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jguimonton Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

I have found memories of my PowerBook 100. It was my first computer and everything was just magic back then. Made games and utilities with HyperCard back then. MOved to a LC630 afterward and that so so fast in comparison. I could finally play Marathon without waiting my turn in the LAN parties :D

jguimonton Apple introduces AppleCare One

I was half hoping that would be a press release saying that AppleCare would be bundled with the AppleOne plan... That would have been awesome, but otherwise I never used/needed AppleCare on anything so I guess I would pass.

jguimonton 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

And for what it is worth, the times I had to use Objective-C, it is a nice superset of C language that reads cleanly and is easy to grasp.

jguimonton Atlassian Acquires Loom

but you cannot link those into jira tickets!

jguimonton Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

Lego are just like those brick. If you just pile them on you have no strength, if you interlock them you have strength in one direction, if you have 2 rows interlocked, you have strength in 2 directions.

jguimonton Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

Ever built Lego?

jguimonton Volvo Cars Adopts Tesla's NACS Port in the United States, Canada and Mexico

Your turn VW Group.

jguimonton Volvo Cars Adopts Tesla's NACS Port in the United States, Canada and Mexico

Same parent company and same technology (the 2 is basically an XC/C-40 with a different body). Yes they will make the move, just need the announcement.

jguimonton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)

  Location: Montreal, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, JavaScript, Ember/React/Browser frameworks, HTML, CSS, SQL, DevOps
  Email: julien.guimont@gmail.com
  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/guimont
  GitHub: github.com/juggy

Looking for Engineering Manager or Full Stack Engineer job, challenging projects and awesome teams!

jguimonton Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer

Isn't the Peripheral on Amazon Prime based on a Gibson story too? https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0PE2SANXUROCEZ5W2FD7WGMM9R

jguimonton Apple Music Sing

> Apple Music Sing will be available on all compatible iPhone and iPad models as well as the new Apple TV 4K.

Does this means that only the newest version of the Apple TV 4K can run this? I have a old 4K, what does it mean for it?

jguimonton Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]

For those mega cargo ships, why is civil nuclear power vessels are not a thing? Seems they would massively reduce the footprint while providing better clearner power.

jguimonton Old Elbe Tunnel

Montreal has different architecture and design for each metro stop https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal/montreal-metro-architecture...

jguimonton Almost every Ferrari sold since 2005 is being recalled

Hum - I believe this is what the hand brake is for no? Do Ferraris not have hand brakes?

jguimonton Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price

Polestar is doing the hybrid model too. online order, single price, single wait list and leveraging a set of volvo dealerships for delivery and maintenance. i think this is the perfect model.

jguimonton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)

Enzyme | Full Stack Software Engineer | Remote | Full-time | https://angel.co/l/2jWkTr

We’re building a software platform to handle the compliance aspects of running a drug or medical device company.

We are looking for a full-stack expert. You have taken multiple apps from conception to deployment, and have experience and opinions on the best technologies to use and why. You should be comfortable implementing new features from scratch, making changes to existing features and writing complex migrations on production data.

Rails & Elixir shop

jguimonton France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors

It is EDF [1] which is a mostly state owned company. The state will finance the reactors and collect it back when they come online.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_de_Franc...

jguimonton Every M1 Mac is due for a 2022 refresh with faster M2 chip, new designs

The MBA, 13inch MBP, the bigger imac and the mac min are all old designs that were updated with a M1 processor.

The 2022 update will bring a new industrial design on top of the new architecture. The same way the imac and the 14/16MBP were refreshed with a new design + a new architecture.

My predictions form each:

- MBA -> many colors, white screen/keyboard background (similar to imac)

- MBP 13 -> renamed MacBook, a MBA with more ports, no colors and black screen/keyboard

- iMac -> might be renamed imac pro, black screen and keyboard background. Same small footprint as the consumer imac

- mac mini -> the current mac min is pretty empty. I think we'll see something much more compact but really similar in design.

EDIT: style

jguimonton Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable

Actually most countries mandate a % of local content from Netflix. So they sponsor, buy, produce shows for that country and make it available to the world to expend the catalogue. That is quite nice for smaller director/producer to get access to a global crowd.

I remember a local movie (1) that became, almost over night, the most watched movie in Quebec's history with more than 21M viewer. Quebec population is ~8M.

(1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-first-netflix...

jguimonton Business Essentials

I mean... I'd like to use that to manage my family's macs/iphone!

jguimonton Montana to cancel unemployment benefits to address severe workforce shortage

One better long term solution is to raise salaries. Raising the hourly wage will help fill in some employment.

Yes there are side effects to that (raising prices is one), but anything else is pushing a problem forward.

jguimonton I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

Sometimes it is better not to be too clever. I built a CRM like app for the construction industry and used "inc.construction" and "inc.services" as the app domain. So customer would have

<business-name>.inc.construction

I thought it was clever, but people do not understand them. Everything is .com in their mind.

jguimonton TSMC confirms 3nm tech for 2022, could enable epic 80B transistor GPUs

> Intel 7nm is estimated to deliver around 200 to 250 million transistors per square millimetre

> TSMC reckons its 3nm node will pack in somewhere north of 250 million transistors per square millimetre of silicon

Why is a 3nm process would yield the same transistor density as a 7nm one? Is it an error in the article or there is something I do not understand?

jguimonton Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon

To be honest your examples were aired on TV some time ago where the normal season was 24 episodes (about 40-45 min long for seasons like Lost) and a half season 10 or 12.

Most of the new shows are between 8 and 12 episodes about an hour long.

jguimonton SpaceX Launch: Starlink 12 [video]

What will be the speed of the internet down and up link when fully operational? The video said 100Mbps at low latency. Do they expect more afterward?

jguimonton Big Sur on Unsupported Macs

That is a 7 years old iMac. Apple is not forcing you.

jguimonton Roman Finger Counting

Tuna auction is also using hand numbers like this https://youtu.be/H-eoIxfycf8?t=316

They also sometimes do the gestures with the hands under a sheet to do a silent auction. Pretty impressive.

jguimonton Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy

That’s the new setting of the battery where the software fakes 100% at 90-80% of capacity based on the age and performance of the battery.

This can be turned off in the preferences.

jguimonton Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911

Same goes for child car seats. Some manufacturer actually replace them for free last time I checked.

jguimonton Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15

They could have gone another route than imposing a bogus security audit and have the devs pay for it. I did an integration with QuickBooks a while back, and they paid/conducted the security audit themselves.

Google could have added a contract that would plainly state that any data needs to be wiped out etc and enforce that contract if anything is fishy.

Google could have created a process to clearly inform the dev that the user wants to delete google related data and impose deadlines on it.

Those are simple, but I think Google was just lazy and listened to a bunch of lawyers instead of thinking out the box.

I have an app that allows to link your email account thru Nylas (with google), now I would have to pay the security audit? No way. I told my customers that any google account that is not a GSuite which whitelisted the app (most of my customers corporate) that they might have warning dialog when connecting their gmail account. There is a limit of 100 linked account without verification ;(