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enturn··on Numi – Calculator app for Mac
There's a port of the Windows calculator on the Uno Platform that's ad free, although not paid. https://github.com/unoplatform/calculator
enturn··on AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
For me, TLS errors would happen every so often after we had used all our data allowance and our connection was being shaped to a slow speed. Once the speed returned to normal it was fine. I always thought it was the slow speed but maybe there were bugs in the shaping software.
enturn··on Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations
I previously used my partner's Google account to watch on YouTube and it had built up recommendations based on what I previously watched since I didn't use the subscriptions, but one day it all just disappeared and only showed recommendations from my partner's subscriptions. I'd prefer if they implemented a user driven exploration system rather than attempting to guess what I want but it must be useful to be able to change how it works without modifying the user interface. I eventually gave up and used my own account with now 32 subscriptions and it's better than it was although it shows a lot of videos I've already watched. It throws in a few videos from other channels but it's mostly from the subscriptions.
enturn··on Dissection of COVIDSafe (Android): Australian government's contact tracing app
Are there concerns that unpatched Android devices could be vulnerable to the Bluetooth bug discovered in February this year?

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2020/02/07/google-critical-an...

enturn··on Guitar – Git GUI Client
GitExtensions includes a terminal and shows the commands it runs and I recently discovered the GitGraph extension in VSCode which allows having a terminal open at the same time. There's more text focused ones like Magit or Tig, I haven't used them personally but from reading the manual of Magit it looks like it can [1] and Tig allows for setting up custom commands [2].

1. https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Running-Git-Manually.html

2. http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html#external-commands

enturn··on Retiring Internet Explorer
I understand Microsoft needs to continue supporting IE for old websites but my boss a couple days ago used the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy as a reason why we, as website developers, need to support IE11 also. I would like articles saying people shouldn't use IE to also explicity answer the question, "Should website developers support IE?"
enturn··on Statecharts: A visual formalism for complex systems [pdf]
I came across a javascript implementation [1] and HN discussion from a year ago [2].

[1] https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17805950

enturn··on 7GUIs: A GUI Programming Benchmark (2018)
I think animation needs a mention, even though it could be considered part of Material Design, and also accessibility.
enturn··on Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
I'm just guessing but I think it would be easier to start from a perfect system and progressively work towards an accurate imperfect system rather than the other way of guessing an imperfect system and working back towards an accurate imperfect system.
enturn··on In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer
I listened to Ashton Kutcher talk about how he tried to copy Steve Jobs by drinking lots carrot juice and he ended up in the hospital.
enturn··on Ruffle – An Adobe Flash Player Written in Rust Compiled to WebAssembly
I've read that OpenFL supports some features of swf assets.
enturn··on A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations
Whenever talking about UI animations it's important to observe the Best Practices for Response Times and Latency [1] especially if the animation is in addition to a network request. Latency over 300ms might result in a degraded user experience depending on the situation.

1. https://github.com/Tendrl/documentation/wiki/Best-Practices-...

enturn··on How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
You could try TED (or TEDx) talks. For example, a couple of titles I see by skimming the video list are "The living tech we need to support human life on other planets" and "5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins".
enturn··on JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
Interesting idea. I did a quick search and found literate-json on github.
enturn··on JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)
Lack of comments was the reason I never liked JSON for configuration. JSON5 looks awesome.
enturn··on Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements
I've been using Waterfox since Mozilla changed their extension format and it's been incredibly stable. I used it for the Tree Style Tab extension. There's probably less reason to use it just for that anymore but vertical tabs in Firefox still isn't the best experience. I use Firefox with Tree Tabs at work with the extra user UI modification required to hide the top tabs and the sidebar headings. Only allowing one sidebar means when I accidentally open the bookmarks I need to mess around to get my tabs back.
enturn··on YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
I don't have the stats to back this up but I imagine there would be a significant portion of unsavory comments that appear from people/bots that didn't actually watch a large portion of the video. I think it would work in YouTube's and creator's favor to disable adding a comment until you watch a large portion of the video or you load all the ads.
enturn··on Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often?
There are some additional insights at a similar Hacker News Discussion. Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17190992
enturn··on Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix
Twitch auto played when it was embedded on a website and used 6GB before I realized causing my internet to be shaped. Fortunately it was only a couple of days before the quota refreshed. I now block the ttvnw.net domain using a browser addon.
enturn··on Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
I'm fairly sure if you have the app on your phone you can download the map data and use it offline unless it changed (It's been a while since I've done it).
enturn··on Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials
The first thing that came to my mind was how some people with kidney stones are treated with shock waves that breaks them up.
enturn··on Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
That's a good point. There's no guarantee that compromised devices will stay within Australian jurisdiction. How are diplomats affected by this law?
enturn··on Portable Text – JSON rich text specification for content editing platforms
Kind of like an AST but for markup?
enturn··on Esverify: LiquidHaskell inspired verification for JavaScript
This seems similar to .Net Code Contracts. Although I've never used either so couldn't say for sure.
enturn··on The State of JavaScript 2018
The links to learn more in the popovers on the other libraries page [1] are impossible to click since they disappear when not hovering over the name. Apologies if someone has mentioned this before. Edit: I'm using Waterfox. It works well in Chrome.

1. https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/other-librar...

enturn··on Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal
> the Supreme Court avoided a final judgment on the matter by finding unanimously that the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the suit.

Perhaps existing businesses have a standing to bring a suit by arguing that they already provide jobs. Maybe they already receive a proportional tax benefit?

enturn··on How to explain infinity to kids
I like to think about the length of the outside of a circle. It's only when you use a line with a beginning and end in the shape of a circle that you can measure it. The idea can be extended to 3D with a spiral staircase that has no beginning and end. The steps of the staircase cannot be measured until you give it limits.
enturn··on Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
As well as opting out, if you're concerned about privacy it might be good to contact your doctors directly to let them know that you don't give consent for your data to be uploaded in the first place.
enturn··on Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project
Fossil SCM has Integrated Bug Tracking, Wiki, and Technotes. It's not git but is distributed. It's used for sqlite project.
enturn··on Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup
There were some interesting observations about salt with people who did a 135-day simulation of life on the Mir space station. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effect...
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