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by wpearse 2y ago
We put AirTags in road cases/Pelican flight cases packed with AV/IT equipment. Pelican makes a stick-on AirTag holder that works well. We’ve found the AirTags work just as well as LTE/4G GPS trackers —- with no-ongoing costs,
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by wpearse 2y ago
I'd love to see my Tesla use Starlink LTE. Whatever local provider my Tesla connects to doesn't have great reception. The onboard streaming music often cuts in and out.
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by wpearse 2y ago
My colleagues and I put the work line on an eSIM so we can turn the work “phone” off completely with a toggle in the Settings app. (If anyone from Apple is reading this, would be great to be able to schedule DND on a eSIM line.)
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by wpearse 3y ago
Weirdly -- I seem to remember seeing a lot of ,€“ on my old Macintosh ~25 years ago. I think this could be intentional reminder of the "old days", and not a mistake.
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by wpearse 3y ago
Understatement is a hallmark of the Kiwi culture. “This is not OK” is also a very stern telling off from your mum or school teacher.
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by wpearse 4y ago
I used to work with a delivery route planning system that had 24:00 as midnight on one day, and 00:00 was midnight on the following day — the same “instant” but on two different days. I forget the reasoning, but I remember it being describe
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by wpearse 4y ago
Smoother surfaces, less friction, less wear, increased longevity.
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by wpearse 4y ago
I drive a 2018 Hyundai IONIQ EV. The forward radar is hit-and-miss in heavy rain: the car will often barrel quite happily into stopped traffic when it’s raining hard, requiring a stomp on the brake pedal. Just a couple weeks ago I was drivi
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by wpearse 4y ago
Friend of a friend works the satellite trucks for onsite broadcasting at sports events. He told me once that he phones the satellite operators and they coordinate to make sure the beams are aligned as tightly as possible to reduce the power
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by wpearse 4y ago
It’s true! They’re teaching kids at the local school how to build AI to help assist with their grammar and arithmetic!
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by wpearse 4y ago
I can’t speak for other ObjC devs back when the iPhone SDK was released; but I remember just being so grateful that I had any tooling to develop for iOS that I was more than happy to overlook any ObjC weirdness/clunkiness. ObjC is very
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by wpearse 4y ago
It’s been almost a decade since I did any ObjC, but I’m fairly certain that you want to use NSMutableString here :p And, don’t forget to release your alloc’d objects (or use an auto release memory pool). There was no automatic memory manage
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by wpearse 4y ago
I did a 100-level paper at University that explained floating point arithmetic and how to solve for equality. Without being snarky, how do developers miss this sort of stuff?
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by wpearse 4y ago
My EV is 1/10th of the cost to run and maintain than my diesel car. I’m more than happy to spend an extra 20-30 min charging on a 4 hour drive when I choose to drive the EV. My diesel has also done just over 340,000km and it’s pretty s
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by wpearse 4y ago
Hey, I felt exactly the same way about ICE vs EV. I have a V8 that I tinker with on weekends. I have 4 other ICE vehicles. The kicker for me was borrowing a friend’s EV for the day. The driving experience was so completely different to my c
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by wpearse 4y ago
We bought an EV 6 months ago. We financed ~60% the purchase cost over 3 years. We would otherwise never have spent this much on a car. We calculated our estimated petrol savings and put down a deposit large enough such that our weekly finan
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by wpearse 4y ago
We switched to buying USB-rechargeable AA/AAA lithium ion batteries. The brand we buy is Pale Blue, but there are many other brands. These batteries have a regular form factor, with an added micro USB (and USB C on some larger battery
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by wpearse 4y ago
Take a look at Mosyle, free for up to 30 devices? I think it’s where we’re headed when we leave Profile Manager.
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by wpearse 4y ago
I took apart a 2010 Mac mini the other to install an SSD. It’s basically been running non-stop since new in a corner of our office for over a decade. Sure, there was some dust but it wasn’t at the point where it would affect performance. A
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by wpearse 5y ago
Can you? I was away with work for a week and left all my keys (with AirTags) at home. Got home and they were all in the fridge.
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by wpearse 5y ago
Is it _really_ an American thing? 11/15 of my top conversations are iMessage. Of the remaining 4, two are automated SMS (2fa, delivery notification) and the other two are Android users. I’m in New Zealand.
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by wpearse 5y ago
The checklists bring the aircraft back to a known state. One 777 pilot commented to say that this issue should have been caught by at least two checklists, implying that neither checklists had been followed. Tangentially: if my 2006 Mercede
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by wpearse 5y ago
If this interests you, read more here: https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/2018/10/21/getting-started... Ben (sf2platinum) has been working on and off on reversing SF2 for many years.
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by wpearse 5y ago
My memory of Mac OS 7.1 was that it was rock solid. When it did bomb it wasn’t a surprise — you knew it was coming because you’d been messing around in ResEdit or playing with the debugger.
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by wpearse 5y ago
I’ll often have an espresso in the evening after dinner, and I sleep well after.
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by wpearse 5y ago
> it is now impossible to brick the system with a bad BIOS/EFI flash I had to flash the T2 to do a Bug Sur update on my 2018 Mac Mini a couple weeks ago. The flash failed and bricked the machine. Sent the machine in for service and
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by wpearse 5y ago
I just had a similar endless loop on update (Catalina to Big Sur) last week. Apple guided me to do a T2 firmware update which bricked the machine. Sent it in for service. Logic board was replaced "under warranty" (it's a 3 ye
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by wpearse 5y ago
Australasia has it particularly bad. I have fair skin — 20 min in the sun on a boat with no sunscreen a few summers ago and I had a series of doctors visits over the next week to treat the, quite literally, blistering sunburn.
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by wpearse 5y ago
née, perhaps? Possibly something for r/BoneAppleTea
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by wpearse 5y ago
Yeah. We stopped giving the dirty dishes a quick rinse and scrub after watching that video and all that happened is the dishdrawer drain blocked and the kitchen flooded. (First time ever.) We’re back to giving the dishes a quick rinse and s

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