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I've looked around a lot, but find traveling with safety razors to be surprisingly annoying. I cant really find anything that will clip or wrap around the top like I can for cartridge razors. The other problem is flying with them. Since they're large and metal they often get flagged. If I remember correctly, the advice was to put the blades in your checked bag, but I still get flagged because they see a big handle and I often travel without checking a bag.

I also switched away from a DE when I shave in the shower. I'm too afraid of dropping a heavier handle with a sharp blade attached.

I still much prefer DE/safety over cartridge.

Honestly, I think Apple just forgets people use a mouse. The default trackpad scroll direction matches iPads and touchscreens. Their oversight was coupling trackpad and mouse wheel scroll direction. Until I had a job where I needed both I didn't really care...and I found an open source utility that addressed it[1].

[1] https://github.com/Caldis/Mos

At a previous job we had certain email lists that were archived and searchable. But I think today everyone would just use Slack.

I'm a bit surprised the credit card companies or banks haven't come up with a system to manage reoccurring payments. They have to mediate these issues and are in a place where they can be a neutral-ish party to set standard rules. Its weird that it has ended up being "tech companies."

I feel like they've been trying to do this with wifi. Right now (in macOS) I see "Personal hotspot" "Preferred Networks" and "Other Networks" (which requires clicking to show).

One AirPlay solution I've seen is a pop up when you physically put your phone next to HomePod.

I really, really like connectivity between non-linked account. It's been really useful when going to those corporate "business centers" and you want to send over a doc to print or visiting friends.

I have the opposite experience with subscriptions. Have you ever tried to cancel a gym membership? Famously, companies make it easy to sign up online, but require a phone call (likely with a wait) to cancel. Many places have passed explicit laws [1].

I was a monthly donator to a public radio show. After few years I wanted to switch credit cards (with no intention of canceling or changing my donation amount). They had redesigned their website and there was no discernible way to cancel or contact them. I blindly emailed them, but never got a response. My only recourse was to cancel the credit card.

Since then I've greatly preferred a third-party to manage subscriptions. For awhile it was Paypal. In the past decade it's been Patreon and Apple.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...

This might be the flak you're expecting, but when I see locals() used in production code I've had problems refactoring it. I don't see how it's different from "from foo import *" I appreciate the terseness but looking at the code, or even with the IDE's help, I can't really see what's expected (especially if I'm looking at someone else's code). If I move things around I'll get bit at runtime--perhaps in a corner case that doesn't get caught the first time you run it.

Maybe this is the use-case you're talking about, but when I have something super generic I usually have clear and careful error handling inside. It kind of defeats the terseness of using locals(), but the goal is more about flexibility.

From what I've seen there has been a recent rise in the murder rate. In some places it was at historical highs--but the cities are also much, much larger now. When looking at per-capita data its still historically low.

You're right in that there doesn't seem to be a definitive cause, but quite a few things have changed since Covid started and we're not sure what changes are permanent.

It's good to check in with other countries. Quality and quantity of alternative transportation is influenced by gas prices.

Development of the US highway system changed how towns and transportation were organized just like I'm sure $9 US gas prices would do the same. After all, the current situation (in both US and Norway) are partly a result of specific choices the respective governments chose to invest and tax over decades.

I always heard things were almost always on a need to know basis. Designing a keyboard kind of requires an approximate form-factor. Like the sibling comment says, "Wallabies" were a touchscreen in a housing. It sounds like other developers were writing software for a generic grey box. To me, that makes sense if the hardware wasn't known even if they weren't trying to be covert.

I don't mean to understate the accomplishment, but the pedigree of OS X was NeXTSTEP. That was released in 1989. I'm sure a lot of bloat was added over the decades, but the underpinnings were running on hardware almost 20 years old at the time.

So how ready is Ink/Stitch for an average consumer? My mom is recently retired and embroiders occasionally. I don't think she does anything more custom than a monogram. It was only a few years ago I pulled off old designs from floppy disks. I think her current equipment accepts USB but she leans on the cloud to get designs onto the machine. She's not geeky with computers, but is competent enough to use an iPad and used MS Office sweet when she was working.

Does it sound like this is something worth introducing her to?

From what I've seen and experienced the act of exercising suppresses my appetite. I can't eat a big meal and immediately work out. If I'm a little hungry a few minutes into working out I'm not. But hours later or the next day I'm famished and will eat more. It's like a different kind of hungry--more of a craving.

I think moderate exercise can help with getting used to not over-eating. More strenuous exercise seems to make the body crave larger meals often negating any calories burned.

That reminds me of a Wired article from 5 or 6 years ago:

https://www.wired.com/2016/04/can-draw-bikes-memory-definite...

I guess if you include future crimes? The article says the DNA was collected years ago and the crime was recent.

That sounds a lot like, "If you don't have anything to hide, why do you need privacy?" I'm not trying to put words in your mouth (feel free to clarify if you feel its needed), but I feel like I hear the kind of thing you're saying fairly often.

"Never talk to the cops." Isn't just for people who are guilty. Same with talking to a lawyer. I would hesitate to hand over my personal information, moreso if I don't have faith in the institution it goes to. I hear so many stories about rape kits never getting processed and how difficult it is to convict on rape because it's mostly he-said she-said. I also think putting someone in the position of getting caught so they can maybe catch their rapist isn't a great way to reduce overall crime.

There are a bunch of examples where this plays out poorly and nobody has a fear of getting caught. Black people had higher vaccine hesitancy because of historical distrust[1]. The CIA used a Hepatitis B vaccination program as cover to collect DNA to find Bin Laden[2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-13/understan...

