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by ungzd 5y ago
> Unfortunately (to me) the focus on ease-of-use has meant that OpenTelemetry concepts are structured in such a way to preclude even the possibility of a very efficient implementation Looks like Opentelemetry (at least its precedessor, O
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by ungzd 5y ago
Domain experts may lie, they might be sure that idea will never work but still propose it in order to increase company valuation, get funding, etc. Example: self-driving cars. Probably, experts that work in this field are confident that sel
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by ungzd 5y ago
Class diagrams, the most used of UML diagram types, are not exactly for system design, they're too low-level, and yes, "Round-trip engineering" that generates code from class diagrams (and class diagrams from code) was advert
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by ungzd 5y ago
What are key differences between Hypercard and "Rapid Application Development", "Visual Programming" tools like Visual Basic? Visual Basic is not dead, it's still in development (although in .NET form, which might h
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by ungzd 5y ago
Replacing iPhone battery feels like reassembling a mechanical watch. It isn’t soldered, but it’s glued in weird way requiring applying heat. To change battery, you have to disconnect 4-5 tiniest connectors, looking like LPT for fleas, extre
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by ungzd 5y ago
At least they don't ban nudity in album cover art (it's very common in cover art). Including in third-party apps like Spotify.
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by ungzd 5y ago
Topmost bar still consists of lots of unused space with clock in the center — a design decision surely copied from old mobile phones. Too much of screen space is wasted, in the most "expensive" area, where "Rule of the infini
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by ungzd 5y ago
I don't like how mouse scrolling works in Firefox. I can't determine exact details what's wrong (jitter? inertia? delay?), but it feels subtly broken, and after a while it makes me nervous.
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by ungzd 5y ago
Does it have campaign mode? Last time I tried it few years ago, it only allowed to start arbitrary maps like in multiplayer. Upd: seems that no, it doesn’t. Relevant issues: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues&
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by ungzd 6y ago
Multimedia died in late 90s. No one no longer wanted to read text in tiny unscrollable unsearchable rectangle with "real book-like" page flipping animation and colorful textured background. All these things looked garish and vulga
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by ungzd 6y ago
They also had HomeSite (originally by Allaire, then bought by Macromedia), which is also a text editor. However, it seems that they abandoned it right after acquisition of Macromedia.
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by ungzd 6y ago
Also http://rawtherapee.com/
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by ungzd 6y ago
> When containing images and image sequences encoded in a particular format (e.g. HEVC or AVC) its use becomes subject to the licensing of patents on the coding format.
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by ungzd 6y ago
But font antialiasing was available starting from Windows 95 with Microsoft Plus!. I don't remember for sure, but I doubt browsers were exception and didn't use system-wide font antialiasing.
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by ungzd 6y ago
Much better article from official blog: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-hi...
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by ungzd 6y ago
Is this website about internal combustion engine fuels? Or it's just an aggregator of all american newspapers? I thought HN is something about software and programming.
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by ungzd 6y ago
Is there link to this story on something other than ultra-mainstream media?
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by ungzd 6y ago
Something that only understandable by the group of 50s scifi freaks that make this website, I think. Barely has any real meaning.
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by ungzd 6y ago
At first I thought it's about loans for dialup internet which uses PPP.
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by ungzd 6y ago
Looks like a crutch for poor managery practices which are very common in today's IT companies: management stubbornly wants to get rid of ancient technology of writing and to return to even earlier oral-only society. As in oral-only soc
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by ungzd 6y ago
Linked article about DMA-based cheats is even more interesting: https://blog.esea.net/esea-hardware-cheats/
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by ungzd 7y ago
See also: https://plaza.one/
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by ungzd 7y ago
They don't define hardware in this project. It supports only nRF52840 for now, but I don't think it's too much tied to it and that it cannot be ported to something other.
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by ungzd 7y ago
Not sure if STM32L432 is more "open source" than nRF52840 (does latter require blobs for radios?), but I think OpenSK can be ported to STM32 too. It's probably easier to port TockOS-based OpenSK to different MCUs than STM32_h
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by ungzd 7y ago
For Linux distributions and even Homebrew on Mac OS nothing will change as they're not using "official binaries".
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by ungzd 7y ago
Is there any real difference between SD, SDHC and SDXC, aside "SD uses FAT, SDHC uses FAT32, SDXC uses ExFat"? These cards does not have filesystem controller on it, it's not "FTP over wire", it's block-based s
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by ungzd 7y ago
BTW, a website with similar nasty UI aspects: https://grumpy.website/ (I'm not affiliated with this)
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by ungzd 7y ago
Also, GCC has Xtensa ISA used on ESP8266/ESP32.
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by ungzd 7y ago
On ZX Spectrum, games often had fonts based on MICR[1] or OCR-A[2]. Example: [3]. I still don't understand why. I see these fonts in the wild very, very rarely. Was they popular in UK in 80s maybe? Was they used even outside bank chequ
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by ungzd 7y ago
Not only Google, I can't remember any recent internet/web/mobile/computing consumer product I was excited about. Everything is either "meh, seen that already many times" or "nasty thing that's going t

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