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This cable is letting me run it at 60Hz from my MBP: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4DB8MLL

I've been using a Phillips BDM4065UC (40" 4K) for a few years now. It's really nice. I don't want to go back to a smaller screen. If I ever need to replace it, I would try to save and get something comparable.

I think the user should be prompted to enable new functionality that sends data to the cloud. I think there should be a link to details about which data is being sent, how it is being transmitted, if it is stored, if it is provided to 3rd-parties, and what is being done with it.

Maybe this is exactly what the GDPR does. But it is what I would appreciate as a user.

I have seen how sending metrics and crash dumps from a mobile device can radically improve the user experience.

I have also seen enough of the Google bid traffic to know how much they know about us.

I want to enable sending metrics, but most of the time it's a radio button labeled "metrics" and I don't know what's going on.

It also states that SMS is not "phishing-resistant." I've received SMS messages that were phishing attempts at stealing my authentication credentials. It's also possible to re-route SMS messages via SIM swapping, SIM hijacking, or other methods (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/03/easy-sms-hija...).

SMS is just not designed to be used as an authentication mechanism. We have more secure mechanisms now.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Playdates

Not to mention the popup that scrolled me back to the beginning of the article.

My first programming job was writing QBASIC and later Microsoft Professional Basic. It ran in nuclear power plants. Thanks Thomas.

> And perhaps most terrifying of all, NTSB investigators found evidence that five of the 25 airplanes had experienced on-board electrical fires which self-extinguished without ever being detected.

Wow.

Electric air travel has the potential to be pretty revolutionary.

For regional carriers, there's a big potential maintenance cost savings that comes with electric power. See the orders for the Eviation Alice (https://www.eviation.com).

Our opposition as a country to investing in public rail infrastructure could lead to rail being leapfrogged by regional air travel using new technology. There are real topographical challenges that lead to choosing between a 7.5hr train trip vs a 45min flight.

From a logistics perspective, there are potential efficiencies to be gained from running more routes to smaller airports. Organ transplants sometimes fly on private jets to avoid risking organ viability due to a commercial flight being delayed. Those are some of the reasons for the investments in Beta (https://www.beta.team).

Also, air transport of people and cargo will continue to evolve and grow, so we may as well utilize a clean power source.

They don't think it will actually happen.

And that's comparing audiences for the ABC/CBS/NBC networks with the Fox News news channel. MSNBC has half the audience of Fox News.

Related: the Last Skier Standing - one uphill lap per hour.

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2024/02/15/last-skier-standin...

Ticketmaster now offers both dynamic pricing, as a response to the complaints that artists don’t get a cut of the price of scalped tickets, and Verified Fan pre-sales as a response to fan clubs.

I kinda gave up on it all, and go to see shows at a small venue near me. I can buy tickets in person and skip the BS most of the time. I won’t see big acts but these days that’s not what I’m into anyways.

Same here. The JetBrains products are indispensable for me. They've converted me after being an Emacs user for 30 years.

We had flooding in Vermont on the same day in July as last summer’s flooding.

In a different deluge, one town had 8” of rain in six hours.

It would appear this is the new normal. Towns will have to be redesigned (some were built around rivers for power and transportation a long time ago).

Found screenshots of the free version: https://www.opennms.com/horizon/#iLightbox[image_carousel_1]...

Yes. I was skeptical at first. Why add another method? This explains why.

For example, the right music is important for getting in the zone when programming.

It's like the music keeps parts of my brain busy so they don't distract me.

> Ultimately to maximize engagement you want to get people obsessed with something. Whether it’s sometimes violent racism, vaccine paranoia, national politics, whatever, you just need to get them obsessed, and then they will spend hours every day on your site feeding this beast and go insane. Then you will sell lots of ads and get rich.

Yes. This is exactly what Elon is doing with X at the moment.

I've worked at a large company that ran internally developed logistics software. It worked for them.

> Strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent in a non-tech industry

While you might be in a sector that isn't tech, you have tech. Put yourself in a software engineer's shoes, from a career perspective. We tried to keep up to speed with respect to things like framework/platform version, development practices, etc.

Make it clear and obvious that you will continue to invest in technology. We went to mobile early because it made sense for our business. We continued to invest as mobile changed with the introduction of iOS, and as computer vision got better.

Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss further.

We worked with a payment processor to implement billing for our services via credit card. According to the payment processor, the QA environment for one of the major credit cards had been broken for a while, so we tested in production.

We were testing billing customers who were going to pay us, so putting a small charge on a corporate card that was going to come back to us wasn't a big deal, I just remember being slightly surprised that testing something like credit card payments was done against the production environment.

The challenge with visual programming from my perspective is how to get the abstraction level just right. It's like Terraform/HCL modules: too granular, you wind up passing in a billion parameters, and the module adds little value. Too high-level, too many assumptions, also adds little value.

I have an idea that I think would be suitable for visual programming. Every time I think about it, I come to the conclusion that first you need a DSL, or at least a JSON Schema or something.

If you have a DSL/schema, then you also have a way to diff.

Then, you implement your visual programming environment, and visual diffs turn into effectively communicating those differences visually. Faded color to indicate a deleted node and connector, bold parameter and value to indicate a change, etc.

And Walmart.

Home Depot has sold me a returned product that was missing parts before.

They used to be called “expert systems.”

If I need to interact with a company for some reason, I will usually try the website first because it can be faster. If I can't do it using the website, I call the phone number. The automated phone system usually tries to send me to the website, so I yell "AGENT" into the phone until I talk to a person.

I am tired of this.

I've noticed more sites using the ability to access an e-mail account as an authentication mechanism.

I think they are using it different ways. Booking.com uses it as a primary authentication mechanism: enter your e-mail address, they send a link to that e-mail address, and clicking the link effectively authenticates you and you are logged in.

When I click on a link to a NextDoor post, sometimes it redirects me to a page with a button. Click the button, they send you an e-mail with a link, and clicking the link redirects me to the NextDoor post. What isn't clear in this case is if the e-mail link is a primary form of authentication, or secondary. For example, maybe my auth session expired, so they know I logged in at some point in the past, and the link in the e-mail is used to refresh my session.

I have to admit, I like the ease of using e-mail access as a form of authentication. I'm not sure how I feel about it being the primary form of authentication.

> Microsoft kick-started the AI PC race when it unveiled a series of AI-enabled personal computers in May.

Apple released the Neural Engine as part of the A11 SoC in 2017.

We had an iOS app that scanned barcodes. We compared the CPU and power utilization in Xcode using a barcode scanning library that used the CPU vs. a native API. As expected, evaluating OpenCV models with the CPU used around 90%+ of the CPU, and the native API dropped the CPU load to like 2%. Power utilization also decreased significantly.

I realized Apple was starting small in the AI space by introducing hardware to run computer vision models locally.

It's funny to see manufacturers shout about AI when AI on the local device has been around for a few years now. I guess it depends on your definition of AI. To me, it includes running computer vision models, because while the user experience of a LLM like ChatGPT is very different from scanning a barcode, both scenarios are evaluating data using a model.

It's been amazing to me how much it helps to use a cooling towel around my neck.

If you don't think about things like cost and complexity, yes it is easy to build complex solutions that are costly.

If you are conscious about designing a simple solution, which can help cost, and then review the cost at scale, then it can be very worthwhile to use cloud services.

Editing to say that solutions recommended by cloud vendors may not always be the simplest, nor more cost effective.

Anybody else running into issues downloading models?