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arriu··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
The one asking the user to make noise as loud as you want the volume to be made me laugh but it does have a hidden feature... It will never be lower than ambiant noise. Perhaps a desireable feature?
arriu··on Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
This is a really great question, I'd love to know how to minimize my own burnout. It's likely not just maintenance as I've felt burned out on brand new projects that have no maintenance.
arriu··on The military secret to falling asleep in two minutes
I wonder how many other normal body functions could be optimized with regular practice? Six weeks as is the case with this article
arriu··on Firefox 90 introduces SmartBlock 2.0 for Private Browsing
How does this feature determine which scripts are required? What if there are dependencies between libraries that are blocked?
arriu··on AWS Having Problems Again
This seems to be only affecting eu-central-1 right?
arriu··on Migrating ToolJet Server from Ruby on Rails to Node.js
One thing you'll miss will be the rails scaffold generators. I'd encourage the team to build their own node.js generators specific to whatever dev practices you decide on using something like the inquirer package.
arriu··on Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
So if we go off of Woz's example, you would have preferred it if bell was allowed to say what kind of phone you were allowed to have and that the "few bureaucrats" should not have stepped in to allow other manufacturers to build phones.

People could not have voted with their wallet because there was no alternative. We're approaching the same type of problem with tech giants. People just want to ensure that components can be replaced and that the tech giants aren't going out of their way to prevent that.

arriu··on One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing
I'm getting a "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (INTERNAL SERVER ERROR)". Looks like we broke it?
arriu··on Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
Brilliant, thanks for sharing this! I'd love to know where it doesn't work.
arriu··on Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines
I don't think it's enough to say people get vaccinated and we didn't see this in the past. This is quite different. Many people are afraid of this vaccine more than others in the past. I've had countless arguments with family trying to convince them it's okay. Their arguments are A) it's mRNA, which is new... And B) they argue it was rushed.

I can't help but think about how someone with that mental state would feel while in the waiting room.

arriu··on Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines
What's up with the down votes...

It is a legitimate question. People get heart inflammation from things like court visits.

If you know something then please share.

arriu··on Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines
Has anyone looked at whether the mental stress or anxiety induced by putting someone through the process of getting the shot could be maybe be a reason for triggering this? Not the vaccine itself, but the whole routine of line up, answer questions about allergies and other risk factors, then waiting to get the shot, then having to sit there waiting for symptoms to show up... Not to mention people don't like needles either.

I can imagine the heart rate during this ordeal is way higher than normal and could trigger inflammation.

Not saying that the science here is invalid, just actually curious to know how this gets ruled out.

arriu··on What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour
That average does seem quite low... However, I do live in the greater Toronto area and we're known for having terrible traffic. My pre-covid daily work commute was 2-3 hours on the 401.
arriu··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
I second this recommendation. I've done the whole DIY NAS thing a number of times but the Synology solution is just far more convenient and usually just works. Additionally, the there are so many other benefits to running a NAS, like the opportunity to plug in a set of IP cameras for security...

Also, the OP doesn't need to get rid of Google Photos. They can keep Google Photos as a off-site back-up.

arriu··on Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
Alright, I'll bite.

We're probably going to see a wave of disruptions from technologies like GPT3.

For example, we might see something like this in the long term:

A) Someone will create a model to accurately convert low level source code to higher level source code that does the same thing when compiled down. Think assembly / machine code to high level code or even English descriptions of the underlying semantics.

B) At this point, why not pipe in some DNA/RNA into the model from A) to get high level insights

C) Give it a couple iterations and it might be possible to create a compiler. For example... C to RNA

D) Finally... solve problems by creating sequences from scratch instead of re-using bits from mother nature

If we ever do get to D), I sure hope no country tries to use this in a terrible way...

arriu··on Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup
Thank you for sharing this. I wonder if having a ton of subdomains might also flag Google to blacklist the parent domain...
arriu··on Cameras and Lenses
While the mod is interesting and a way to get into monochrome photography, it should be noted that the mod has disadvantages. Mainly, you end up removing the microlenses. Which seems to cancel out any gains unfortunately.

source: I've done this mod on a couple cameras and wouldn't recommend it for performance gains alone. It's a fun project, not much more.

arriu··on Watercooling a Canon R5 to enable unlimited 8K recording
For anyone interested, the astrophotography guys on centralds.net have been doing similar things for a while now. If you're looking to accomplish something similar, they might be able to help you out.

Additionally, there are lots of people doing similar diy mods to DSLR cameras on youtube for astrophotography, usually with sub-zero cooling capabilities.

arriu··on YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
I wonder how much involvement there was from Microsoft on this matter. Either way, good job guys!
arriu··on 7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
Any way to get these working on mobile? The emulator seems to play but no way to type or input text.
arriu··on Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?
I've always encouraged people to check out Jonathan Blow's talk on this topic ( https://youtu.be/JjDsP5n2kSM?t=817 ). He points out many reasons why this type of code would actually be the optimal version when weighing other factors.

Simple code is easy to write, maintain, and optimize later. Despite the code looking messy, I find it easy to understand and navigate.

A counter example of truly confusing code, which kind of does similar things, would be something like this: https://github.com/ImageMagick/dcraw/blob/master/dcraw.c

arriu··on Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?
Games might be an interesting one to look at because they have a little bit of everything going on (physics, math, rendering, cross platform abstractions, window management, system calls, file management, memory management, etc...)

Take a look at these:

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/PenumbraOverture

arriu··on Time for a WTF MySQL Moment
Alright, seriously, thank you for this list! You just solved two mysteries that had my team going in circles.
arriu··on The Sony “Star Eater” (2017)
I think the issue here is that even with Long Exposure NR and High ISO NR turned off, Sony still does it anyways.
arriu··on Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout?
Too many rounded corners for my taste.

Functionaly, I'm having trouble finding things. Half of it is just because it's new but honestly some of it is due to stretching information apart.

arriu··on SpaceshipGenerator: A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships
Perhaps this one? https://github.com/zfedoran/pixel-sprite-generator
arriu··on Show HN: Box Line Text – A simple whiteboarding tool for screencasts
You can right-click to delete a box and redraw it (works for lines too).

edit: author just changed it to shift-click

arriu··on Using VueJS Alongside Django
Django is fantastic, unfortunately its template language is not so great. Using Vue like this has allowed us to be far more productive than using either in isolation.

Another tip would be to give django-admin a try when building dashboard projects (you can customize the look and feel quite a bit, ours are usually unrecognizable).

arriu··on Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz
I was a bit confused and expected to see some elaborate liquid cooling nonsense to get the poor chip up to 15 GHz.
arriu··on Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks [video]
I love your passion and drive towards making things work. Often without a blueprint to follow. Thanks for shining light (sometimes literally) on so many obscure topics.

If you ever find yourself bored, we could really use a reliable method of removing a camera senor bayer matrix. Bonus points if you can figure out how to deposit microlenses back onto the photosites after removal.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/166334-debayering-a-dslrs...

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