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by varenc 3y ago
I tried for awhile and the lowest rated items with more than 10 reviews where 3-stars. This 3-star listing has 30 reviews: https://www.amazon.com/low-rated-item-varenc-found/dp/B099Q6... And here's a 1 star i
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by varenc 3y ago
To your original point, from that link seems like fast food workers don’t even make the top 25 when it’s per capita. The fast food worker stat seems irrelevant but agree there’s many more dangerous occupations than police.
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by varenc 3y ago
My interpretation is that Google/Meta do only reproduce short excerpts, however short excerpts is all many people ever read. If those excerpts satisfy people’s interests, then they never end up visiting the actual new sites. Even on HN
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by varenc 3y ago
I'm sure others know waaay more about this, but I think it's a thing you can improve locally. Though usually I think of it as the other way around, where maxing out upload severely impacts download. My understanding is that this c
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by varenc 3y ago
It’s a new proposed standard that’s gaining support. People are building alternative party implementations for it: https://github.com/network-quality/goresponsiveness Try running it with `-s` to see if you get speed te
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by varenc 3y ago
It tests your bandwidth while fully saturating your upload AND your download. If maxing out your upload has a huge impact on your download (like, a 70% drop), then that’s probably a sign you could tweak your network for better flow control.
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by varenc 3y ago
“ to anything ” is the key difference. MacOS only lets you remap it to other control keys.
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by varenc 3y ago
`open -a ...` tab completion has been horribly slow for years because Apple hasn’t updated their completion definition. I replied with a work around on this SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63097652
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by varenc 3y ago
> The manifest has ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION. This seems like the problem? And it explains why the app can upload your GPS coordinates directly after querying the Android location APIs. According to the developer docs, Bluetooth apps should o
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by varenc 3y ago
Thanks for those great tools recs. Had never seen mvt before and I'm running a check of my local iTunes backup with it now! (Funnily, this seems one of the easier ways to backup my text message history into an easily searchable form)
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by varenc 3y ago
My experience is mostly limited to iOS where adding a trusted root CA is relatively easy. It's uncommon for the average app, but most of the big ones do it. iOS itself cert pins most things as well. But on Android, since adding a new C
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by varenc 3y ago
edit: changed my original reply after I read the docs: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue... On Android apps that don't use Bluetooth to derive location, and assert that they do
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by varenc 3y ago
Sadly certificate pinning is becoming pretty common in my experience. Most of the "big apps" do it. That means that even if you trust your own CA you still can't MITM the traffic. On iOS you need to jailbreak a device to over
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by varenc 3y ago
Location permission is required because with Bluetooth access alone an app can essentially locate a device already by checking nearby device addresses against a database of known locations. Similar to how scanning WiFi BSSIDs can also deter
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by varenc 3y ago
Doesn’t that still just favor people with more money? If you’re tight on money you won’t be able to afford the deposit. And if you’re really rich you still don’t care about the deposit. Also in many places the camping fee itself is already
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by varenc 3y ago
I don't believe there's any clear evidence for this theory, though that doesn't mean anything. Die offs from disease don't really leave anything in the fossil record. But it's hard to favor a hypothetical explanatio
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by varenc 3y ago
That's a great gesture and I appreciate it, but it's still a lot more friction than just a free trial. Is the concern with a free trial that people will pirate it?
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by varenc 3y ago
Yes it says so on the page. It seems to need your OpenAI access token and then calls those APIs directly. This also means you cover the cost of OpenAI API access.
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by varenc 3y ago
I wish I could try it out first. Otherwise it’s a tough sell for me. There’s no demo/trial version right? It looks promising but I’m hesitant to spend money on software I’ve never even used. I think the try-then-buy approach also align
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by varenc 3y ago
If you're in California you can opt-out of all sale of your personal data on LexisNexus here: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california In theory, it's a one-step process, though we'll see. Also
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by varenc 3y ago
Doh! Thanks for the spot. The 2nd part is actually from a different scene, but I combined them both and updated the links above.
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by varenc 3y ago
The video quality of that clip was so bad I uploaded a new 1080p version to YouTube: https://youtu.be/dxhWybPCEpI If you want to avoid YouTube, here's just the video: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s
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by varenc 3y ago
Another minor nit: the homepage isn’t really very mobile friendly. I think any Reddit replacement needs good mobile usability and the homepage not being too mobile friendly isn’t a great sign. I absolutely love the project though! Will chec
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by varenc 3y ago
From the video, you can turn the headset into an external display for your Mac[0]. This is critical since I'm doubtful I'd be able to get much work down in visionOS alone. The use case I imagine is that you still use your laptop k
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by varenc 3y ago
Ah that totally makes sense and seems like it's Apple's way of tacitly acknowledging that people around you can hear the built-in speakers. With the immersion level turned down it seems like the noise cancelling AirPods will be a
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by varenc 3y ago
The audio isn't noise cancelling. The speakers are on the strap right by your ears so you'll still hear everything else around you. If anything my concern on flights would be that someone next to me can hear my audio, not that I c
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by varenc 3y ago
This is great news for the housing affordability crisis. Sure we should build more housing and that helps an incremental amount, but reducing home value across the board is a much bigger lever. Of course there’s many interests that understa
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by varenc 3y ago
Relatedly, I run a Twitter bot that tweets every time a poop is reported to the city: https://twitter.com/poopscoopsf (After many years of running, the bot seems broken. Not sure if I’ll fix it this time.)
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by varenc 3y ago
18kHz is inside the human hearing range, though at the far end. The ultrasonic sound in these mice experiments was 3.2 MHz, for 50ms duration, and pulsed 10 times a second. Not sure if the 18kHz sound you were subjected to and this mice ex
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by varenc 3y ago
The people with PermitRootPassword=no are also the ones that’ll have weak default password. It’s probably actually saving the attackers time that allowing root password login and bad password choice occur together. If everyone with randomiz

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