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meshaneian··on Airport Simulator
Hmm ... Just played after a long hiatus and reinstall, same account but lost all progress and purchases and can't seem to win the first level without in app purchase:(
meshaneian··on Airport Simulator
Oops, meant to reply here

There's a 3D POV game on Android, Unmatched Air Traffic Control that's quite good

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vector3d.u...

meshaneian··on Airport Simulator
What about Unmatched Air Traffic Control on Android?

3D POV

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vector3d.u...

meshaneian··on Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
This sounds particularly useful to me. As a shut-in. Not a vampire.
meshaneian··on FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
There is a much larger market for this tech - parents. Today's world is so crowded, kids or parents can be separated by less than 20 feet and devolve into panic. Give them each a way to know they're safe and can be found. You're already awesome, wish more people could share like you have, magnificent designs!
meshaneian··on Terrible real estate agent photographs
How did they not say "fire sale"??
meshaneian··on The .zip TLD sucks
And this is why https://www.floppydisk.com/ is still doing well.
meshaneian··on Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
R for reboot /s
meshaneian··on How to be a -10x Engineer
"The engineer(s) that wrote the offensive code were almost certainly not idiots."

Bold statement, but closer to accurate than the first impression.

meshaneian··on Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)
> kgeist 8 hours ago > Reminds me of "trap streets" on maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
meshaneian··on Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year
Also they're frequently arrested, and if their "belongings" are unsafe (biologically contaminated, disgusting) they'll be discarded or ignored by police, if the person hasn't seen the police coming and thrown their belongings aside in the hopes of coming back for them later. Sad all around.
meshaneian··on Turns are better than radians
TIL that the uncanny valley can apply to mathematics.
meshaneian··on Take more screenshots
How do you setup OBS to keep the recording sizes tolerable?

I've used this before on engineering grade machines, but it doesn't do so well on "everything is in the cloud so you can use a word processor quality" laptop, any advice?

meshaneian··on Copilot sells code other people wrote
They might argue that a snippet isn't a "substantial portion" of "the Software", and they're only charging for the service not the content - regardless, I don't like it, this is exactly what certain licenses attempt to prevent.
meshaneian··on The computers are fast, but you don't know it
Just like freeways - add more traffic lanes, get more traffic.
meshaneian··on Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework
Solid competitor to https://hackmd.io/ (codimd on github)
meshaneian··on Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
Why not PasswordPassword1?
meshaneian··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
I like this argument more knowing it circles back to the "guess what the IRS knows" game earlier. :)
meshaneian··on Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
Risk was already there. Have you seen the way interns drive?
meshaneian··on Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
I believe 0 and 1 belong in the public domain, at least under US copyright law - there appears to be a significant amount of prior art.
meshaneian··on Don't Waste the Good Days
Figs are disgusting. Now I'll try and visualize desirable kinds of things as fig trees, making it easier to quickly pass them up and go for something I'd want more. Thanks.
meshaneian··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
As a pragmatic AWS fan, +1 this. Disposable distributed hybrid multi-cloud architecture FTW.
meshaneian··on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
In general "should" is a recommendation, not a requirement.

    "shall" indicates a requirement
    "should" indicates a recommendation
    "may" is used to indicate that something is permitted
    "can" is used to indicate that something is possible, for example, that an organization or individual is able to do something
https://www.iso.org/foreword-supplementary-information.html

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

Additionally, your suggestion of "must" has valid reasons for being preferred in contracts over "shall":

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/conversational/shal...

meshaneian··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
As a software engineer, I require testing of paths and files in spaces, and forbid the use of spaces for any system generated file possible to make cli easier.
meshaneian··on Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
Sadly even some randsomware provides a phone number with useful tech support to help grandparents learn to purchase and transfer bitcoin. :/
meshaneian··on British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers
A reasonable compromise would probably be to require that discrete parts be available for sale, hopefully with some reasonable price standard, not requiring that devices be designed to have more parts. If it's economical for the manufacturer to move to a SoC, fine. They should at least let people buy them. Any R2R law should incentivizes manufacturers not to make disposable unrepairable products, because business is about making money, generally opposed to acting responsibly in the best interests of the public and the world. Again, opinion.
meshaneian··on 1MB Club
Next level: The 1MB Quine Club.
meshaneian··on One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
According to a reliable source - hat logos - there is a country that might someday rejoin that elite group. ("MAGA" political hats: "Make America Great Again". There is so much to read into that in the political climate.
meshaneian··on Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
Legit username warns of one PDF peril.
meshaneian··on Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years
Anyone hearing one abhors a vacuum; in fact they are designed to amplify certain sounds, such as dust particles passing through the system. Consumers equate "loud" with "powerful" and this improves sales and product opinions. Yes, I'm aware this is a different kind of vacuum.
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