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You can reach me by putting hello in front of at alind and ending with a dot io.

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e_proxus··on M.2 on a Raspberry Pi – The Tofu CM4 Carrier Board
Not a fan of hijacking scrolling on web pages in general, but they really nailed that stacking animation!
e_proxus··on 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
Wikipedia uses the term optical phenomenon.
e_proxus··on AWS faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it
Seems to me that there are no “move” operations in S3, only copy and delete (which mean exactly what they say). So copy still means copy, and if you implement your own “move” you have to make sure it does what you want.
e_proxus··on AWS faulty UX cost our business $7k and they refused to do anything about it
Not dismissing your other concerns, but

> create a copy of objects with a different storage class and delete the old objects. It doesn't make sense that it would just duplicate my objects

Isn’t that exactly what 'copy' means in pretty much all IT contexts?

e_proxus··on Speed Is the Killer Feature
How do you actually test screen and mouse delay? Is there some good software for testing each in isolation? I know of Is It Snappy? for iOS bu that only measures end-to-end latency.
e_proxus··on Fish Shell 3.2
It's a good point, but how many of the features are useful without any colors at all? At least the auto-completion would just look like any typed text.

Perhaps fish is not for you?

e_proxus··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
I use NextDNS [1] and I’m very happy with it so far. It works on the DNS level. So far for our entire home we’ve never gone above the free level once, but I’m happy to pay as soon as we do.

[1]: https://nextdns.io/

e_proxus··on Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection
Or they can just cripple the APIs so extensions don’t work as effectively anymore. Kind of what happened in practice with Safari (although this was not malicious).
e_proxus··on Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
Would this work with Bitcoin though? I mean cash-to-cash, not just the digital transfer.
e_proxus··on 10 years-ish of Elixir
I would recommend you learn the dbg module that comes with Erlang. Its a great tracing debugger able to trace existing code in runtime without having to modify the source. There are also several wrappers on top of the Erlang tracing tools, like Recon for example.
e_proxus··on WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source
TekLager is a Swedish shop that has a fe quite nice options.

https://teklager.se/en/

e_proxus··on Steam's login method is kinda interesting
It also logs you out as soon as you enable a VPN connection (to a different cpuntey/IP?) while running.
e_proxus··on Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, a Boeing 737, has disappeared from radar
What damage could a co-pilot cause even with another pilot present? A steep enough descent might not be recoverable under certain conditions?
e_proxus··on Telegram publishes users' locations online
Inertia would just reduce the frequency of the jumps, not eliminate them completely. E.g. if you randomly get the new cell 6 times in a row you'll still oscillate, just slower.
e_proxus··on Apple iCloud account and sign in outage affecting some users for over 24 hours
That is probably true, but a zero vision is a very nice goal to aspire to (and perhaps not too unrealistic, who knows the potential of languages, hardware and new developments?).

In any case, tying quality to some tangible, bold measurement like refunds is not a bad idea.

e_proxus··on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
Good point. As a technical professional I’ve always been on the fence about the iPad because of its limitations. I love the form factor and specs, but it just isn’t good enough for e.g. programming.

If I was mainly writing and doing some simple graphical work I’d ditch my other devices in a heartbeat.

e_proxus··on Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
The resolution and FPS is only limited by bandwidth. The long is only relevant for latency/interaction.
e_proxus··on Show HN: NoteCalc
A big plus for Calca is the mobile app and automatic syncing via iCloud on Apple devices.

Not sure if Soulver is newer or less “complete” than Calca, but it is being updated at lot more often. The updates for Calca are very sparse and leads me to think it’s more in a maintenance mode.

e_proxus··on YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices
In the US maybe, but internationally this varies. Be very careful doing this and consult your local laws before doing so.

In many countries the owner of the contract is liable for anything originating from that line.

e_proxus··on Preview in macOS Big Sur is destroying PDFs
I’ve been a very happy user of LiquidText [1]. You can load multiple PDFs/images/documents into a LiquidText project and annotate and cross reference. There’s a separate work space outside of the documents where you can store clippings and collect summaries.

It’s great for reading long standard documents and cross reference between them and supporting material like examples etc.

[1]: https://www.liquidtext.net/

e_proxus··on EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants
It only dictates you’re not allowed to favor your own products. I think Apple is already in a good position here since these are all on the normal App Store next to MS Office. The only thing they could not do is unfairly promote them on the store and ship them pre-installed.
e_proxus··on HiFiBerryOS
HiFiBerry OS runs mpd and supports adding networked sources such as a NAS.
e_proxus··on We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
Can you provide said evidence? The article linked above by a throwaway account didn’t contain anything I would label as toxic.
e_proxus··on We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
Do you have any links to this discussion? I’m trying to verify the toxic claim and am having a hard time finding it on Twitter right now because of all the noise.
e_proxus··on We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
If you see AI as a technological amplifier, it could backfire the other way around. I.e. that the status quo is kept longer than necessary because it is so baked into the technology itself, not only the people who wield it.

I think it is precisely for these reasons this debate is so important, because it is truly not a clear cut improvement in my opinion.

e_proxus··on We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google
> I think this sort of veiled personal attack resorting to baseless extrapolation is not a productive line of public discourse.

As opposed to the more direct “approach” in the parent post?

> Ok, so basically she is a bullshit social engineer, masquerading as an 'AI ethics researcher'

e_proxus··on Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (2017)
And now the Dell Alienware AW2721D which has 240 Hz https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/alienware-27-gaming-monitor-...
e_proxus··on Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
> Do you mean they hold an opening fd of the file, which is also not special at all? Otherwise it is pretty interesting, please elaborate.

Exactly. Special notwithstanding, it’s still a nice feature and not something Windows has to my knowledge, at least not common (i.e. “File is in use” errors). On macOS you can e.g. move a file to trash while it’s being used still by some running program.

e_proxus··on Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
While I agree with your sentiment, Reddit is becoming less and less a website over time.
e_proxus··on Cover Your Tracks
You can still be tracked with all your other identifying bits. Especially if your the only one who’s doing this.
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