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skunkworkeron Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking

Same, a family member send a photo while I was driving and over Carplay it was described fairly accurately.

Don’t forget BGP or running out of disk space without an alert.

skunkworkeron Multiple Displays on a Mac Sucks

It is true. I’ve been doing multi monitor support on a M1/M3 pro for years now. Triple external monitors (2 off a dock and 1 displaylink). The older amd graphics cards took 10-15s to detect external monitors while the apple silicon chips take 1s.

skunkworkeron Apple Scraps Plan to Design Display for Watch In-House, Cuts Jobs

I wonder how many more years until phone/watch/tv releases of microLED. It seems like it's been a perpetual "5 years away" for the last decade or so. And as I am in the market for a TV upgrade, I'm personally leaning towards a LG G4/C4 to last me until microLED displays release.

skunkworkeron How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale

That could be all of the nodes, or just the primaries without replicas.

skunkworkeron How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale

What is your definition of "decently well", and is your primary cluster (without replicas) above 1PB?

skunkworkeron New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

I upgraded from a 2015 MBP with 16gb of ram to a M3 Pro with 36gb. It’s a night and day difference, the machine is much more responsive and I mainly use it 30 min a day, or sometimes for a few hours in a row. And charge about once per week, getting about 14hr battery life.

skunkworkeron Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero

From what I've been seeing with Toyota and their ECU Security Key, it hasn't been cracked yet but it's close to being cracked and extracted from a running car and the private key extracted (so things that look at CAN bus messages can work again, like comma.ai)

skunkworkeron Single SF restaurant may be operating 70 different storefronts on DoorDash

I had known that "It's just Wings" was chilis the first time I bought it, but I did not know how bad "Ghost Kitchens" were until the "The Deceptive World of Ghost Kitchens" video. It's worth a watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkIkymh5Ayg

skunkworkeron PHOLED Will Transform Displays

Their software takes awhile to boot. If they had something like VRRoom internally, the user experience would be a lot better, switching inputs faster etc.

https://hdfury.com/product/8k-vrroom-40gbps/

skunkworkeron Ripgrep 14 Released

Ripgrep is probably my favorite command line tool (which replaces older solutions). It’s just so quick to search a folder for a specific line of text in a file.

skunkworkeron Did Reddit just denylist all IPs?

https://www.reddit.com/ is not working but https://old.reddit.com/. I wonder what got pushed by mistake.

skunkworkeron Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro

4k30 Log is approx 100MB/second

skunkworkeron Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro

That requirement is for 4k60 Log only. 4k30 log will write to disk but takes up around 100mb/sec. From some videos I shot last weekend.

skunkworkeron Ural Airlines is preparing to fly a stranded Airbus A320 out of a field

Reminds me a little of TACA Flight 110. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110

skunkworkeron Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account

Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/

It's a quite powerful tool to integrate a variety of different smart home devices into one location and share them between ecosystems.

I have a wifi thermostat that requires a dedicated app and does not allow for Apple Home integration. With Home Assistant I installed an integration for that thermostat, then shared it with the Apple Home bridge (also an integration) and quickly was able to allow my iphone/automations etc, to modify the thermostat. And that's only scratching the surface and something that took a few minutes.

skunkworkeron Philips Hue will soon force users to create an account

This is a disappointing if not unexpected update. I currently have a hue bridge for some hue ambiance bulbs but also have control through HA. There have been some needed bulb updates (improving the stability of last color temp and state on power on) but I will soon fully transition over to HA with a zigbee adapter because of stuff like this.

skunkworkeron F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

I'm curious if the F35 had a luneburg lens installed or not. If it didn't and did not have an active transponder it would make things much more difficult.

skunkworkeron iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

And those users who will use the Pro for video/photos can now transfer them to external storage while shooting (finally).

skunkworkeron Apple Sep 2023 Event: “Wonderlust”

Having the MagSafe and the Thunderbolt 3/4 ports is a great combination. it's a welcome change on the road to have magsafe but I use TB3 at home with a dock.

skunkworkeron Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

I find technical work is better over zoom. I’ll take a shared screen on zoom over a display or projector that’s hard to read and 40 feet away.

skunkworkeron The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

Here is another video https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n

skunkworkeron The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVjGWpbE7k

This is an unlisted video of the LK-99 film (purportedly)

skunkworkeron The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

Thanks, I was looking for that video that was referenced in https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2307/2307.12037.pdf

It's unlisted as well but published back in January of 2023. I wonder what they are going to think with the influx of views on it, (43 views as of this post)

Is it just me or is it odd not seeing the normal condensation of the surrounding air due to a chilled superconductor like you get with a YBCO.

skunkworkeron Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL

Having used schema based sharding in postgres before, I hope citus has a way around connection pooling and pgbouncer, as if you use pgbouncer transaction pooling your search_path could disappear at any time.

skunkworkeron Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?

I would love a 120Hz 8k 40 inch monitor. You could use 8k for productivity and then 4k for gaming.

skunkworkeron Apple Introduces M2 Ultra

M2 Ultra on a Mac Studio with 192gb is $5599 (60 core gpu), or $6599 (76 core gpu).

skunkworkeron Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

It's a little interesting that that are going to the Video 1st/ Training second model and abandoning the HPC market where they can't compete with high, multi TB workstations.

But I guess it's playing to the strength that video decode/encode has right now with the M series chips.

I wish that they would have a tiered memory expansion, eg 192gb fast tier, and expandable to 1.5TB slower but DDR5 expandable.

skunkworkeron Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode

In my mind I've always been curious what Intel could do with fixed width instructions with a newer 64bit ISA.

skunkworkeron Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?

Postgres for anything with a single database size < 4TB.

But if you need something that can handle 100TB+, go Vitess(mysql compatible).