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sibartlett··on DHH Is Worse Than I Thought
It was previously posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451467
sibartlett··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
This really takes me back to high school when everyone was writing websites like this... it was such a fun and pure time.

Well done Naya!

sibartlett··on A US federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves
That’s not a gas leak.

That’s a faulty furnace that needs fixing ASAP, you should notify your landlord right away.

Carbon monoxide is caused by poor combustion.

sibartlett··on Tell HN: 1Password shares passwords you don't want shared
The browser extensions still work for me with 1Password 7 and iCloud vault.

I would ensure you have the correct version installed, because they have released newer extensions that only work with the hosted version.

sibartlett··on Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app
Mac App Store is nothing new, it was launched 10 years ago.
sibartlett··on Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller
Ticketmaster also acquires their competition to just shut them down and fire them all. Happened to a friend of mine this year. They all lock up all the promoters into 5-10 year contracts, so they can’t leave for the competition.
sibartlett··on Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young people lost on a ghost road
They drove on an unmaintained and mostly unused segment of the Highway of Bones, called Old Summer Road.
sibartlett··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
No mention there of it supporting x86 on M1.
sibartlett··on Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release
The more automated cars become, the more drivers will start to trust them and pay less attention - especially when it’s advertised as full self driving.

Prime example would be the Uber test driver who felt she could trust the car enough to watch a TV show on her phone, when she was supposed to be supervising it.

Plus our attention naturally just starts to wander when the talk at hand is not that engaging.

sibartlett··on Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release
With cruise control you’re still very much the one who is driving and paying attention.
sibartlett··on AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter
Not trying to convince you otherwise, but rather maybe explain some of the rationale for prodigy using the freemium model.

Education is a hard market to break into and build adoption of a new product. Budgets are very constrained or virtually nonexistent... in America some teachers even have to purchase classroom supplies or tools with their own wages.

With that in mind (and maybe other reasons that I do not know), Prodigy took the decision to offer their service to schools and teachers at no cost, otherwise it would’ve been much more difficult to build adoption in that market. It’s very hard to convince teachers, schools and boards to allocate budget on a new initiative, when they are already spread so thin.

Now to build a service like prodigy, it takes game artists and developers to build the game, web developers to build the website and teacher dashboards, teachers to build the prodigy math curriculum, and then all the supporting teams too; data scientists, product owners, testers, operations, etc.

They either need some sort of investment or revenue stream to make the company run; and this is where they adopted a freemium model.

sibartlett··on U.S. Army Vintage Racer Concept Suggests Hypersonic Entry For Loitering UAS
That Wikipedia article repeatedly referred to it as a stone.
sibartlett··on macOS Catalina 10.15.5
> Improves performance on certain Mac models when enabling hardware acceleration in GPU-intensive apps such as those used for video conferencing
sibartlett··on Self-Hosted Chat for Small Teams
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sibartlett··on Self-Hosted Chat for Small Teams
It’s still unmaintained. We moved to slack, so unfortunately lost the incentive to continue maintaining it.
sibartlett··on Self-Hosted Chat for Small Teams
Yes
sibartlett··on Last Week on My Mac: Deceived by the Finder
Third-party apps are sandboxed on macOS. You have to explicitly grant them access to the file system.

Finder is not lying at all. The permissions it shows in “Get Info” are the user/group permissions; not app permissions.

Maybe Apple could enhance the UX somehow to better what’s going on, but I wouldn’t go as far as to say Finder is lying.

sibartlett··on Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record
The first answer is correct, but I think the misunderstanding is because it can be read as the higher ground speed being the cause for the same relative air speed. Whereas it’s technically the opposite.

This is further compounded when they say “they need to go faster”, as though the pilot needs to push the throttle harder. In actuality, the pilot doesn’t do anything differently to maintain their normal cruising speed.

The correct phrasing would have been the relative air speed and high wind speed combined, to result in a higher ground speed.

sibartlett··on Mastercard Bans Automatic Billing After Free Trials
They can enforce it by revoking the merchant’s access to the Mastercard network.
sibartlett··on Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Steal Signs Against Yankees
I don’t think the camera room were relaying the signs, but rather what the signs meant. So that when a base runner was at 2nd they’d understand the signs they were seeing.
sibartlett··on Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Steal Signs Against Yankees
I don’t think the camera room were relaying the signs, but rather what the signs meant. So that when a base runner was at 2nd they’d understand the signs they were seeing.
sibartlett··on Show HN: Carcela – A peer-to-peer used car marketplace in the UK
The car selector actually lists car brands and models sold in North America. It's missing a lot of European cars.
sibartlett··on Show HN: Carcela – A peer-to-peer used car marketplace in the UK
The car selector lists only car brands and models sold in North American. It's totally wrong for the UK market.
sibartlett··on Facebook’s Zuckerberg sues to force land sales
I work for an IT security company. It’s pretty normal for people in this space to tape their laptop camera and microphone.
sibartlett··on iPhone update leaves users furious due to battery drain issue
I had battery issues since upgrading to iOS 10.1 - turned out the phone was constantly using GPS.

How I fixed it: Settings > Privacy > Location Services, and review which apps are constantly using GPS.

sibartlett··on Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams
Thanks for letting us know about the issue! It's now fixed if you wish to try again :)
sibartlett··on Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams
Private/direct messaging is the next big feature we will be adding :)
sibartlett··on Let's Chat – open source, self-hosted chat for small teams
Thank you for getting back to me. I'll open a feature request for this and see if we can fit it into a future release.
sibartlett··on Let's Chat – open source, self-hosted chat for small teams
This is something can consider for a future release. Do you mean offline message storage, so you can look at discussions offline?
sibartlett··on Mono 3.10.0
Mono 3.10.0 is the latest version of Mono (released over the weekend); not 3.8.0
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