Readit Newsmattparcher commented on My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google daniloedu.medium.com/my-t... · Posted by u/daniloedu
The elephant in the room: DDG's search results are primarily sourced from Bing.
Unfortunately, as long as DDG depends on third-party crawlers, the suggestions to improve search results (& "the algorithm") seem far-fetched & naive.
(DDG does have its own crawler, DuckDuckBot, but apparently it's only used for very specific functionality.) https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
> For DuckDuckGo, it may be tricky to resolve the issue permanently as long as it relies on Bing. https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-restores-pirate-sites-an...
> According to various online forums, the best way to ensure your site gets indexed by DuckDuckGo is to submit it to Bing and Yandex. https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disa...
mattparcher commented on Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays prolost.com/blog/edr... · Posted by u/mattparcher
There are both cheaper and far more expensive displays used for graphics design to special effects and major film mastering. In this case, Apple seems to be trying to bridge the gap with the XDR and create a new middle tier of price and functionality.
As for bleeding edge, Apple has pioneered plenty of technology. It's true that it builds upon foundations of technical designs and scientific discoveries by others but that applies to every other company as well. Very few organizations are capable of going straight from invention in a science lab to large scale commercial product all by themselves. If you judge by how much "new" technology has actually reached consumers though, Apple is clearly leading the field.
As Steve Jobs would say, “real artists ship”.
(Except now, they’re shipping at a much larger scale...)
Title is kinda misleading. A more accurate but longer one is like 'China state media journalist accused Apple approving app that aid violent protesters from evading police"
Which similarly, it also happens on the other part of the world? E.g) US? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/nyregion/waze-nypd-locati...https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/01/28/382013185...
IANAL, but “evade law enforcement” seems inaccurate.
> HKMAP helps residents comply with the wishes of law enforcement (who communicate their demands by colored flags quickly raised in the dark).
> …[the app] doesn't contravene any Hong Kong law that I am aware of. This app helps answer questions like "will I get shot with a bean bag round if I come out of this MTR station, because the police raised a colored flag I can't see".
—Maciej Ceglowski, the American who runs the Pinboard bookmarking service, who has been in Hong Kong for a while now, to follow the protests.
Thread about how the app works, and how it keeps non-protesters safe: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1179233936582565888
About the use of tear gas and bean bag rounds: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/1181790019943452675
mattparcher commented on Developers don’t want to show gameplay at E3 anymore vg247.com/2019/06/13/e3-g... · Posted by u/luu
> You can see really old school companies really struggle with that.
Even GOOG seems to not be immune to this one. They're cited in recent headlines regarding a promotion of RCS but IRL they're abandoning it.
Can you expand on your Google comment re. RCS? All I’ve seen recently is that they’re taking the reins from the carriers (at least outside of the US) to speed-up rollout.
mattparcher commented on Native image lazy-loading for the web addyosmani.com/blog/lazy-... · Posted by u/skellertor
Ah right, lazy loading, this is the reason that I have to make sure to scroll down the entire length of a medium.com article I'm reading on my phone and back to the top again to make sure the diagrams and math-as-images load completely before I get on a subway line that doesn't have 3g service. Hate it when I forget. Otherwise I'm left staring at blurry lines that don't explain much about what trying to read until it's time to get off. Sucks when my commute is 40 minutes straight on the same line.
I guess an advantage of a 'native' feature could be that browsers could offer a button saying 'please pre-load this page!'
Arguably, Apple already offers a version of a “pre-load” button in Safari (on iOS and macOS), with the setting to “Automatically save Reading List articles for offline reading”. (Not on by default, but the user sees a prompt to turn it on the first time they add an article to the Reading List.)
Ideally, you could add an article to the Reading List on your computer, and then view it later on your phone that downloaded it in the background when it still had network access.
In practice, my quick testing results just now were mixed: Safari kept saying that a Medium article wasn’t available offline, a Quartz article only loaded the header (with what looked like a fully-opaque white overlay covering the content itself), but a Daring Fireball post (i.e., without any JavaScript trickery) loaded just fine.
A how-to for this feature: https://www.macworld.com/article/3252168/how-to-set-offline-...
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