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There was also a Radiolab episode that discussed this idea at a different hospital...

https://radiolab.org/podcast/apologetical-2303

> This is misleading: ...

To be fair, the link in this story is to a press release. Arguably there are probably many things in it that can be considered "misleading" in certain contexts.

> Sometimes they even have a small amount of Dell warranty left, though I've never ever had a problem with them.

Yes, though technically any add-on warranty coverage or service plans are only available to the registered owner. I bought a couple Dell OptiPlex micros last year that were originally owned by a large organization. They were clearly being resold on eBay by someone who had acquired them in some sort of bulk purchase. Dell has a form you can submit to request that the registration be updated, but it requires you to provide contact information for the original owner. I asked the eBay seller if they for this contact information, but they said they did not. I was able to open a support request with Dell and have their records updated to show me as the owner after showing evidence that I had acquired the machines. This included a photo of them showing their asset tags along with a hand-written note that showed my support case number, as well as a copy of the eBay listings. I believe Dell checked with the original owner (a US federal agency) to verify the machines had been sold.

Seconded. You can do this on eBay by choosing specific CPU models, but it would be really helpful to filter more broadly. "Intel 8th gen" for sure, but it could also be useful to be able to combine that with, say, "Intel -T series" or "Intel i5".

This seems to be a reskin of the prior RDoc styles, which are visible in prior Ruby versions (e.g https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/). Despite the rather bold green, the overall look of the primary content feels very subdued. I think a big part of it is how low-contrast the code blocks are. In the prior style, code blocks used a pretty high-contrast syntax highlighting scheme; comments were very distinct, which is important as these demonstrate return values. In the new style, it's quite difficult to distinguish comments (medium gray) from identifiers (dark gray).

Personally I prefer the look of rubyapi.org over either of the official ones, but this new one kinda feels like a step backward from the prior one.

The search issue is also present with the docs for Ruby 3.3[1] and earlier. Incidentally, "String" is an even better example, as the the class is the fifth result returned after four other very obscure classes.

[1]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/

They also enjoyed slagging on corporate rebranding. When PriceWaterhouse Cooper spun out their consulting arm in 2002, they became a target for a minute[1][2]. I still have a "We like donkeys la la la" t-shirt and mug as a pair of weird and obscure artifacts from that stage of my IT career. I am heartened to see that archive.org provides a way to experience the silly Flash animation[3] they created just for that second article.

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2002/06/18/tell_me_why_i_dont/

[2]: https://www.theregister.com/2002/06/20/monday_gets_that_mond...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20021127100055/https://www.intro...

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The last part of the release announcement[1] says:

> What’s next?

> The team is already hard at work on Rails 8.0, that we plan to release later this year and we are looking forward to interact with the community and share presents at Rails World, in September this year.

[1]: https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/10/Rails-7-2-0-has-been-relea...

FWIW, viewing the "raw" version of a file is a little better since long lines will be wrapped.

One of the most annoying things about not upgrading macOS are the recurring Notifications that try to get you to upgrade. There's no way in recent versions to disable them AFAIK. They are especially grating if the machine has multiple user accounts, as switching to a different account tends to trigger one.

Thank you very much for your perspective. The recovery sounds very similar to that of a cerebral angiogram, of which I've had three.

I had a similar calculus when considering having my AVF corrected...like, deal with it now while I'm relatively young and can still heal fairly well, or deal with it later after the risk of complications has slowly and steadily increased with age. It's just a matter of getting over the anxiety hump I guess...

> After a year I did have the PFO closed...

If it's not too much to ask, how did you find that procedure and its recovery? I have a moderate PFO and have occasional migraines with aura as well, though in my case the pain component is minimal. My vascular specialist has suggested I consider having the PFO closed, but I have not looked into what is involved. I had a procedure to "deal with" a dural AVF a few years ago, and for some reason I have more anxiety about the PFO...but maybe that's just because I haven't read up on it yet...

Good news, the Earth's circumference is around 40,000km, and the actual distances sailed by each of the competitors in the most recent Vendee Globe were all around 50-51,000km. So they all exceed your requirement.

Generally you don't rent a specific model, you rent a "So-and-so or similar". And undoubtedly the rental agreement specifically gives them permission to make substitutions. It's unlikely this scenario has not been fully mitigated by corporate legal and risk management.

