bsoft16385

5 ms·

1.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
Incidentally, WeChat mini apps (and the equivalents in AliPay and other services) are essentially specialized websites. WeChat itself on Android bundles a Chromium-based engine to run these mini apps. Most people in China are using Chromium
2.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
A big part of the problem in Manhattan is that most places don't have alleys. There is nowhere for the trash to be left except on the sidewalk. Some cities have the trash trucks drive around playing music, ice cream truck style, and yo
3.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
Which aircraft you are on is at best loosely correlated with the quality of in flight entertainment system you will use. Seats are purchased by the airlines, they are made by separate manufacturers like Recaro or Zodiac and not by the airfr
4.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
Spamhaus or another IP reputation provider will contact your hosting provide or ISP and warn them that either: - You need to follow their best practices (which practically for me meant paying for a subscription) - Or your upstream net block
5.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
I have 7 Mitsubishi heat pump head units being controlled using ESPHome running on D1 mini clones (ESP8266). The D1 mini clones are powered by and interface with the head units with Mitsubishi's CN105, which is just 5 volt UART. The to
6.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
T-Mobile has a SIM lock feature that you can enable to block at least most employees from being able to swap your SIM. You can enable it in the account management app or website. I was able to verify that it worked because an employee in a
7.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
T-Mobile already does exactly this for eSIM transfers, though the waiting period is 10 minutes, not 48 hours.
8.
by bsoft16385 2y ago
Energy usage isn't measured in "time the dryer needs to run". A typical US vented dryer has a 5500 watt element, although it doesn't use that amount of power continuously since it cycles on and off. I have no idea how mu
9.
by bsoft16385 3y ago
Here in Colorado (Denver metro) I frequently get items same-day, though most items are still 1 or 2 days.
10.
by bsoft16385 3y ago
Modern deep packet identification gear looks at packet size and pacing to distinguish video traffic patterns. It is possible to fool these systems, but it is not trivial.
11.
by bsoft16385 3y ago
Costco manages to do this well. If you buy a Mac (or almost any other high-value small item) you take a paper slip which is scanned by the cashier or self checkout. You then go to the cage and they hand you your item right then and there.
12.
by bsoft16385 3y ago
The brand "WeChat" is not as well known as you might think. In China, it's known as 微信 (Weixin), and most people in China have never heard of the WeChat brand. I also think it's an understatement to call Weixin as ubiqui
13.
by bsoft16385 3y ago
To be more precise, fractional scaling in macOS is implemented by rendering the entire display at 2x dpi at a resolution greater than the actual display resolution, then scaling the entire output down to the display resolution. In some ways
14.
by bsoft16385 3y ago
That reminds me of a story about SiCortex. My university (University of Colorado Boulder) bought one of a very few SiCortex systems ever sold. As an undergraduate I competed at SC07 and SC08 in the Cluster Challenge competition. Our coach w
15.
by bsoft16385 4y ago
Bonnell has a branch predictor: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/bonnel... In-order execution does not mean that there is no branch prediction, it just means that the number of instructio
16.
by bsoft16385 4y ago
In Google Chat, you can attach a Meet invite to a message for an impromptu meeting. Personally I am glad that people can't just call me up. I would rather be asked over chat first.
17.
by bsoft16385 4y ago
Android has had the ability to disable notifications for at least the last few years.
18.
by bsoft16385 4y ago
Autoland is a common capability on many aircraft, and it is commonly used in inclement weather. I don't know what you are talking about with the A380. I have never heard about it being able to fly a TCAS RA maneuver (collision avoidanc
19.
by bsoft16385 5y ago
USB SuperSpeed requires extra wires and much better shielding, which means a thicker, more expensive, less durable, cable. You also can't make SuperSpeed cables that actually meet the spec once they get past a couple meters. If I just
20.
by bsoft16385 5y ago
Taskbar buttons absolutely benefit from Fitt's Law. Fitt's Law says that the time required to interact with an element depends on both the distance to that element and the width/height of that element. Putting an element on a
21.
by bsoft16385 5y ago
The take away your card system doesn't work with phone payments. That's one reason why they haven't really taken off in the USA. A lot of chain restaurants now use tablets to let you pay right at the table, and usually they s
22.
by bsoft16385 5y ago
Python is a distant fifth place at Google today behind Java, C++, JavaScript and Go. It may be behind Typescript too at this point. Performance critical, lower-level servers are typically written in C++ at Google - think things like Spanner
23.
by bsoft16385 6y ago
Zen2/Zen3-based, non-APU Ryzen still has pretty awful idle power consumption compared to Intel desktop CPUs. My 5900X at idle draws around 22W. Modern Intel desktop CPUs (which are basically all Skylake refreshes right now) are 8-10W a
24.
by bsoft16385 6y ago
+1 to this. I mostly use the CLI, but it's really nice in my IDE (JetBrains Rider) to be able to browse version history or resolve merge conflicts graphically.
25.
by bsoft16385 6y ago
Typically you only get one or two phone screen interviews at Google, so the bar should be much lower. The purpose of the phone screen is to see whether it's worth the time for onsite (now virtual onsite) interviews. This may vary by hi
26.
by bsoft16385 6y ago
The one thing I will note is that most of what you have said about performance is relevant primarily in the AAA game space (and in higher end mobile titles, which increasingly look like AAA games). In the indie space, you see a lot more tit
27.
by bsoft16385 6y ago
If you sign up for the Advanced Protection Program, Google will allow you to use a security key without allowing SMS recovery.
28.
by bsoft16385 6y ago
I write C# code on a medium-large solution (ASP.net, 60 or so projects, ~1M LOC) and to be honest I don't know why everyone thinks that VS2019 is so great. VS2019 frequently freezes for multiple seconds. When project files change (e.g.
29.
by bsoft16385 6y ago
I would still recommend Guava for immutable collections, and for the caching classes, both of which are much better than trying to piece things together on your own. There are a lot of features that have been subsumed into the JDK, and you