alexdbird

3G was fine, without all these pesky people using it. It seems we need the extra capacity provided by newer Gs.

You could still cheat. It’s not fresh in my memory but the correct page number was distinctive and the incorrect pages did not load instantly, so you could just press all the colours until you saw the right one!

I prefer subs over dubbing for foreign languages, but I cannot stand closed captions (for people who can’t hear at all) because having your eye drawn to the bottom of the screen for a description of something I don’t need to know about is horrible!

I am 100% sure. It is indeed an SM951/M2/ACHI[sic, that's what's printed on it], I have it in front of me. It went in the only system I've built in the last 15 years, so there's no room for confusion.

It had to be AHCI because macOS didn't support NVMe in this era, and the motherboard was also chosen for Hackintosh compatibility, but I only ever used it as a data drive because of the boot issues. That was probably the best option for its use as a fast compile machine anyway, but it did become a PITA when I wanted to sell the machine.

I'm afraid I am not familiar with this technology - as I said I am not an expert - so perhaps driver is the wrong word. Perhaps I did end up reading advice relating to the NVMe variant, information was very hard to come by. All a very small historical footnote now anyway!

That's the thing, not everything had the drivers. Gigabyte in particular omitted the important bits for a while. I'm not going to claim I'm an expert, but I ended up with a very fast SSD which could only be made bootable by extracting parts of another vendors BIOS and creating a custom UEFI image with them added, and life is far too short for that.

> why PWA’s are awesome

You've described some advantages to you as a developer. For the average user, apps that change all the time and effectively make them a tester aren't such a no brainer!

As I understand it, speaking AHCI doesn't mean the higher level drivers exist in the BIOS to allow booting, so things were a long way from standardisation in those days. You couldn't just put an AHCI drive in an M.2 slot and expect to get on with your day.

We have a number of old salt mines. Or would they be too dry?

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> their “Done” or “Close” buttons on top, which are equivalent to “back”

Are they though? The former are for a modal, back is for a stack.

Apple likes to have a strong model of where things came from. Animations, verbs and gestures follow from that. In my experience of Android, things just appear/disappear with often arbitrary animations, which add nothing, it's like a cargo cult says an animation must go here but it doesn't matter which one. I prefer iOS's consistency here.

> What is surprising to me is that using a Back button that's at the top of the phone would be acceptable

This is why iOS added the back gesture, over ten years ago now, when phones started getting taller.

> from an iOS developer perspective, this is not always free

As an iOS developer since years before that gesture was added, I must disagree. The gesture comes for free unless you break it. Apps without back gestures smell like bad orgs.

If you build some custom navigation you won't magically get it, because it's interactive and you need to make your navigation interact, but people are generally discouraged from building custom navigation. If you do go down that route it involves an astonishing amount of code to reproduce interactive pop.

> and the back gesture itself only works within your own app unless you do additional work

I'm afraid I also have no idea what you're trying to say here.

Only for objects up to 5 metres away, though those might be where the most is gained from accuracy.

It means the Red Book CD audio 'frame' was 1/75 of a second. I don't know what Director did.

Ah, those pesky facts.

You’re confusing concentration with amplification, and you’re not explaining how you think bed springs could cause concentration despite having no similarity in form or action to your examples.

That's not an issue in most of the world; I don't think any of my current cards have ever been swiped. However there are still plenty of transit tickets that use a magstripe, and having those wiped is super inconvenient.

I have no citation, but I’ve been told that writing something out by hand stimulates different parts of the brain, as does explaining that thing out loud.

We have a Panasonic Inverter microwave here, must be 20 years old. It works great and I have never noticed any interference with WiFi or Bluetooth, both of which also get a lot of use in the kitchen. Just another anecdata point!

The heating part can still be very bad news for your eyes, being the most delicate exposed tissue.

No, there's not any call for high voltages in a VCR, outside the feedback loop of a SMPS if it's fancy. The most common thing to use light sensors is just detecting the difference between tape and clear leader at the ends of the tape (or broken tape).

> Put a second finger at the bottom of the touchpad

Why would you use a second finger when your thumb is already hanging out there at the bottom of the trackpad? :)

How I drag things on a trackpad (or a trackpoint for that matter) hasn't changed since the 90s. There isn't literally a button there under my thumb any more, but it makes no difference. I don't really follow the comments that this is unintuitive; most computer interaction is learned rather than intuited, and this interaction has simply not changed. Perhaps other ways of dragging were added, but they were always inferior.

> guiding the user through a set of basal questions to exclude a bunch of fields and pages

The UK tax return (AKA Self-Assessment) follows this pattern and it definitely makes it better. It still lacks clear explanations of every field though.

Sure, I'll check consumer goods are to spec before purchase, on that big list of USB C spec compliance that - checks notes - does not exist.

I suspect they're more durable too. We're about to find out, I suppose.

Mine last forever, except that one time I handled the Lightning connector with wet hands before plugging it in. Phone was fine, thankfully, but I cleaned some sooty deposits from the socket.

Not exactly my experience. I've owned a handful of USB-C devices, and there are devices from major manufacturers that will only charge from a USB-A to USB-C cable. No C-to-C cable convenience; you need to carry a Frankenstein C-to-A-to-C cable. Yes, Philips, this /is/ bullshit.

There are always a lot of comments about ergonomics when the Magic Mouse is mentioned, but never a single citation. Been using one for 12+ years. The utility and ergonomics are great for me. The idea that something has to be shaped for a body part to be 'ergonomic' is pervasive, but I suspect it belongs with pseudoscientific claims such as using 10% of the brain.

Kids these days don't believe you when you tell them about non 1:1 pixel aspect ratio

Saves reading between the lines; you know they're a dick!

> Wounds from an animal also needed treatment because of the potential for rabies.

I think it's relevant that this is a UK story. No one would think of the potential for rabies here as it was eradicated before most were born. Unless you're handling bats, which you shouldn't be doing as a rule.