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by varenc 5y ago
I agree this is desirable for users, but platform lock in is a desirable property for most of the major device manufacturers. How do we motivate Sonos/Google/Apple/Philips Hue/Amazon/etc to actually build in better
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by varenc 5y ago
The app actually looks decent, so it's a shame you spammed this without disclosing you founded the company or providing any additional context. Behavior like this makes me suspicious of things like your app store reviews. It's fin
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by varenc 5y ago
Thanks for the reply! Also wow I hadn't realize that Apple supports hardware decoding of Google's VP9 codec. Googling a bit, it looks like this is new in the M1 Macs. Though not sure if it supports AV01 yet? When I browse Youtu
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by varenc 5y ago
iTerm doesn't make a bootstrap script easy, but it's still possible. I do it. Use this to command to set the location of the iterm config folder: defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 PrefsCustomFolder -string "/path
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by varenc 5y ago
From the article: > "My current assumption is that the videotoolbox hardware decoding support doesn’t support the same codecs in mpv yet as it does in Firefox" mpv supports videotoolbox hardware decoding of h264/h265, it&#
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by varenc 5y ago
Do you run into any issues with your outgoing mail being marked as spam by the recipient? Particularly with GMail’s aggressive filtering? I imagine 99% of outgoing Amazon SES traffic is transactional or marketing email for various online se
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by varenc 5y ago
I lived in a very old SF house that had some original gas lamp fixtures. These are overhead lamps from the 1900s that burnt gas for illumination. There was a very faint gas smell in the entryway and we eventually traced it to one of thes
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by varenc 5y ago
Yea "Samantha" isn't a Siri voice. They aren't listed in `say -v '?'`, but you can address a Siri voice directly like this (if it's installed): say -v "com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.custom.sir
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by varenc 5y ago
Fun fact: Apples tries to prevent you from using virtual audio devices like BlackHole with macOS's dictation and speech to text features. I've been unable to get macOS to output the high quality Siri voice to a virtual audio devi
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by varenc 5y ago
For my family's semi-rural home I'm seeing that I can buy 0.5m (500cm) imagery from the last year for $250. No historical images with higher resolution I can buy. To task a new a photo at 40cm resolution would cost $1,800.00 from
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by varenc 5y ago
That seems different than sorting by time? My minor exa gripe is described here: https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/519 Lots of workarounds, even more available now, but I ended up switching to lsd and love
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by varenc 5y ago
They address this by having the video player stop buffering more than 30 seconds ahead. It's also less compute resources for the servers to send all the bytes for the next 30 seconds to a client at max speed, let the client disconnect
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by varenc 5y ago
Whoops, didn’t mean to include the link to that comment... that’s a much better explanation!
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by varenc 5y ago
Agreed. I gave up on exa because `ls -tr` doesn’t work.
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by varenc 5y ago
The work needed to bypass the rate limiting is pretty impressive: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184#issuecomme... An excerpt: > ...the challenge algorithm is served in a mini-language withi
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by varenc 5y ago
Agreed. The pressure to push numbers before an IPO will be even stronger after. Especially as control of the company/board shifts more towards returns focused shareholders.
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by varenc 5y ago
Arxiv isn’t supposed to be a badge of credibility. It’s literally the place any academic can dump a paper to have it stored free forever. Many academic papers that never make it into journals are stored there. From their homepage they say:
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by varenc 5y ago
Not sure what you're getting at? They released the Monterey, Big Sur, and Catalina security updates all at the exact same time. They're all vulnerable, and they all had patches released at once.
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by varenc 5y ago
Isn't Swift, which came from Apple, memory-safe in a single thread environment? It can't prevent data races at compile time like Rust, but I thought it was far safer in practice than C/C++/ObjC where I suspect all these
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by varenc 5y ago
They also released an update for Big Sur and Catalina: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222 No luck with High Sierra though. Its last update was in Nov 2020. Apple is notable for providing ZERO official guidance on
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by varenc 5y ago
Google maps doesn't seem to support `-exclude` like Google/DDG search does.
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by varenc 5y ago
Digression: Is it true that every single watt my CPU/server/electronics consume is ultimately turned into heat? To put it another way, does a server under a constant 500W produce the exact same amount of heat as a dumb 500W electr
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by varenc 5y ago
My interpretation is people just care about local news far less than they used to? I’m in a semi-major city and the local news is only a small part of my news consumption.
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by varenc 5y ago
On iOS you can see Apple’s telemetry in Settings -> Privacy -> Analytics -> Analytics Data. Or export with XCode. No idea if it’s exhaustive. But I can see things like general day by day analytics and recent crash reports. It’s a b
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by varenc 5y ago
Whoops I stand corrected. Wish I could edit my old comment. Looks like Kreb's definitely talked to the guy now indicted in their March 30th article. That makes the complete lack of acknowledgement quite a bit more damning.
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by varenc 5y ago
The site is down but you can see the archive.org backup here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211130194555/http://www.doleke... Wow, Bob Dole's campaign talks about internet policy in 1996 here: http
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by varenc 5y ago
They should have definitely acknowledged they covered this before. But also to be fair, quoting the article the reputation damage was done: “Following the publication of these articles, between Tuesday, March 30, 2021 and Wednesday March 31
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by varenc 5y ago
Major cities are still experiencing a rate of population growth much higher than the national average.
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by varenc 5y ago
Can you expand on that?
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by varenc 5y ago
I still use Alfred daily! Its development is going strong. I love Alfreds custom workflows. Half the time I’m using it the same way I’d use Spotlight, but I’m also using it to trigger custom workflows constantly. (Which often just call out

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