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r1nkgrlon A Guy Walks into an Apple Store

I have an aftermarket Pioneer head unit with wireless CarPlay

r1nkgrlon DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix

I would agree that it supports your point. Proves it? no.

search that actually works.

It baffles me that I can't search someone by firstname lastname and have our messages thread come up 100% reliably.

Sure it works some of the time, but not for older threads.

Im ok with waiting 10 seconds as long as it returns the results I know are there. I am forced to go to Contacts and find the person, then click the new message button linking into messages.

Contacts app has a similar issue. I have < 1000 contacts, yet I can't search reliably for a contact I know is there by first / last name. I have to scroll through the list of all my contacts to get to it.

Maybe this is a bug, but its been an issue for me for years.

r1nkgrlon A first look at Unreal Engine 5

Games built on Unreal 4 in the last couple of years look way better than that 2012 UE4 demo. The first few years of games on UE5 might not look like the UE5 demo today, but in a few years they will catch up.

r1nkgrlon Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality

A lot of farmers live many miles away from the properties they farm in. Modern farming is very different in America than it was 100+ years ago.

r1nkgrlon ARM Macs are coming, three years after Apple’s attitude change

This is such a cynical viewpoint. I could frame most corporate software this way.

r1nkgrlon Win32 on macOS

Exactly. When people are motivated to work together, even poor communication tools are adequate. But these are excellent communication tools.

r1nkgrlon Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore

The color design of their iOS application is also terrible.

So many elements in the navigation UX are a similar color.

The worst is the Current route (light blue) and alternate routes (grey). Both of these colors are fairly similar and have very little contrast compared to the background. I have a hard time picking out the difference between a road (grey) and an alternate route (grey, slightly thicker line).

At night, when it switches to a dark color scheme, everything is a shade of dark blueish grey, with very little contrast.

r1nkgrlon Facebook says one hundred API users may have improperly accessed user data

This is referring to 100 external software developers that use Facebook's APIs, not Facebook engineers as I initially assumed reading the title.

Source: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/11/05/changes...

r1nkgrlon Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City

IRV picking up steam might also have negative effects towards people's general opinion of alternative voting systems once they see all the strange outcomes it can have.

But I think that the positives attention around it brings outweigh the negatives. The first (recent) overhaul to a voting system is more difficult than subsequent changes.

r1nkgrlon Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

Using your logic, doesn't the ability to social engineer access to a password make passwords less than 1 FA as well?

r1nkgrlon PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

What version of MacOS do you use?

I use High Sierra with 3 external displays, and my windows are almost always in different places when I unplug, plug back in. All monitors are the same model (this might make a difference), but I always plug them into the same port they were connected to previously.

One hypothesis I have is the order I unplug / plug in the monitors matters.

Edit: after some quick testing, I can't seem to reproduce any issues while just briefly leaving my monitors unplugged.

The issue I notice the most is that windows get put back on the wrong monitor. e.g. window A from monitor 1 is now on monitor 2 and window B from monitor 2 is now on monitor 1.

r1nkgrlon We Let Machine Learning Design Logos

I agree with the parent comment that the twitter logos are much better than the ones currently on the website.

Overall, I think the website design is very good. The barrier to entry is extremely low.

r1nkgrlon FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights

Good point. I don't really expect TSA to carry out what I proposed above, I should have included a /s. It was more to show how straight forward it is to check any device you have physical access to.

r1nkgrlon FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights

They'll just scan the serial number when it passes through the x-ray machine, then use some OCR script to process the image and upload it to https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall /s

r1nkgrlon Apple Card

Personally, I hate this style of webpage. I have to furiously scroll just to get past the title animation, which results in zooming past the rest of the content.

r1nkgrlon DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M

But in the case of the DoorDash, if you tip using the app, you tip long before you know what the service will be.

It's like walking blindfolded into a restaurant and putting your tip in the hostesses hand before you even see any of the staff, or have any indication of service.

r1nkgrlon Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android

For apps with significant boot times, and runtime memory consumption, this is valuable.

This assumes that the reductions are purely proportional to the total and not (at least partially) fixed.

r1nkgrlon I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

also June 2019 - Dec 2009 != 11 years

r1nkgrlon Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Elite:Dangerous wasn't released even in alpha form until 2013. I assume you were a fuel rat for Elite 3.

When was the origin of Fuel Rats in the franchise?

Have they existed since the first game was first released in 1984? Or only after IRC came around a few years later?

Very curious about the history of Fuel Rats in the game series, as well the history of technology these used to communicate.

r1nkgrlon Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

Why is this post downvoted? They asked a relevant question which generated discussion.

r1nkgrlon My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning: Which GPU to get

But the article isn't hiding the fact that the numbers are estimates. People are curious how the new cards will stack up, and this article provides the best evaluation of that given the information they have available.

r1nkgrlon OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results

This was my first reaction as well. It would have been more interesting if the AI5 bots drafted to minimized distance from 50/50 odds, not to maximize odds of winning. This puts more emphasis on the ability of the bots to play the actual game, not the draft "game."

r1nkgrlon Berkeley Deep Drive Dataset

FWIW Chrome does have the largest market share of any desktop internet browser. That said, I understand what you are getting at and agree.

r1nkgrlon Show HN: Cryptocurrency portfolio app on Blockstack

This is the first Mac application that I have come across that does not support my version of Mac OSX (10.11). Too bad it doesn't work in the browser version of Blockstack.