Gabrys1

I think what the comment meant was that it's harder for an individual to lose their paper documents compared to losing the electronic ones. It just shifts who's responsible for keeping them safe

Can use AI to detect that

not per capita though

Makes it easier to parse by automatic tools too

I would say, the proper response to this question is not "walk, blablablah" but rather "What do you mean? You need to drive your car to have it washed. Did I miss anything?"

For this purpose, I think it would be nice to access the raw data, to see any errors that would be otherwise masked. As someone in the comments suggested, one might compare number of corrected errors in 1, 2, 5 years and compare to the number of redundant bits stored to estimate the expected longevity of the medium

calc(1.42 * 100vmax)

is the same as

142vmax

Just saying :-)

What if someone unironically wants to automatically click all the ads to support the websites they visit

Visa/Mastercard take like 1 or 2%. That's why they cannot compare to Apple...

if your data isn't mostly read-only, then you're going to have an issue with SQLite. It doesn't nicely support parallel writers

then, you would automate that

defaults matter a lot!

> Mac and Linux: Search for the Terminal in your applications list and open it. Next, copy the below command, paste it into the window (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V), and press the Enter/Return key:

Should be Ctrl+Shift+V

I don't think they specifically target people who tend to go to sleep. But, having worked in the ad engineering, I can imagine they do know how often specific users skip ads and target ads based on that property.

One can also use the Facebook website. It's almost usable on the Firefox mobile to the extent that you can check the news feed or notifications and reply to a comment, but anything more involved is very annoying (so you end up not doing this and long-term using Facebook less, which is a good thing)

LLM would help with this immensely, if only it was allowed (not sure how though... make the ruleset available as a single text field for export/import, maybe?)

Am I missing any govt org there?

Let them spend resources however they want. It's not like they are subsidized or anything

Having clocks synchronized between your servers is extremely useful. For example, having a guarantee that the timestamp of arrival of a packet (measured by the clock on the destination) is ALWAYS bigger than the timestamp recorded by the sender is a huge win, especially for things like database scaling.

For this though you need to go beyond NTP into PTP which is still usually based on GPS time and atomic clocks

Getting from 95% compatible to 100% compatible may not only take a lot of time, but also result in worsening the performance. Sometimes it's good to drop some off the less frequently used features in order to make the tool better (or allow for making the tool better)

1. The prepaid Visa or Mastercard come with an extra fee (like 5-6 dollars per card if I recall correctly?)

2. I didn't see the prepaid cards in stores outside the US, so they are probably not that popular outside.

Sometimes you also want to shift your spending, like if you spend 500 USD this month at this store, you'll get some good % cashback. So you end up buying a gift card that you know you'll definitely use next month.

I think this is irrelevant, TBH.

But gift cards aren't supposed to work that, right? If it wasn't "legal" or "okay" to have a 500 dollar card, they shouldn't be sold. They are available, therefore they should be perfectly usable.

I don't want to speculate more, but one of the use cases for them is for people that choose to not use cards online (or even don't have credit cards at all) to be able to buy digital goods with cash.

Either way, if we're questioning buying/using the gift card, we're blaming the victim

These devices usually have detachable antennas, so just unscrew them

> I'm more curious how/why the author ended up with a $500 gift card. That's a large amount, and the author never shares how this was obtained, which seems like a key missing detail. Did the author buy the gift card for himself (why?) or did someone give him a very large gift (why not mention that?)

The author mentions a big store (names it similar to Walmart for US based readers).

I would assume this was an accepted form of "return a product without a receipt" or "we want to accept your complain about this product we sold going crazy 1 day after it's warranty but we cannot give you cash back" etc

The file operations on macOS are rather slow too. I needed to invest in some rsync-based syncing for an in-docker application build as accessing the mounted volume from a Docker container was around 20 times slower than on Linux :O

at this point you don't need the phone :D

With lack of regulations, the theory is, there will be many competing manufacturers of insulin, dropping the cost down. Probably not as simple as that, but that's the idea at least

I think yes. And that's maybe the reason they didn't properly split the files to .cache/ .config etc

There's an extension for that. Quite handy for in-browser terminals like one in AWS etc.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ctrl-shift-c-...