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udp commented on Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages   lagrangepoint.substack.co... · Posted by u/rithvikvibhu
ryanmccullagh · 9 months ago
I bought AirPods Pro this year and it has been disappointing compared to the first gen non pro I had previously.

Somehow they fall out of my if i adjust my head down.

Battery life is good though

udp · 9 months ago
I’ve found that aftermarket memory foam eartips work much better than the stock ones for keeping them in my ears.
udp commented on Introducing Copilot+ PCs   blogs.microsoft.com/blog/... · Posted by u/skilled
chatmasta · a year ago
Their first co-pilot (which still exists) was about pairing a second Xbox controller to your console.
udp · a year ago
Ah but is that the Xbox 1, the Xbox One, the Xbox One X or the Xbox Series X?
udp commented on Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English   twitter.com/JymFox/status... · Posted by u/TonyTrapp
lmm · 2 years ago
"Soda" is even more of an americanism than "pop". ("Fizzy drink" is the only term I've ever heard used in the UK).
udp · 2 years ago
“Pop” gets used in the UK sometimes but I’ve only heard it in northern England. Never heard Soda anywhere in the UK though, apart from the specific case of cream soda.
udp commented on Instant flood fill with HTML Canvas   shaneosullivan.wordpress.... · Posted by u/shaneos
andersrs · 2 years ago
> The idea was to build something fun that never shows adverts to them or tricks them into sneaky purchases by “accident”.

This part really resonated with me. Google promotes the absolute worst spammy shit these days. I have to browse tech forums to find clean simple games.

Last week I was trying to find a simple memory cards game and the search results were complete dog shit so I started building my own memory cards game. In a couple hours I made https://memorycardsgame.com/. Then browsing a svelte forum I found https://toddler-games.com which is much further ahead of mine but I'd never be able to find stuff like this by searching for it. Of course none of the good games are filled with a bunch of SEO spam which is kind of the point. Since Steve Jobs didn't let his kid use an iPad we've decided the game isn't needed now.

Nice app.

udp · 2 years ago
> I have to browse tech forums to find clean simple games.

There's always DOSBox!

udp commented on Update of the RDF and SPARQL (RDF star) families of specifications   w3.org/blog/news/archives... · Posted by u/tannhaeuser
lol768 · 2 years ago
In the nicest possible way, and from a position of ignorance of the "Semantic Web": is anyone actually doing anything with these technologies outside of academia?
udp · 2 years ago
Yes, pretty much all knowledge management in biology is built upon technologies that came from the semantic web community, and biology is certainly not just academia.

There's not much application for knowledge graphs in e.g. a CRUD app of customer names and addresses, but turns out there are an unlimited number of things you can describe about e.g. a protein, and you can't just design one schema because you don't know how it's going to be queried.

See: https://bioregistry.io for countless examples of public datasets used everywhere from academia to "big pharma".

udp commented on FerretDB: open-source MongoDB alternative   blog.ferretdb.io/ferretdb... · Posted by u/yawnxyz
packetlost · 2 years ago
The only problem I have with PostgreSQL's JSONB type is it strictly implements the JSON standard, so things like nulls and integers aren't supported. Depending on your data, this could be a real problem.
udp · 2 years ago
The json standard has nulls
udp commented on OpenEnroth – Open reimplementation of the Might and Magic 6, 7, 8 game engine   github.com/OpenEnroth/Ope... · Posted by u/toasteros
chongli · 3 years ago
finally move on from the SNES aesthetic

Why do we need to move on from the SNES aesthetic? Can’t it coexist with other styles? To me, it feels like someone saying “maybe we’ll finally move on from classical music.”

Now if there’s some other retro style you want to support then I fully embrace that. I love the look and feel of HOMM3 and would love to see new games done in that style. But there’s no reason to abandon a style like 8-bit or 16-bit pixel art if there’s plenty of people who enjoy it.

udp · 3 years ago
Sorry that was poorly worded - I love the SNES aesthetic and of course hope it’s here to stay. I meant “moving on” as in chronologically to the styles that came afterwards. As though we gradually iterate through the past, marking each era as “retro vintage cool” instead of just “old”.
udp commented on OpenEnroth – Open reimplementation of the Might and Magic 6, 7, 8 game engine   github.com/OpenEnroth/Ope... · Posted by u/toasteros
dangerwill · 3 years ago
Hell yeah, so neat! Given that we are entering/have entered the age of nostalgia for early 3d, it would be so interesting to me to see someone making a commercial project off of this (obviously sans assets from the original games)
udp · 3 years ago
> Given that we are entering/have entered the age of nostalgia for early 3d

Are we indeed! I look forward to the new era of retro games then - maybe they will finally move on from the SNES aesthetic.

udp commented on Genders.wtf   genders.wtf/... · Posted by u/wpietri
bombcar · 3 years ago
Even the airline case can be handled with an exception - if "other or unspecified or not asked, assume whatever would be the maximum".
udp · 3 years ago
Or just ask people their weights if that’s what you really need to know.

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