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bla3··on Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move
Another explanation might be that tech companies are doing poorly in general at the moment, and Google is one of the few companies that hasn't done mass layoffs yet.
bla3··on Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
> fast enough to run all of the above at 60 frames per second at 4K.

Does anyone know if it supports variable refresh rate? Apple's marketing term for it is "ProMotion", which is hard to search for.

bla3··on Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
I don't think this is serious. Hotz's license plate is FUELON, and he runs comma.ai.
bla3··on Ken Thompson's NFA regex patent (1971)
Most don't, but re2 and a few others do. The ones that do use it don't have exponential runtime on malicious inputs and lack a few features (back references, mostly). https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/ is a great resource on this.
bla3··on Show HN: Satori – Convert HTML and CSS to SVG
macOS used to produce pdf files for screenshots long ago. They switched to pngs, probably because those are easier to share.
bla3··on How Americans edit sex out of my writing
"In 2020 I was asked by my friends at the magazine n+1 to participate in an homage to their office in Brooklyn"
bla3··on Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
It's not unprecedented, they did that when Google+ launched too.
bla3··on Foldscope: The Paper Microscope
You mean Depth Of Field, not Field Of View, right?
bla3··on Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
Android as far as I know uses a source-drop model. For both WebKit and Chromium, all code reviews are as far as I know done publicly.
bla3··on The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
There are a whole bunch here: https://www.earthcam.com/mapsearch/
bla3··on Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
Ladybird doesn't pass Acid 2 either. It does pass Acid 3.
bla3··on Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
Almost all of Chrome is open source. You're confusing it with Safari, where the engine is open source but the browser UI isn't.
bla3··on Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
I haven't read it in a while either, but from memory the team organization of one "architect" and a bunch of implementers seems obsolete, for example.
bla3··on Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
That's from "The mythical man-month". Old, and some parts are obsolete, but still worth a read as it does have a bunch of good insights.
bla3··on The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it
(Jul 2022)
bla3··on Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
DDG is for-profit and serves for the most part Bing results. Why not pick something truly open, like search.marginalia.nu?
bla3··on Clip control on the Apple GPU
> Here’s a little secret: there are two graphics APIs called “Metal”. There’s the Metal you know, a limited API that Apple documents for App Store developers, an API that lacks useful features supported by OpenGL and Vulkan.

> And there’s the Metal that Apple uses themselves, an internal API adding back features that Apple doesn’t want you using.

Apple does stuff like this so much and gets so little flak for it.

I use macOS since it seems like the least bad option of you want a Unix but also don't want to spend a lot of time on system management, but this is a real turn-off.

bla3··on Add ability to choose a custom coordination server
I don't have an opinion on that product, but no smoke alarm is "hushable" due to state laws, as far as I know.
bla3··on Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015
Fast internet is a complement to Google's services. It's in Google's interest to commoditize fast internet. They're not interested in offering Fiber, they're interested in making the internet faster and cheaper, since that helps there core business. So their Fiber investment was the lowest they could get away with to still make other players believe that they just might be serious about it in 2015.
bla3··on Blender 3.2.2 Released
"what's new" page with pictures: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-2/
bla3··on Google Maps launches Street View in India
They're not waiting, they didn't want it

https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-google-street-view-germa... is a pretty good writeup on things.

bla3··on The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)
I always thought it's "amper's and" for that reason, and "amper" must mean "Kaufmann".
bla3··on Unboxing a $100 Chromebook
The tweet says "in a container". It _is_ real Linux in a container. I think the part you quoted is supposed to mean "not WSL".
bla3··on Running an Open Source Home Area Network
Fishing with punycode is a mostly solved problem: Show the Unicode characters only if there are no homoglyphs in it. That's why browsers can show them. See "client side mitigations" on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
bla3··on Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?
I used to use it long ago. It worked too well for me: every morning I had a very long list of very interesting posts I could read. For a while I tried to read them all. That was very interesting, but it also needed a lot of time. Eventually it felt like yet another inbox to keep track of, and i stopped using it. I don't really miss it.
bla3··on Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine
Google ships all these too, either in Android or Google Photos. The UI is sometimes less smooth than Apple's, but ML is competitive. (Which I think is your point: Apple does have competitive ML.)
bla3··on DALL-E 2 has a secret language
Another convincing rebuttal: https://mobile.twitter.com/benjamin_hilton/status/1531780892...

It'd be cool if this was true, but it looks like it mostly isn't.

bla3··on The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021)
Those numbers look like they run Intel Chrome on the M1 Mac. The Universal Chrome binary gets close to 300 on an M1 Mac.
bla3··on Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
> Its main advantage over MathJax is that it isn’t dead. Check out the repo activity on the two projects:

I know this is a common view, but this is such a strange mindset to me. Unless you add scope, a project is eventually just mostly done. It's not that MathJax has zero commits, it just has fewer. That _in itself_ isn't a bad sign to me. It could just mean it's a mature project.

bla3··on Crowdsource by Google
The app was initially released 2016, with the last update half a year ago. Did anything happen to get this posted?

If not, maybe add a (2016).

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