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New comment by miskin in "New Apple TV 4K"

miskin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:15:31 +0000

I’d say they really like this situation:

- They don’t have to support European languages. Historically, they were horrible in this area, supporting only major languages and ignoring others for years. It’s almost impossible to ask Siri to play a song whose title is in one of these languages. Contact names are pronounced badly, and it’s sometimes tricky to ask Siri to call a person with a non-English name. This way, even though LLMs support these languages quite well, Apple doesn’t have to invest in development and testing.

- They announce the product with US features and keep the EU price the same, but disable features that cost them money, such as those requiring server-side compute.

- Satellite features only work in some EU countries, and there seems to be absolutely no progress in many markets. These markets are simply too small for Apple to care about. Yet the price is the same.

- They blame the EU for this.

New comment by miskin in "Apple Business"

miskin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:30:36 +0000

It would be great if you could get correct invoice and pay price without VAT in EU as a VAT registered business. It is incredible they can get around without providing such a basic thing for so long.

New comment by miskin in "Building a model that visualizes strategic golf"

miskin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:29:01 +0000

It would be so nice to have such info as part of golf simulator software for practicing decision-making on the course. Very nice work.

New comment by miskin in "Somebody Please Get Me This Desktop Wind Tunnel for Christmas"

miskin — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:20:56 +0000

Say no to vertical videos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2picMQC-9E

New comment by miskin in "Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions"

miskin — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:11:54 +0000

Having a list of allowed recurring payments for your card is not an impossible requirement. Ability to cancel approval on your side would not be too complicated for the bank and would be very useful even without integration with other side to really cancel the subscription.

New comment by miskin in "Person-in-WiFi: Fine-Grained Person Perception Using WiFi [pdf]"

miskin — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:56:23 +0000

WiZ lightbulbs actually surprised me with this feature - they call it SpaceSense. You need two of their lightbulbs in a room to enable that feature: https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us/explore-wiz/spacesense

New comment by miskin in "Soccer video analysis from your match videos"

miskin — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:34:04 +0000

Have you checked SwingVision (https://swing.tennis/)?

New comment by miskin in "Goodbye widescreen, hello tallscreen – soon we'll watch everything in portrait"

miskin — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:45:13 +0000

Because composition would be bad on both.

New comment by miskin in "To make dishwashers great again? (2020)"

miskin — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:14:46 +0000

In EU we typically have separate waste bin for food leftovers that I expect would go to this garbage disposal in kitchen sink. So if you put the food leftovers to separate garbage bin, there's pretty much nothing that will end up in drain filter to be cleared. It's just different routine. I think you also misread the response about the fatty foods. I don't feel it was related to fatty food in USA, it was more in a sense that if you shred fat leftovers, it will eventually clog some pipe down the line.

New comment by miskin in "Pentax K-3 III Monochrome: A DSLR Just for B&W Photo Lovers"

miskin — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:36:53 +0000

Yes, they do. I have Fujinon 16mm f/1.4 that allows you to switch to manual focus mode on lens and have depth of field for apertures and distance markers, so you can pre-focus in advance.

New comment by miskin in "Gradle still sucks"

miskin — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:19:39 +0000

I agree it is not easy to use correct local version, but that is why gradle wrapper is there. In case you do no trust it, you have workaround for it. For projects from company repository, this should not be issue. For random project from github, it may be worth to go the safe way.

New comment by miskin in "Gradle still sucks"

miskin — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:46:00 +0000

You do not need to use the gradle wrapper - you can use your own trusted version. Wrapper is there just for convenience. I understand your concerns, but it is not the only way and you are not forced to use it.

New comment by miskin in "Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter"

miskin — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 06:22:33 +0000

If he lives in typical block of flats in Slovakia, he pays part of the heat of the neighbors. Typically, part of the heat cost is based on your consumption and part is based on total consumption of the whole block divided between flats.

New comment by miskin in "Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)"

miskin — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:49:12 +0000

On the device you do not want them to connect to automatically go to Bluetooth settings, find your AirPods, click on (i) and change "Connect to this iPhone" from "Automatically" to "When Last Connected to This iPhone".

New comment by miskin in "How SMS fraud works and how to guard against it"

miskin — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 07:33:12 +0000

This is not possible in most of EU markets, KYC is mandatory and even prepaid SIM cards must be registered and verified with ID before SIM is used for data or calls. Old SIMs without registration were blocked until they would be registered. Some exceptions may exist, but this will be harder and harder in future.

New comment by miskin in "Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points"

miskin — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:00:44 +0000

Interesting thing is that there is no way (that I could find) to buy apps in AppStore for my VAT registered company in a way that I could receive invoice with company details and all necessities to be able to get VAT refund. They seem to pretend they are always selling to private persons and this is not necessary, yet there are many business apps and I am quite sure for business app VAT on 10,000 Eur app would hurt.

New comment by miskin in "Did Ancient Humans Use Echolocation?"

miskin — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 09:43:26 +0000

Apple Music supports spatial audio for Dolby Atmos songs with Airpods Pro and Max. It is quite a different experience.

New comment by miskin in "The type system is a programmer's best friend"

miskin — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:46:16 +0000

I think it is related to how you organize your data structures and business logic - you may have rich typed model that models specific domain, but OOP would typically call to include all the business logic that modifies attributes of class to be part of that class - eg, you do not externally set specific values to class instance, but instead execute some action on the class instance that may change these attributes. If you use type system just to model data structures and have external business logic to use/change it, it would be called anemic model.

New comment by miskin in "Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI"

miskin — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:15:07 +0000

Do you have enabled "Public shared indexes"? It should be able to download pre-built indexes for both JDK and many Maven libraries.

New comment by miskin in "Severe acute hepatitis in children: investigate SARS-CoV-2 superantigens"

miskin — Sun, 15 May 2022 07:33:48 +0000

Article specifically says that "SARS-CoV-2 infection can result in viral reservoir formation" and that this may lead to repeated release of virus to body. This may cause the rise of immune activation and "SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that bears resemblance to Staphylococcal enterotoxin B, triggering broad and non-specific T-cell activation. This superantigen-mediated immune-cell activation has been proposed as a causal mechanism of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children".

As MRNA vaccine do not make recipient body to create replicable viral protein, I fail to see the mechanism that would create this viral reservoir and article does not even mention this as possibility. Moreover, MRNA vaccine itself is not injected into your blood, but to muscle tissue, so how would that MRNA vaccine get into milk? Especially if you compare it with much much higher probability of child simply being infected with live virus.