Apple did this. Happy to be corrected on this, by the way.
909.
by trollied 7y ago
I guess what I don't get is that the service needs to be rolled out/restarted too. Doesn't the data just live in a database & there's a cache going on that can be invalidated? Or is everything just so overcomplicated
910.
by trollied 7y ago
It seems crazy to me that you'd have to do a HTTP(S) request to find out whether a day was a working day. A HTTP(S) call which then probably does a DB lookup over the network. Just seems like an extra layer of overhead, when you could
911.
by trollied 7y ago
I've found that frequent face-to-face video calls works well to establish a rapport & make the remote working experience seem more "local".
912.
by trollied 7y ago
2 moths ago I started a work from home role (dev) for a company that is 200 miles away. I didn't even need to go to the office as everything was done via video call & they couriered me a decent MacBook Pro. Having come from a compa
913.
by trollied 7y ago
If I ever took this flight I’d probably be stuck next to a screaming child, with a seat kicker behind me and a full flight duration seat recliner in front of me :D
914.
by trollied 7y ago
“ But Python would be slower right ? Turns out it isn't and in fact for some of my datasets (that had over 100,000 users in them) it was 17 times faster. I also made sure that the Python version doesn't pull the entire nameservi
915.
by trollied 7y ago
I once lost my wallet the night of a work Christmas party. Went through the trauma of cancelling cards etc, getting some cash from the bank branch to tide me over, using my passport as ID. A real pain. Found it a few months later in the bac
916.
by trollied 7y ago
I took voluntarily redundancy 15 years ago & got an ok payout. The company that let me go paid me handsomely at a contract rate for many years after Laws are different to America though. In the UK you’ll get a bit of cash & they hav
917.
by trollied 7y ago
So the window manager just takes a raw stream of the video from the browser on the USB-based machine & sends input requests to & fro? Sounds like the old days with X11. export DISPLAY=win:0.0
918.
by trollied 7y ago
I bought a K6. It was amazing compared to Intel at the time . No regrets
919.
by trollied 7y ago
In the UK current account deposits are insured up to £85k. Northern Rock went pop ~8 years ago and the public did not lose money - the government did though.
920.
by trollied 7y ago
> is a "legacy" bank going to pay several billion dollars to acquire a nice app with an unprofitable business behind it? I doubt it You’re not buying that though. You’re buying the customer base. Getting another couple of milli
921.
by trollied 7y ago
Original issue thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21049093
922.
by trollied 7y ago
Agree. Just a shame that Solaris wasn't Open Sourced sooner, as if it'd grown more traction we'd be in a different world now. I think Linux kind of creeped up on them, and in the meantime Oracle got its grubby its on Sun, the
923.
by trollied 7y ago
Someone’s already got it working on macOS: https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1176893448445558784
924.
by trollied 7y ago
How to use it on macOS: https://twitter.com/saurik/status/1176893448445558784?s=21 (Not my Twitter account, just saw it on my timeline)
925.
by trollied 7y ago
Link to the actual board: https://store.arduino.cc/mkr-vidor-4000 €62.90
926.
by trollied 7y ago
Related: spy satellites used to drop film back to Earth periodically https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jpzpkg/the-first-spy-sate...
927.
by trollied 7y ago
I did the same. Moved abroad in my mid 20s, effectively restarting my life in several respects. It can be hard to make new friends when you're in your late 30s/early 40s, but I'm ok with just a few.
928.
by trollied 7y ago
Oh, wow. Didn’t realise that GPS satellites were equipped with Bhangmeters, used to detect flashes caused by nuclear detonations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhangmeter
929.
by trollied 7y ago
Wow, really enjoyed reading that. Thank you!
930.
by trollied 7y ago
His SO profile: https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet

More ›