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kalleboo commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
bryanlarsen · 2 days ago
Aside: what's up with the traffic speed cameras in Sweden? It feels like they're not designed to catch anybody. In my recent drive there it seemed like most of the cameras were in an 80 zone just before it switch to 50 for a tiny town. They wouldn't catch a typical driver who does something like 10 over everywhere -- they would likely have already started slowing down for the 50.

In my city in Canada, that camera would be in the 50 zone.

kalleboo · a day ago
The typical driver who does something like 10 over everywhere is probably not the biggest safety hazard.

When I lived in a small town in Sweden, the problem was that at night some drivers would blow down the country roads and straight through the small towns at crazy speeds assuming that there was nobody around. On some nights/weekends there were also zero police on duty in the whole municipality, they would have to be called in from a neighboring, larger, municipality.

kalleboo commented on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWH... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
haunter · 2 days ago
This is my main problem with the modern Youtube meta, every single "serious" topic video is +30 mins length. 10 years ago we were perfectly fine with 10 mins stuff but of course algorithms and advertising and nowadays most Youtuber is pushing longer and longer videos as if we are watching peak evening television reporting...
kalleboo · 2 days ago
Some creators still do 10 minute videos but whenever I watch one I feel I'm left with more questions than answers, I really prefer the deeper dives.
kalleboo commented on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWH... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
fredoralive · 2 days ago
Film can definitely wear badly, like there’s some 1970s colour stock that just fades into nothingness.

80s movies would be near universally film, mostly 35mm.

TV is complicated, US network TV would also be film (again, mostly 35mm), but the mid 1980s saw the start of a transition to doing editing and other post production on SD videotape, a situation that lasted until the late 90s / early 2000s and HDTV becoming common. You can go back and redo post from the raw film, like Star Trek TNG, but that takes a lot of effort so only big shows have had it done. Other places like the UK often used SD video for more things barring “prestige” shows (and even then they tended to 16mm) so those will be stuck in SD.

kalleboo · 2 days ago
In the UK, indoors studio shots were on video, but outdoors location shots had to be on film, so there was an obvious difference in look when they cut between them.

Monty Python lampooned this in a sketch where Graham Chapman goes outside, exclaims "Good Lord, I'm on film!" and then flees indoors to the safety of video

kalleboo commented on It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019)   hsivonen.fi/string-length... · Posted by u/program
spyrja · 2 days ago
I really hate to rant on about this. But the gymnastics required to parse UTF-8 correctly are truly insane. Besides that we now see issues such as invisible glyph injection attacks etc cropping up all over the place due to this crappy so-called "standard". Maybe we should just to go back to the simplicity of ASCII until we can come up with with something better?
kalleboo · 2 days ago
I think what you meant is we should all go back to the simplicity of Shift-JIS
kalleboo commented on Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad   victorwynne.com/vision-fo... · Posted by u/curtblaha
anonymousiam · 4 days ago
You're confusing opting out of the Find My functionality with opting out of their mesh network, which there is no way to do unless you turn off Bluetooth, which has other undesirable consequences.
kalleboo · 4 days ago
There are two separate options on that screen.

One is "Find My iPhone/iPad" which just turns off the functionality.

The second one is "Find My network" which opts out of the mesh network. This one has a description that starts with "Participating in the Find My network..." since turning it off means you are no longer participating in the mesh network.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/find-my/

> "When your device participates in the Find My network, it can both be located by the network and anonymously help locate other missing devices. You can choose to have your iOS or iPadOS device not participate in the Find My network by going to Settings[...]"

kalleboo commented on Apple has not destroyed Steve Jobs' vision for iPad   victorwynne.com/vision-fo... · Posted by u/curtblaha
anonymousiam · 5 days ago
Additional crippled features:

- Requirement to use ONLY the Apple web renderer (WebKit)

- Why does my iPad Pro take minutes to refresh my email boxes and show new messages, when it's not doing anything else at all? Email on all my other devices is snappy.

- Little or no support for emulation of other platforms.

- No way to turn off participation in the "Find My" BLE mesh network. I'd rather have a choice about whether or not I want to use my battery/network to support their mesh network.

With Apple's announcement about incorporating AI into all their future products, I'm not certain that I will not be buying anything else from them.

kalleboo · 4 days ago
> No way to turn off participation in the "Find My" BLE mesh network

There is a setting to disable participation in the "Find My network" under "Settings > [your name] > Find My > Find My iPhone/iPad > Find My network"

kalleboo commented on GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire   theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
throwawaysleep · 6 days ago
I imagine it is the same, but 2000 was hardly a dead end. So there will be lots burned but keep on at it as the tech will revolutionize the world.
kalleboo · 5 days ago
Yeah the market of 2000 crashed and burned but we were left with a bunch of dark fiber and developed tech that laid the foundation for the next decade.
kalleboo commented on Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis   utilitydive.com/news/texa... · Posted by u/walterbell
abeppu · 6 days ago
I remember hearing this story at the time but have forgotten all the details. I think it involved a pretty well known company? I also remember hearing that some DC in NJ got special priority in getting diesel in the following days because some federal government services were hosted there and so it was treated as a national security issue to keep them supplied.
kalleboo · 5 days ago
It reminds me of the blog during Hurricane Katrina, with the guy carrying barrels of fuel up the stairs to the 10th floor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdictor_(blog)
kalleboo commented on Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good   wired.com/story/apple-fin... · Posted by u/CharlesW
Daedren · 6 days ago
They were never crippled, there were just no apps making use of that performance at that point, their vision's still the same as it is today IMO. Now there's a lot of pretty good apps for video editing, CAD, etc.

Of course we computer enthusiasts feel the iPad is still restricted in a lot of ways, but a lot of younger consumers genuinely want the iPad experience, which is why I presume this new feature can be toggled on and off, and why we're probably never getting macOS on an iPad.

kalleboo · 5 days ago
They were crippled in terms of multitasking. You edit a video in Final Cut for iPad, go to export it, it takes 15 minutes. You can't even leave Final Cut to reply to an email while it's working, that interrupts the export.
kalleboo commented on Macintosh Drawing Software Compared (2021)   blog.gingerbeardman.com/2... · Posted by u/rcarmo
kalleboo · 5 days ago
My favorite Mac drawing program back in the day was MicroFrontier's "Color It!" https://www.macintoshrepository.org/110-color-it-3-x

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