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Hmm. I wonder why they are still risking their lives to attempt to get to the west if it's such a morally bankrupt hell hole.

Here's some of the Apple gear from my family.

Macbook Pro from 2008: Still boots iPhone 4 (2010): Still functioning (although obviously does not run latest OS) iPhone 5s (2013): Still functioning (running iOS 12 just fine) iPhone 7: (2016): Still flawless

My problem with podcast ads is how repetitive they are. I'm at a point where I hate squarespace so much because nearly every podcast I listen to is sponsored by them. Same goes for Simplisafe and ZipRecruiter. It's extremely tiring and I would consider this app for automating skipping of ads because of this reason.

It's been a long time since I've looked at Rails. Is there anything similar to Railscasts (free or paid) but up to date with latest Rails features?

From the article:

> Artists who work on gory cinematics integral to games like Mortal Kombat suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Is it really someone else's fault if someone chooses to work on a game like Mortal Kombat and then complains about having to create graphics like this?

Can we please introduce some agency into people's lives and stop constantly blaming society for issues?

Anyone know the type of mouse being used in the photo? https://justin.searls.co/uploads/egpu/IMG_4122.jpg

> You can generally resolve it yourself by poking seldom used functions to keep them hot.

We've tried this and it helps somewhat but when AWS attempts to scale your function based on load, cold starts re-appear. We've moved away from Lambdas where a dependable response time is required.

The overwhelming majority of migration into Europe is not due to any war or terror. It is economic migration primarily from sub-Saharan Africa which is why you comparatively see so few women and children among the migrants.

Also, see NATO members who can avoid defense expenditure because US is their defacto defense force.

Ah, yes, the widespread cancer of critical theory strikes Redis.

Wow. So asking someone for a bit of self control and being a responsible adult is now considered an unreasonable request. Because it’s so difficult to at least not have unprotected sex when you know you’re not in a position to support a child.

We are truly lost as a society.

Can anyone recommend a good classical playlist on Spotify?

Everything you listed under your general issues section is my exact experience when running Linux. I don't seem to have any of those issues on OSX.

Exactly. I think NBA League Pass cuts out the advertising from the local tv networks during timeouts and half time to show the in arena feed (kiss cam, etc). But those are often times ads now as well.

This is my fear as well. As a Californian who's looking to move to Texas at some point in the future, I really hope the people leaving aren't taking "California values" to Texas with them.

On top of the myriad of missing features that for example Telegram has, the UI/UX for Signal (at least on the iOS app) is far behind. The app feels laggy and slow in comparison to Telegram or Messages (only other apps I use). It has giant text bubbles with large padding which IMO looks terribly ugly. Also, Telegram now has dark mode which I find very useful. And as mentioned, as silly as gif support is, it's a nice feature to have. If only Telegram used Signal's encryption by default.

I did exactly this 2 years ago and it was just as painless as you described. Took a few months of slowly migrating various accounts to new email via forwarding. I’m just annoyed at myself for not having done it sooner.

Yes, that would be great as well but I’ve long since given up on that happening.

Advertising. But not via tracking and personalization. They show ads to you based on the keywords you used to search and don’t follow you around the web.

This. I wish Signal's own native apps had the user experience of Telegram.

I use Apple Pay regularly (multiple times per month) at Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Starbucks and Coffee Bean. On more rare occasions when I do end up shopping for cloths in person, I've used it at department stores.

Can someone explain to me why they want to show you the ad even when they don't care if you look at it, let alone click on it? Are advertisers still paying for just showing the ad?

I wish someone did something similar for Populous: The Beginning.

Exactly this. I don't know where people get the idea that government would do this any better. I think the best regulators could do is make SSNs obsolete. A solution where knowing every possible private data point about a person is useless when attempting to steal someone's identity.

I find technical discussions around this subject extremely fascinating but I'm a total noob in this space. Would you mind sharing any relevant links on the topics you mentioned?

I know elsewhere in the thread you mentioned that you're not on the login.gov team but would you mind passing U2F support and removing SMS as a second-factor auth as a feature request? Thanks :)

What you have to realize is that the US government is full of life long bureaucrats who are not democratically elected and are in no way held accountable like the representatives. And the representatives are perfectly happy to throw their hands up and hold hearings every time the bureaucrats do something wrong without actually taking the effort to change anything. To me, this is no different than Facebook and Google.

Assume that it was and act accordingly.

You may be onto something. I for one would welcome such filtering as I would appreciate staying away from leftist echo chambers such as Google.

This man dared to challenge 50+ years of post-modern indoctrination. The result is hardly surprising. I salute his bravery though. Look forward to his discussion with Jordan Peterson. https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/89490930975844352...