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ditn

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About ditn

Senior Android Engineer at Reddit, former Tweep, Google Developer Expert for Android

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    For the longest time the Android community was super close-knit where people talked about this stuff online and in person constantly, and OP was a pretty active contributor. Unfort…

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    Comment #42793590

    An interesting feature of ribbon mics - because the ribbon is open at the front and the back, they reject sound from the side (and top/bottom) almost perfectly. You can arrange the…

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    Comment #42483857

    Generally these are only used in test methods, which is fine. I've never seen anyone use them outside that.

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    Comment #41273540

    One thing that I found super interesting when I studied audio engineering is that our ears are very good at determining direction left/right, but absolutely hopeless at working out…

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    Comment #41007881

    Someone failed highschool chemistry. More gas can dissolve in cold water vs hot. The opposite of solids.

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    Comment #38951610

    Yeah this is standard practise in the UK armed forces/EOD teams. Source: spent time with No. 5131 Squadron in Akrotiri.

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    Comment #37398882

    > I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK, while at the same time the increase in house price tha…

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    Comment #35676759

    Regularly donating blood or plasma can reduce PFAS concentrations in the body, I believe the effect is the same on microplastics https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-shows-bloo…

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    Comment #35410061

    You can set a custom filter in uBlock Origin to do this for you - here's an example filtering out Pinterest garbage: google. ##.g:has(a[href =".pinterest."]) google. ##a[href =".pi…

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    Comment #34687600

    During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.

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    Comment #34617801

    Location: Ontario, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Android, Kotlin Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bennett-4784b327/ Email: info@adambennett.de…

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    Comment #33389240

    Then why were they reviewing unrelated codebases? iOS, Android? This doesn't hold up

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    Comment #33380076

    They use git.

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    Comment #31777163

    "No true blockchain"

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    Comment #31712027

    60% _marginal_ tax, not everall.

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    Comment #31640912

    For those reading this with incredulity I believe the above commenter made a typo - the average depth is 3688m, or 12,100ft.

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    Comment #30942315

    https://adambennett.dev/ Mostly Android + Kotlin with a recent foray into interviewing, and I'd like to write about leadership/culture a bit more. I've gotten out of the habit of w…

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    Comment #30844087

    It's not, it's a runtime service locator. In my experience it doesn't scale terribly well.

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    Comment #29489664

    That's an event I'd like to see!

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    Comment #29489514

    It's a hard limit due needing fuel to maintain its orbit. It's in a lagrange point ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point ) which requires occasional orbital corrections.

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    Comment #27447067

    That sounds brilliant. I've signed up for access and will wait patiently.

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    Comment #27446641

    This is very very cool and I'm excited to eventually get access to it. I'd love to see a Crashlytics integration so that we can also use Runway to monitor post-release health in on…

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