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Comment · 6 days ago
LG were the first to ship products with Tandem OLED, in the automotive market. Apple were not even the first in the mobile or PC markets, being beaten by Huawei and Dell, respectively.
Most 5K monitors on the PC side are not going to be driven over Thunderbolt, but rather DisplayPort or HDMI.
And the most popular resolution on PC is not 4k, but rather 1080p and 1440p.
Comment · 10 days ago
We should have a very small set of largely not-for-profit CAs run by competent security people, such as Let's Encrypt. There are just too many trusted CAs at the moment, it increases the risk of a breach like this substantially.
Comment · 15 days ago
Global Entry application is open to citizens of 22 additional countries in addition to US citizens.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you have a colour laser printer, not only are the tracking dots not opt in, but there is no way to opt out.
Comment · 4 months ago
Superfest was a brand of ion-exchange toughened drinking glasses. Ion-exchange toughened glass was invented by Steven Kistler in the 1960s, and commercialised by Corning shortly after.
Gorilla Glass is essentially the same thing, and it (or similar products from other manufacturers) is on nearly every smartphone and tablet sold today, so in some sense it's more widespread than it has ever been.
Another reason it might not have caught on for drinking glasses is (aside from being much more expensive to produce), when it breaks it shatters into a huge number of _sharp_ shards, whereas tempered glass shatters into mostly blunter cubes. You can get tempered glass drinking glasses at IKEA.
Comment · 6 months ago
10Gbps fibre uses significantly less power than 10Gbps copper ethernet.
Comment · 6 months ago
Ford no longer makes traditional passenger cars. They now only sell SUVs, trucks, and sports cars.
You can see this if you go to https://shop.ford.com/showroom/ and select sedan or hatchback in the left filters. No results.
Comment · 6 months ago
The approach some JS projects have taken is to use Husky, which automatically sets up the git hooks when you install the project's dependencies during development.
Comment · 6 months ago
There seems to be some JS on the page that messes with the URL. Try this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20260421141017/https://claude.co...
Comment · 6 months ago
No, the author is a crank named Arthur Firstenberg, one of the original "microwaves will give you cancer" people.
Comment · 7 months ago
There are plenty of snappy examples. Off the top of my head: Discord, Netflix, Signal Desktop, WhatsApp Web.
Comment · 7 months ago
Just because a web application uses React and is slow, it does not follow that it is slow because of React.
It's perfectly possible to write fast or slow web applications in React, same as any other framework.
Linear is one of the snappiest web applications I've ever used, and it is written in React.
Comment · 7 months ago
No. What it can affect though is the bandwidth of the cable, meaning e.g. for HDMI cables, they might not support higher resolutions or framerates. If it's on the border you might see random disconnects or screen blanks.
The quality degrading is not something you will see, as it's a digital protocol.
"Audiophile grade" HDMI cables are likely to just be a Shenzhen bargain-bin special with some fancy looking sheathing and connectors. I would trust them less than an Amazon Basics cable.
Comment · 7 months ago
With EVs, most of your charging should be done at home, with fast charging mostly just existing for trips.
I know not everyone can charge at home (especially if you live in an apartment), but the solution to that is pretty straightforward and a lot more convenient compared with trying to scale up fast charging to match petrol stations.