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Ugh, you just reminded me of just how sad I was when I logged into Steam over the weekend for the first time in a while and discovered how many games I lost to Catalina.

I have 118 games in my library, 17 of which are Windows-only. Only 25 of the remaining 101 MacOS-compatible games survived the 64-bit upgrade.

Edit: thinking about it a little more though, this has been the situation for many many months, but I only realized over the weekend how bad it was because I've moved almost all of my gaming to my Nintendo Switch. (I only happened to return to Steam because I wanted to play A Short Hike.)

I know this is humor, but I never knew about using Ctrl+R (<C-r>) within insert mode or within an Ex command.

SmugMug seems to be hosted on AWS (based on doing a DNS lookup and seeing who owns that IP). I wouldn't be surprised if moving it all to AWS was the path of least resistance to an engineering team that understands AWS more than managing a dedicated hardware fleet.

As far as I know, they take cash because local governments are banning cashless stores.

I've also found these pretty effective. I'm not sure if the hydrocolloid itself is that helpful, but the fact that the bandage seals and blocks moisture better definitely helps a lot.

You know, when you put it that way, that does raise a lot of good points. There are legitimate non-obvious problems in this area ("family resource management" might be a catchy name here) and not a lot of solutions. And the solutions that exist are so heavyweight and industry-tailored that when you hear about parents using JIRA, it just sounds absurd (and rightly so).

Probably the reason there aren't many such solutions is that it's not a sexy or obviously lucrative field, and that it's probably pretty hard to come up with a well-designed product that handles all the complexity of a family. I mean, come to think of it, most software startup founders are young and have few commitments (e.g. children); I can't imagine them being able to empathize well enough until they're at a later stage of their lives. But, perhaps someone's working on this as a very extensive side project.

This reminded me Atlassian's 2013 April Fools joke, JIRA Jr. (https://www.atlassian.com/jirajr). Funny how life imitates art.

Is there a way for the average consumer to measure the sound level output of their earbuds? There's got to be a better way than just seeing if that volume setting causes discomfort; I'm sure I'm already acclimated to higher volumes.

Permit transferred already, but with some strings attached https://mobile.twitter.com/fitzthereporter/status/1138904732...

Outside of Japan maybe, but it's something that would work in that culture. From my last trip to Japan a couple of years ago, I saw vending machines everywhere. In urban areas, there would be one every couple of city blocks in urban areas; I even encountered a few in the middle of park trails in relatively more secluded areas (e.g. more or less the middle of a forest). All these vending machines appeared unattended, but they always had inventory.

> Probably overkill, since OFX files probably wouldn't be megabytes or gigabytes.

Maybe not gigabytes, but if you wanted to pull transaction-level data from a relatively active brokerage account, you could end up with an OFX file of a couple of megabytes. I'm sure someone might appreciate the efficiency.

Metal actually can be used in a microwave safely. For example, sheet pans with rounded edges and metal bowls are quite safe, as long as you have a decent amount of something in those containers to absorb any energy that the metal reflects. Plenty of prepackaged meals found in grocery stores have a thin sheet of metal in the packaging to change the way the meal heats up in the microwave.

Things like crumpled aluminum foil, a metal fork, or random bits of decorative metal in a dish could cause electrical arcing because charge can build up on the "edges" (e.g. the tines of a fork).

Of course, it's more convenient to use something like glass because we just don't have to give it a second thought (aside from the whole exploding glass problem). And for that, it's reasonable to simply avoid putting any metal in a microwave.

I think it's considered more of a grain than a vegetable.

So I do know that they apparently use it for anti-money laundering purposes. I learned that once when writing a request to some friends along the lines of "food from south of North Korea", causing them to flag my friends' payments to me because mentioning the string "North Korea" must have meant that I was secretly laundering money that way. Stupidly, Venmo required that my friends explain their transactions, not me, the requester.

So the lesson is, you can put jokes into your Venmo payments, but not jokes that imply that you're blatantly laundering money.

Well I certainly fell down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. That article lead me to the article on the strait named after him, through which I discovered that we (the US) and Canada still have active border disputes. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Cana...

FAANG == Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google

(First time I heard of it; had to look it up)

Yeah, it basically is.

I played with D3 every now and then for maybe the past 6 years to scratch some data visualization itch, but I never really understood it. I always wound up trying a code snippet from a random blog and got frustrated when I couldn't get it to bend to my needs.

It finally clicked for me a after I read the first few introductory tutorials on the D3 Github wiki. It made me realize that, while it was probably built for data visualizations, D3 at its core is a browser DOM manipulation library with a (data-driven) declarative API. It's a slightly higher level of abstraction compared to the DOM manipulation part of jQuery (though, many frontend developers these days consider jQuery to be a low-level library).

