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Yeah, I remember people jailbreaking iOS 1 and installing various goodies. Then I remember getting an iPod Touch and a Mac Mini when (I think it was) iOS 2 came out add the SDK and app store so that I could try developing on their platform.

It’s basically an anti-cheat “feature”. The assumption is that if you’re running a windows game on Linux you’re probably cheating.

When my Laptop runs low on power it pops up something like, "You're running out of power." They clearly have the technology to detect if the battery itself is going bad. Why can't my phone boot into that mode and say, "It looks like your battery's life is at X% would you like to slow your phone down to concerve power? [Yes] [Yes, always] [No, ask again when it's more dead] [No, Don't ask any more]"

You know... let the user know what's going on.

When there's a problem. I want to fix it. Not ignore it by making everything else work like crap.

I own an iPhone because I got sick of these kinds of issues I was having with my Pixel phones. (would last ~1yr of perfect bliss. Then the honeymoon ends and the phone would just behave like crap). I decided to give another brand a shot.

I'll tell you what will really tick me off in another year or so... If my device is, without warning, notification, ability to change, etc, purposefully nerfing itself for ANY REASON. That will make me really upset. Especially since I can't just pop the back off and toss a new battery in there.

Good faith or not. It's an anti-consumer move. If my battery even pretended to be removable, you might convince me otherwise. But gluing the battery in under a glued in screen and then throttling my device based on the battery's age... Just really bothers me.

This. A million times. I live in an area where people are so more often than not downplaying how big of a deal Covid itself is because "99% have no lasting symptoms. Just a bad cold is all." or "My spouse had it. NBD."

Mostly, you can't convince them otherwise. But I wish they could just see the effect it would have on non-covid hospital cases and think about that, if nothing else.

All I need is a +30 second button and a Power Level button that cycles through the available power levels. Oh, and I guess a cancel/resume button? But maybe just auto-clear when you open it. And resume by hitting the +30 again :)

ever since the pandemic started, at work we've had a a chat channel for "socializing" with each other. One day someone posted a topic. Something like, "Tell us about where you grew up". And the head of security immediately replied and said, "let's talk about something that isn't a common security question".

I admit that I think that was 100% unnecessary, expecially in this situation, to put the kibosh on the conversation. But it made me realize how insane it is that something that is a common "get to know you" type question (tell me about where you grew up? (street, school etc) Tell me about your parents? (maiden name)) are also a common "security" questions.

Also, side note. I NEVER use real answers to those questions. I treat it as an extra password and store it securely that way. No way I'm going to turn my mother's maiden name (easily searchable if you know my full name) into a password!

I love my empress tree! Once the roots were established the thing grows beautifully.

It blew over this year (3 years worth of growth). Several of the shoots also blew over. Finally one shoot survived the harsh winds we get occasionally and it’s already ~7-8 feet tall.

and the leaves. They look like something from Jurassic park. They’re HUGE!

The problem is you can't trust what you're reading to be from the source. Maybe the site doesn't take credit cards. But after a MITM it might suddenly start taking credit cards. And other things. Whatever the attacker wants! All in the seeming name of the origin.

This is really cool. I’ve seen and heard about it but didn’t know what it was called.

Seems like it would be fun with (food-safe) epoxy and dye. One problem is that it seems like most glass-ware is tempered so when it does break it shatters in a million pieces.

PayPal has this problem but only in certain change password forms. I think it was a password reset form. this happened to me recently. It was incredibly frustrating.

Tangent to what I’m seeing in the comments. I have a Google Voice number. When I signed up they let me choose an available number of my choice. So I found one with lots of repeating numbers to make it easy to remember.

Turns out it’s the same number as a major medical insurance support number. Just a different area code. I get calls in waves, it seems. This week I get 3 or 4 a day. I ignore them. Occasionally I get voicemail “I have a question about a patient” or whatever.

If I answer and try to explain it, it confuses people and they usually get frustrated. Not worth my time anymore. Basically I ignore all calls that aren’t from people I have saved.

I've found that writing a unit test to verify it works at all is sometimes loads easier than manually running the app or whatever.

At that point, just leave the test and check it in.

I can't live without Tree Style Tabs[0] in Firefox. It's The Thing that finally got me to switch back to FF and I will never look back.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

IMO, lifting the cap on the number of representatives we can have as a nation is the best way to fight this issue. Representatives are supposed to represent the people in their district. If each representative represented no-more than, say, 200k people, then gerrymandering would almost be impossible and the people would be better represented.

Yes, we'd have a LOT more representatives. But we also now have the technology to support such a thing.

> As a result [of the Reapportionment Act of 1929], the average size of a congressional district has tripled in size—from 210,328 inhabitants based on the 1910 Census, to 710,767 according to the 2010 Census. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929

My wife is a musician and sang in a highschool/college choir. She hated when they combined with the orchestra and the orchestra conductor conducted a song. Said it felt like the conductor was off a bit because he compensates for different delays.

Terraria has it's last major update tomorrow! Super fun game! Even better co-op

I love docker swarm. It just doesn’t have the mindshare that k8s has. I wish it had caught on

I just noticed that CMD+Alt+left/right also work. You might be able to push CMD+ALT with one thumb and left/right with your right hand

Ctrl+tab and Ctrl+shift+tab also cycles through tabs on macos. Note: ctrl, not cmd

I currently have multiple keys. One I carry on me and one I locked in our firesafe with other important documents.

The way I see it, I would want the bio version to be the one on my person. I still have the other put away where it won't be lost.

I lose my hand? Still have a backup. I lose my key? Backup and maybe I have a little bit of extra time to update my bank MFA while the thief figures out the fingerprint situation.

I don't. But the linked site has great, detailed instructions

Different than your examples. But I just finished making my own "Mostly Printed 3D Printer". I'm a software dev but had basically no experience with Arduino or anything else related to the project. It made me feel like when I was a kid on Christmas with a new large Lego set. One of the most educational and fulfilling projects I've done in recent memory.

It was good timing too because the motherboard on my 3d printer just shorted out. I didn't want to pay the full price ($115) for a replacement board. So I bought an open source board similar to the one I used for my MPCNC. Since I had just put that togheter I knew what I was doing even though there was limited help in converting my particular printer available online.

I disagree. It's one way for the interviewee to reiterate back to the interviewer that they understand the problem and constraints.

There was Songbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software) But that's the only other thing outside of Mozilla's umbrella that I can think of.

> have to click on an octagon with a square inside it. No idea how I'm supposed to associate that with "home" or "back" or any of the verbs I could think of.

I believe it's "Stop". Stop sign and the square is the stop symbol common for media.

I had a really awesome leather belt that I got when I was 15. I stopped wearing it when I was 30 because my weight finally out outgrew the belt. Still have it. It's no worse today than it was when I got it as a teen.

I go through about a belt a year now. Because I always seem to end up with this crap you describe. Even if I try to avoid it. Guess I need to do a better job looking... Or just lose some weight so I can use that same belt for another 15years.

I wish you could configure your constraints. I understand why you can't. But I just want unlimited tiles and map sizes. :)

I planted one of these trees a few years ago and I think it's absolutely gorgeous. I can't get over how absolutely huge the leaves get. A lot of people hate them though, for the same reason outlined in the article: you can't kill them. Many consider them weeds.