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This app brings me so much delight. Seeing the incoming plane, knowing % chance of onetime or late.

Honestly I often know changes from Flighty for my flights before the airlines do or at least before they notify me. I had once my carrier said on time and Flighty said 90 mins delay. I went to the airport on time and turns out flight was delayed. Should have just trusted them!

Because they don’t want to?

It’s not just about money. It’s complexity, company size, management, etc.. Loss of focus by having to build a new app from ground up. Features and improvements take longer as they have to be done twice. Parity problems. Support debt. Maintaining multiple versions of the same app isn’t just “hire more”.

As you agreed with, they are successful. Maybe they’re happy with that.

This is how Canada works (Westminster style). When a govt tables a budget it goes to a vote, and if they can’t get the votes to pass it it triggers a no-confidence vote in the govt and away we go to an election.

There was 7 seconds between clearance being given and the accident.

Beyond is not a convincing substitute. I think it’s delicious for processed food and I prefer it to beef by a lot, but it is definitely beany tasting.

I’m their market. I don’t eat processed food all the time, but I’m looking for ways to reduce my animal consumption. I’ll pick it over animal usually, though I’ll pick good quality animal or less processed plant based.

I think the part that’s accurate is that it’s hard to get past the highly processed hurdle for the kind of people that think critically about food.

But vegans aren’t the target market.

People react differently. I took the same prep but the waves of nausea and cramping were so intensely painful I sweat through all my clothes and passed out on the toilet. It was some of the worst hours of my life. I’m just over 40 and have some symptoms to check which turned out to be benign, but it was such a harrowing experience I will be doing this as infrequently as possible.

I love this about Ireland because they are such a young republic. And democratic systems are a technology. Something that we understand better over time, and somewhere new can pick and choose from what is best, where it is _extremely_ hard to change existing systems in established countries.

My kids are still young, but I’m going try very hard to be a father like this. Especially if it’s about things I don’t relate to or understand.

Canada is also experiencing record travel from domestic travellers, so I don’t think that’s the case no.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-tourism-travel-d...

This may apply in the US but not everywhere. In Canada it is illegal to expire and take back money on gift cards.

So they can keep collecting interest on it forever, but they have to keep the balance for you indefinitely.

You’re describing changing the base assumption for software reachable on the internet. “Assume all possible unauthenticated urls will be hit basically constantly”. Bots used to exist but they were rare traffic spikes that would usually behave well and could mostly be ignored. No longer.

If it’s legit you can ask your ISP if they sell use of your hardware. Or just don’t use the provided hardware and instead BYO router or modem or media converter or whatever.

But I think what OP is implying is insecure hardware being infected by malware and access to that hardware sold as a service to disreputable actors. For that buy a good quality router and keep it up to date.

But now you can use it again!

My favourite starter word has come and gone. So I’m in the opposite situation where I feel relieved to be able to go back to using it.

> it’s only true use is to anonymize payments

The irony of this is that since every transaction and all its metadata is on chain, it has turned out to be easily traced back to the beginning of time. Fully open, the opposite of anonymized. (see: Chainalysis et. al.)

Malicious compliance.

This works on any iPhone? It mounts the non-privileged DCIM folder or whatever over USB to somewhere on your filesystem? With write access?

It is a pain.

I’ve wrapped it in some short scripts which notifies on auth failure and it’s an easy process to run the auth script. But there’s no way to avoid the bi-monthly inconvenience I don’t think.

I’ve used this tool for years and it’s great. But it really saves just the raw data. You’d never get it back in to Apple Photos as nice as when you pulled it out. Metadata is missing. Live Photos come out as an image and a similarly named video. But I treat it as the emergency backup. If some Apple DC burns down or they ban my Apple ID for some reason, at least the photos still exist.

Cookie pops are malicious compliance to regulations that legitimately protect consumers. You’ve cherry picked one bad side effect to throw out all the ways the EU is way ahead of anyone else in protecting consumers, most of which you don’t even notice because it’s hard to notice harm that did not happen.

We are on the waiting list for the Rivian R2. Looks promising! The other Rivians are too big. I am in Canada and we don't really have access to many Asian made EVs.

Without him the stock would crash. Most of its value is the cult of personality. (Which, to be clear, is bad)

This is well said.

Tesla, for all their problems, is the only manufacturer you can count on prioritizing and long term updating their EVs.

I’ve been squinting at the “global cache for all bundler instances” issue[1] and I’m trying to figure out if it’s a minefield of hidden complication or if it’s actually relatively straight forward.

It’s interesting as a target because it pays off more the longer it has been implemented as it only would be shared from versions going forward.

[1] https://github.com/ruby/rubygems/issues/7249

> can’t be bothered to host my own email

Never host your own email. It’s a nightmare if legacy systems, edge cases, layered on trust systems, malicious actors, and endless spam. It’s a good way to spend a bunch of time and effort making sure most of your mail never gets delivered.

I’ve been a career programmer for almost two decades but have stopped for a while to parent my young kids. Is this what I’m coming back to? Because honestly I hate it.

They just get delayed. Pickup points stop accepting packages. Mail boxes fill up. But they catch up when Canada Post goes back to work. Goods don’t disappear but delay with no predictable end date.

Canada Post is a crown corp so they operate independently but have a charter they owe to the federal govt. The feds can and have legislated back to work, but it is very unpopular when they do, and tends to just kick problems down the road.

They need to majorly rethink and restructure. I know we can continue to just pay, it’s an institution and we are a rich country who can afford institutions. But it will lose money forever until we recon with how times have changed.

Canada Post is in financial crisis for similar reasons.

Commented in another reply, this is the answer. Works great and supports a dozen barcode types.