Of course, it also helped that I learned a lot over 6 years. I was a university student back then, and now I'm a professional software engineer who has spent the last year or so doing frontend development. D3 makes a lot of sense within the context of my current understanding of how browser DOM APIs work.

Where I live in SF, it's pretty hard to avoid the hills if I want to ride back to my apartment from downtown, even if I ride the Wiggle. Unless I take a rather circuitous route, there just isn't a way to get around having to go up more than 250 feet. I get the exercising bit, but I already get quite a bit of a workout on one of the Jump bikes.

The dockless bit has been a very big draw for me because the Ford bikes do not have docks out in my neighborhood and do not plan to in the near future. My neighborhood is also somewhat NIMBY: the local merchants association has been very opposed to the BRT project that is going to happen on the main street through the neighborhood because they claim that the decrease in car parking spaces and traffic will cause them to lose business. I wouldn't be surprised if they would resist bike docks as well. For now, dockless is a good short-term solution.

They're basically regular bikes, but with an electric motor that helps you with pedaling. Unlike a moped or motorcycle, you still need to pedal an e-bike to get it moving.

The Jump bikes in SF use 250W motors, which, when going uphill, is similar to having an extra person helping you pedal.

People should be a little more careful on these because these bikes can go pretty fast. That said, from my own experience using Jump bikes in SF, people on road bikes still zoom by me regularly on streets.

For what it's worth, I sometimes have trouble getting my Surface (one of the ones with Windows Hello) to recognize me when I'm in my apartment and the bright sun is shining through. I've never tried using it outdoors (not that the reflective glass would be encouraging of that), so I can't really speak on that.

> Is that not common?

It probably depends on what stage the company is in. My employer relatively recently went public, but we only have one choice of provider.

Given that the transition from magstripe to chip-and-sign hasn't been so smooth (confusion among customers and cashiers for a few months), I can see why we haven't moved towards it yet. Merchants would be more nervous about additional lost sales because of customers not knowing what to do or not being used to having to memorize PINs for their credit cards.

PINs really only just deter someone from physically stealing your card and then using it, so until card theft becomes a problem, I don't think we're going to be moving to chip-and-PIN any time soon.

(On the bright side, Android/Apple Pay are generally good enough to function as chip-and-pin: it's as secure as a chip card, and don't allow thieves to use your cards unless they're either sophisticated enough to get past the fingerprint sensor, or they know your passcode. It's just a bit awkward to set up.)

As far as I know, the only bank to offer a higher interest rate (for the entire balance--as opposed to the first X amount) is GS Bank at 1.05%. But I haven't seen anything higher.

Oh makes sense. I somehow read over that sentence.

Plants in arid environments have evolved a more efficient carbon fixation process -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation -- in response to decreased water in the environment.

Despite this, C3 plants still dominate the planet, so somehow selection pressure hasn't shifted strongly towards C4 plants in non-arid environments.

Also, I think it's generally not a good sign if you, as an individual investor, are able to get in at the offering price; it generally means that the big institutions didn't really want in on those shares, which wouldn't instill much confidence in the stock.

I just tested on 10.11 with rootless being disabled, and it prints out "not vulnerable".

I assume that if it doesn't work on 10.11, then rootless being enabled or disabled shouldn't make a difference. You still have a root user either way, it's just that if rootless is enabled, then the root user wouldn't be able to modify certain system directories, which could mitigate the consequences of such an attack if it did work.

An anecdote: at least when I was growing up, I didn't notice anyone under 18 with a debit card; most people used cash for purchases or borrowed credit cards from their parents when they wanted to go shopping on the weekend.

That said, I don't know if there are regulations here in the US concerning debit card age requirements, but from a cursory glance of a few US banks, it looks like children under 18 are allowed to get a checking account (and hence, a debit card) provided that they get a joint account with their parents. Perhaps the policy is different for teenagers who wish to separate finances from their parents for whatever reasons, but those are edge cases.

I really quickly hacked together a script (https://github.com/DanGe42/xkcd-1446-fetcher) to fetch every frame starting from the current one so I wouldn't have to keep the page open all night. There's not much more to it than a few modifications I made to Randall's client-side script to make it compatible with Node.js and write to the file system instead. Hopefully it doesn't crash overnight on my server.

For further reading on the subject, I recommend taking a look at The Checklist Manifesto (http://amzn.com/0312430000), written by Atul Gawande, one of the doctors mentioned in the articles.