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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Decimate is the one that gets me. That word does not mean what he thinks it means
Comment · 3 months ago
Based on two days with the motion sensor the responsiveness feels very good. The reduction in hops may be the key there. It’s too early to tell about the connection reliability but I’ve been using IKEA zigbee stuff for years with no issues. The build quality of the sensor and their new switches is very high.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Camel camel camel wouldn’t send notifications to my hidden email. Works fine for my regular vanity domain.
Comment · 1 year ago
And Quebec has it’s own English. I spent a few years working in Montreal and soon learned about “passing the vacuum” and “closing the light”. There are so many bilingual folks that concepts and word orders flow back and forth. I had an interesting discussion with a bilingual anglophone about how in English elsewhere it’s called a “pacifier” and not a “souce”
Comment · 1 year ago
I believe it is the case that US (at least) iPhones work as IC cards in Japan

Source - I’m sitting in Kyoto right now having travelled all over Tokyo and then on to Kyoto using only my phone to interact with Japan Rail. Verified with two 16Es and a 12. In fact we were able to add the Suica cards to our phones and charge them fromApplePay while still stateside. That let us skip the Welcome Suica line at Haneda and go straight to the monorail. Highly recommended

Comment · 1 year ago
This problem seems to also exist for services like uber. Their solution seems easier, drop a pin on a map. Perhaps working so hard to find a textual description is missing the simpler solution.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, but isn’t that the problem here - asking an LLM for facts without requesting a search is like asking a PhD to answer a question “off the top of your head”. For pop culture questions the PhD likely brings little value.
Comment · 1 year ago
If we were to survey 100 PhDs how many would know correctly that Paul Newman had an alcohol problem.
Comment · 1 year ago
Much like scanning tools looking for CVEs. There are thousands of devs right this moment chasing alleged vulns. It is early days for all of these tools. Giving papers a look over is an unqualified good as it is for code. I like the approach of keeping it private until the researcher can respond.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thunderbirds are go!
Comment · 1 year ago
There is some interesting new working the C4 space at https://likec4.dev/

This is a less prescriptive model than structurizr but keeps the goals of C4

Comment · 1 year ago
Take a fly on an airliner in MS flight simulator sometime or watch any of the YouTubers that show this stuff. CitationMax is a good one. The screens tell the flight plan, altitudes, traffic, weather, terrain and more. The audio part is, as mentioned above, extremely efficient and shared. The audio is used for clearances from one step to another ( very loosely speaking) This improves everyone’s situational awareness. This may have been an issue at DCA where the commercial flight was on VHF and the chopper was on UHF.

If a plane loses comms there are well defined procedures and everyone knows exactly what that plane will do as they proceed to their destination.

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