drifkin

that's what I was most excited for with the new built-in iOS pass creator, but it doesn't seem to have that feature?

the compare-and-swap prevents out-of-sync instances from stomping on the source of truth manifest

hmmm, I think they might be using a quorum-based 3PC variant. Reading <https://github.blog/engineering/infrastructure/building-resi...> does make it seem like they only need a majority to commit instead of all nodes.

Ah, and then it looks like the losing nodes get marked unhealthy:

> In essence, every write operation goes through a voting protocol, and any replicas on the losing side of the vote are marked as unhealthy—unavailable for reads or writes—until they can be repaired. Repairs are automatic and quick. Because a majority agreed either to accept or to roll back the update, there are still at least two replicas available to continue accepting both reads and writes while the unhealthy replica is repaired.

But not sure how unhealthy nodes are discovered. Maybe the coordinator marks them, and if the coordinator crashes it allows stale reads and detects invalid writes?

we recently added a `launch` command to Ollama, so you can set up tools like Claude Code easily: https://ollama.com/blog/launch

tldr; `ollama launch claude`

glm-4.7-flash is a nice local model for this sort of thing if you have a machine that can run it

Guessing you're talking about this interview? https://youtu.be/1UES4gQZH6o?si=X_zP2AKmvVrkpVi4&t=1069

I just saw it a couple of weeks ago, it's great. I linked to him trying to remember one of those lines, but the whole interview is worth listening to

I came here to the comments to mention the shape "Cresti di Gallo", which I had for the first time recently and really enjoyed. I suspect it might just be another name for the same shape you posted, so maybe you can find another brand you like

Cory Henry playing Stevie's "Love's In Need of Love Today" is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL50VnZY1Kk

The AirPods Pro already have a bunch of features that overlap quite a bit with hearing aids (e.g., importing audiograms), but it'll be interesting to how it evolves: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211218

I think it's the same

turns out that Ken Shirriff is the technical reviewer for this book! (I saw this in the early access PDF)

I love both the show & Egan's writing, but Egan's stuff feels a lot more optimistic to me. I do like the theory that things are not quite what they seem in Severance and there might be a Ndoli Jewel-type device involved.

product-market fit

GoodReader on iPad has this (though you set it for the document manually). It even lets you choose a different view-time crop for odd and even page numbers.

"mils" often means 1/1000th of an inch

You can send an invisible push notification that tells an iOS app to wake up in the background and check for updates: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

It falls back to IR, but will use HDMI-CEC if available. Can be pretty fiddly to get it to work

Most midrange A/V receivers come with mics these days to do this sort of calibration. For example, Denon's version of this is called Audyssey http://manuals.denon.com/avrx4100w/NA/EN/GFNFSYnuokgukf.php

Related: a 2014 paper on using timing side channels to detect being in a VM from within browsers https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot14/woot14...

it's very brief, but she gets quite a reaction from the band at around 6:10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJIgTLe0hc

I think it's a three-finger swipe, isn't it? Though while trying it out, I did discover that a three-finger tap now shows another menu that makes undo/redo a little easier.

Same! I didn't realize it wasn't just circles cut on two sheets of metal until I saw this video on their design page: https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-pro/2019/36178e80-30f...

I've had good luck with Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens as a left hander. Surprisingly not very smudgy.

SF is a little under 50 square miles with a population of around 900,000

I believe the iPhone 1 didn't have an oleophobic coating, which I think is what normally gets scratched. IIRC it was just plain glass, which is a lot harder to scratch.

Persi Diaconis is fascinating, it's definitely worth reading through his biography [1].

A small preview: after leaving high school at 14 to travel as a magician, a little more than a decade later he managed to get into grad school at Harvard, largely due to a letter of recommendation about his magic abilities (apparently that's a thing).

I also really enjoyed that he was shy revealing his background in magic to other Stanford faculty until he discovered that Paul Lévy also studied perfect shuffling [2].

[1]: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diaconis...

[2]: https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Magical-Mind-of-Persi/...

By "similar functionality" are you talking about domains? If so, it's been deprecated for quite a while, but has never been removed.

Make sure Low Power Mode is off, if it's on it'll have a big effect on performance.

For an introduction to computational geometry in general, I've enjoyed these lecture notes from Leonidas Guibas [1]. There are some more specific class notes at [2].

[1] http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs268-16-fall/Notes/tor...

[2] http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs268-16-fall/notes.htm...