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Comment · 19 days ago
The people running subscription services within Apple may be measured on metrics (subscriber count/growth) that may not be aligned with the long-term interests of the company as a whole, especially since brand value and the effect of software advertising on hardware sales are hard to quantify.
Comment · 1 month ago
There are a few projects that let you access iMessage on non-Apple devices. I've been using https://github.com/lrhodin/corten-matrix to relay iMessage to Matrix, and there's also https://openbubbles.app/ for something that runs solely on an Android phone.
Comment · 1 month ago
Isn't this just the Air?
Comment · 1 month ago
Perhaps you could reinforce both the outside and the inside, so any swelling would be directed parallel to the finger?
Comment · 1 month ago
The bluetooth protocol has been reverse-engineered and you can run everything locally with https://github.com/Th0rgal/open_oura
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Not arbitrarily many aliases - there's a limit of (as of two or three weeks ago) 768.
Comment · 7 months ago
The spinoff for lab and scientific equipment (Agilent, 1999) happened long before the HP/HPE split (2015).
Comment · 7 months ago
You don't have to melt through that adhesive - it's incredibly weak and you can just pop it out with a sufficiently thin pry bar. This guide [1] does it with an iSesamo, but I just used a utility knife since I had one on hand and wasn't particularly concerned with scratches (the entire seam is covered by the headphone pads, so scratches around it are invisible).
[1]: https://docs.kenp.io/airpods-max/usb-c-kit/v1dot1_assembly/
Comment · 7 months ago
The only AF systems that use LIDAR are the one on the newest Hasselblad medium format mirrorless cameras (since DJI owns Hasselblad and can leverage the tech from drones/cinema cameras) and possibly some phones.
I suspect it's fairly challenging to implement since the LIDAR sensor doesn't operate through the lens, so you'd have to continuously align the depth map with the image to account for parallax; plus it's only useful for close-ish distances (since the lasers can't be too powerful) and can cause unwanted focus behavior with windows or reflections.
Comment · 7 months ago
Replacing the batteries on the Maxes is actually a fairly straightforward process (no adhesive melting required, just a screwdriver and a pry bar), and spare batteries can be purchased on Amazon or Ebay for around 50 USD. It's one of the better Apple products in that regard, very unlike the in-ear models.
Comment · 11 months ago
It's nice to see some high-performance linear algebra code done in a modern lanugage! Would love to see more!
Is your approach specific to the case where the matrix fits inside cache, but the memory footprint of the basis causes performance issues? Most of the communication-avoiding Krylov works I've seen, e.g [0,1] seem to assume that if the matrix fits, so will its basis, and so end up doing some partitioning row-wise for the 'large matrix' case; I'm curious what your application is.
[0] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2007/EECS-2007-..., e.g. page 25. [1] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-...
Comment · 1 year ago
It's possible to use Tailscale with just a passkey [0], but it's a weird process because they don't let you create a tailnet and a passkey account at the same time. Instead, you need to create an account with a throwaway FAANG credential and send yourself an invite to that account's tailnet, and then use that invite to create a passkey-linked Tailscale account. This account can then create its own tailnet, at which point the original tailnet (and the throwaway FAANG account) can be discarded.
It's a weird process and not particularly user friendly (passkey accounts are tied to a specific passkey and can't have additional ones added, so you need to create a new account if you, say, migrate from one hardware key to another). Hopefully they improve the process before passkey support goes out of beta.
Comment · 1 year ago
What’s the function of the tower near the launch pad with a huge orange fire at its top?
Comment · 2 years ago
Do you have a feel for how the maneuverability of a B-1 being controlled by the canards compares to that of a typical airliner?
It seems like a system like this would need to respond very quickly to changes in the air mass, and the weight and slow response of an airliner might make this system less feasible unless you could somehow measure airflow a reasonable distance in front of the plane.