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For anyone near a Warby Parker, they'll happily measure your PD in about 30 seconds. Measurements can vary slightly so you might want to do it a few times and average them.

Perhaps parent commenter meant folder-level sharing which is slated to be introduced in iOS13.x / macOS 10.15.x.

> images come out great as long as you specify your walking speed in the app

Very cool. This reminded me of the bike-mounted dot-matrix printer. Similar concept: light vs ink. https://www.wired.com/2004/08/cops-put-brakes-on-bike-protes...

I'd been wondering if this was from 7 Up, before I saw this comment. And now just seeing that 63 Up aired in June 2019. Wow!

I love Mariage Frères, Eros. Also their Marco Polo and Earl Grey.

I'm curious to try some others mentioned in the comments.

Completely agree. I used Sprint's 128kbps roaming and it's better than nothing, but so many basic things just won't load. iMessage and Google Maps were decent (particularly if you download the map for offline).

What doesn't get mentioned enough is that 128/256kbps roaming absolutely kills your battery because the phone's radio has to stay on so much longer.

PSA: If you mostly like to watch movies and/or cinematic TV (with the lights off, or in a dimly lit room), consider a home theater projector instead of a TV. In a dark room (even with white walls) the image is fanatic in cinema mode, and nearly as good (and quite a bit brighter) in "living room" mode. Best of all, they have absolutely zero "smart" features.

I bought an Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 8345 Projector refurbished for around $470 a couple years ago to replace my 720p Panasonic AX200U. The Epsons have a solid warranty and will easily project a 100"+ image in a dark room on a basic (<$200) screen. The bulbs work out to about 10 cents/hour of usage.

This 3100 is basically the newer (and better) version of mine for $684, and the one I'd get if I was buying today. https://epson.com/Clearance-Center/Home-Entertainment/Home-C...

In a few weeks he can just point Apple's IP range to a shared iCloud folder.

When using ScreenSharing on the Mac, CMD + Tab used to switch between apps on the local Mac (like using any other app). Which means, to switch apps on the remote Mac, you needed to use the Dock or some other method.

Then at some point a few years ago, CMD + Tab changed to switching between apps on the remote Mac, which also makes sense since you're working on the remote computer. But then you need another way to switch out of ScreenSharing on the local Mac.

Then for a year or two, it seemed random which computer's app switcher you'd yet.

Now it seems to take into account whether an actual window on the remote computer has been given focus since switching over to ScreenSharing or not. I can't quite place the logic, but it seems to do what I expect most of the time now.

I have no idea which of these scenarios was actually the bug and which is/was the feature.

For me, Spotify is the 4th app when searching for "music", but it's the first app that doesn't contain the word "music" as the first or second word in the name.

It goes: 1. Apple Music 2. Music 3. Music> 4. Spotify New music and podcasts

This is good work. It's amazing how the pressure has to come from outside to get any traction.

I just realized that I set up this Twitter account 10 years ago, this month: https://twitter.com/passwordfail

Most sites don't email passwords anymore, so I suppose that's something.

>because the physical card does not fit my use case, I've elected to keep it in a file cabinet.

This is exactly the intended "use case" of the card. The physical card is what sells the Apple Card account. Look at all of the people that signed up (on HN, no less — where everyone knows that XYZ card gives better rewards). Yes, yes 3% back at the Apple Store — it's only logical. Was everyone really itching to make a purchase the Apple Store last week? How many people would sign up if it was a only virtual card?

So the slick card gets people to apply on day one, then for a while, customers carry it and show it to their friends. "Ooooh, Ahhh. Where's the number?" Then (like a lot of metal cards) they decide it would be a lot easier to just use Apple Pay and stash the card somewhere else.

Incidentally, mine is crammed in a leather wallet and looks the same as it did on day one. But I would argue that the function of the physical card is just as much to be somewhat UNdesirable for daily use as it is to be desirable to obtain.

As for the declined charges and customer service, I imagine it's just growing pains (iMessage to opt out of arbitration only took a minute). It does seem like Apple should have a big button in the UI for traveling overseas. Hopefully, they'll evolve to be like Amex and just figure it out — especially since your phone is presumably coming along on the trip.

This is similar to the idea of writers who stop writing mid-sentence so that it becomes a springboard to continue the next day.

It also seems like Amazon now holds shipments until the last possible moment if you don't pay for Prime.

Meanwhile, my Target orders often arrive in 2 days or even overnight (in NYC) for free. Wal-Mart's prices for most items I reorder regularly are almost always lower than Amazon and the shipments regularly arrive in 3 days even though they estimate up to a week. The unfortunate thing about Wal-Mart is that they seem to be adopting a lot of the website clutter that has made Amazon so frustrating (e.g. 3rd party listings with shipping/pricing all over the map, and aggressive recommendations on product pages).

