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it got me through automated security gates in HK as it just scans passport and secondary boarding pass. got boarding at gate where there was staff.

Short story, checked in online but still needed to pickup a physical boarding pass (online didn’t generate a qr/barcode code)

Security would not let me through without a barcode to scan.

I remember seeing on HN generators and decoders of boarding passes.

Searched and found the link above.

Got me through security at Hong Kong airport, otherwise I was out of pocket 100s of dollars and alot of in convenience. Brilliant.

Thanks fellow HNs

A Million rows will be easy.

I fell like infuse on iOS and Apple TV is way ahead in simplicity.

Share network folder, and done.

Ditto. Just because people call it "an asset" doesn't make it one. It's not an asset. It's no more than a Ponzi scheme, just a complicated one at that.

So their "Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU)" are crypto funds. If that's not pulling the wool over everyone's eyes. This industry needs to die.

When they start sliding down that slippery slope I'll act, but until then the service vs. cost is balanced enough for me.

Unpopular on HN, but I just don't see a problem with Google having my email, for what they provide me. Almost unlimited uptime, global redundancy, best search experience, storage all for free. I'm ok with the trade off for now.

Its just not worth the hassle.

I've been recording my gps approx every 2 seconds or so for 18 months. Up to 1.2mil data points.I use Kepler.gl to map it. Its fun to see.

Imagine trying to debug this on an iPad. /s

I’ve been using nextdns for two years. Can’t live without it now.

Did you use “Query”?

pi4B: Nextdns client, tailscale, shared network drive, log aggregator for other devices on my network and also data end point for some iOS Apps (Overland GPS tracker)

I've written a bare bones script to get historical transactions out of the pdfs statements. It was a PINA.

Off topic - DBS is hilarious in Singapore, the "World's best digital bank" 4 years in a row (forget the years) - who did they pay-off for that title.

You can't even export bank transactions older than 6-months from your account in CSV. You have to download - individually mind you - pdf statements and then good luck. This is the worlds best digital bank?

I read “dominates” as has the “dominate share of the profits for the industry”. Not dominates shipments.

Counterpoint to - living in Singapore.

I'm in Singapore in a conda/apartment block where we currently have an outbreak of Dengue (spelling?) fever - 4/6 infections. As much as there is legislation to say - empty your buckets - its pretty ineffective when condo/apartment owners are pretty useless, having been told there are pools of water on the roof of the apartments. They just move to twice a week fogging (spraying fog into the bushes - of which we have no clue what chemicals they are using - DDT anyone?).

We haven't had any government officials come.

Won’t be watching any of the World Cup as a protest towards the terrible treatment of the labourers there and the corrupt process of selecting Qatar.

I only hope others follow.

I’d love to see some hard numbers on the “sun cable”. At a high level it seems like the biggest pie in the sky bullshit.

Ditto, another anecdote.

And Singapore

The DBS - worlds best digital bank - is an absolute joke. Their local app is terrible in Singapore and you can't even download transaction history more than 6 months!

Similarly in Singapore - a lot of jobs require that, even if a direct candidate is ready to be hired, the job is advertised for a month (government mandate). As a result job ads are poor quality and extremely specific to get around visa constraints.

Whats "better" mean in this instance? Is it, "you will have a better chance of being wealthy?" or is it, "you will lead a happier life?".

For that matter, whats "smart"? Is it to score high on tests, work 8-8 job, and be called smart by everyone else? Or is it make good decisions, work the least amount possible and become super wealthy and retire earlier than everyone else?

Why be smart, if you'll be poor anyway? Would you choose to be less smart but more wealthy? (All rhetorical).

I have friends that range in "smartness" and I find no correlation to wealth outcomes. If anything, friends that are considered - or exhibit "naivety" - actually are more happy.

Last straw for me. Solidified my next phone won’t be an iOwnYou.

This is the same data quality I face in Singapore. Looks great, but gets simple Things wrong, including wrong routes (doesn’t show several options usually) and business details not up to date.

How forgiving do we have to be? Google maps is just better.

Agree on the comments about getting setup with R/RStudio. Very straight forward for new comers and non-programmers which is >99% of the world.

I believe there is a market for a heavily simplified RStudio - call it RStudio Light. My belief it would crush the market (excel users, novice RStudio users) who simply want to summarise, plot data.

My vision is for a simple desktop app (with the core data functions in R) almost based off something like - https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/esquisse/vignettes/g...

You're probably right, but I had guessed from this [0] that by unselected these options on each device, no metrics should be sent through.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210682

My apple devices are constantly hitting metrics.icloud.com. From teh screen grab below, they are second only to metrics collection by whatsapp over a 30 day period [0].

I've confirmed multiple times on every apple device to turn off any analytics & improvements, switch off siri suggestions etc... No effect.

For all their stance on privacy, they sure are trying to collect metrics.

[0] https://imgur.com/rGyO0X2

This was the last straw for me. I’ve started looking around at alternatives (iCloud photos, literally no decent alternatives soo ok far to sync 400gb of photos) and have removed iCloud files to sub for just a simple NAS at home with tailscale.

I doubt I’ll buy a new iPhone next.