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Re:Apple HomePod Mini 2 on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:13PM (#50080769)
Figured this deserved it's own thread. The original has really poor siri performance, so this is welcomed from my perspective!
Re:Go is still not good on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:40PM (#44990787)
Java and C# have way to much baggage to compare them to Go. They nearly look like different languages depending on the version you're using.
probably downvoted because it doesn't really add to the conversation.
Does anyone else feel like dayquil is an effective decongestant? I do. I can literally feel the gunk running down from my sinuses to the back of my throat when I take it. Confusing to me cause it's phenylephrine, which is what the article states is ineffective. I've had this experience after reading these reports about a year ago.
Re:CrowdStrike Timeline Mystery on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @04:03PM (#41061384)
A lot of evidence, but no claim.
From what I hear, it's a nightmare to get Siri to know what light you want to turn on. Unfortunately it seems like apple is trailing the pack in the smart home area.
Re:2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast on Friday March 22, 2024 @12:51PM (#39792528)
disclaimer: I know nothing about this stuff.

> This area is separate from the subduction zone

150 miles off the coast doesn't sound that far from the subduction zone. Seems hard to believe there wouldn't be some tectonic relationship between the areas.

Honest question, tires, or brakes? I was under the impression brake dust was the worst polluter. I'm sure tires aren't great either, but they should be equivalent between EV's and ICE cars. Brakes last significantly longer on EV's and therefore would help with pollution.
Re:Why is Prettier rock solid? on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:39AM (#39438377)
> note that gofmt doesn't indent, which is the hard part

interesting because for me it's hard to read changelogs of js/ts based repos that are using prettier compared to go repos, I wonder if the indentation is a reason for that. I'm honestly not sure what the author means by that either, gofmt seems to fix indentation for me.

Re:FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:36PM (#39305703)
I think "SHAKEN/STIR" is supposed to fix this long term. I'm not sure why it's taking so long, but I believe phones will already indicate if the phone call has a verified caller id. Probably next step is to just block any non-verified caller. I'm assuming there's just a lot of migration work to happen.

https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication

This is making the news since it's another Boeing issue, but it seems like any issue with a 757 at this point would be from improper maintenance, right?
A good indicator a monopoly is at play.
Re:Bitwarden Adds Support for Passkeys on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:38PM (#38104796)
sorry, no experience with 1password
Re:Bitwarden Adds Support for Passkeys on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:34PM (#38103683)
I moved over from Lastpass, I find the experience of filling in a password in Bitwarden more jarring/slow than in Lastpass. I'm not sure what it is, maybe Lastpass had longer timeouts to require FaceID when filling a password? Bitwarden requires it every time.
Re:Durable Coroutines for Go on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:07PM (#37960906)
Honest question, why not use another technology to store the state between the two? Like a DB or queuing mechanism.
Re:Awareness at Death on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:26PM (#37849837)
I had the same question. I assume this was to test if the following experience was based on real events, or imagined.

> “I was high up in the ceiling of the ward looking down upon the bed.” “I could see the doctors and nurses working over me.” “I perceived and saw everything around me, like in 360 degrees.”

Re: on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @01:55PM (#37847904)
What is the difference from using OpenLLMetry versus using OTel directly? Is the issue that there aren't conventions for the needed attributes?
Re:DJI announces the sub-250 gram drone mini 4 pro on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:36PM (#37650262)
Streaming 1080p/60fps up to 20km wirelessly is mind boggling to me. What kind of tech is used to make that happen? seems like it'd require a lot of power.
Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:53PM (#37490321)
I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of consumers do not buy name brand cables.
Re:They did not do surgery on a banana over 5G on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:00PM (#37300332)
Even if this "surgery" took place in California, and the "surgeon" was the UK, and 5G was involved, wouldn't it still via fiber? I feel like I'm missing something with these claims, are they saying they'll use 5g at the nodes, instead of some other wireless tech?
Re:OpenTelemetry in 2023 on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:58PM (#37298857)
Why were you implementing your own tracer? Don't they publish an implementation?
I've been meaning to migrate off of Lastpass, I think this would put Keychain in the mix of options. I haven't used keychain in years, is it still pretty clunky?
Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @06:29PM (#35348910)
> a Chinese psyop marketed as a social media app

Do you personally use tiktok?

Re:Bay Area plan to ban natural gas on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:26AM (#34785729)
We had gas service after the 6.4 in northern california in December, but power was out.
Re:Apache Kafka Beyond the Basics: Windowing on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:40PM (#34719097)
He mentioned "or server push mechanism", aka websockets. I don't think they're trying to call kafka a queue, they're just talking about asynchronous architectures.
Re:Ask HN: How do you test SQL? on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:28PM (#34603244)
We spin up a docker container running the DB technology we use, run our DB migration scripts on it, and then run integration tests against it. You get coverage of your migration scripts this way too.
Re:Death by Vegetable Oil on Friday January 06, 2023 @08:19PM (#34283947)
I've never seen poop included in the "calories in, calories out" diet talk, which seems strange. The argument for it is it's a 0 sum game, but they never mention poop as part of the equation. There seems to be an assumption that all food is absorbed at the same rate and across all people. Seems unlikely to me.
Re:Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:24PM (#34248502)
Seems like the low performers would have been taken care of already from the battle.

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