[2] https://news.yahoo.com/cia-bin-laden-vaccine-ruse-010004824....

> If she did why do we have a problem with the way we got to the truth?

Do you think in the future people will decline rape exams knowing their info will be put into a database that could be used against them indefinitely?

I actually think either a new PEP-8 or an opinionated linter would be one way to test the waters. Black[1] seems to be gaining popularity by enforcing strong opinions. I remember reading large companies' (like Google's) coding styles.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/black/

> they don't want the competition because it will have a negative effect on its members' incomes.

Is it the perception that increased competition will have negative effects on members' incomes or is that actually true? I swear I remember a story, study, allegory about a second doctor moving to town and both incomes went up.

> I wonder what it would be like to work on something that takes 5 years to make

The active departments and the size scale a lot along those 5 years. The first few are usually a very small group of people. The weirdest part is that if you're targeting 5 year olds, they are just being born when you start the project.

Airports are aware of that and in Houston they changed it so you will walk longer making you wait less for your bags at baggage claim. Sadly, people who didn't check bags also get penalized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/why-waitin...

I find checking the bag to be just as bothersome as waiting to pick it up. I feel like I have to double the amount of time I spend at the airport. Some airlines have kiosks where you tag your bag yourself, but they're not reliable enough for me to show up later for.

No date on the page and its excluded from archive.org, but the main page says it's from Oct 2016.

I think the reason most word problems suck is that they're manufactured abstractions on the same problems elsewhere on the worksheet--which seems to be your critique.

In real life, a lot of those situations are hidden, but there are often multiple correct ways to approach the problem and hopefully some intuition will help you if you're too far off track. 2/3rds of 3/4ths of a cup of cottage cheese shouldn't be more than one cup and shouldn't be a tiny amount, either. (I also don't see a problem with people who scooped it onto the table). Similarly to the woodworker (elsewhere in this thread) trying to evenly measure out where 3 legs on a stool would go.

I feel like I have a different perspective than this article. I don't see any problem with how the cottage cheese problem was solved.

I feel like most learning is part building a mental model, part rote memorization, and part practicing their interaction. I understand how multiplication works, but memorized my times tables to make harder problems much easier. I practiced multiplying 3 or 4 digit numbers to see them interact.

The way people solved the cottage cheese problem shows they understand how fractions work. They just don't use them enough to warrant multiplying fractions and reducing the result. If they were dealing with that problem every day, they would use more efficient solutions. People that work in construction are very good at certain types of math. People working on 3d software are usually good with different types of math like trig or linear algebra. Having a general knowledge helps us muddle through rare problems or have a base to learn more specific types of math.

Its hard to say with just anecdotes, but this random person says it's not just Los Angeles. Another commenter mentioned a conductor-friend out of Louisiana is seeing similar things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/s2sjxj/los_angeles_th...

I wonder if this is an evolution of the security cat & mouse game with shipping switching to have more random items people ordered directly to their home? Similar to porch-pirates being more of an issue today than 30 years ago.

As a peon, I push for open source because I'm tired of doing the same thing at multiple jobs that have nothing to do with our competitive advantage. That goes for a lot of industry collaboration. So much money is quietly wasted on labor that could be saved by standards and open source projects existing.

I have no experience in this field. The article wants a hard-copy behind the sun visor of each car. I would think having a digital copy could be grabbed from the VIN number with minimal coordination. In practice, it could be pulled up before rescue services arrive on the scene from the license plate or driver's registration with a final spot-check on scene. That might help the parent?

I would think a lookup via a photo (unless it's the vin number or a QR code) would be more difficult and take much longer to adopt. I would think something like having the car broadcast basic info with an emergency beacon would be more ideal...but has privacy concerns, would require opt in from manufacturers, and equipment and training on the emergency services side. Maybe another industry like planes or boats would be easier to adopt something like this?

Your own links show that likely isn't parent's issue. It only sends a hash on the first run of an executable. I'm not saying the problem you're talking about isn't a problem or concerning, but it's very likely not the problem they're talking about.

I hate when people say "mine works," but here's an `ls` of my homedir showing it's not universally slow. I currently have an absolute garbage network connection.

> ls -G 0.00s user 0.00s system 64% cpu 0.010 total

There are also many, many other reasons it could be; some macOS specific and others that aren't--most importantly what they're seeing isn't universal. macOS often ships with very old GPL2 tools that can cause various problems (many people brew install updated GPL3 versions), people often have configurations that can slow down `ls` by multiple factors (colors, sorting, etc can each cause multiple queries to disk or require the listing to complete before displaying output), customizations causing a slow prompt, a slow or corrupt disk, listing a slow network drive, etc.

The VPN bypass was very quickly removed from macOS over a year ago [1]. So it would only be relevant if they were using a very old version of Big Sur.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/46179028

I'm pretty sure Gmail is where I first noticed this years and years ago. I've been with Fastmail for the past many years, but remember the dialog from Gmail. Maybe it was an experiment you had to enable and are opted out of?

A quick search says that automatic footers (company logos) can be interpreted as attachments...meaning you won't see the warning. Could that be your issue?

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-get-a-forgotten-attachment-r...

Eh. I feel like that diminishes why hurtful names fall out of favor. I also think while it's interesting slang, I wouldn't lose sleep if it was replaced. To your point, afaik it hasn't really been used as hurtful slang since the war.

I can't speak for the world, but in my experience descendants of Jews are fairly well-off and there's quite a few slang words people don't use anymore.