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ADent··on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
They were seemingly everywhere and lots of apps and services offered Dropbox as an option. 200 million users in 2013.

Then they crippled the free plan and Apple and MS started pushing their services hard. And Dropbox seemed less ubiquitous after that.

ADent··on Stop Using Face ID
For iPhones your eyes have to be open.

I’ve got to think some cops are good at holding up the phone and saying look at this text message and people opening eyes to see it though.

ADent··on The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
Kokura was the primary target and three bombing runs were made before diverting to Nagasaki.
ADent··on Puck: 'Was Colbert's Cancellation "Economic" for CBS?'
That’s been flagged.
ADent··on Social Security Admin to require in-person ID checks for new&existing recipients
I know there are overseas recipients - so possibly quite far.
ADent··on Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules?
Watch the old folks in wheelchairs. Many of those people have no valid ID.
ADent··on Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
Zelle did that, but then the news had stories about Granny sent money to a scammer and the bank won’t give back her money.
ADent··on BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
The 4K is 3840x2560
ADent··on The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools
If you can get the PIN (shoulder surfing, social engineering) you can reset/change the Apple ID password.

Reportedly then you can add a second face to Face ID with Set Up Alternate Appearance and get access to everything, but I have not seen that confirmed.

ADent··on F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
And yet they have not delivered once since last year.

https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2024/01/23/upgraded-f-3...

ADent··on Japan's hydrogen strategy does nothing for decarbonisation: study
How about binding with Carbon and getting methane (CH4)?
ADent··on Their Flights Canceled, Southwest Travelers Were Threatened With Arrest
You can always leave the secure area, but you can’t enter without a valid, current boarding pass.

Some airports have significantly different services airside vs landside - food, seating, etc.

Standby might be significantly easier from the airside - you can wander over to the gate vs getting a new boarding pass.

ADent··on Big Myths Employers Are Using to Force “Return to Office”
I unfortunately agree with you.

I wish I was better at home than the office, but I am not.

ADent··on Ask HN: Are CO salary disclosure laws affecting remote work opportunities?
It did for me - it delayed my start by a few weeks.

They had to consult legal. Repost the job w/salaries. Then extend the formal offer.

ADent··on App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee
Does this apply to XBox and PlayStation?
ADent··on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
I am using MXRoute.com. They have a lifetime account with unlimited addresses and some limits.

Looks like the price has gone up since I signed up, but so did the storage included.

ADent··on The Power of Defaults
Apple Maps gives better turn by turn directions (in general).

Google has better data.

ADent··on Toyota to launch its own automotive software platform by 2025
We had a recent RAV4 and the radar cruise was quite good, but the lane keeping was tragically bad and we turned it off very quickly.
ADent··on Wild-Looking ‘Open Rotor’ Engine Could Cut Airliner Emissions by a Massive 20%
Both of those have big gear boxes (9.5:1 or 14:1) between the engine and propeller.
ADent··on Renaming Coq
We prefer plug and receptacle.
ADent··on Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident
Not fully contained. See https://twitter.com/breakingavnews/status/136379347594735616... for damage to wing to body fairing.
ADent··on U.S. Airports No Longer Have to Build Their Own Terrible Trains
Denver: Commuter rail right to the single terminal.
ADent··on Before the BSD Kernel Starts: Part One on AMD64
There are a handful of drives that support booting via bios - Samsung 950 Pro is the most common.
ADent··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
The 2018 Intel Mac Mini has user-replaceable RAM. The 2014 mini has fixed RAM.
ADent··on Nissan.com (is not owned by Nissan the car company)
They went after a lot of sites with Volvo in the name - VolvoWorld.com became VlvWorld.com. They have since closed, but they sold parts.

https://www.brickboard.com/AWD/volvo/808447/volvoworldcom_of...

http://web.archive.org/web/20040216120352/http://www.vlvworl...

ADent··on The longest train ride in the world (2019)
Per wiki looks like just over 200 deaths involving Amtrak since 1971 - not including most grade crossing accidents and trespasser strikes.
ADent··on Argonne National Lab Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide into Ethanol
This is going to be big. You can make solar more reliable by over building. Then you can use that sporadically surplus electricity to make liquid fuels - needed for aviation and handy for trains and trucks.
ADent··on OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM
Apple shipped the ARM powered Newton in 1993.
ADent··on Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper [video]
If you believe their copy it won’t work on most computers in a tower case, since the CPU isn’t on the bottom and it uses a gravity feed to return the liquid.
ADent··on Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers
There are a couple of KVMs that supposedly do USB to PS2.

ATEN CS82U and IOGEAR GCS1722 are two I looked at. About $55 on Amazon.

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