mrmuagi

The currency exchange rate put a dent in that as well.

> In 2017, Apple put out a new iPhone, and in the same week, made my 1 year old iPhone unusable on purpose overnight to make me buy a new one.

How was it made unusable?

> My S23 Ultra got a software update that removed features and now I can't use YouTube. I can't just not install updates, because it will nag me constantly and leave a permanent notification at all times that I cannot remove.

What features did it remove?

This reminds me of the old Norm Macdonald [1] Letterman joke.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM

I love this genre of games, I use to play the Ricochet games (from Reflexive Entertainment) as a kid, a lot of good memories.

I live in Vancouver BC, we have a power outage every 1-2 years due to high winds or fallen power poles. I noticed some devices on my home network whilst connected to power have power quality issues too, no doubt a UPS would help here.

Same except skipping AdGuard.

Having the DNS live on a pi sounded like fun for me but it gave me stress due to power outages. There is safety in knowing you aren't adding a point of failure that only you know how to solve.

I also had issues with adding backup DNS, since a backup DNS would be queried if the pihole blocked the DNS query -- so I would have to maintain two seperate blocklists, one local and one offsite.

Besides the multiplayer update, what have you found fun about the game to invest all those hours?

Personally think the gameplay loop is shallow, modding helped me find more depth.

I wonder if you make a process with idle in it you could end up in the reverse track where users ignore it. Is there anything preventing an executable being named System Idle.

I have been getting a lot of captchas trying to use stack overflow this past year, I am guessing stack overflow is trying to prevent crawlers at the expense of regular users?

For fans of clicker games I discovered this site [0] a while back and come back to it every so often to find some great ones.

[0] https://www.incrementaldb.com

What are some of the best books you've ever read?

Vector vs Matrices. Higher dimensional.

I have an apple watch. When I shower I put it on a charger. I have never gotten it under %10. Eventually this won't be true in all likelyhood due to degraded battery.

I shower 1-2 times a day though.

As a side point I was curious how low you can charge given processing fees, and you'll have to charge $1 to get $0.50 cents roughly (checked Stripe/Paypal for my currency CAD).

> you can't use discord when you play actual games.

I think the issue specifically was wanting discord to know the game that was actually running instead of an always running other mistaken game.

> Why is it an issue if Discord thinks you're playing a game?

IIRC if discord thinks you are playing that game all the time, you can't use discord when you play actual games. Or discord may behave differently when a game is running vs. not.

> Does your boss check that you're not playing games on Discord during work time or something?

Oh no, I run discord at my home computer, and use the web interface at work ;)

One annoying thing I ran into a year or two ago is when Everything.exe is running, discord thinks it's the steam game called Everything. I had to rename the search Everything.exe to a different name to get around this.

Admittedly it's not voidtools fault, rather discords.

Anyone know of a decent (doesn't have to be realtime) stock API for stocks? I didn't find any under the finance category besides one crypto related.

I feel like AI would and has been an edge companies would field better than the average citizen. Even now calling a companies phone line seems to be this weird rigmarole of infuriatingly trying to tell a virtual agent your purpose.

I'm able to get dreams by just take melatonin, like vivid ones.

I feel like bundles are ways to offload older inventory too, but it wouldn't surprise me if the retailer and intel had a separate communication channel for this issue.

I saw this recent video on a similar topic (prostate cancer and testerone/TRT considerations) [1], and bookmarked it for later. Not knowledgeable to speak further on it though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiVCsm4dNh0

It looks like the RTT is 6 minutes (more or less depending on orbit) for packets send to mars, but despite that it does seem like the easier option yeah.

I read somewhere that heading the ball could cause concussions aswell since it's many micro-concussions that add up?

Where do you draw the line in not being exploitable though? Why wouldn't you hire someone who does all your work for you then it feels like the next question is. When there's a scarcity in job openinings compared to applicants, sure one of those might be chosen, but in a regular job market I feel like both should get hired.

Gaining expertise in cars/computers doesn't really translate to health medicine. It's a fallacy that I saw first hand, that say, some one gains expertise in one thing then feels confident to take on another in DIY spirit. A concrete example is someone who builds a shed that thinks they can do a bathroom renovation/remodel or build their own cabinets (don't look at me :P).

Having to throw in the towel and hire a professional I saw: - How experts do things much faster (literally 1/3rd the time). - How experts avoid conflicts ahead of time/or deal with them as they arise quickly - How experts know the name of all the things ahead of time - How experts realize when a problem is out of their wheelhouse and requires a referral (electrical/plumbing/etc).

I had to call it quits mainly because the DIY spirit is instilled into me by my father and love for tinkering. But I see it in my father, he tries to repair his own cars (with good results), because in his words mechanics are a scam and for the longest time I kind of assumed so too, but the truth is expertise is invaluable and what you are paying for is time/knowledge.

You don't expect yourself to go to med school to diagnose your problem, someone has already done that and you can leverage that.

Sewage is interesting too! Having to pump against elevation, making the water usable for other purposes, etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHOkHxpTvQ

Wow, that 450k number really is large when you compare it to the number of software engineers in US to be roughly 4.4m (by 2022 estimate [1]). I think the former may include professions/roles other than software development, but it's a chunk o change for sure.

[1] https://qubit-labs.com/how-many-programmers-in-the-world/

I thought it was well understood that your mental/physical potential peak when you are young and degrade thereafter? E.G. comparing 26 year old self to 86 year old self.

But a saving grace is the degradation can be combated with exercise both mental/physical.

I am not sure how much of aging is understood, so I hesitate to mention stuff like DNA damage.

I'm actually trying to do this on a Raspberry Pi right now to emulate a HDI. There are a lot of existing libraries that do this. I needed to do this because the native SendMessage/PostMessage ways to send keystrokes to a Windows process break down when you need to send modifier keys -- I needed to send ":" but I could only send ";". I tried endlessly to send the "shift" modifier key to no avail.

I actually considered directly writing to memory to "trick" the program to think certain keys are pressed (but this doesn't work for emulating actual typing input), or hook into functions with a dll injection and interleave fake input somehow.