Readit Newsspatulon commented on James Thomson on the Origins of the macOS Dock daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/tosh
We all know the correct dock location is LEFT, because there's fewer mouse movements to reach the dock apps and the close/minimize buttons of a window when using a mouse. No further arguments will be heard on this topic (:
Unfortunately, if you use a two-monitor setup, you cannot have the dock on the left of the right-hand-side monitor, or vice versa.
spatulon commented on Google's new pipe syntax in SQL simonwillison.net/2024/Au... · Posted by u/heydenberk
> Is it due to something inherent in PDF technology?
Exactly. PDF doesn't have instructions to say "render this paragraph of text in this box", it has instructions to say "render each of these glyphs at each of these x,y coordinates".
It was never designed to have text extracted from it. So trying to turn it back into text involves a lot of heuristics and guesswork, like where enough separation between characters should be considered a space.
A lot also depends on what software produced the PDF, which can make it easier or harder to extract the text.
I've never looked into the PDF format, but, does it not allow for annotations that say, "the glyphs in the rectangle ((x0, y0), (x1, y1)) represent the text 'foobar'")? That's been my mental model for how they are text-searchable.
spatulon commented on Evolve Bank and Trust confirms LockBit stole 7.6M people's data theregister.com/2024/07/0... · Posted by u/Bender
Can someone explain why in the world Evolve has my data? (I use Mercury and Wise for my company). I tried going to their website and I'm still completely clueless.
Edit: Apparently Mercury was using Evolve as their banking partner. I know this is super common w/ online neobanks, but I'm really confused as to why they always choose the most random obscure bank. Why not partner with a major bank, or Column?
After Wise moved away from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank, they gave me new account details that included an address in New York.
Looking that up on Google Maps and Street View, it appeared to be a small branch in Brooklyn, on a street that looked immediately familiar to me as the starting area in Grand Theft Auto IV.
spatulon commented on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How? · Posted by u/pinakinathc
My 15 year old videos with 30 views still load nearly instantly. It’s as close to hot as hot is
That doesn't match my experience. I have some unlisted videos that I or a small handful of friends might go back and watch once a year, and it takes several seconds of loading before they start playing. It's very noticeably different from the near-instant loading of most videos I watch.
spatulon commented on Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus ft.com/content/54671865-4... · Posted by u/henrik_w
Why do they say 179,000 million instead of 179 billion? Is that common in their industry?
Until a few decades ago, the term 'billion' actually meant one million million (1e12) in the UK, rather than the now commonly-accepted meaning of one thousand million (1e9). As a British paper, the FT may simply be trying to avoid the ambiguity.
spatulon commented on The Sound Proof Booths of Silence dota2.com/newsentry/36755... · Posted by u/namiwang
I don’t really get esports or regular sports for that matter, but this seems like overkill? How much of an advantage could they really get from someone yelling at them in the audience? With a decent audience they are rarely going to hear anything other than a din anyway.
Doesn’t seem like much more of an advantage than people yelling things at baseball players?
Seems like it could just be part of the calculation of the competition rather than working so hard to avoid it.
Two problems that have occurred in recent times when Dota tournaments have not used booths:
- the crowd whistling to tell their favourite team that the enemy team is making some kind of secret play (e.g. taking Roshan, or using a smoke).
- clearly hearing the play-by-play commentary that's being played to the crowd over the arena's loudspeakers, which can also give away information about what the enemy team's doing.
>won't allow you to delete the executable file
Any open file
> Any open file
Any file that was opened without specifying FILE_SHARE_DELETE in the call to CreateFile[1] (the Win32 equivalent of open(2)). Unfortunately, most language runtimes that wrap CreateFile tend not to pass that flag.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...
spatulon commented on Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened? twitter.com/jmmv/status/1... · Posted by u/dceddia
Only Windows has this issue. There's nothing about my Mac or my Chromebook that is anything less than immediate. You can quibble about whether the compositor introducing an extra frame of latency was worth the tradeoff, but that is on the margins.
The Mac is no better, in my experience. I just timed how long it takes to open the Calculator app – the simplest app I could think of – on my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the window appears 600ms after clicking on the dock icon. I would not call that immediate, and it only gets worse when you try more complex applications, especially those written in Electron.
They matched the iMac case's stripes. See: https://www.theregister.com/2010/11/29/bondi_blue_imac/
Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.