This was presented by the author at !!Con West 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A94JsWTXXw
Readit NewsSaladFork commented on If-then-else had to be invented github.com/e-n-f/if-then-... · Posted by u/fanf2
SaladFork commented on Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays prolost.com/blog/edr... · Posted by u/mattparcher
I meant something I can open on an Apple device to see HDR in action.
The video from the screenshots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO01J-M3g0U
SaladFork commented on How HN crushed David Walsh's blog davidwalsh.name/request-m... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
It's not written by David Walsh, but by Todd Gardner. This isn't immediately noticeable so I felt quite confused as well.
Especially given the domain is davidwalsh.name, and the article isn't on a subdomain or subdirectory or anything, this is all the more confusing.
SaladFork commented on I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API twitter.com/rashiq/status... · Posted by u/swyx
It's about ten years since I've worked with an ice-cream machine, but in my experience no matter the model they never forced you to try not to serve ice-cream.
They would enter their self-pasteurisation cycle, and the display at the front would tell you that is what it was doing, but it wouldn't prevent you from pulling the handle, if you so wished.
The problem, though, was that the barrel of the machine where the mixture was normally frozen was now at some 60 degrees C, it would be much much higher pressure than usual, and since the entire staff of a McDonald's tends to consist of teens who don't exactly take pride in the precision in which they carry out their jobs, at least once a night you'd have some poor kid blast a fine mist of hot sugary milk over themselves and the surroundings. Sometimes twice.
Sometimes I miss working at McDonald's.
demonstrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZxgI59_Ak
SaladFork commented on Luna – Cloud gaming service amazon.com/luna/landing-p... · Posted by u/metahost
I'm an avid cloud gamer. I used GeForce NOW at first, but it had limited game selection.
I use Shadow now and it is much better. I have full control over the PC/VM, and install whatever I want from anywhere. I'm also super impressed with the latency - I can play multiplayer competitive games no problem.
I'm on a Mac so cloud gaming makes sense for me. I was going to build a PC but the cost was too high. Much cheaper to just pay ~$15/month.
This sounds like an ad, so to get back on topic -- if Amazon's Luna doesn't let you install whatever you want, it wont be able to compete.
Also going to sound like an ad, but I stream PC VR from a cloud Shadow PC to my Oculus Quest over 5GHz Wi-Fi (effectiveness is really dependent on your proximity to their data centers) but it is really remarkable how effective it is. It is more lag than streaming from a local PC but not to the point where most games are unplayable. I can also play the same games with the same saves from my phone with their app using a Bluetooth-paired gaming controller. Couldn't be happier with their service.
Interesting comment about the blue iMessage bubbles. I've definitely heard of it, and have seen the memes on the internet, but have never actually met anyone that cared about the _color_.
In my experience people do, however, care about iMessage being green insofar as the loss of functionality is concerned. Specifically with group messaging, a mix of iOS + Android users will result in weird quirks that aren't experienced "when everyone is blue". For example I've been in a mixed thread where the android user would receive a reply individually by every participant, while iOS users would not. Reactions, et al are unavailable in a mixed environment etc.
I'm not convinced it's a superiority complex, but rather the loss of extras that are lost when texting outside of Apple's ecosystem.
> Interesting comment about the blue iMessage bubbles. I've definitely heard of it, and have seen the memes on the internet, but have never actually met anyone that cared about the _color_.
The color is used as a proxy to discuss the functionality. "Chatting blue" is more about the features that come with it than the actual bubble color, though the latter is easier to mention quickly.
Personally I've been surprised what an impact even just a now-typing indicator has on the conversation and find "green" conversations can feel a lot more disjointed.
I am more bothered about the hiding of the URL to some weird breadcrumb-y structure than the showing (now re-hiding?) of the favicon. Gave DDG a try and don't see myself switching back.
SaladFork commented on MirageJS: An API mocking library for frontend development miragejs.com/... · Posted by u/mixonic
I used Mirage with Ember for many years and it has changed the way I think and approach front-end acceptance testing. I was very excited to see the work to extract the Ember-specific bits from the rest of the library (originally by @cowboyd / Charles Lowell and now from the original author Sam Selikoff himself) and am using it with a React app to great success.
SaladFork commented on Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles thenextweb.com/socialmedi... · Posted by u/p15suvanshb
So why can't browsers handle it? Now that I think about it, browser image viewers are pretty basic...
Relevant Chromium bug:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=56845
It works fine when you open the image directly, but it will not apply EXIF corrects for inline images (<img> tag). There are JS libraries that load the image as file data to read the EXIF data and apply the correct rotation, but those fail in some cases (HTTPS trying to load data for an HTTP-linked image, for example).
1) markdown macro (limits markdown to the body content, and not interacting with other macros or styling)
2) copy/paste markdown -> autoconvert to WYSIWYG (limits markdown to copy/pasting, so no editing Markdown inside)
3) "markdown pages" (something like 'this page is Markdown only, no WYSIWYG)
I make no comments/promises on any of these becoming real but looking for what's most valuable
It is so frustrating to have to remember to use double-curlies for inline code/pre sometimes, and backticks other times. In each case, the other doesn't work. More than once using one has resulted it rendering correctly on the immediate page but not on the next.
This is one I encounter regularly but is far from the only inconsistency in support.