If I want a trip down memory lane, I can just check the data breach section of CreditKarma and see a chronological history of all of my passwords from the last 25 years.

At this point, I'd join a social network that matched me with all of the people around the world that also used the same "clever, obscure" passwords.

My biggest hope for this card is that it encourages far more people to use Apple Pay (2% vs 1% cash back), which, in turn, encourages more retailers to optimize the checkout process for contactless, and hopefully gets rid of having to use that gross stylus that everybody touches to sign that low-res LED screen with something that looks nothing like my signature.

And it would also be great if it encourages US restaurants to switch to using the portable machine at your table instead of taking your card away.

Moreover, less than 0.0000000000000001 of the statically-likely-to-exist life forms in the known galaxies were affected by this incident. Nothing to see here.

I also had the Sprint BYOD promo for a year since I had an unlocked iPhone 6+ at the time. The network was only very slightly worse than Verizon (mostly in and around NYC). I switched to Tello (Sprint MVNO, $17/mo for 3GB) when the promotion ended and the network quality has been the same. I only chose Tello because I already had the SIM and my plan was going to renew within 48. It's been fine.

I probably would've bought a new phone sooner but the terms were ambiguous as to whether or not switching phones (even one purchased separately and fully paid) would negate the promo or not.

Private plane crashes, risky Instagram selfies in exotic locations, populist coups, malfunctioning automated systems in Bond-villain-style underground lairs.

Sorry, I don’t know of a free alternative.

There’s an app called TripMode that does this. https://www.tripmode.ch/

The fine-grained control is nice but still seems like a glaring omission that the Mac still isn’t “tethering-aware” with regard to conserving data — especially since it’s so seamless to connect to an iPhone that shares the same iCloud account.

Gotta say, the fact that the installation instructions consist primarily of getting around the "unknown / unidentified developer" restriction doesn't inspire confidence.

The full Umberto Eco essay: https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf

Another 14 point list by Dr. Lawrence Britt that is also relevant: https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That’s Familiar with Trump https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-scholar-of-...

Similar to cured meat with "no added nitrates” but a bunch of added celery powder (which is high in nitrates).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-uncured-ba...

This article is taking up valuable space that could go "Why I left Facebook" or "Our incredible journey".

These sound like two different kind of posts. Either way, make sure the canonical location is some place that you or your employer (whoever owns the content) have control over. I'd suggest:

- Post your personal stuff on your own domain.

- Post your Google Cloud stuff on the company blog.

- Syndicate / cross post to Medium, LinkedIn, Twitter, wherever etc. if one or both make sense for the topic.

- You don't need to cross post the whole post if the platform doesn’t warrant it (lots of eyeballs, but hostile to the content-publisher, i.e. Facebook). You can put 2 paragraphs and a link to "read more on xyzblog". You're mostly using these services for discovery. In general, treat platforms you don't control as discovery-only.

- Encourage and enable readers to subscribe and engage directly at the canonical location (if practical), and not on the edges, as long as that doesn’t create a poor experience for them.

- If you find that more people want to engage / or the conversation is higher-quality at one of the distribution points (say HackerNews, vs the comments section of your blog), then provide a link to there from the canonical location and encourage conversation there.

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How to Cut Down on Unwanted Junk Mail https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/smarter-living/how-to-cut...

I get very little paper mail now except for companies that I already have accounts with (and who seem to believe that “paperless” doesn’t apply to the marketing departments).

About 30 years ago I saw “The Five Doctors” (the 25th anniversary episode of Doctor Who). Ever since then I’ve believed the smell, and associated feeling, were due to “positive ions”. In all that time I’ve never fact checked that line, but I think about it every time I notice the smell after a storm.

From the screenplay: TURLOUGH: It's marvellous here. I feel so calm and relaxed. DOCTOR 5: It's the high bombardment of positive ions. TEGAN: It's like Earth after a thunderstorm. DOCTOR 5: Same cause and reason.

I really wish there were more GUI wrappers that literally wrote the CLI commands out on screen as the GUI was modified, to help with bridging the GUI/CLI gap for people.

Also, I miss arRsync.

This is the point of sandboxing apps in the Mac App Store, and (to my understanding) providing simple and complete uninstallation. Mac users that care about issues like this (and I'm not saying they shouldn't) can avoid them by choosing to only install apps from the App Store.

Revoking signing keys on the Mac is pretty extreme considering that Zoom is creator of the software — and that is what the key is meant to prove / enforce. I think that sets a very bad precedent.

The fact that Zoom is distributed outside of the App Store should at least raise eyebrows for Mac users. At this point, I tend to ask what specific functionality is required by an app, such that it wouldn't be allowed in the Mac App Store — especially for free client software (there can be perfectly valid reasons for this, such as previous versions of BBEdit).