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jmisavage··on [dead]
Yeah unless you disable it, all browsers should be sending a language header to a site say I want content in X language. The developer still has to handle that, but it’s generally the safest way to guess what language a user is looking for. But you still should price a way to change it in the interface.
jmisavage··on Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll
The hospital ships weren't for covid patients, but for others who couldn't get a bed due to the hospitals being over capacity. The military specifically was testing everyone coming to make sure they didn't have covid because it can spread way faster in the confines of a ship.
jmisavage··on Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
Agree with you there. I find Firefox css devtools the best and while other browsers copied them they were the ones that implements them first. The big ones are the flex and grid layout tools and having a list of styles changes you made in the devtools.
jmisavage··on Tesla files a petition against U.S. labor board order
The government is saying that he threaten employees with the loss of stock options if they voted to form a union.

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2021/03/25/elon-musk-...

jmisavage··on Tesla's EPA Driving Ranges Didn't Hold Up to Testing
The edmunds article is probably the best source, but this is the article that I saw yesterday with some of the numbers. Some are quite noticeable in their drops like the 2018 S Performance went from 310 mi to 256 mi. All the non-Teslas got higher than their EPA rating. With the Porsche Taycan 203 mi to 323 mi.

https://insideevs.com/news/496740/tesla-disputed-edmunds-tes...

jmisavage··on Using Apple Silicon (M1) as a cloud engineer, two months in
There are some known issues involving ultra widescreen monitors and color issues that are suppose to be fixed in the next release.

This may help you get multiple monitors running https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/24/m1-macs-able-to-run-six...

jmisavage··on Switching to Windows
Magnet is pretty good one too. It has key commands and sticky areas.

- https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/ or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12

jmisavage··on Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years
Just image if this happens on the new Model S Plaid and Model X. Both are suppose to have the gear selector on the touch screen with the car guessing weather you are in drive, park, or reverse based on your surroundings. If you screen dies and it guesses wrong they you are stuck.

- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354680585139187713

jmisavage··on America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
Intel is global they have fabs in Israel, Ireland, and China too.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

jmisavage··on The CIA Rebrands with a New Website
Yep. All government sites have to be accessible due to section 508. These descriptions look like they were generated by some ML vision algorithm.
jmisavage··on [dead]
This article is 4 years old.
jmisavage··on A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win back control of its ccTLD
The nation is Niue and their domain is .nu
jmisavage··on Angular 11
True. Node is an interesting one since the odd number releases are for more for testing new features while the even numbered ones are the stable/lts builds. Odd numbered releases are become EOL as soon as the next major release is out. I always try to tell the devs I work with to stick to the even numbered ones because of that.
jmisavage··on Angular 11
Its this artificial 6 month release cycle which is causing it. Some of the breaking changes are extremely minor, but according to SemVer that's a new major release. They do have minor and bug releases in the months following the release.
jmisavage··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
I'm thinking we might see a M1X which might add a couple cores to all the compute units in the SoC.
jmisavage··on Introducing the next generation of Mac
The low end Air only has 7 GPU cores compared with 8 on the one with more storage. So they must be disabling a bad core and selling it the cheap model. Other than that all these machines use the exact same CPUs. Which means that an iMac or 16" MBP are probably going to use a M1X or something with more cores.
jmisavage··on NPM package 'isarray' is downloaded 40M times a week
Wow there are 492 packages that depend on this. My favorite is isNotArray which as you may guess is just !isArray(whatever);

https://github.com/zlatinejc/isnotarray

jmisavage··on Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design
Maybe not right now, but they'll figure out a way. They figured out how to do it with SPAs.
jmisavage··on Flutter Web: A Fractal of Bad Design
This reminds me of Adobe's early attempts to get Flash on the iPhone. You could publish a Flash project to target iOS with their AIR runtime, which converted everything into OpenGL. Tons of people made apps with it, but the performance was terrible and all the UI controls were non-native and thus had no voiceover support. This is just Google reinventing or should I say rediscovering past techniques of app building.
jmisavage··on Google's new logos are bad
I just copied the handful of notes I had there into Apple's Notes app. Don't want to get burned by Google again.
jmisavage··on U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
Correct Apple and several book publishers got in trouble for doing just that years ago in the fight against Amazon.
jmisavage··on Elon Musk Shows the Germans How to Move Quickly
Also when has the stock market reflected reality? Tesla's P/E ratio is insane right now.
jmisavage··on AWS makes its own Arm CPUs default for ElastiCache in-memory data store service
Not sure if they've done it yet, but ELBs are going to be on Arm too.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-graviton2-power...

jmisavage··on An Honest Review of Gatsby
Surprised they didn’t try Eleventy. I was just reading how a Mozilla team converted their extension documentation to it from Jekyll because it has support for Jekyll’s template language via a plugin.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/10/to-eleventy-and-beyond/

jmisavage··on Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers online amid wildfires
Do they have enough cash to pay for this service and to keep this a viable business proposition? I'm still hoping this will be a great alternative to locations that are more densely packed, but only have 1 option for broadband. Need to keep the Comcasts and Verizons of the world in check.
jmisavage··on Firefox 80 and my confusion over its hardware accelerated video on Linux
You can go icon blind pretty easily. That being said I know my computer doesn't have VP8/9 hardware support so I installed the h264ify plugin for Firefox so YouTube serves me H.264 videos instead. Maybe Mozilla needs to detect hardware support and offer to install plugins like that or give a setup screen (newer video formats with more features vs old video formats with better battery/less fans)
jmisavage··on ‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
I wouldn't count on GloFo being a leader in process tech. August of 2018 they announced they suspended work on their 7nm, 5nm and 3nm processes. It looks like they're focusing more on being a follower. This has also forced AMD to compete with Apple and others for the best 7nm that TSMC can offer. Intel is lucky that AMD can't meet demand.
jmisavage··on Apple responds to Epic Games lawsuit, says CEO asked for special treatment
Are they abusing market power though? 30% seems to be the standard rate for online stores. Google and Apple do it. Steam is 30%. And it’s been report that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo also take a 30% cut. Physical store such as GameStop, Best Buy, and Walmart take 30% too.

Epic only takes 12% which is great, but they’re also locking up games in exclusive deals which I think is way worse.

Edit: I pulled these numbers from IGN’s article. Although I’ve seen another report that matches the 30% in most places. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...

jmisavage··on Silicon Valley didn’t inherit discrimination, but replicated it anyway
All those things you said aren't healthy for anybody regardless of gender.
jmisavage··on Boeing lands $1.2B deal for eight F-15EX fighter jets
The main problem with the F-22 is that restarting production will cost $10 billion all on its own. Then each jet would be $200 million. [1] The F-15 is still produced in various configurations for our allies so any change/upgrade is going to be much cheaper.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/did-someone-say-f-22-...

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