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New comment by armen52 in "iPhone Air"

armen52 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:35:29 +0000

The CPU in the 13 Mini is something like 20-30% more power efficient, making it much more viable given the small battery capacity of the phone.

New comment by armen52 in "Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death"

armen52 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:02:35 +0000

I've seen several cases like this on Amazon, where products are not available to ship to California but should be. In one case I even spoke to the manufacturer who said they got it fixed, then weeks later it was unavailable again.

There's clearly something going on where their systems are being extra cautious on what can and cannot be shipped to CA.

New comment by armen52 in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"

armen52 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:53:00 +0000

I don't think that's true though? The OAuth provider knows which third parties you have authorized to have access to your account(s) as well as what information or privileges you've approved for each. And when you land on that screen, they know which third party referred you to them.

In other words, they could definitely highlight or otherwise hint to you which of the Google accounts you've already approved/used via one or more of your authenticated Google accounts.

New comment by armen52 in "Guide to mechanical keyboards"

armen52 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:12:50 +0000

After years of using only laptop keyboards and the Microsoft Sculpt keyboard (which looks and feels like a laptop keyboard on a desk), I could not get comfortable with standard mechanical keyboard travel lengths again.

I picked up a Keychron K15 Pro[1] and have found the low profile keys and travel easy to adapt to. Recommend you give one of theirs (or maybe someone else's) low profile keyboards a try.

[1] https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k15-pro-alice-lay...

New comment by armen52 in "We need a lot more electricians"

armen52 — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 19:16:26 +0000

Can you share what device you're using for the 3-minute shut-off and recovery?

New comment by armen52 in "Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder"

armen52 — Wed, 02 May 2018 19:19:23 +0000

Media companies are already taking this approach using ffmpeg, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions. I heard from two companies using such approaches at AWS re:Invent in October 2017, so it's definitely possible.

Rolling your own approach like this is certainly more complex to build/maintain than using Elastic Transcoder though.

New comment by armen52 in "Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available"

armen52 — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:00:36 +0000

Yes, the pricing is very attractive. Unfortunately it's still buggy, and lacking many simple features you would expect, e.g. duplicate an analysis someone shared with you to modify it without changing their original copy.

New comment by armen52 in "Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available"

armen52 — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:58:31 +0000

No, not yet (surprisingly).

New comment by armen52 in "Helping the homeless in San Francisco"

armen52 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:31:44 +0000

Since when did we start referring to ourselves as "the tech elite"? This seems like the wrong way to frame the problem, or our relation to it.

New comment by armen52 in "Square introduces monthly pricing"

armen52 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:04:55 +0000

Their fraud costs are not what you make them seem. The credit card companies do not take on the risk for fraud most of the time. They push that risk onto the merchants.

This is why large e-commerce companies have giant fraud departments trying to prevent fraudulent orders and charges on their site; because when they occur, they generally just eat the loss.