alanh

Thank you, this is one of the few insightful comments I see here.

It’s actually remarkably good at this now. Source: Me driving with FSD

This is BS. Most human drivers do rolling stops. If you didn't want your Tesla to do a rolling stop, you had the option to set your FSD beta profile to a more conservative setting.

Full stops, when no cross traffic is present, waste time and energy.

Yes, it’s still a thing, although virtually no one is using it for new projects.

1Password has had really nice 2FA support for years now

Reminder: Google paid for an ad campaign with this gist: A father creates a Gmail account for his daughter when she is born, and sends her important photos and mementos as she grows up. Sweet. Reality: At least one person tried this in real life, and the child's account was automatically deleted without recourse.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/18/2046221/why-google-...

Yes, this happened to me with a throwaway gmail address I once had. Correct name and (strong) password, BS about a different device. I never regained access. Luckily nothing of real value was lost.

My primary email account is on Fastmail these days, and I like them.

I think it’s less that software programmers are "too good," and more that interesting programming work is too new to have established engineering practices/standards/etc

Recursive backronym: “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor” (originally “Personal Home Pages”)

I once suggested an alternative: “Powering Hypertext & Programs” (https://alanhogan.com/conversations/php/acronym)

I think this underscores some (but not all!) of the negative reaction to "Zendesk plans to buy (the company behind) SurveyMonkey" — the latter of which has developed significant revenue streams from specific B2B products

Definitively: v7 works with stand-alone / non agilebits-synced databases; v8 will not. (I think v8 is out for Windows but not yet Mac.)

I am a long-time 1Password user who recently made the leap to their hosted service. 1Password remains best-in-class for me and has a terrific security record, especially compared to their peers. While I too lament the everything-is-a-subscription-now trend, I remain a strong supporter and avid fan of 1Password.

The latest integrations offered, for browsers and for e.g. Fastmail masked email address generation [1], only work with the cloud offering. I am happy to report that these latest offerings are fantastic and have tremendous UX.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.com/1password/

dumb question: is there any way to get similar effects on a Mac? are there third-party tools that can change macOS appearance so dramatically?

Can you please explain what was and was not censored here? I think I am missing something.

Money Stuff reader detected (Me too)

I agree the proof for defrauding investors was less arguable. However there were still clear indications that she should have known the tests offered to patients were unreliable. For example, Schultz told her, before resigning, that it was not OK for Theranos to continue re-running their benchmark tests until they got a passing result (kind of like shaking the magic 8 ball until it, on the fourth shake, correctly answers the question “Is today Sunday?” — then selling it as an oracle). One employee flagged it for her attention that females were getting results that should only be possible if they had prostates — and she dismissed this as well! There was other evidence introduced during court that showed she knew the tests her company was doing for customers were not as accurate as she claimed, too. I would have loved to see her found guilty on these counts as a result, and I would also love to hear about the jurors' reasoning for not doing so.

> [She wasn’t] really being charged with [wire fraud with regard to] patients

Unless the word "really" is doing some heavy lifting here, this is incorrect. There were multiple counts directly and specifically related to defrauding patients. These counts came back not guilty, but they were, in fact, charged, and customers testified in court in support of these charges.

Is there an easy way to "share" a URL from iOS/iPhone to Zotero? They have an iOS app in closed, full beta, with an App Store version apparently coming soon. In the meantime, are there solutions?

There is one possibility which this community will flag & downvote anyone for suggesting, which is shameful; the idea should be entertained and then dismissed, if appropriate.

You may be interested to see Kaiser Permanente's recent study, suggesting that more than one in 2,000 young men are experiencing untimely heart disease with a known cause: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268209v...

Parson is clearly a bad actor. View source is not a crime and it is prosecutorial misconduct — ESPECIALLY when informed by a professional that no network intrusion occurred — to charge anyone for it.

I really expected to see a comment here asking mods to update the title with the year of publication. I did not expect that year to be 2021

Similarly, I wrote to urge people who make websites to simulate slower connections: https://alanhogan.com/slow-it-down-gain-empathy

I've said it before and will say it again: There needs to be a good, cheap, easy, aesthetic way to fix cracked brittle plastics, kintsugi-style. My go-to example is my plastic laundry basket, whose structural integrity is severely compromised by one crack right in the top-middle of a long side.

Is there a reason why, for me, this post contains `[math processing error]` numerous times instead of math symbols?

Update: It’s due to incompatibility with the Dark Reader extension, which causes MathJax to find unexpected nulls in `classList`

FWIW:

1) Looking at System Preferences right now, the setting for Power Nap reads as follows:

> [x] Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter

> While sleeping, your Mac can back up using Time Machine and periodically check fro new email, calendar, and other iCloud updates

This indicates that it should not have any affect on a sleeping MacBook in a bag (presumably disconnected from power).

2) That said, I have on rare occasions found a former work-issued MacBook Pro to be hot to the touch when removed from my bag after a commute. I assumed this was some bug (not a feature), and I can neither rule out nor implicate the involvement of the nanny software installed by IT.

code comment in the readme describes the Record as constituting an 'interverted index'. typo for inverted? although it is not obvious to me what would make this an inverted index instead of a normal index

No one taught me this in school, but if you add up the digits (5+7=12) and the result is divisible by 3, then so is the original number. It works recursively.

See my rebuttal to that other comment. And please elevate your discussion from the realm of feelings about people. Let’s say he is thin-skinned. So? That doesn’t change how helpful and eye-opening his delightful books are.

1. Tufte-style is fairly meaningless as a term. His books cover a vast array of graphics.

2. Almost every chart and graph I see would be better if its creator understood and applied Tufte’s principles.

3. His books are truly delightful to read and are not overrated.

4. If he’s so overrated, name a person or resource that would better impart a set of useful principles to create effective and accurate visual representations of information.

Oops. That’s what I meant

I wish people would stop treating “coronavirus” and COVID-19 (or SARS-CoV-19) as synonyms. They are not. There are many more coronaviruses.