seidoger | 13 days ago | on: Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons
Yeah, I was wondering (I haven't updated, patiently waiting for the next major). But here's a great piece about them: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
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seidoger | 2 years ago | on: Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake
IIRC, the Kinect was supposed to be an integral part of the XB1 package, but was made optional to compete (price-wise) with the PlayStation 4. Pretty unfortunate.
seidoger | 2 years ago | on: Delta passengers fall ill while stuck for hours during blistering Vegas heatwave
I know that Canada (where I live) has introduced the Air Passenger Protection Regulations[1] in 2019 (and making it better since then), which does have "tarmac delays" clauses[2]. IIRC, we modelled it after EU regulations.
seidoger | 2 years ago | on: China’s new “Top Gun” normalises war with America
Rocky IV always comes to mind as a (the?) prime example of this in film.
seidoger | 2 years ago | on: The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs
I have my LaTeX resumé on GitHub, and I have a GitHub Action that rebuilds it on a PR, allowing me to see a "staging" version of it. Then it gets deployed to its final destination on merge.
Actually I've used my CV but also its deployment pipeline to sell myself!
seidoger | 3 years ago | on: DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model
> It's easy to forget that 10-15 years ago, the most common dev/ops model was "toss it over the fence"
15 years ago it was often still I without the C, integration that wasn't continuous. Code freeze 1 month before release, put all the bits of code together, everything breaks, try to fix it.
seidoger | 3 years ago | on: GitHub Support for Mastodon Profiles
It is! It actually verifies the link on the Mastodon side, by adding a 'rel="me"' to the link:
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: Seconds before a 6.2 earthquake rattled California, phones got a warning
I don't know if that's everywhere in Japan but in 2014 I was in Tokyo having lunch outside when suddenly this fast alert (ie. not a slow siren) started blaring, 5 seconds later the ground was shaking.
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: Canada's Public Health Agency confidentially tracked 33M mobile devices
I did some consulting work for a big Canadian telco, a project to monetize their cell tower data.
It was obviously all tokenized. Not sure if there was any restrictions on who could buy it, but use cases were mostly about knowing how many people were in a certain area (e.g. an outdoor space) and how long they stayed there (e.g. to properly price the cost of billboards).
It's pretty common, afaik, to measure how many pairs of eyes can potential see adverts.
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: An NFT without a blockchain
> but the anti-NFT crowd doesn't seem to get it and that is just as frustrating
I don't hate on NFT themselves, but the artificial scarcity bizzaro ponzi pump-and-dump cult aura around them.
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker
Prime use-case for HTTP 418!
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: Texas Instruments new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator
Calculators are still distraction-free. They're a purpose-build device.
Our exams in engineering school took into account we could solve 5 equations/unknowns problems with our TI-92 Plus (at the time).
Can't imagine students with Chromebooks during exams (edit: or maybe I'm just from a different time)
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: The Playdate store is now open
The Game Boy Advanced SP had a reflective screen and it played better in full sunlight. It was quite a remarkable display.
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
At this point it's like if AWS services are spread so thin so they can come up with new names (and sub-sub names, see: SageMaker).
seidoger | 4 years ago | on: Cocoa Touch apps (2007)
It ended up being more like 5[0], but still a crazy crunch.
[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/03/06Apple-Announces-iPh...
seidoger | 5 years ago | on: EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot link
> If you get covid as a healthy young person you have about a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying
COVID is not just about death though, there's proven lingering neurological and cardiovascular impediments to survivors.
e.g. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brain/...
seidoger | 7 years ago | on: FoundationDB Record Layer
The FDB Record Layer white paper [0], section 8.1, does open with:
> 8.1 New CloudKit Capabilities
> CloudKit was initially implemented using Cassandra as the underlying storage engine.
So it seems this is what happened, for CloudKit at least.
[0] https://www.foundationdb.org/files/record-layer-paper.pdf
seidoger | 8 years ago | on: D3 in Depth
I'll add Debuggex to the list that does a visual representation of a Regex and can be a god-send. https://www.debuggex.com
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