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pfalafel··on WebRTC 1.0 telephony app using “hifi” Opus codec with up to 500kbs bitrate
I am the developer of this web-app and you can use the link (say, for the next hour or so) to give me a direct voice call. I am interested in finding out about audio quality in the real world. Thanks
pfalafel··on Ask HN: What's something not possible in HTML/Web-Dev that you'd like to see?
A rough client cpu/gpu performance indicator may be useful.
pfalafel··on Ask HN: Alarm clock that's not a phone
Did you consider a Teasmade? https://www.teasmade.uk/which-household-items-should-make-a-...
pfalafel··on How to Build Extensible Go Applications with Plugins
Just in case a Go team member walks by. I love Go. But I need to be able to reload my plugins. Same Go-version, same environment is fine. Additional code-specific requirements would also be fine. But please make it possible.
pfalafel··on Nvidia announces Jetson Nano 2GB, a single board computer
For video playback, CSS3 transitions/animations, gaming etc., how much better is the GPU in the Jetson Nano compared to the one in the RPi4? Just to get an idea.
pfalafel··on Think Real Hard
Writing down the problem always does the trick.
pfalafel··on The danger from climate change no longer outweighs risks of nuclear accidents
Aren't wind and solar farms a much safer and cheaper source of energy these days?
pfalafel··on [dead]
How can you be impartial when it's true
pfalafel··on Go command support for embedded static assets (files)
+1 for reloadable plugins.
pfalafel··on Show HN: Go Micro – A distributed systems development framework
What exactly does it mean to say that plugins "can then be swapped out"? I assume a binary Go plugin can not in fact be unloaded from memory. So modifying and reloading a Go plugin will result in multiple versions of it to then stay in memory. This is a shortcoming of the current Go implementation. Is my understanding correct?
pfalafel··on Show HN: Go Micro – A distributed systems development framework
You advertise "a powerful pluggable architecture." But Go binary plugins cannot be unloaded. At least not yet. How do you overcome this?
pfalafel··on On Communist Bandits ( 共匪)
共匪
pfalafel··on Apple/Google contact tracing will work without apps [pdf]
You can turn Bluetooth off whenever you want. Just kidding.
pfalafel··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
Exactly what it says: Disabling Bluetooth does not disable Bluetooth (Low Energy). Same for G, same for A. And I hate it.
pfalafel··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
> you can always disable Bluetooth

"To improve device experience, apps and services can still scan for nearby devices at any time, even when Bluetooth is off."

pfalafel··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
A very well written article this is.
pfalafel··on Brain Predicts 20ms into the Future
I knew that you were going to post this.
pfalafel··on Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (2018)
> The Pixel 4 and 4 XL received generally positive reviews from critics [...] but were criticized for their poor battery life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_4#Reception

pfalafel··on What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong
I thought this is crap as usual, but no. This is pure genius.
pfalafel··on [dead]
Sputniknews hahaha...
pfalafel··on Vaping risk compared to smoking: challenging a false and dangerous claim
"Professor Glantz’s central claim in relation to scientific consensus is false, and not even close to true. The scientific consensus is that vaping is much less harmful than smoking, and this is unlikely to change."
pfalafel··on Interpreting Go
I would like to call interpreted Go code from compiled Go code, say, like: run("dynamic.goi"). Would I be able to call back into the compiled code from the interpreted code? Can the two parts share variable state?
pfalafel··on Huawei has started selling laptops with a the Deepin Linux OS pre-installed
I want to see how this Hong Kong story develops before I buy new China goods.
pfalafel··on [dead]
"think" tanks.
pfalafel··on I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)
> I tried to log in to my GoDaddy account, but it didn’t work. I called GoDaddy and explained the situation. The representative asked me the last 6 digits of my credit card number as a method of verification. This didn’t work because the credit card information had already been changed by an attacker. In fact, all of my information had been changed. I had no way to prove I was the real owner of the domain name.

It's a little odd that GoDaddy didn't have the credit card number from before the change.

pfalafel··on Bill Hader Channels Tom Cruise – DeepFake [video]
Your friend was fooled to think that Hader did that on his own?
pfalafel··on Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?
Anything by W. G. Sebald for instance The Rings of Saturn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rings_of_Saturn
pfalafel··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
I run a Newsreader server. It collects news from many hundreds of places and at any time offers a beautiful timeline view for all my screen devices: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2381...
pfalafel··on Apple laid the groundwork for smart glasses at WWDC
Hopefull Apple can resist the temptation and leave the camera out.
pfalafel··on SpaceX lands all 3 booster rockets for first time in history
Someone else just landed four rockets. https://i.imgur.com/S6L5A1P.jpg
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