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They are locked in place in a frame system. They have to be lifted off.

rjvson Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc

From the pricing page, it looks like even if you pay for the most expensive option, you still only get to remove their watermark for 30 minutes! If you are paying for the basic service (NOT free) you can only remove their watermark for 2 minutes!

Apart from that, it looks like an interesting product.

rjvson Seven year coronavirus trail from mine deaths to a Wuhan lab

Has anyone done any studies on the level of similarity of the viewpoints between various arms of the Murdoch media outlets (Sky/Fox/Star & various newspapers such as The Times) around the world when compared to say, their nearest competitors in each market?

rjvson After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit

This might be true for wherever you live but there are many locations where interconnection is not practical due to distance or other challenges.

rjvson A $43,859.00 Refurbished Mac Pro

It may be better value for your particular use case. It depends entirely on the requirements, surely? If you need the faster SSD, hardware disk encryption, ability to run MacOS or some other feature that the Mac Pro has over the system you specified, that might have a different answer than if you need the maximum number of CUDA cores.

rjvson Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

It’s common and defensible to do it once on startup, apparently tiktok was accessing to clipboard “every few keystrokes” (I read elsewhere it was every 8s). https://www.ilounge.com/news/tiktok-clipboard-data-collectio...

rjvson Christo has died

Do you feel the same way about Marvel movies, or TV and movies in general?

Honest question because especially the blockbusters likely produce more waste, although less visibly and certainly consume more resources.

rjvson Medical staff say virus stigma driving Tokyo hospitals to edge of collapse

There is one case in Australia that is similar, although also more personal https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-22/coronavirus-fears-doc...

rjvson Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial trials

Not saying that the claims are all true but reading a little more closely, they aren't as extreme as you make out. The press release actually states that the batteries they intend to trial are 1000 Wh/kg and they quoted raw material price of $63/kWh, not battery price.

rjvson Apple changes default MacBook charging behavior to improve battery health

The phone batteries that people handled did store a lot less energy though.

rjvson Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing

> All we need is the tests now.

Plus people to then do what they are told...

rjvson CDC coronavirus testing decision likely to haunt nation for months to come

Similar mistakes were made by seemingly every country that hadn’t dealt with a SARS virus before. This might be partially explained by the leadership position the US has traditionally enjoyed on the world stage.

rjvson NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovel

Surprise, the clickbait headline misrepresents what the original article they were summarising said. They didn't hit it with a shovel, they used the shovel to add pressure:

> In late February, the team moved on to what Spohn calls “plan C.” They positioned the scoop above the mole’s tail and pushed it straight down into the dirt.

rjvson NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls

SpiderEye [1] is another project with the same approach, while Ultralight [2] is very different but with similar goals in some ways (light cross-platform application UI).

1. https://github.com/JBildstein/SpiderEye

2. https://ultralig.ht

rjvson Internet in a Box

Any particular reason you linked to Teradek instead of the one that you use? I'm very interested in something like this for trade shows and on-site demos.

rjvson Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming

The title is "Remote Work, Podcast..." not focused on creating a personal recording studio. It's not really appropriate to have a rackmount pre-amp to just make you sound slightly better on a conference call.

rjvson FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format

So you're suggesting that the advantage JPEG XL has is that it will compress existing JPEGs better than FLIF or AVIF?

rjvson Clues That Neanderthals Didn't Know How to Make Fire (2017)

I don't think they know how to light a fire from scratch (yet?) but birds use fire, starting new fires using existing embers and burning twigs.

https://www.sciencealert.com/birds-intentionally-set-prey-ab...

rjvson SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

If they could put relatively cheap cameras on the "back" of these satellites (without them being destroyed when facing the sun) and publish the data they collect, that might be enough to stem the flow of negative publicity.

Maybe even become a net positive for astronomy? Since the volume and density of the data collected would increase as the fleet grows, the value presumably increases as well, hopefully faster than the problems that they create.

rjvson A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)

Has anyone had good experiences with KCP? Syncthing removed their implementation [1] because it didn't live up to expectations.

1 https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/4737

rjvson FIND3: High-precision indoor positioning framework

Indeed; since we are working in VR, high-precision indoor positioning for us is sub-mm, which is very different to a navigation use-case.

rjvson How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't

Cash is a resource.

rjvson Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline

There are a lot of native English speakers in the world and not all of them use the same idioms that you do. This seems like perfectly valid English to me; some other words that could be used instead of “landed” in the aircraft sentence include “bagged”, “nabbed”, “poached”, “got” and “did in”. One of the entertaining aspects of English is the multitude of ways it can be used.

rjvson Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team

Isn't that basically what has already happened in this case?

rjvson Three Kinds of Good Tech Debt

You’re nit-picking when I think the analogy is clear but it doesn’t effect your credit if the company you work for declares bankruptcy, so the comparison to the company’s tech debt seems to hold up even if you push it.

rjvson Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger

The more you know, the more you know that you don't know...

rjvson Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business

If Intel hadn’t sold to Apple, they would have had to pay out severance packages to 2200 engineers, plus break costs on whatever ongoing contracts existed (leases etc). So the comparison isn’t +$1B against $0, more like +$1B against -$1B (or at least a decent fraction of that), with the costs growing every day that the negotiations continued and the likelihood of a sale to anyone else continuing to drop (from a very low base).

rjvson The Long, Slow Death of Venice

The gamut might be wider but "however you'd like" is a bit of a stretch. Wearing traditional Arabian dress -- for men or women -- would almost certainly increase the amount of friction you experience in a day. Also, a frivolous example; women are pretty rarely topless on mainstream beaches even in CA.

rjvson Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

There are lots of UI interactions in AR/VR based on gaze. It’s a top-tier paradigm in Hololens, for example. Personally I find it annoying; I want to concentrate on the content not some button or action zone. Part of the problem is that our eyes don’t work the way we like to imagine, they skip around and look at lots of different things and our brains then synthesise a gestalt view. There is a tendency for our eyes to be pointing more at the things that interest us but not _specifically_, eg at the keyboard, not at a key.

I think it is possible to use gaze as a secondary input in a UI and would love to hear examples of where it has been done because I haven’t seen any yet.