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Re:Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool on Friday August 16, 2024 @09:19AM (#41266167)
Use mermaid quite often. It's best for simple flow charts, git flows, etc, but where applicable it is great.

It is especially nice combined with mkdocs and the mermaid plugin when doing documentation.

Google Maps has lane navigation. IDK what you mean about 'auto' recentering. I think it does this though.

There used to be a zoom out/overview feature, but it's def not in Android Auto these days.

Re:Nokia sues Amazon, HP over video compression technology on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:10PM (#38117714)
Fair, but that's a matter of time it seems. I think AV1 is a good bet.
Re:Lit 3 Release Announcement on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @04:18PM (#37836913)
Not directly right? LIT is based off of WIZ or something like that from google iirc?

Maybe I'm wrong here.

Re:Pixel 8 Pro on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:32PM (#37772114)
Check out best-buy. They are offering $100 more on lots of pixel trade-ins than the google or fi store.
Re:Pixel 8 Pro on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:30PM (#37772082)
do they offer the watch as a free rider where you are?

Because ... that's worth 12% and then some.

Re:Pixel 8 Pro on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:20PM (#37771971)
Apple has had some equally frustrating and embarrassing misses in their time. No manufacturer is 100%.
Re:Pixel 8 Pro on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:18PM (#37771940)
I am biased, as I've had every pro/xl but the Pixel6 and the google nexus phone's prior to that.

With that being said i've only had questionable build quality on 2 occasions. The Huawei 6p which was covered under a recall, and the Panda Pixel 2XL where there was some lamination issues.

That being said, the build quality and materials (mostly) really stepped up initially in the Pixel 4, and then noticeably again in the P7. They are quite nice. I don't really find them lacking in quality, fit, or finish these days.

Re:Killed by Google on Friday September 01, 2023 @10:43AM (#37351435)
This is the distinction that people often fail to make or care about when lazily lobbing hate at anything new google creates.
Re:Linux 6.5 on Monday August 28, 2023 @10:35AM (#37294685)
Agreed. While I like my school getting some pub on HN, it's not the original source.
This image is helpful to see how they all kinda stack up, feature wise.

https://archive.smashing.media/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb...

"switched to"? There's no full switch to anything.

Webp has been around for over a decade. AVIF will probably get adoption as a faster rate in my estimation.

Re:Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset on Monday June 05, 2023 @03:02PM (#36201537)
Ski Goggles are now going to be fashion-forward. Take the back to the future Air Mag shoes with these and you'll complete the fit.
I was under the impression that their double wide container rig would be at deck level and lashed down to the vessel; not stacked on top of other containers. This is the only way they could control the vertical height of the retracted sail for going under bridges, etc.

Love how this idea has energized HN.

Have you considered assessing your home's insulation?
Re:We cut our CI pipeline execution time in half on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:54AM (#34837090)
How do you setup or provision your environment? And what does this environment look like?
Re:Development Containers on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @11:25AM (#34520245)
Not used Codespaces, but gitpod.io.

What you end up cobbling together to really create a fully fledged environment ends up being what the yaml does for you in a consistent manner.

Also, getting off of "DOCKER", and specifically "docker desktop" and its magic, is beneficial.

Re:Alpine.js on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:00PM (#34370521)
Break? I don't agree.

Change, sure. We've had browserify, parcel, rollup, webpack. Then the next wave hit with snowpack, esbuild, vite, lasso, turbopack etc.

There's a few that have hung around like rollup and webpack, but there's definitely a constant feel of chasing the dragon when it comes to js bundlers/builds, if not JS tooling as a whole.

Re:UI Web Design 5 Rules of Thumb on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:07AM (#34106595)
I don't think slide toggles are inherently bad, but yes color is your friend and doing them like Material does them is a solid foundation.
I'm intrigued by the CANOO whenever they start making a consumer vehicle.
Re:SvelteKit 1.0 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:50PM (#33995351)
the backend svelte (node) can actually make calls to the separate api server and render a 'fuller' page to the client on page load.

I believe this is what is meant.

Re:AWS and Blockchain on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:01PM (#33694859)
Trust is arguably the most expensive thing in society.

For those looking for a fun read about trust read some Francis Fukuyama.

Re:Podcast on (Massive) Ad-Fraud on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:44PM (#33072657)
I have built a social advertising marketplace in another life. It is RIPE with fraud that can be quite difficult to slow or truly stop.
Hard disagree.

You may want a THING, but you don't know about a particular brand or style of said THING. Just by making you aware of them can be a win win.

Say you've been researching "THINGS" for a couple weeks and narrowed it down to 2 brands. An Ad pops for a brand you'd never heard of. Naturally you check it out, only to find out its better than either of the options you were previously considering.

I disagree. Manipulate is not only loaded, but it is the wrong word.

Ads attempt to persuade. They can be implemented in manipulative ways, but ads aren't inherently that IMO.

Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:13AM (#33035977)
For sure people say that. They don't differentiate between pay and free google. It's just google.

So yea, the meme-machine will just dismiss it as 'lol it will be cancelled in a year because google'.

But Stadia might be 1 of 1 ..maybe 2 or 3 pay services they've ever cancelled.

Apparently google employees had a meeting telling them Stadia would be shutting down ~45 minutes prior to it being released to the public.

I get the feeling that many were blindsided with the abruptness.

Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:24PM (#33025795)
Not a pay product though. How many pay products have they shut-down cold-turkey, with no new service/product to migrate to?
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing!

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