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Same for me growing up. The weird thing has been my time in NYC with mass transit. In my earlier days, driving 30 minutes to go to a specific restaurant in another town felt like such a lift.

Now? 30 minutes on the Subway, even standing room only seems normal, even though I've only gone a handful of miles, not 30 miles.

Maybe if they are back doing non-Microsoft build work, they can soon support Mac with case-sensitive filesystems?

This trend is not just in retailers. I have clients asking us who _our_ vendors are, and if _they_ are on AWS, and trying to push us to vendors not using AWS.

In Tom Scott's video, posted in another message in this thread, he notes that the inventor partnered with an iron foundry owner. Each set of cells is notated to be 30 tons of steel: more steel vs. would've been needed for a simple circle of bars that rotated.

Or the Bluetooth connection works, but does random things you can't change. The last rental car I had, upon connection, forced Spotify to re-open and start playing the last playlist. Even if Spotify was closed.

Some entertaining solutions I found online include a playlist that includes only silent tracks and switching to that playlist before you turn off the car, or canceling Spotify Premium so you can no longer download/cache songs, giving you enough time to mute before Spotify's cloud can stream the song to the car.

Now they need to ban intercepting/blocking `onpaste` in form fields.

Add in that alarms randomly don't fire, or fire at the wrong volume. I'm using my old phone as my clock and timer. I wonder if it's related to the bonkers notification settings.

Either way, disaster of a phone, and disaster of an OS.

Very literally just went through fixing Teams on a family member's laptop. They kept uninstalling it, and upon next boot, their computer was unresponsive for 10+ minutes as Teams reinstalled itself.

After some digging, it turns out there's a separate installer you have to uninstall. Since when do you have to uninstall installers?

This was on a fully up to date, modern Windows laptop.

Applies: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1173389969454288896

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Most ESPs offer some kind of html -> text rendering. Most suck.

Mandrill's was OK, and so far, so has Postmark.

But nothing beats a hand crafted text template.

Coming next year: pre-rooted devices specifically for security research, though likely with well established groups. https://thenextweb.com/apple/2019/08/08/apple-announces-deve...

Did you look at https://www.golinks.io?

Related, Governors Island in NYC has a huge area called 'The Yard' [0] that's full of.. random hunks of wood and metal, pallets, rope, random tires and broken appliances. All for kids to play around in. It's just stuff a normal kid in a big city wouldn't get exposed to.

[0] https://govisland.com/things-to-do/programs/playgroundnycs-t...

Any Wikipedia engineers here? Being linked, on desktop, to this file represents an exercise in futility.

I want to read the full article we were linked to. My click targets, in order:

'x' - 'x' closes things. Can I close this modal to see the full page? No, it closes and redirects back to this page on HN.

'more details'? No, it brings me to a details page about the graph image. Cool, it's used on some other pages. Useless as a reader.

'black space' around the image? Not a clickable target, why would I click there?

Can I zoom in? No, the image auto-resizes but the image viewer chrome zooms in — making the image smaller??

Am I just a bad Wikipedia user?

I use direnv for most of my development that doesn't need full blown containers. Once you hook it up, it automatically enables/disables virtual environments based on directory.

https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/Python#pyenv

One of the largest insurers in Florida is Citizens Property Insurance. It's run by the state.

On top of that, Florida has a state-run fund (Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund) for times when the private/commercial reinsurance market is insufficient.

A lot of meetups are held in WeWork spaces, especially smaller ones that are too small or niche to have a strong corporate backer.

How many retweets will it take to get this for GCP?

It's pretty good. A few clients are still PITA (looking at you, Outlook 2007 and Yahoo mail. You still have to do jump through hoops for accurate background images, or fancy things with borders.

The actual markup MJML generates is terrifying, and can be very large payloads. A simple hero graphic, some styled body text, a few buttons, and a footer was around 60KB/message. It got gnarly for us as our MTA had a max-payload size per API 'send' call (Mandrill) so our max send rates were partially constrained by MJML's fat markup.

But totally worth it to not spend _as_ much time satisfying the mail clients of the world.

Having an uneven phone back such that it falls off of even level surfaces when receiving a phone call is a _vital feature_ that I cannot live without. How else will my phone land on a corner and crack the screen, requiring an expensive repair? Am I supposed to drop it like it's 1999?

For me, having run a slew of large Python code bases, 3.3 was the first 'useful' version to upgrade to as it re-enabled u"string" syntax. Without that, making 2/3 compatible code was hard.

3.5 fixed % formatting for bytes, further making 2/3 transitions easier (or harder, depending on your use/abuse of strings vs bytes).

3.6 added the first 'exciting' new feature: f"formatted string {literals}" if you don't have an asynchronous type project that can make good use of async/await.

> For a small subset of customers (13), the unauthorized party was able to gain read-only access to their workspaces and click around in their accounts for up to a few minutes. These customers have been notified.

That implies that Segment employees, or a subset, have unfettered access to view their customers' accounts? That it didn't require positive customer assent to gain access?

I like Box's model for this: https://community.box.com/t5/Working-with-Box-Support/Box-Pr...

Is it still the default region? The last two new AWS accounts I provisioned defaulted to us-east-2.

> Even more concern, 70% of consumers don’t answer a call if the caller’s number is anonymous.

The concerning part is 30% still answer the calls.

I think I was better off not knowing this fact.

I live around the corner from the Chick-fil-A just outside the Fulton St station. They have a snaking line inside _and_ a roped off line outside. A line to wait in line, and the outside line often is 40, 50, 60 people plus. I suspect some of those people waited as long as you did end to end, for a chain chicken sandwich in one of the culinary capitals of the world. To someone who hates lines, that's mind boggling!

You lose your ability to grep, though.

Or give up the fight over formatting in general and adopt a tool like [0] Black, which has no rules or options to configure and only one correct style. _You can have any any style you want, as long as it's black._

[0] https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

I think you can do better than the public review systems that exist today: you can authenticate the buyers, which improves the usefulness of the reviews. Your reviews cannot be stuffed by hyper aggressive sales members posing as fake customers.

And, a step above: you can show how ratings from the same buyer change over time as their price point, scale, and features evolved. (Solve for: would you rather buy a piece of software that makes you happy as hell on day 1 but miserable on day 366, or one that makes you modestly happy on day 1 but blissfully happy on day 366?)