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blcArmadillo commented on Dial-up Internet to be discontinued   help.aol.com/articles/dia... · Posted by u/Kye
tonetegeatinst · 4 months ago
Do you know if Firefox or edge has a similar feature and if so what its called?
blcArmadillo commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?    · Posted by u/jbornhorst
blcArmadillo · 9 months ago
I don't have eye strain but have great difficulty getting glasses that work for me. I have a -6 prescription and two out of my last three glasses have had horrible distortion around the edges.
blcArmadillo commented on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/redm
rkharsan64 · a year ago
People here seem to be underestimating the advantages that Google gets just because of Chrome:

- When you sign in to Google, you sign in browser-wide. Google now gets all of your browsing data, perfect for advertising. (If you ever doubt it, go check out Google Takeout. You'll be shocked at the amount of data you see there.)

- They have special APIs and features that they get to use, and nobody else. Only because they own Chrome. [1]

- They get to move forward with enabling and pushing features that allow for more advertising: see Manifest v3, FLoC.

- Google specifically serves a worse version of Search on Firefox for Mobile. You have to get an extension to get the full experience.

This isn't an isolated attempt. You can see more of the same thing with Android.

- AOSP (the open source counterpart of Android) is now unusable. It doesn't ship with most essential apps, including a Phone app. In previous versions of Android, all of these were a part of AOSP.

- Most third party launchers/stores struggle to implement features because they are only available for Google themselves.

- The signing in with Google thing from above continues here too: you sign in to Google system-wide.

[1]: https://x.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018

blcArmadillo · a year ago
> - AOSP (the open source counterpart of Android) is now unusable. It doesn't ship with most essential apps, including a Phone app. In previous versions of Android, all of these were a part of AOSP.

This particular example is a bit misleading as those apps are still available; they're just unbundled from the system image: https://source.android.com/docs/automotive/unbundled_apps/re...

blcArmadillo commented on I kind of like rebasing   rednafi.com/misc/on_rebas... · Posted by u/nalgeon
notJim · a year ago
Step 3 can be simplified slightly be doing git fetch && git rebase origin/main. No need to check out the local main.
blcArmadillo · a year ago
Or: git pull --rebase origin main
blcArmadillo commented on Ask HN: How does modern FreeCAD compare with Solidworks?    · Posted by u/ActorNightly
remram · 2 years ago
I keep running into weird limitations. Sometimes I can fillet an edge, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I can fillet any edge, but once I fillet one I can't fillet any other. With the "topological naming problem" that makes it hard to make changes to anything but the last step, it has been frustrating, but I hear it's improving all the time.
blcArmadillo · 2 years ago
Incase you haven't run across it, I've found that enabling the "refine" option on the shape makes applying a fillet far more predictable.
blcArmadillo commented on An infinite canvas for code exploration   territory.dev... · Posted by u/pst723
pseudosudoer · 2 years ago
Ideally this would be a standalone app (perhaps ported using electron) that I could run locally, and import codebases directly. Sourcegraph was on the right track, but eventually fizzled out unfortunately.

I would love to use a tool like this to navigate the unknown on rails!

blcArmadillo · 2 years ago
By chance did you mean Sourcetrail [1] instead of Sourcegraph? Old demo video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cfu6f0uyzc8?si=oNS9KKlbgEk_Ct0p.

[1] https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail

blcArmadillo commented on GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe   jalopnik.com/gm-drops-app... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Rayhem · 2 years ago
This is an incredibly myopic take bordering on arrogance. The infotainment system of a vehicle needs (as in, is mandated) to be as safety compliant as the rest of the vehicle's software so your steering doesn't lock out when the display crashes. Writing software for safety critical systems is not a task most developers are familiar with.
blcArmadillo · 2 years ago
This is not correct. The main infotainment system is not considered safety critical. There are some functions such as rear view camera that are but often this is handled by a real time os that overlays the video on top of the infotainment output. The infotainment system crashing will not take down your steering or braking.
blcArmadillo commented on Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?    · Posted by u/tsingy
blcArmadillo · 2 years ago
Several years ago the city of Phoenix released plans for a net zero single family home: https://www.phoenix.gov/sustainability/home

You do have to provide some basic info to get them but I can confirm that they're a full set of plans.

u/blcArmadillo

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