There were a few high profile sites that honored it early on. Hulu was the example I remember, but I'm having trouble getting the Wayback Machine to load an archived copy of their policy, so this article will have to do:

https://martech.org/hulu-joined-list-major-platforms-ignore-...

I suspect a decent percentage of people with newer cars are leasing, since many people shop for a car based on monthly payment without considering the long-term costs.

Also, unrelated heads up since you mention older Toyotas: there's a new recall on Takata airbags from certain 200x models.

https://text.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227923226/toyota-warning-ad...

Perhaps their main account somehow reflects past membership on the Google Reader team...

Radiolab's "The Interstitium" https://radiolab.org/podcast/interstitium

Is it possible this is less of a reflection of the author's abilities and more of a reflection of your lack of imagination? Not everyone who reaches a destination follows the same path. Stack Overflow was launched just over 15 years ago, for what it's worth.

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The hardware docs list the memory as DDR4 SODIMMS...

https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/meer7/repairs.html#rep...

I've been strongly eyeing this model as well, but in the end I decided to trade money for risk and acquire a used Dell OptiPlex micro from eBay. :crossed_fingers:

Are you sure you have a YubiKey (e.g. a "5 Series"[1]) and not a YubiCo "Security Key"[2]? The latter is a less expensive device with less functionality[3], though still good for arguably the most common 2FA situations.

[1]: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-5-overview/

[2]: https://www.yubico.com/products/security-key/

[3]: https://www.yubico.com/store/compare/

There is an episode[1] of NPR's Throughline that covers some of this. That episode was excerpted into a Planet Money episode[2] as well.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108728257/do-not-pass-go

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/25/1151367036/story-monopoly-ame...

They're not half-size, though, they're actually a bit _more_ than 50%. So that means you'll go through them faster than if you purchase full-sized ones and get in the habit of tearing a full sheet in half and setting the unneeded half aside.

That looks interesting, but does it work in Ventura? They only list Big Sur and Monterey on the website...

I would say that would be worse. Presumably there would be no way to remove it without patching the source.

Hmm...if you mean, would it be better or worse if they distributed the Looking Glass add-on in an automatically installed update, I think that would be...roughly equivalent? I feel like they're breaking some sort of implicit social contract: my browser shouldn't automatically install add-on software not foundational to its operation that I didn't ask for.

If you mean would it be better or worse if they did a more traditional pop-up ad promotion for Mr. Robot like they did for their VPN service...I dunno, unfortunately I've grown to expect new Firefox releases to have found excuses for promoting Mozilla services, even though I've done a fair amount of work to try to disable all that nonsense.

At the end of the day, it's all pretty gross really. What I'd really like is a way to pay Mozilla actual money in a way that ensured it was directed solely at development of Firefox in exchange for not doing any of this stuff to me. But for some reason this doesn't seem possible.

> The execution was definitely terrible, but "browser company ships promotional easter egg" isn't that bad as "browser company inserts ads into browsing experience" in my opinion. These ads are why Windows 10+ has become a trash fire despite all the technical improvements made to Windows.

I'm not sure I agree. The Mr. Robot "promotional easter egg" was done by installing an add-on via the Shield Study system. This system is enabled by default, and it is intended to allow the Firefox devs to run A/B tests with browser features.[1] This sort of system already makes some non-trivial minority of users bristle. For Mozilla to co-opt it specifically for an advertising campaign perfectly validates the concerns of that group of people. So then we get a thread on HN[2] in which several Firefox devs post about how badly they and their colleagues felt about the whole debacle, and how it would undoubtedly lead to many internal conversations. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that happened, and apparently[1] Shield Studies now require some level of scientific rigor behind them before they are deployed. But unfortunately, the marketing department still seems to be willing to sacrifice the ever-diminishing good will their remaining users seem to place in Mozilla as the steward of Firefox the browser. It doesn't feel to me like they fully appreciated the lessons of 2017.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield/Shield_Studies

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144

Did you miss the episode in 2017 in which they used an internal control to force the installation of an add-on as part of a promotion for a television show?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15941302

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144

I feel similarly to you...long-time user, bummed out by stuff like this. Sometimes it feels like Firefox would be a lot better off without Mozilla occasionally making deals like this.

Earlier discussion on Google's announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917362

Maybe try the BBC shipping forecast?

https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM

I find the use of the Beaufort scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale) gives it a particularly dry flavor...