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Trying to make a bio out of HN comments is a thing?
For some reason, people feel like this should be a replacement for traditional luggage tags.
I do not understand this mindset.
I’d prefer to have a dedicated loop for my bag and the inside attachment points just aren’t big enough. I’d feel more secure if it wasn’t loose in a pocket and could easily fall out or be removed by an unscrupulous (or inattentive) airline or TSA employee.
My current carry-on doesn't have large enough attachment points to easily accommodate the Apple leather case's keyring, so an updated loop would have been welcome.
Apple collects data, but they usually keep it for their own use, that's the difference.
Third parties trying to do the same level of collection and also share it with partners is the issue. As such, the platform owner putting constraints on them by applying rules related to privacy shouldn't surprise anyone.
If it does, you're not paying enough attention.
With these two, most applications behave as they did in the pre-Lion document model.
Native clients continue to improve, and the mismatch between how I handle Gmail on iOS vs (for example) Fastmail shows that they're so wedded to this particular mindset that it's unlikely to ever be fully solved.
I look at people like my Dad -- early 70's, who spent most of his career as the "desktop infrastructure" manager at a midsize insurer -- who still wants to have Outlook available because he likes how Outlook does mail. It's just how his mind works. IMAP exists, but it's an implementation detail that's separate from the specific client features they add.
Wouldn't mind exploring something akin to a web-based, self-hosted Thunderbird mail client giving a server hosted web UI for multiple email and nntp services.
IMAP "defeated" POP long ago if you wanted to use a third-party client but still access mail from anywhere.
By definition, this doesn't work in a POP environment, but that's increasingly an outdated mindset.
For historical reasons (intertia, and being early enough that I was able to acquire a "firstname.lastname" address), I don't plan to leave Gmail unless things really go south. My personal domain (Fastmail) is used for other things and I've never anything other than Mail.app and their own web interface.
makeLinks does most of the work, then sets Homebrew's zsh as the default shell -- this currently runs in bash, so it probably will need to be updated at some point -- and everything gets reloaded.
makeLinks && chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh
exec $SHELL && brew doctor[1]: https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
As you point out, people who care will use some of the defaults and override others as they go along, but a small bit of effort goes a long way:
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
line-height: 1.6;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
img, picture, video, canvas, svg {
display: block;
max-width: 100%;
}
input, button, textarea, select {
font: inherit;
}
p, h1, h2, h3 {
overflow-wrap: break-word;
}Someone smarter than me can answer that.
So, while you can send a patch to add a feature, you couldn't release that modified version on its own.
For the record, I don't have a great answer to this either -- genuinely curious.
The existence of comments about how certain elements were rendered on export made me think that something was missing when compared with CM.
This isn't to say I prefer CM -- because Markdown came into being from Gruber's script. In a literal sense, "Markdown" is defined as whatever `markdown.pl` is, warts and all -- however, contact with the outside world forced things to move in a direction that is (so to speak) more organized that what John originally wrote.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but let's be clear about what these are. I would point out that Linux inherited some, but not all of its naming conventions from Unix (as did macOS), but at least here, that is a secondary concern.
Carry on...
Both of the companies mentioned don't make money from the use of their app -- at least not directly.
Sure, you can do all of your purchasing w/ Amazon through their app, but the website remains available if that is more to your liking. For free apps like Google Calendar, this is also the model.
Bloomberg's app is a front-end to the Bloomberg Professional Service (colloquially, "The Terminal") and to read more than a few articles or access any of the data sources, you need to sign up.
Tl;dr It's not cheap
Free trials can be converted on iOS, but -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- require going to a web browser instead of it all happening inside of IAP, although, that could come along at some point...
(Based on no inside information, that might be the case this fall, check back in a few hours to see if it actually comes to pass)
People who are really opposed to this will probably think this is wildly off base, but if it came to pass...isn't that worse than one company absorbing the other because although the endgame is similar, it's messier and doesn't necessarily improve the overall situation.
An example: Barclays acquisition of Lehman Brothers business in North America in 2008 after the latter imploded. They had an agreement in principle, but the government balked, so it happened after the fact...bringing an even larger crisis along with it.
The way that Apple added blood oxygen sensors to the Apple Watch seems instructive in showing how things have changed.
It's not a strictly a medical device -- with explicit disclaimers to that effect -- so making a diagnosis based on only those readings isn't something they would stand by. Defer to the experts.
Masimo's case seems to be looking for an answer to part of this question, determining whether or not the patents apply in nonclinical settings. Regardless of that outcome, it seems like there should be a legal distinction between these two classes of products as most reasonable people would argue they serve very different purposes.
Congress' process takes too long to adapt to conditions on the ground. The ATF has a focused mandate to study and set policy in this area without waiting for Congress to consider the issue. It might not be perfect and is still subject to political influencing as the makeup of the committee changes based on appointments, but at least something gets done.
Regarding the FCC, there is some prioritization based on the type of traffic served, but it's fairly commonsense in its approach and the committee recognized that a complete lack of regulation wasn't in the public's best interest.
The idea that everything is left to Congress -- or ignored, as the case may be -- creates a situation where good ideas don't develop into meaningful legislation or the bad ones get implemented over the will of the majority.
Again, not only does this not happen in parliamentary systems, it's not possible because the people debating the issue are all on the same side. They all agree on the desired outcome, it's rather a question of how far they want to go.
That’s cute.
Try again when US gun laws look more like Japan's -- including an assault weapons ban.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/asia/japan-gun-laws-abe-shoot...
They had their chance...and failed spectacularly.
Glares in the direction of the Freedom Caucus, many of whom should have been expelled from Congress after 1/6
In addition, the shitshow that is the amendment process demonstrates that our representatives have long forgotten how to craft comprehensive legislation that has even a chance of addressing all potential concerns.
Again, if I had a magic wand for a day to fix Congress, I'd dissolve it and reconstitute the chambers as a parliament...but how exactly to do that is an argument for another day.
Wake me up when there's an actual threat to privacy in...
(checks notes........)
OH WAIT
The heat death of the Universe will come first -- Carry on, nothing to see here...
If such a system was implemented in the US, it would force politicians to more carefully consider their positions -- no confidence votes and a motion to vacate serve the man functional purpose as a stick to get people in line, which might not otherwise be possible if they consistently took unpopular positions.