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I agree it's possible to present your ID without unlocking your phone, but is it likely?
You can find relationships between ideas or topics that are seemingly unrelated, for instance, even perfect numbers and Mersenne primes have a 1:1 mapping and therefore they're logically equivalent and a proof that either set is either infinite or finite is sufficient to prove the other's relationship with infinity. There's little to no intuitive relationship between these ideas, but the fact that they're linked is somewhat humbling - a fun quirk in the fabric of the universe, if you will.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-d...
I usually specifically look for smart devices like this because I dislike the idea of them phoning home for "analytics" or "to enhance my marketing experience" and just firewall them off.
I'm not sure if it's explicitly required, but I've yet to encounter a HomeKit device that didn't work when prohibited from talking to anything outside the LAN.
It is also useful to mention any other offers you may have and to apply for other positions, even if you're less interested in those roles. A friend of mine applied for several roles using that strategy including one he thought he'd be totally uninterested in. He wound up being most excited about that role after getting further along in the process and ultimately accepted it, even though he intended to only use it as a bargaining chip.
You also can apply for other roles and even mention "I'm early in the process, but they've stated the usual comp range is XYZ, which is higher. I'm more excited about this role, but it could be hard to turn down that kind of compensation".
Excerpts: "The Find My network uses end-to-end encryption so that Apple cannot see the location of any offline device or reporting device."
"If you and your friend are both on iOS 17, your location will not be accessible to Apple. If you have a preexisting sharing relationship with a friend who is not on iOS 17, your location may be accessible to Apple if it is actively requested by a friend you are sharing with. Your location is retained for up to 24 hours in order to provide the service, after which it is deleted."
"Devices in the Find My network use Bluetooth wireless technology to detect missing devices or compatible items nearby, including AirTags and compatible third-party products registered to your Apple ID, and report their approximate location back to the owner. If a device is turned off or erased, that location is also visible to members of the owner’s Family Sharing group with whom they have chosen to share the location. The interaction is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple cannot see the location of any offline device or reporting device."
That said, it's seemed as the carriers coalesced in to monoliths, the flying experience only got more miserable, although at least some part of this is the pressure from the bottom that the ultra-low cost carriers introduce in a market. I'd be curious to see how much of the fall in fare price cited by the article accounts for the introduction in unbundled fares by the legacy carriers. IE, is this comparing a fare that a few years ago included a carry-on, seat selection, etc to a fare today that doesn't?
...also, the ruling actually includes a snippet of "Master of the House" from Les Miserables in relation to the business model of Spirit.
I also found this video on CFIT in General Aviation to be quite compelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PBUVMCbmFQ
I suspect adding PV panels would have another issue, however, which is they’re frequently stacked on top of one another in shipping yards, etc. PV paneled trailers would likely not be stackable, and therefore containers would need to be repackaged for storage or transport outside trucking (IE a container ship wouldn’t be able to just drop a container on to a truck to ferry it, it’d need to be reloaded).
Spirit isn't a perfect match (different market segments), but otherwise they use the same model of aircraft and have some operational efficiencies. I'd hazard a guess Spirit's branding and low cost model will be tossed out in favor of JetBlue's operating model, and that segment of the market will be left to Frontier.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others, indeed.
Of course their cancellation numbers are low after the password sharing change - it's very easy to keep that revenue flowing if you're willing to borderline commit fraud to keep your customers.
The article additionally says the entire ordeal lasted 45 seconds, but clearly part of that 45 seconds was a steep dive.
Newer variants of similar cards are regarded as more secure, such as MiFare’s DESFire line which is used in the SF Bay Area (Clipper).
"Technology" is thrown around like security buzzwords at BlackHat in these meetings, always with no vision for what that looks like. Teaching kids that mathematics is a fundamental set of ideas that can be applied to solve a wide variety of problems? No, no. Drill them with problems in abstraction, completely isolated from any idea of why the algorithm you have them following works. Make a bloated web interface for answering multiple choice problems instead of instilling curiosity or attempting to teach them how to use the magic light box to approach new problems or even how it works.
This is thoroughly unsurprising and aligns exactly with the approach I saw of needing "smart boards" that were supposed to revolutionize education, or "clickers" so kids could vote live instead of just a show of hands.
Track your calories for a few days. For me what was really helpful was trying to do the whole if it gets you the macros "diet". You should avoid thinking about it as a diet though. Diets are things people do briefly to lose one or two pounds and tend to be things like Atkins, etc. You're looking for a lifestyle change.
Understanding what you currently eat is hugely helpful in this. I went through a phase where I weighed everything I ate with a food scale and entered it in to MyFitnessPal, aiming for 50% carbs, 20% protein, 30% fat and a loss of ~1 lb a week. Pretty quickly I started to find myself surprised at things that in hindsight seem very obvious: fibrous veggies have very little calories, and especially if you steam them or prepare them in a reasonably healthy way, they can make you feel full without going over your daily calories, oils are incredibly calorie dense, 93% lean ground beef is much higher in fat than you think it is, etc.
Paying attention and tracking your calories for a few weeks is a great tool at understanding your current habits and how you can make an avalanche of small changes. Cutting out one can of soda every day is the difference between losing .5 lb a week and maintaining your weight.
You don't have to do the calorie tracking forever - within a few weeks I'd started to make small modifications to a lot of recipes that I cook or things that I eat out to make them much healthier.
Also, get a good scale that does BMI and measure your weight every morning after you go to the bathroom but before you eat anything. Ignore small daily changes, you're looking for the trend over a week or so. Seeing your progress in real numbers helps immensely at keeping you on track.
Ultimately your employer only gets billed for the flight you actually board, so there's low risk in spraying out and checking in for several flights. Also when flying standby, prioritization for many airlines involves check-in order (and also they'll often prioritize paying customers, friends/family, then their own employees over other carriers' employees, or similar).