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anaclet0on Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features

This is pretty cool!

Exclusive inside Apple’s audio lab where the company is taking on hearing loss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOkiDwH98sE

anaclet0on Faster CRDTs (2021)

IIRC the title was CRDTs go brrr

anaclet0on Humane unveils AI Pin – a contextual computer with a mini projector

The website reflects all their arrogance.

anaclet0on Arduino raises $32M Series B round

Source?

anaclet0on React Location – Enterprise Routing for React

This looks very promising. What's the license?

anaclet0on How to opt-out of Amazon Sidewalk

You need the latest version of the Ring app to be able to see that setting and it’s super sluggish (on purpose?). It took several seconds to open the Sidewalk page after I tapped on the menu item, no spinner, no feedback, it felt like it was bugged.

anaclet0on Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.

I thought Rome was a Facebook internal project. Am I missing something here?

anaclet0on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

$90 billion in buybacks is insane. IIRC analysts were expecting something between $70-$80 billion.

anaclet0on Killing TurboTax

I wonder what happened to turbotaxsucksass.com, it was listing a bunch of free alternatives and it mysteriously expired right before tax season began.

anaclet0on Getting Started with Signal

Donations

anaclet0on Persisting React State in LocalStorage

Totally agree. I usually have a /userSettings api to store all the user customized UI settings (e.g. sidemenu collapsed or not, theme, etc.)

anaclet0on Prometheus vs. Grafana vs. Graphite – A Feature Comparison

"Grafana can only visualize time series and it excels in this task over all other, but neither alarm management nor event tracking are part of its core functionality"

This is false, grafana introduced alerting last year.

anaclet0on Code Tells You How, Comments Tell You Why (2006)

I agree that is important to comment "why" you are doing something, but I highly disagree on "code tells you how". To me "how" is important to read code faster, skipping between blocks and finding what I was looking for. Code is meant for machines, comments for humans.

anaclet0on iPad 9.7‑inch

http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/

anaclet0on Slack expands beyond teams to entire organizations with Enterprise Grid

> The company is also working with PaloAlto Networks, Bloomberg Vault, Skyhigh Networks, Netskope, Relativity by KCura, Smarsh, and other data loss prevention providers so companies can know their data is being protected. And just like with Slack’s core offering, all data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Wouldn't be much easier offering an on prem version?

anaclet0on USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs

I was told that a person with an H4B VISA can work only after the PERM has been accepted, during the adjustment of status (the last step of a green card process)

anaclet0on Flash and Chrome

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Steve Jobs, April 2010

anaclet0on React: Mixins Considered Harmful

Coming from ember 1.x, mixins are pure evil