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by seandougall 6y ago
> I keep hearing the language is going to be stable "soon" I think you may be referring to the promises of ABI stability? They kept promising that "soon" starting around Swift 3 (IIRC) and kicking the can down the roa
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by seandougall 6y ago
Pet grooming has been classified as essential (by California) since late April. Our local groomer reopened quickly after that. There might be some cities that have other restrictions, but grooming is already open in most places.
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by seandougall 7y ago
You can generally only copyright the parts you change. Sort of like how Disney can copyright their version of Rapunzel, but they don’t own the fairy tale. (Edit: that’s assuming you’re asking about a derivative work, which I may have misund
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by seandougall 7y ago
Back of envelope: With running status, a note on message is two bytes on a 31250 baud connection. That means the latency from transport is on the order of half a millisecond. If you’re feeling latency, it’s in the gear, not the protocol. MI
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by seandougall 7y ago
> it takes 2 to 3 hours to get anywhere useful with it Everyone's definition of "useful" is different. I personally run into far fewer last-mile issues with Metro Rail than I did with BART when I lived up north. Heck, BART
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by seandougall 7y ago
If it’s at all like driving for Uber/Lyft, they likely do both.
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by seandougall 7y ago
I have small kids who are prone to tripping over cables while trying to squeeze into tight spaces. Lightning connectors handle that stress just fine, but micro USB is no match!
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by seandougall 7y ago
In my experience, the connector has never been implicated in a failing Lightning cable; it’s always been the cable itself. By contrast, the average lifespan of a micro USB cable in my household is a couple months, before the connectors them
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by seandougall 7y ago
The last thing I would want is a peripheral whose data connection was on a MagSafe connector. It’s specifically designed to be able to disconnect easily by accident.
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by seandougall 7y ago
I'd like to find out more about what kind of setup Grandma has, in that case. I'm sitting here on an unmodified Safari installation, and the top of the window is obscured by a giant floating banner ad, while the bottom is obscured
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by seandougall 7y ago
Nah, we’re just jealous because you can fit in those half-size street parking spaces in the Sunset.
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by seandougall 7y ago
Same here, for what it's worth -- I got redirected to a fake antivirus download (also in Safari), but only on the first load.
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by seandougall 7y ago
> whether one can trust iOS airplane mode to fully take the phone offline. I mean, if Apple says airplane mode turns off the cell radio, that’s a falsifiable claim, so you don’t have to take it entirely on faith. It might be possible to
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by seandougall 7y ago
Strictly speaking, they also have to be compiled against a new enough SDK to get Dark Mode support via the native GUI widgets. For apps that need backward compatibility, that can get hairy. (But yeah, that’s nothing compared to what Electro
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by seandougall 7y ago
3 Galatians is largely a deprecation notice for all the Old Testament laws (at least in the context of Christianity). But yeah, some people like to ignore that and use Leviticus to bolster their twisted political views, and if you take it i
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by seandougall 7y ago
Programmable means something can have bugs. I prefer my celery bug-free.
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by seandougall 7y ago
> We're putting it out there as a toy. And that right there is the honesty that the rest of this thread is missing.
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by seandougall 7y ago
> Every person to person transaction of the instrument leaves no digital record or footprint That's true of cash as well, but that doesn't mean it's totally untraceable, as bills still have serial numbers. I think what GP
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by seandougall 7y ago
Yeah, peanuts really show the quality difference. Half of the fun size Snickers I’ve gotten the past few years have tasted straight up rancid.
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by seandougall 7y ago
It did suffice! There used to be a pencil indicator next to the channel name in its usual spot, and it worked great. It maybe could have been more visually obvious, since leaving a draft in a chat so really is a rare phenomenon, but it was
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by seandougall 7y ago
> The age-old advice of not installing applications you don't trust still applies. That's the one thing that seems to be a legitimate point in this article -- Android phones tend to come with bloatware from manufacturers and ca
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by seandougall 7y ago
It also has a physical Escape key, which seemed to be by far the most common complaint about the Touch Bar. Physical F keys are quite a niche desire.
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by seandougall 7y ago
Speaking as one of those people, dongles don't bother me in the least. You're absolutely right that many peripherals are prohibitively expensive to update just for a connector, but they're also bulky and usually already invol
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by seandougall 7y ago
That company name is listed on https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/ (the record does not have a unique URL to link to, sorry). There is one officer listed, but it looks like the LLC was dissolved in 2016. I wonder if they're conti
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by seandougall 7y ago
In TFA, she says explicitly: “I do not have any debts.”
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by seandougall 7y ago
That study doesn't purport to be an objective measurement of absolute reaction time. It's comparing relative driver behavior between a driving simulator and a test track, and it doesn't seem to have controlled how immediately
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by seandougall 7y ago
> But even a more earnest driver could easily space out after long hours of uneventful driving with no "events" or inputs. As somebody who used to regularly drive the I-5 between SF and LA, I can wholeheartedly vouch for this s
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by seandougall 7y ago
That shows that the lowest-frequency component of tidal motion is driven by the sun's gravity. But the highest-amplitude component by far is the effect of the moon's gravity, which has a period of 12 hours and 25 minutes. So yes,
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by seandougall 7y ago
IP law with fonts is kind of unintuitive. From what I’ve read, the design of a font can’t be copyrighted, but the implementation can. So you can make a font that looks identical to Helvetica and be okay, but if you copy and paste anything f
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by seandougall 7y ago
If you have a predictable schedule, there are plenty of offline thermostats that let you set target temperatures for different times of day. If you don't, I can see how being able to control it remotely would be nice. (But an embedded

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