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cachvico··on Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Indeed, 1-click remains the most egregious land grab of the web yet.

"I'm going to patent shopping".

cachvico··on u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania
By providing value, therefore driving up the market price of the integral reward. Currently at $22, not bad for a random coin.

I.e, the value of the coin is driven by the interest in the tech it provides.

cachvico··on 2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing
Just use Grid view.
cachvico··on [dead]
Zoom Rooms, not the software most of us call Zoom. Appears to be a slightly different offering targetting physical conference room displays.

https://zoom.us/zoomrooms

cachvico··on Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests
And when there's zero visibility?

ILS presumably - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system

So would it not make sense to tie the two systems together in an intelligent way?

cachvico··on Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests
Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system

It does require hardware on the runway though.

cachvico··on Your Career in Computer Programming (2015)
https://xkcd.com/2324/
cachvico··on How dice changed over 2k years to be more fair (2018)
This Reddit post is much more informative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4t4o3a/do_the_h...

cachvico··on Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?
Tencent also - https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/
cachvico··on The BBC Microcomputer User Guide
Same :)
cachvico··on Bash IRC Quote Database
Try clicking 'Top' in the header.
cachvico··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?
There is a "Pronunciation" field in the contact where you can spell out how a name is pronounced.

This article clears everything up, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8116586

cachvico··on The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
Check out Scratch, from MIT.

https://scratch.mit.edu/

cachvico··on Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
That's what a notary does; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notary
cachvico··on Unity Learn platform free for three months
That's correct, thanks for the clarification :)
cachvico··on Unity Learn platform free for three months
Yes - Unity supports the Quest (through Link mode). You can check out the XR Interaction Toolkit [1] for an easy way to get going with teleport locomotion.

[1] https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.xr.interaction.t...

cachvico··on Open Ventilator Registry
Do you have any experience in supply chain logistics, the medical industry, incident response?

There are already established systems. How will yours interface with the existing / international norms?

cachvico··on Show HN: A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of us are building
I this this may be doing more harm than good. The test centers are a stretched resource at the moment.

People need to call their local non-emergency line for instructions if they have symptoms.

This map is incomplete by your own admission, which makes it practically misinformation.

We don't need guerrilla tactics in this war.

cachvico··on I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share
It honestly did not do that for me. (Although I take your point).
cachvico··on Canada to bar entry to non-residents (except US)
We do with driving licences, at least in Quebec. We don't have to pass a test to get a licence here smh.
cachvico··on Why supercars are doing away with windshields
Not sure what constitutes a moderate speed of rocks in the face.
cachvico··on Coinbase Billionaire Brian Armstrong’s Plan to Make Crypto Safe for All
> Hopefully the US can set legislation for this kind of thing.

Surely you can see the irony in that?

cachvico··on Fast
Difficult to understate the repercussions, in developer hours through the years, of such a briefly thought-out design and implementation!
cachvico··on Unity creates new open source tool for architects
That is correct, the article should not be using that term.
cachvico··on Researchers discover meat-eating plant in Ontario
We're going to get one and feed it Beyond Meat burgers.
cachvico··on SwiftUI
Bit like Microsoft in 2005. "Cross platform" meaning Windows, Windows Server, Windows Mobile, Windows CE...
cachvico··on Apple Sign In
RFC 5233: Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233

Not Gmail-specific. Labels however are ;)

cachvico··on Apple iOS Background Tasks
They're very comparable (I'm a paid user of both). I've discovered realms of amazing music through the recommendation engines of both of them.
cachvico··on Why We’re Switching to gRPC
What kind of problems did you run into, if you don't mind sharing?
cachvico··on Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later
Less harrowing than being murdered.
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