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johschmitz

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    Comment #49254202

    Maybe provide an option for the user to bring their own API key for prettier results.

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    Comment #49180942

    Performance result are presented here as far as I understand: https://github.com/brian-armstrong/fec#performance

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    Comment #48875062

    I am reading on mobile and actually preferred the pluralistic link, glad you posted that one.

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    Comment #48822672

    Reminds me of the granny knot "advice" which I also saw on hackernews for the first time many years ago and which changed my live: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm I…

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    Comment #48467710

    As far as my understanding goes the bottleneck for what you are talking about is hardware not software, so open source won't help that much for the foreseeable future.

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    Comment #46741988

    The control messages are transmitted via CAN bus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus The exact message content and protocols are reverse engineered. Some cars use FlexRay instead…

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    Comment #46653027

    Since this talks about sleep quality I want to add something that was almost unknown to me for over 30 years. Smartwatches AFAIK don't have CO2 sensors. It seems to me though, that…

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    Comment #44520160

    At the end of the day you often need to consider the energy efficiency of a system which is also reflected in the cost of operating it. For use cases where this is relevant the sug…

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    Comment #44048704

    I never hated on Signal, on the contrary I recommend it too many people but I can say that the energy consumption on Android is in many cases abysmal for multiple years now and rel…

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    Comment #42144501

    Reminds me of https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm I wonder if what you describe is kind of the reason for this.

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    Comment #41181426

    Nice. Feature request: In the top/overview view I would like to be able to tap on each room and then the pivot point should move to the center of that room. After a double tap or t…

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    Comment #39024274

    You might want to try out the one build into Blender: https://www.blender.org/features/video-editing/

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    Comment #36855129

    I like this one much better https://youtu.be/RKfG3lWCZ80 at 4:20 onwards. Also explains the difference between slip and skid.

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    Comment #36677652

    I did this back in the day using a ublox LEA-M8F module for my PhD work following the instructions posted here: http://www.opendigitalradio.org/lea-m8f-gpsdo I also experimented wi…

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    Comment #28222851

    ASUS Zenfone 8. One of the very few relatively small Android phones with 5G connectivity, good camera and a flagship CPU (Snapdragon 888) and not way too expensive.

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    Comment #28217977

    Why not charge based on typical "packages" containing a certain number of interactions with the service?

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    Comment #28211488

    True, it doesn't seem to work so well, see screenshot: https://pasteboard.co/KgkhOEo.jpg

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    Comment #28016219

    Linux Mint is that "windowing environment that simply works" for me. I've been putting it on my dads computer for about 10 years now (he is turning 66 now) and it was always workin…

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    Comment #27140574

    How I understand it he is saying Google is willing to pay for "being wrong" or rather "behaving in certain ways". Now it is just kind of a fee and both sides are happy. Maybe not t…