dstaley

Hangouts doesn't exist anymore. There's just Google Meet (business-focused video conferencing) and Duo (consumer-focused video calling).

If I had to guess, the AV1 encoding is being done server-side. AFAIK no phone has a hardware AV1 encoder (or decoder for that matter). The bitrate is low enough that a software decoder is likely fast enough.

I think you're confused: the original iPhone SE, the one the parent comment is mentioning, has a headphone jack. The new iPhone SE, the one that hasn't been released yet, doesn't.

As someone who has been incredibly excited for the Surface Neo, I'm really bummed to hear that it won't be coming this year. I'm intrigued at the idea of Windows 10X on single-screen devices, but I think the dual-screen aspect is the "carrot" so to speak to get developers to build modern Windows apps. I feel like 10X on single-screen devices is nothing more than an evolution of Windows 10 in S Mode, which didn't provide enough of an incentive for developers to modernize their applications.

Hopefully Microsoft releases a small batch of developer-focused Neo's for developers that want to get a head start building for dual-screen devices.

The strategy guide hasn't been published yet, so my guess is this comes from someone who data mined the game.

This was an early limitation, which was fixed in Windows 1803 with the release of the Windows.Graphics.Capture API. [1]

That being said, your general point that there's so many ways to develop an app for Windows, and that not all of them support the same features, is definitely true. I think the general advice these days is that if you _can_ build your app as a UWP, do that. Otherwise, use the Win32 APIs as sparingly as possible, defaulting to the UWP APIs. Legacy apps are a bit trickier, and that's where Microsoft is investing in things like the Desktop Bridge (run Win32 apps in a UWP container) and XAML Islands (host UWP controls in a Win32 app).

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/audio-video-cam...

Super excited to see that you'll be supporting GitHub! That being said, do you have plans to implement any sort of account merging? For example, the ability to login with one of multiple authorized accounts (so my Google Account, my Twitter account, or my GitHub account).

If you're not consuming the API, AccuWeather's MinuteCast is pretty nice!

My primary use of the Dark Sky API is for minute-by-minute forecasts. I've yet to find another API that can answer the question "Do I have enough time to walk my dog before it starts raining?"

> but if you want to touch the DOM at all just use JS seemed to still be the standard advice

This is still the current state of WebAssembly. There's several proposals out there that, if implemented, could change the situation. The primary one that I'm aware of is the interface types proposal [1].

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/master/p...

> sticks out like a sore thumb

Again, the number of people who this impacts is so small that it's hardly significant. Sure, here on HN I'm sure it seems that everyone is confused, but we're hardly a representative sample here.

> has trademark problems

Honestly I don't buy this. When you trademark something, you do so in a very specific manner, and I think Screen's market is specific enough as to defend a trademark in the screen sharing/collaboration segment _should they even choose to trademark the name_, which they can easily choose not to do.

I honestly don't get why people are getting so caught up on the name. The number of people who use screen is so small compared to the target market (which encompasses anyone doing work on a computer) that I highly doubt any significant number of people will be confused.

If you're intelligent enough to use screen, surely you're intelligent enough to understand the difference between a terminal app and an app that shares your screen.

Can confirm. I'm in central Washington, and while restaurants and bars are closed, people are _definitely_ not respecting social distancing guidelines. I've even had people tell me to move closer to other people when standing in line at grocery stores.

I have an Amazon Echo Show 5 on my desk that's connected to my calendar. I've updated the homescreen settings such that it only alternates between the current time and the calendar display, which displays the next upcoming event. (It also displays the date and current weather conditions.) Having used the Echo Show, I definitely see the appeal in a device like UpNext, and I wish there was a decent hack-able small display that people could use to build these types of devices. In the past I've paired a Raspberry Pi and a touchscreen display, but that's clunky and doesn't look all that great. A while back, I really wanted a Chumby[1], and I wish something like that still existed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby

> except you have to opt out of them all before you can consume that 1 website's content

This is an issue with that particular website's implementation, not something inherent to the browser or the API.

Oh my god you're a life saver. Thank you so much for pointing that out!

The single biggest gripe I have with GitHub on Android is that when I click on a GitHub link to a new repo, it asks if I want to open the repo in Chrome or GitHub. This happens for every. single. repo. I think they messed up their URL intent handler such that each repo counts as a different intent. It's super annoying.

The Surface Duo is an Android phone running a Qualcomm CPU, whereas the Surface Neo is a Windows 10X device using an Intel CPU.

No, it comes with Google Play.

The rumor is that the Duo has been hardware-final since 2018. They were waiting for Windows 10X to be ready, but eventually decided to just launch it with Android instead of attempting to make a phone version of Windows 10X.

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/surface-duo-spring-summer-ear...

Previous discussion from five months ago. [1]

As far as I can tell, there's no new information on the linked page, so I'm not sure why it's resurfacing (ba dum tisss).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21137450

I think a better way to phrase it is that you can get a UI builder for dramatically less than it would take to pay a developer to build one, rather than saying it's "one hour" since, statistically speaking, hardly any developers are making $300,000 a year.

Jest is written in TypeScript!

For once I wish services like Netflix and YouTube would announce that "we've improved streaming video quality at the same data usage" as opposed to "we've improved data usage at the same quality". YouTube's compression is _horrid_, and Netflix's isn't much better. The quality between a 1080p BluRay versus Netflix's 4K stream is quite noticeable, especially in darker scenes.

I'm assuming these modules require superuser access, correct?

For something that's open-source, production ready thanks to the lovely folks at Mozilla, and ready to host on your own infrastructure check out Kinto[1]. Replicache and Kinto have overlapping feature sets, but my guess is that Replicache is probably a bit more optimized (especially if the delta updates are truly as small as possible). That being said, of all the problems I've run into implementing sync for my applications with Kinto, the size of update requests hasn't been one of them. Also while Kinto can support live subscriptions, the only plugin implementing them currently relies on a third-party.

The biggest difference I see between them is that Replicache sits in front of your server, whereas Kinto _is_ your server.

Disclosure: I'm a contributor to Kinto, primarily working on transitioning the JavaScript libraries to TypeScript.

[1] https://docs.kinto-storage.org/en/latest/

Just in case anyone's curious what these reports look like, I've uploaded the reports for curl, grep, and chromium here: https://gracious-jang-bc0194.netlify.com/

Here you go! https://gracious-jang-bc0194.netlify.com/

I have a Samsung 49" 32:9 ultrawide with a resolution of 5120x1440. The primary reason I went with this monitor is that I use two computers: one provided by my employer and another provided by the government agency I'm contracting with. The model I have supports picture-by-picture, which makes jumping between the two computers really easy.

Apart from that, I do really enjoy all the screen real estate. It's nice to be able to have a full-sized browser window and two instances of VS Code all running within a visible portion of the screen. That being said, I'd easily give it up for a reasonably priced 27in 5K display that works over DisplayPort. The extra screen space is nice, but I'd much rather a display that had crisp, high-DPI text.

Not offering anything besides a Google sign-in option is a deal breaker for me. Kind of bummed, but I figure by the time it gets going they'll implement a more traditional sign-in.