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milesokeefe··on Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook
This is one option:

https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

milesokeefe··on NASA Designed a Low-Tech Rover to Survive Venus
With sufficient gear reduction any wind at all is enough to wind a spring, albeit slowly.
milesokeefe··on CCleaner Command and Control Causes Concern
If by "isn't on" you mean "turned off by the OS", that wouldn't do anything. Intel ME operates despite whatever the OS is doing. You'd have to physically disconnect the modem, put the device in a faraday cage, completely remove power source, etc.
milesokeefe··on CCleaner Command and Control Causes Concern
Yes, so many/most phones and laptops would be compromised. But there are also plenty of computers in every form that aren't plugged into anything at all and completely invulnerable.

It would be devastating but nothing we couldn't rebuild from.

milesokeefe··on CCleaner Command and Control Causes Concern
>Will we end up with a setup where every system within range of a wifi chip is instantly and persistently compromised?

*every system within range of a wifi chip and connected to a power source

milesokeefe··on Albertsons snaps up meal kit startup Plated
Regardless of feeling overwhelmed, the convenience of picking up one meal kit box vs knowing what ingredients to get, finding them, getting the right amount (often the minimum is far too much for the meal), etc. is huge.

AFAIK a lot of the margins for online meal kit companies is the shipping+packaging cost. Grocery stores don't have to pay for shipping to the customer and can keep the boxes refrigerated which would make the packaging much smaller and cheaper.

milesokeefe··on Tesla is working with AMD to develop its own A.I. chip for self-driving cars
Musk said that it would cost more to retrofit an AP1 Tesla to AP2 than it would to buy an AP2 Tesla outright. Perhaps they've designed the AP2 hardware with that in mind and down the line will offer hardware upgrades.
milesokeefe··on Intel delays Cannonlake 10nm processor for the third time
Right now on my MPB I'm sitting at 14.68GB used with another 3.73GB in swap. Between Chrome, electron-based desktop apps, and Docker containers it's easy to hit that limit. This is just full stack web dev too, nothing rendering related.
milesokeefe··on Choose boring employees
Title should read "employees".
milesokeefe··on A multi-user hologram table
AR has huge business potential in any job that requires use of both of your hands, especially for tasks where you’re moving around and don’t want to be tied to a monitor.

I agree with you when it comes to jobs that are currently done with monitors on desks.

milesokeefe··on A multi-user hologram table
It could be used for that exactly, getting the public interested in new development projects. Not sure it would be worth the cost though.
milesokeefe··on WebAssembly: A New Hope
WebASM doesn’t have direct DOM access so I don’t see how ad blockers would work any differently than they do now.
milesokeefe··on Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
Not relevant to the parent comment but in places like the UK where acid attacks aren't uncommon, that can be a concern.
milesokeefe··on What's with the black bar?
Or even just an alt tag.
milesokeefe··on A Silicon Valley down payment could buy you an entire house in much of the U.S
Hopefully, otherwise remote working will increase in popularity at about the same rate it is currently but people will just continue to leave such high rent areas.
milesokeefe··on Ebikes: I Sing the Ride Electric
>Also: > BMW (yes that BMW) makes an Ebike ($3,430) featuring Bosch motors with a 400 watt battery

https://shop.bmw.com/en_US/p/-/bmw-cruise-e-bike./2412319/

milesokeefe··on Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
What's wrong with 3d touch? I'm a fan of it, especially its use on the keyboard to move the text cursor.
milesokeefe··on Once mocked, Facebook’s $1B acquisition of Instagram was a good move
People do it within Instagram even, known as "finstagrams":

>Finstagram (Finsta) is student's fake (or second) Instagram account. Students, usually girls, get a second Instagram account along with their real Instagrams (Rinstagrams), to post silly pictures or videos.

milesokeefe··on Build your own hackable automated cat feeder for $20
Interesting, I had never heard of that. Here's some more info on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_acne#Causes

milesokeefe··on Ships Buried Under San Francisco
Reality just gets closer and closer to Snow Crash.
milesokeefe··on How Font Awesome 5 Became Kickstarter’s Most Funded Software Project
A variety of reasons:

https://css-tricks.com/icon-fonts-vs-svg/

milesokeefe··on “Radioactive Boy Scout” who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor dead at 39
More on that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian#Criticality_acc...

milesokeefe··on [dead]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_control_station
milesokeefe··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
After the final one hour warning, it should call you and if you pick up, the alarm cancels. So a final step that's not passive and only requires picking up the phone instead of opening the texting app and clicking a link. Also helps if you're somewhere where you have SMS/calling but no data. Although in that case, being able to reply "I no ded" would be more reliable.
milesokeefe··on Open Letter to Tim Cook
I agree re: win > macOS on window management but why do you prefer the file explorer? The lack of tab support is a major pain point for me on the windows explorer, that combined with the great file preview support that Finder has makes it much more useful to me.

There may be some features I'm missing though, I only use Win10 for gaming.

milesokeefe··on Smartwatch sales are tanking
Pebbles haven't used e-ink since the first version.

But they seem to get equal or better battery life out of the Transflective LCDs currently used, which operate on a similar principle as e-ink, in the sense of how the light reaches your eyes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...

milesokeefe··on Smartwatch sales are tanking
Pebble doesn't have that problem.
milesokeefe··on Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
This is correct. I believe the system is anonymous to employers. My employer explicitly said they determined it was me based on context.
milesokeefe··on Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
It's a good idea to have that policy and be careful.

I submitted a comment in a similar office survey service and despite my submission being anonymous, shortly after submitting it, a superior had a meeting with me to address what the anonymous complaint was about, having determined the comment was from me.

In this case I was very glad they figured it out because it ended up being a low risk way of bringing up my concern, but had I not had such a great employer, the result could have been me getting fired or something similar.

The comment was only one short sentence and there were 50-100 people employed at the company, so if you want to be honest on platforms like this, I would limit what you say and obfuscate as much as you can. It doesn't take much to identify you.

milesokeefe··on ​How to Send an Email in 1984
>The bigger the network, the more useful the service.

With many services, after a certain size you begin to need tools to curate the content on the network, separate signal from noise, etc. But in a perfect world these could be handled and I think your statement would remain true.

For example, most forums begin with a small, dedicated user base that mostly knows each other and act in good will, but as the userbase grows all of these aspects fade as the Eternal September/tragedy of the commons effects take place. It's easy to see with the progression of subreddits for example, since they are created so often and can grow to very high subscribed counts, you get to see this pattern repeat pretty often.

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