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Wasn't much of the historically significant architecture in Munich destroyed? How historically significant are restored buildings on sites that were razed or heavily damaged?

Feels like going to a natural history museum and just seeing reproductions. Educational but not "real"

I'm so sick of retail clerks who insist on scanning the barcode of my driver's license. To verify I am 21 you don't need my height, weight, eye color, and home address. You can ascertain that my visually inspecting just the first two digits of my birth year.

SQL Server has geospatial capabilities without any extensions or add-ons. I've been happily using geospatial datatypes on the free Express version for years, probably well over a decade.

Many HOA rules are purely esthetic. Which can vary from person to person.

Bank account numbers for ACH payments seem to be the final frontier. As if asking me to type 16 numbers correctly is better than pasting it.

Do they still spray down the aircraft cabin and passengers with insecticide?

I'm curious what you define as the purpose of a state lottery. The Texas lottery's mission is to generate revenue for the state.

Are you arguing this is counter to the purpose because the net revenue will be diminished by the certain expense of the payoff?

I love my Kobo reader and am happy with switching to it after a decade or more of daily Kindle use. But I think it is important to not over-sell it. It has had certain unexpected frailties, such as corrupting the database when I neglected to eject the USB device before pulling the cable, something that resulted in losing my notes and current progress. I also had to learn about the Kobo ePub format and install a Calibre plugin to get that working, otherwise some ePub files would rapidly drain the Kobo battery. I did not expect bad html/css to significantly affect battery life. I'm not sure I would recommend it to an older person or someone who doesn't have a little patience for tinkering.

I'm uncomfortable with the use of profanity as a core element of this campaign branding, especially given that it seems to be an educational outreach effort. While this seems targeted at college age and above, I think it would be highly relevant content for a teen audience as well. While I swear in privacy on occasion I think it has no place in the classroom. I really don't care for it in the workplace either but I grant that private enterprises can have their own culture.

It is frustrating because I agree with most of the content and the need for informed debate on the topic. It is a bit like my reaction to reading Cory Doctorow: I agree with his politics but really dislike the hamfisted way he packages his advocacy in the form of action adventures. As if the merits of his arguments need to be packaged in cotton candy to be consumed, and there is an undercurrent of self-promotion and personal branding that feels suss.

Probably all a "me" problem with associations built up over time from seeing snake oil being packaged using a similar playbook. If you have to sell your message by dressing it up with scroll effects and provocative offensive language you've already lost me.

Happens a lot with adolescents. They can be quite exclusionary.

The fawning over Larry Ellison is also weird.

In my experience this behavior is due to the fact that they don't really know on the insurance side how the care provider is going to code something until they have actually done the procedure and have submitted it with the coding. And there is a very high wall between the insurance/patient billing side and the care providers, even in a case like Kaiser where they're all employees of the same company.

Agree that a college degree sends a strong signal that you can conform to the expectations and requirements of an institution. You can show up when required and follow instructions to achieve an outcome over a period spanning years. This is a valuable signal to employers that you meet some bare minimum of employability.

Bad link? It is just about gladiator 2

I didn't think SES received. It's just a sender.

I run postfix.

There is a wonderful book about the blind man who was probably one of the earliest innovators in using a cane for echolocation. "A Sense of the World" by Jason Roberts is the story of James Holman, who traveled the world in the early 19th century despite being blind, often being in a great deal of pain, and having limited mobility.

I've found that the Thomas Kydd and Alan Lewrie novels covering the Napoleonic era also scratch this itch.

I am guessing that Apple is one of the top 10 email providers.

Why don't they send DMARC reports?

Every little podunk email provider seems to be able to send me DMARC reports, as well as Microsoft, Yahoo!, Gmail, Xfinity, and AOL. Every morning I get a pile of them. But never a peep from Apple.

They like to reject our email for inscrutable reasons. We don't send bulk email. We only send email (almost entirely transactional) to about 5,000 paying customers who have accounts on our website.

Two days ago I was however delighted to receive a reply to an email I had sent to them on May 1 asking for assistance and clarification on why they block us. They told me that the website of one of my wife's employers (not our website or domain), featured in her email signature, was hosting malicious software. It isn't on any blocklists and I can't find any evidence of this currently being the case. Maybe it did at one point and they cleaned it up? I suspect Apple blocks and never revisits if the reason is still valid.

I just think the inconsistency is glaring. Would love to be a fly on the wall of what I expect/hope was a heated debate over why USPS, one of if not the top US government websites used by people in the US, should opt-out of the anti-phishing tactics used by most other US gov't sites.

And for that matter, why does www.usps.gov redirect to the .com rather than vice-versa, and why does the bare usps.gov domain resolve to nothing? Who makes these decisions and how do they result in the opposite of what I (perhaps naively) would expect rational decision-makers to do?

Many US government sites now have a clear banner at the top with a US flag and statement declaring "An official website of the United States Government." Some go further and include a link to expose an explanation for "here's how you know" that includes the statement "Official websites use .gov"

None of this appears on www.usps.com. www.usps.gov redirects to www.usps.com. Bare usps.gov does not (goes nowhere)

I wonder how much the phishing would decrease if the USPS website was served on usps.gov with the "an official website" and "how you know" seen on other official US gov't sites.

It's a flat fee. I forget if it was $25 or $35.

They were pricing EVs at a discount for a trip I took through Atlanta last month. Still came out ahead with the recharge fee.

About 10 years ago they dug up all my Group Health Coop (since bought by Kaiser) vaccine records since 1970 and updated the digital record to include them

Feels a little odd they describe it there as just a problem affecting many frontends. Is www/browsers considered just another frontend, not something essential to use the service for most users?

And yet, redditstatus.com says all systems operational. How can that be? Who is watching the watcher?

Now it says "elevated error rate on many frontends." I guess the web/browser is one of many frontends

That's my understanding as well, but I also understand that the email will pass DMARC if either SPF or DKIM passes, and DKIM will still pass on forwarded email.

Sendgrid is no silver bullet for deliverability. They have many IP addresses listed in blocklists. https://check.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/sendgrid.com/

mac.com is the worst. I ban that domain from new registration now.

And Apple sends no dmarc reports nor do they implement any actionable feedback loop.

Yes: shell-shock is never good, which makes "shell-shockingly good" a poor turn of phrase even in the context of terrapins.

especially confusing since for many people using Mono in the name of software triggers associations with cross-platform capabilities

Can I complain about the podcast website that truncated the right side of the content on my phone and won't let me scale it to correct?