OttPeterR's comments

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: macOS Ventura is now available

I’m specifically peeved about this. My personal 2016 mbp has nearly identical specs to my work 2017 mbp but my personal one is being left behind. Maybe there’s some minuscule hardware issue they couldn’t be bothered to work out but 5-6 years of OS updates is upsettingly short. I’d expect that for an android phone but not a high end laptop…

There does seem to be a dev working on porting over the OS if anyone has an earlier mac and really wants the new OS.

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind Tesla

I’ve got a new and somewhat-old Mazda. The new one does have an internet connection but it really only seems to be used for remote start and door lock status/control. Its using the Verizon network (in the US) and it also pings a location when you power off the car. (All these things are available through a python api so thats fun)

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: PC wakes from sleep when changing clothes

Someone else in the comments of this post has the same issue and they think it’s static from the weave of the material. (I lost track of the comment, sorry for not linking it)

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: Haribo Goldbears, the world’s first gummy bears

a classic

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords

I imagine there would be a prompt of “are you trying to log into <website>?“ and the user would have to confirm

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords

Yeah it’s definitely not for me, but for your average user who isn’t tech savvy and uses the same password for everything: this is an improvement

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords

I haven’t seen it but I skimmed the plot on Wikipedia and I don’t see exactly how it’s related – could you elaborate?

OttPeterR | 3 years ago | on: Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords

While I would rather use a password manager myself to keep accounts separate and not reliant on a single big tech account, I’m sure your average user would love the convenience of this and its overall security benefit would be a positive

OttPeterR | 4 years ago | on: Spudoogle

can I get some context around this fever dream (and I mean that in the best way) of a website?

OttPeterR | 4 years ago | on: Papers with Code

Thanks for this thoughtful list. I try not to flood my ML dev team with too much academic reading but obviously some are too important. Seeing another persons take on what’s important helps me refine what I give to the newcomers to get them up to speed.

OttPeterR | 4 years ago | on: Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds

Could you add Facebook and instagram sounds? Not so it makes you sound busy, but as a few other commenters have said, it may help with desensitization of notification sounds and I like that idea a lot

OttPeterR | 4 years ago | on: Growing Neural Cellular Automata (2020)

If this is your first time hearing about distill, they have so many more articles that are of equally astounding quality. I’ve been reading them for a while now and love what they do!

OttPeterR | 4 years ago | on: Millions Choose Simple Privacy Protection with DuckDuckGo

DDG is pretty great, I’ve been enjoying it for the better part of the last year. Sometimes I’ll go back to Google for niche questions but it’s infrequent. The !commands really power it up once you learn what they are.

OttPeterR | 4 years ago | on: A writing tip I learned at Oxford

Saved me a click

OttPeterR | 4 years ago | on: 1Password for Linux

Even though we’re a Bitwarden family, I’m happy to see other password managers supporting Linux, the world needs more native Linux support in their applications!

Edit: not too happy about electron, but it’s still a step in the right direction for the common folk who use Ubuntu and aren’t the most tech savvy and just don’t care

OttPeterR | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: PyWebIO – Write interactive web app in script way

As someone who has only done back end for years and is lazy and don’t want to learn front end stuff, this is an inviting way to break into that world for me.