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I had some black and white photos of my passed-away tuxedo cat, fully expecting this to produce a terrible result, but instead I was blown away by accurate and subtle colors added. Pinkish nose, ears, green eyes all came out of the photo.

Did the Bernie Sanders stump speech that is at the top of this thread link any of their bullet points back to NIMBY somehow?

What kind of motherboard can accommodate such a set up? There are not enough PCIe slots on many high end boards.

I know they came out with an LTE-enabled Forerunner 945 late in its cycle. I don’t know if they’ll add similar functionality to other models, but that’s one watch with that feature.

Personally that device never interested me because:

1) if I can rely on cell phone signal, I’m likely doing a quick and simple hike where I don’t have to worry about draining my cell phone battery in the first place, or

2) if I can’t rely on cell phone signal (much more likely), which is especially likely in the US wilderness, then if I’m doing something precarious in a remote setting I’ll have to bring a beacon and satellite communicator anyway. Like an InReach Mini.

The fact that Garmin is releasing even higher end watches without cell phone connectivity likely indicates there’s not a lot of people buying nearly $1k fitness watches finding that functionality compelling.

Obviously people doing this are likely too narrow a segment for Apple. Like, why would Apple care that I’m not buying their watch? I was just engaged by their headline marketing for this watch until I saw the specs.

Agreed. They say this is for explorers and adventure, but it seems like I’d be out of charge after the first segment of a backpacking trip. Need a map of an area for the return or the next day? Good luck.

He’s not performing well at work and you found out without any extra surveillance. I mean you didn’t even need to find his freelance gig, it seems irrelevant to what you should do.

This is called contextual advertising, fyi.

No it doesn't? I'm on Chrome right now and cannot pop out vimeo videos. Youtube appears to have a "pseudo" pop-out that I suspect is their own js-driven miniplayer thing. Just a fancy change to the DOM. You can't resize, drag the video around, or watch it from other tabs or with chrome unfocused/minimized.

My spouse (medicine) and several of my peers (journalism) have and they would disagree. Spouse has experienced both sides of the coin, and has seen better benefits and better pay in the unionized workplace than the non-unionized one. Very much the same story for my journo peers, but in their case, they unionized the workplace so the only variable that changed to improve their lifestyle was the introduction of a union -- not a change of location or management that a bad-faith FANG-worshipper would use to muddy the comparison.

I'm sure those aren't valid examples anyway, as the only unions that matter in discussions on this hellsite are the ones that also exist in Randian works of fiction.

> Another problem is people don't know any better. It's not like the average person has owned cars from all the major brands for enough time for things to go wrong with them. Most people own only a few cars over their entire life. I think this is particularly true with brands like VW. People just don't know any better and think it's normal for a car to be a money pit.

This is odd coming from a person who is making a sweeping judgment based on owning one car. My family and I have owned mk4, mk5, and mk6 VWs. Never had to bring any of them in for anything other than standard maintenance. I have a newish BMW now and my folks have a lightly used Mercedes. So far everyone's happy there too.

VWs also have a pretty corporate, standard chassis of parts that's reused across almost all of VW's and much of Audi's cars. There should always be cheap parts available from third parties given the number of models interchanging the same parts under the hood. BMWs (and probably Mercedes too) definitely are more expensive to repair and maintain. IMO they tend to over-engineer, and that comes with both good and bad consequences.

Ads create a twisted profit incentive that counters what Telegram wants to be, even if Telegram only pursues a privacy-friendly ads experience at first. Sell functionality, storage, customization, or digital assets. I know Discord doesn't _just_ make money off of these things, but that revenue stream is a compatible option for Telegram.

Hard to live up to the expectation of being a good mother and spending months on an oil rig at the same time.

So I like coding in linux too. I absolutely prefer it over anything else; but, lately my ubuntu distro has not been able to wake up from suspend so I force a reboot when I get back to my computer after a prolonged break. And I was pretty intentional about not futzing around with X11 and third-party graphics with this distribution specifically to avoid this kind of thing happening and have a long-term Linux OS.

I also recently got a bluetooth adapter and found out I simply cannot turn on bluetooth. When I was younger, I had more patience to hack around with things until they work exactly as I like, but I'm surprised that I'm still encountering issues like these in 2021 on a desktop-focused OS.

I wish other OSes followed the unix philosophy more. I wish I could separate the windowing manager from the desktop in OS X, and have more extensive customization options over everything. It'd be nice if Windows had as nice of a filesystem organization story as any linux distro.

Full disclosure: I own about $11 worth of bitcoin if I round up a bit, so this might be biased.

