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That makes sense. In case it helps others... when they announced end of life of the mac app, that was because Apple Silicon macs can run the iOS version of Authy. So, if you have an M series mac then you can still use and get updates to authy.

> I can’t remember the last time I talked on the traditional phone network or received a legitimate call

Doctors and dentists.

Most of the calls I get are spam, but then the MOST important calls I get are from doctors, labs, and dentists. I do as much as possible online of course, but not all of these professionals have good online systems and phone calls are often required.

Sometimes you know what number they're going to be calling from ahead of time, but often you don't... especially if you're in a large medical network that has different offices for different specialists, etc. It's a really sad situation if you get sick and you're trying not to miss these important calls, especially when it's a long wait for a specialist and then you miss their call when they get to your name on the waiting list.

This will literally cost some people their lives and legislators need to act on making spoof calls impossible -- there's no reason why anyone should be allowed to spoof a number that they can't receive calls at.

Any idea how well those stand up to lawn trimmers?

Sure, that's one way to look at it. But I set my credit card to pay off the entire balance every month so I don't worry about any of those concerns. But, I also get the benefits that most cards offer (automatic extended warranties, purchase protection, price protection, etc).

I work on several enterprise apps that are .NET but the GUI is a webcontainer with a web app. Unless there is something particularly high performance happening in the GUI, this works really well for several reasons:

1. We can update the gui without the user installing an update.

2. Lots of great web ui libraries, designers, and developers to make it look great.

3. Relatively lightweight

> Writing the GUI part of the program should not take more time than the actual functionality

I don't understand why this is a rule. I mean, I don't know what the author is trying to build, but in general the GUI is the part that the users spends all of their time interacting with. I don't see why it would be a problem if a little more time was spent there.

Why do you prefer debit over credit? Aren't the consumer protection benefits greater with credit cards?

To save everyone the google, several people went to jail with terms ranging from 5 to 15 years (after reduced sentences). Two people were executed.

Do you not use CSS preprocessors or remote map files or anything like that... or do you just deal with all of that stuff manually instead of automating it?

> prefer to avoid an npm-based webpack/whatever build pipeline

What kind of build pipeline do you prefer, or are you saying that you don't want any build pipeline at all?

Ugh, reminds me of my parent's 35" Sony CRT. The picture was wonderful for its day, but my brother and I almost killed ourselves trying to carry it down the stairs. It was kind of brilliant by Sony in a way since it was so deep, there weren't any TV stands that could properly hold it so you had to buy a TV stand from Sony as well.

I can't answer windows/linux, but I use pdfexpert.com for mac and it's great. It was a one time $100 charge when I bought it several years ago, and it gets updated regularly.

That's one use case. The other use case is people who want a dedicated Spotify display in their car. It's especially nice in a new car because you can have your Nav or something else on your car screen and have a second display for your music. Yes, you can also use your phone for that, this is just another option.

Agreed. There's already a lot of legislation around automotive (and it's pretty good) so maybe they wanted to steer clear of that to avoid legal conflicts with other state's laws. The dealer lobby is also particularly litigious, so perhaps they want to avoid going down that path when it's not really necessary at this time.

I agree. I just meant that they might have some trouble with that when it comes to the legal framework to do so.

Most of our social media companies can't operate in China at all. Some of the US companies that do operate in China take on part ownership of their Chinese company from the Chinese government. It's unbalanced that we would allow TikTok to operate without more oversight or some US ownership/control.

Yes, but the law specifically refers to companies that hold a broadcast license. Of course, the law was written in 1934 so they could challenge TikTok based not on the letter of the law but on the spirit of the law. But, case precedence is also not in their favor as they approved a 100% foreign ownership of a media company in 2017.

It sounds like a couple people in this thread have misunderstood how to use your tool. Perhaps you want to hide the projected numbers at least until they start to put in their own assumptions.

I'm interesting in learning more about individual stock investing. I mean, I've been doing it for years, but more just on hype. I've been very successful, but I do very little research on fundamentals and I want to do more of that.

