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coob··on The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
Yes, the GDS has a design system: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
coob··on Do data-driven companies win?
I think you’re agreeing with OP?
coob··on We're going to need a lot of solar panels
He sold most of his MSFT in 2020 when stepping down from the board.
coob··on Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022
The exception that proves the rule with Apple:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/28/apple-ceo-tim-coo...

coob··on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?
Seems fair enough
coob··on Thatcher killed the UK’s superfast broadband before it even existed
Scholz has also consistently lied about not blocking getting heavy weapons to Ukraine.
coob··on Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display
Which is why Apple make the XDR for the professional market.
coob··on SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO
Is it an IPO if they’ve already previously been public?
coob··on Woman discovers AirTag on her vehicle after receiving iPhone alert
Android phones aren't being used to report the location of the AirTag so there's no point.
coob··on Chicken Checker – See how often salmonella was found at meat processing plants
In the US, chickens are washed in a chlorine solution.

This is not allowed in UK/EU, as it's believed it's better to fix the problem at source and that no-one will bother to do that if there's end-bleaching.

coob··on iOS 15
> I don't know if Apple is handicapping Google maps on iOS (ie locking system APIs)

It isn't

coob··on Moving to London for a Tech Job
The Tube's not the only way to get around London! Zone 1 maybe, but commuter rail is pretty decent by international standards (apart from Southern).
coob··on Android's new Bluetooth stack rewrite (Gabeldorsh) is written with Rust
Honestly sounds like faulty hardware or interference.
coob··on New UK police speed gun can read license plates from half a mile away at night
They're really not, there's 2000 of them in the UK: https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/fleet-industry-news/2020/09...
coob··on Hardware-Accelerated TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons for macOS 11.0
I can't answer your question, but the source code is here for those interested:

https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos/archive/v0.1alpha0...

coob··on Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
You're going to be last in line anyway:

https://twitter.com/jkottke/status/1325854372077707264

coob··on Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]
Any of the old iPod Linux guys still working at Sony on this?
coob··on Grouparoo: Open-source app to sync customer data with 3rd party tools
Syncing our customer user data to Zendesk without having to write our own syncing service.
coob··on Grouparoo: Open-source app to sync customer data with 3rd party tools
Wow, this is exactly what I started looking for at the start of the day.

Unfortunately I can't use it yet as there's no Postgres SSL support - filed a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/grouparoo/grouparoo/issues/734

coob··on Analysis of SwissCovid app
Yes, it's a ridiculous absolutist argument.
coob··on UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model
> The UK "hack" for the bluetooth was quite clever from what I saw - in essence they implemented the "background discovery of an iPhone" feature.

It wasn't that clever, it didn't work: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA/issues/2

coob··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
It's 163. I think the 218 you got from a Cmd-F and picked up the SEO blurb for the 5k ultra fine in the footer).

I cannot tell the difference between the LG and my MacBook's retina screen at my normal viewing range, but this may just be my eyes.

I also use a non integer scaling factor on both screens as I find it has the right combo of resolution and real estate for me, and I don't notice artefacts.

coob··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
I've just switched to a an LG "5K2K" ultrawide [1]. 5120 x 2160 and fairly reasonably priced.

[1] https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34WK95U-W-ultrawide-monito...

coob··on Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
Regular scheduled 1:1 meetings with those I work closely with. Does wonders for teamwork / relationship building.
coob··on A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)
An expression of one's own values doesn't have to imply a judgement of others, especially if they're about what makes one happy.
coob··on Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
Love what you guys are doing with Joan.

I strongly believe there's a place in the market for displays that don't feel like displays. I don't think there's much need for interaction, but passive emitters of relevant, useful, hyper local information that feel like a wall feature or design piece rather than screen could have high success rate.

I built a Smart Mirror for this purpose. It was mostly a mirror, in a nice wooden frame, but it also subtly told me when the next bus running down my road would be and whether or not I needed an umbrella that day.

The only reason it's not back up on the wall yet is because it uses a backlit LCD which is fine during daylight as the half mirrored glass hides this with enough light, but at night it's all lit up. If it were backed by OLED instead (impossible at a 24" size) it would feel much more magical.

There's lots of other ways of taking the same approach - furniture / feature first, display second, that I think could succeed as a popular product.

coob··on Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
You can make your own yeast: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21199708/yeast-diy-baking...
coob··on What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
macOS's preview will let you do all of this also.
coob··on What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
hellosign.com does exactly this
coob··on Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
Does anyone know if Tesla are using SiFive[1] for their custom silicon design?

[1] https://www.sifive.com

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