The most convincing "point" of bitcoin I've heard is to accomodate transfer of large sums of money across borders, quickly, with minimal transaction costs and oversight. Everyone here can afford the fee to transact 8 billion dollars worth of bitcoin. And settlement happens in seconds to a couple minutes. That's appealing to people trying to move millions or billions of dollars around.

Shooting the computer does not erase uploaded evidence of criminal activity.

That's like saying Amazon was actively helping hackers when your app allows anyone to log in when it can't connect to a passwords table in a shut down DynamoDB instance.

Twilio shut down the account and Parler decided to pass all verification attempts instead.

a: no, b: yes.

Did it 4 years ago. Saved a backup of my data, deactivated, and then completely deleted. Yes there will always be a reason to have facebook around, but 4 years on, missing out on all those little reasons people use to defend facebook didn't end up materializing in any meaningful inconvenience or obstacle to living without it.

Lever has been down for about the same amount of time as well (job recruiting platform).

I tried to spin up a repl.it session for the first time yesterday, with the intent to hack on clojure solutions to Advent of Code 2020. After a while I just got pretty frustrated battling the editor's default/only formatting settings. Maybe I missed something, but they seem badly mismatched to how clojure code (and I'd say lisp generally) is normally formatted, it felt like writing clojure in a javascript editor.

His and his spouse's fields are Finance and Medicine, respectively. I don't know about his specific workplace, but it can be tough to adjust to a conservative culture in medicine fields if you're not used to it. I am close with someone who has plenty of issues with the medical culture here, with other doctors at the hospital showing treatment bias against uninsured patients and those who are drug or alcohol users. It's like they forget that addiction is a disease. If you use marijuana, you will be treated like an addict regardless of your actual pattern of usage. It will be noted as a problem on your chart and you will be asked to stop using it. This is a recurring pattern with patients in a very legal state. It also takes longer to get social services to help uninsured/poor patients hooked up with the right programs compared to how it was in MA. State politics still has an impact on the city, and in fields like medicine, a lot of your day-to-day processes and rules are forced upon you by state legislatures and boards. The cities are not islands in the middle of the ocean. This is the kind of abrasive right-wing culture that's hard to operate in when you take the Hippocratic Oath seriously.

That experience at the Nashville AirBnB was something that felt straight out of a thriller flick, but I totally do agree that it was a one-off experience slash fun story to tell now. First thing I heard after waking up was this preacher dude talking about people being condemned to eternal fire and whatnot, and it kept going for a while. We had several gay people and almost all atheists in the house so it's a bit scary thinking about what these others would do to you if they found out who you are. It's disturbing that this is what people indoctrinate themselves with. It's a one-off/anecdotal experience though.

10-20 years ago places I lived and remembered being quite heavily snowy in the winter just get a bit of dusting at best now.

New England has lost over 600 ski areas. There are fewer and fewer places with good enough conditions to grow coffee (a shame as I feel like the culture around fine coffee is just now coming into existence in the US). Enjoy oysters, clams, and scallops while you can as ocean acidification is killing them in droves. As soil heats due to global warming, it releases carbon dioxide, accelerating these effects.

I don't think the world is the same for anyone working in these industries or in tourism. Folks on HN are also generally isolated from the effects of the kinds of droughts that caused the Arab Spring, or from having to home refugees of climate change whose islands are disappearing to the rising sea levels.

clojuredocs[0] has some good examples. I more often use when-some or if-some over when-let or if-let, mainly because I'm processing over collections and I want to do something to the result only if the collection isn't empty (and the function I want to call doesn't like being called with nils or empty collections).

Ultimately it's a convenience macro. Saves you a nesting level.

[0]: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/when-let

It started much longer than 10 years ago. On slashdot, it was pretty much the only way I've ever seen Microsoft referred to.

I’ve been wishing for dark mode for all 6 years I’ve had my MacBook Pro, so I’m pretty happy with that alone. I also have next to no qualms with OS X in its current state so I’m pretty easy to please. I will say that the hardware quality on the other hand has taken a nosedive lately.

He clearly must have had a buggy experience elsewhere before.

I switched from android to iOS about 2 years ago as well, and I see my spouse use android all the time. All those flows you speak highly of look like bloat and a barrage of buttons to me. There are notifications you can’t dismiss, and the notification styles themselves almost always clash with the theme unless they come from google-developed apps. I like the clean look. You also describe a lot of features that are exactly or nearly identical on iOS (like responding to a message in the notification).

This looks awesome. Really useful tooling + gorgeous interface + clean fonts. Mozilla's looking pretty good lately.

Honestly this kind of makes me want to join Nextdoor just so I can find and call out anyone in my neighborhood who behaves like this.

Yep. At this point I’m burned out on google products and moving on. No way would I commit more data to google for something they’ll abandon when the person who used this project as their resume builder moves on to the next job.