PhiSchle's comments

On: Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025

[PhiSchle]

Third party remotes do work on most TVs, I use a Nvidia Shield Remote on my TCL over bluetooth for example. I cannot however turn the TV on using that remote. Having a dedicated Play/Pause Button is still worth it however.

On: Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)

[PhiSchle]

You state this like an obvious fact, but it is only obvious if you either heard of something like this, or you've been through it.

From that point on I am sure he knew to do that. What's obvious to you can also just be your experience.

On: Bop Spotter

[PhiSchle]

At least with the recent Pixels there's an option to have your phone listen 24/7 and tell you what music is playing. Probably difficult to distinguish this tower from a homeless guy sitting in a subway station listening to different music all day.

[tialaramex → PhiSchle]

That app ("Now playing") is the same technology as Shazam but it's local, because this isn't actually difficult on modern hardware. It's the same technique the Pixel uses to notice that somebody said "Google" to it, again without needing a remote server.

Now Playing has a smaller database than Shazam does but the technology would work fine with a larger database if you wanted that, which for this application you might.

However, unsurprisingly Google did not give away the technology.