So, your tool sounds interesting, but I don't know enough to use it. Do you have a tutorial video or anything that might walk me through a user story on how somebody would use your tool? Or, do you know of a good fundamentals course that would give me the knowledge to be a customer of your tool?

They were doing so well at improving Windows reputation until they started putting ads in it. What a shame.

When Photoshop went subscription I bought the full version of CS6 (or whatever the last non-subscription version was). It was very expensive. Then when that stopped working on Mac, I tried using every reasonable competitor, paid for several. I'm sure some of them are very competent tools, but it was a nightmare trying to learn a new UI. I bit the bullet and started paying the subscription.

Exactly, good luck convincing management not to do something that the infosec team suggested even though it provides an insignificant amount of security. The hackers you really have to worry about aren't using your front end, they're submitting directly to your endpoint to bypass exactly these kinds of things.

I can't imagine any front end person spending extra time blocking the paste function when nobody asked them to do that. This may also come as a surprise, but sadly management and infosec doesn't always take advice from the front end developers.

Agreed, this will be the way forward in the future. I've already seen one of my apps (Authy) say "We're no longer building a macOS version, just install the iPad app on your mac".

That's great, but you need an M series chip in your mac for that to work so backwords compatibility only goes back a few years at this point, which is fine for corporate upgrade cycles but might be a bit short for consumers at this time. But it will be fine in the future.

Yes, that's what I've seen too. But, it's clearly wrong and exploitive since there is no company without the people.

Even in the balance sheet mindset, a business is still just the efforts of a bunch of people. Without the people who made the business and keep it running, you don't have a business. Sometimes all or some of those people are replaceable, sometimes they're not. Any or all of those people can leave at anytime as well. So, it's important to remember that the value behind the balance sheet is because of the people. That seems to be one thing many CEOs, Private Equity firms, and sometimes managers forget, or simply take for granted -- it's not always something that can be ignored (and sometimes it is).

Are they entirely to blame? No. Everyone who capitalizes on the deal shares some blame. The consumer and the economy do get hurt. Late stage capitalism is starting to destroy what was good about capitalism and we need regulations to keep things sane.

There is a finite amount of capital in the world (with a little more printed each year of course). But they're not printing 20% more every year, so companies can't keep expecting to grow by 20% every year forever. It's just not possible and once a company reaches certain thresholds, we need regulations that prevent them from destroying the good parts of capitalism for simply more money than they had last year.

I will slightly disagree with your first point. I also partially agree though. I agree that every smart phone has most of the hardware of the Rabbit R1. But, just because the hardware is there, that doesn't mean the hardware manufacturer provides APIs/callbacks/hooks to third party developers for every capability of that hardware and operating system. The software developer has to build within the confines of the OEM. Building your own hardware, or at least building your own firmware and OS for open hardware, lets you do more with that same hardware.

Now, if we're talking about the OEMs building Rabbit-like features into their phones then that I agree with, and I hope (and assume) that's what will happen now. Rabbit has already shown some features that our smartphones should be able to do quite easily, such as sending a selected photo by text or email. My hope is that Rabbit pushes Apple and Google to build some of the low hanging fruit into their phones/operating systems soon.

What things are you passionate about or at least interested in? There is likely a subreddit for each one.

They all came back because the admins allowed anyone to volunteer to overtake them. So, either the existing mods changed their minds to remain at the wheel of a subject they're passionate about, or they were replaced with new mods.

I moderated one subreddit that was loved by users. It wasn't about anything that is illegal or controversial. The controversy came not from the content, but from how we were running the community -- we were breaking a reddit rule that was in place to prevent spam. I understand why they had that rule and I agree that it probably makes sense for most subreddits, but like any blanket rule: it doesn't perfectly fit every scenario. So, we had our own method of preventing spam and it worked.

The admins didn't care that we had a thriving community, no spam, and they banned the subreddit. They also blocked anyone from ever creating a replacement with the same name (still to this day). So, it definitely does happen. I'm keeping it vague here to maintain my anonymity.

Side note, reddit dropped that rule about 2 years ago so I suppose we could start one up again, but I've lost interest in that topic.