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This is because the remotes use IR for the power commands. There’s really no getting around it. A small piece of electrical tape over the IR window on the monitor will fix it.

I will give credit to the Google Maps team—they handle Queens NYC street address correctly.

Apple Maps drives me nuts—it will only return search results if you include the hyphen in the four digit street address ie: "36-08 33rd St" vs "3608 33rd St". Google will hit on either query.

The hyphen is a part of the "official" address. However, USPS has declared it unnecessary, there's no advantage to using it unless you're navigating by analog map, and it's a PITA to type on a mobile keyboard.

So if anyone on Apple Maps team is here: please fix this. I filled a apple.com/feedback ticket on this years ago.

For anyone interested in the peculiar history of Queens addresses—they convey a cross street and the number of the house ascending going northward.

For example: 36-08 33rd St means that the house is on 33rd St, between 35th and 36th ave, and is house #08 on the block.

https://stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensFormat.htm https://www.nydailynews.com/2011/08/21/balderdash-queens-res...

That said, Apple Maps is far superior to Google Maps for transit directions, at least in NYC. Google's integration with the MTA is seriously lacking—their directions often do not reflect scheduled changes in routes, let alone real-time issues. That said, Google Maps is superior with POI search and address decoding.

You can remove Samsung TV Plus by long pressing on the icon on the Home Screen > remove > disable. Your TV will go back to its old behavior.

Such a huge miss not including the name of the company on the shirts. It could be a fitness logo for all anyone knows.

You sure sound sure of yourself for not knowing what you’re talking about.

It takes less than a minute to disable ad tracking and ACR on a Samsung TV.

Settings > General > Terms > disable two checkboxes.

This is an undersold part of the story

It's not only media companies with DRM

IoT integrations like Alexa come with numerous security requirements that are often good ideas in theory but lead to hacky workarounds to meet certification requirements

I work at a 90% Windows shop. Obviously major benefits to being on the "main platform".

I tried using a Windows laptop for my first two months.

I couldn't do it.

Seeing the other models, I actually come away impressed with how well GPT-4.5 is organizing the information and how well it reads. I find it a lot easier to quickly parse. It's more human-like.

Sony’s software is still terrible… but fwiw they have built in timelapse functionality in their cams since the A7 III released in 2018.

Thank you to everyone who worked on this. One of my favorite games growing up, I’m glad to know it’ll be around to show my kid.

They renovated the main LIRR section as well. They raised the ceiling by 10 to 15 feet and added large LED skyboxes. All new retail spaces. Clear signage. It looks great, actually.

I continue to be confused as to why there is such uproar over this.

If you don't want ads on your TV... don't connect your TV to the internet. It will work exactly like a dumb TV.

Why is HDMI Ethernet brought up so often in Smart TV posts here and on Reddit?

HDMI Ethernet Channel (HEC) was added to the HDMI spec in 2009 to allow Blu-ray players to access the internet without a direction connection.

There are zero devices ever released that support HEC.

There are zero OEM HDMI chipsets that support HEC.

The streaming device manufacturers have no incentive to enable this feature.

It's a nice reminder that a good amount of people on HN/Reddit have no idea what they're talking about, even if they use acronyms.

I have perfect pitch–your color analogy is exactly how I describe my bewilderment that it isn’t the default state for humans.

As someone who goes to Walmart once or twice a year, I too was blown away with a Honeycrisp I bought from them a month ago.

I'm fully on the "SweeTango" hype train, which AppleRankings #1 rated breed:

https://applerankings.com/sweetango-apple-review/

SweeTango's #1 fault, which the site calls out, is that they do not store well. The recent bags I've taken home are notably less crisp and hardy than earlier in the fall.

That said, they'll still be absolutely delicious for another few weeks, highly recommend buying a bag. Trader Joe's usually carries.

The Cosmic Crisp was breed to be a “hardier” version of the Honeycrisp, specifically for growing in Washington[1].

I encourage everyone to check out https://applerankings.com, I would describe it as Pitchfork for apple breeds.

Here’s their review of the Cosmic Crisp: https://applerankings.com/cosmic-crisp-apple-review/

Their top ranked apple is the SweeTango, and I agree with their assessment: https://applerankings.com/sweetango-apple-review/

Full ranking list: https://applerankings.com/pick-an-apple/

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

- iPhone Mirroring system requirements

-- Your iPhone and Mac are signed in to the same Apple Account using two-factor authentication.

I knew he cited a NYCT paper on the page itself, but I've never seen the paper so I didn't know how similar they were. Regardless, making this available to the public is laudable in-of-itself. Thanks for the sources, will check out later!

Shoutout to Philippe Vibien for creating “NYC Subway Stringlines”, one of my favorite (and certainly most used) data visualizations ever. Made possible by the MTA’s GTFS RT feed.

https://pvibien.com/stringline.htm

Note: If you’re checking this out around 6 PM EST, look at the E train to get an idea of what a bad night on the subway looks like.

Each line on the graph represents a train with the Y axis as stations and the X axis representing time. You can follow the trip of the train and get an idea for how well the line is running based on the straightness of the line. If you see areas where the line is flat in the Y axis, you know that a train is being held at a station.

Here’s an example where “stringlines” provide information that a countdown clock couldn’t convey: https://i.imgur.com/u5VGqH4.jpeg

Because the “line” is not progressing past 5th Ave/53rd st, we know that that is where the issue is occurring. A countdown timer would simply either say static or start adding time, but you wouldn’t know how far the next train is from you.

Here’s another example: https://i.imgur.com/mrvrbUt.jpeg

What I can glean from this is that the E train is running with much lower frequency than it was an hour ago, so I should expect longer wait times.

It’s truly a marvelous invention.

To add on to this: We need to regulate the use of PWM modulation in external LEDs on vehicles. Too many manufacturers are using 120Hz - 200Hz modulation frequency which are easily detectable by the human eye when motion is involved. You'll know when you're looking at a car with PWM headlights when at night they look like they are blurring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5JzxjWtFaY

“Application Windows” is an option in Misson Control for Expose. I have it set up as a hot corner.

Orion Browser includes experimental Firefox extension support on iOS https://kagi.com/orion/

Would you consider an Airbnb property that offered $0.99 per night rates for max 1 night and then asked you arrange alternative payment for additional nights to be in violation of Airbnb policy?

Apple removed sub-pixel text rendering support in macOS 3-4 years ago.

They wanted to merge their GPU driver stack across iOS and macOS when they moved to Apple Silicon.

This has come with some benefits, like the lightning fast speed that Macs can enable external monitors.

I thought Shorten (.shn) was the lossless codec that came out of that scene?

Samsung developed a microplastic filter that works with any washing machine.

Claims to capture 98% of microplastics.

It compacts the lint so that you only need to empty it once a month. Reports remaining capacity via SmartThings.

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-launches-less-microf...

You can click the "Quick Answer" button on the search results page to trigger the same feature. I think it appears whenever there is more than one word in the search query.

Amazing. You can use the website ranking feature to boost results from certain domains ie. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

It’s a calculator.