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But don't economies of scale still say that you can improve prices for good tasting food by scaling up from the small farms? Maybe that just gets taken to the extreme year over year when people focus on constantly increasing profit.

I believe that this approach also used to work with the Chromecast.

I wonder why they aren't just using TLS and pinning certificates? I suppose they probably do, but furthermore want to ensure that they control the resolution of other services (e.g. Netflix) for the device.

The Unpersuadables by Will Storr. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114379-the-unpersuadab...

I found there were some very interesting and useful insights into the way our brain works. Disclaimer, I am only 2/3 the way through it.

They may have been embellishing that claim; however, I think what they were getting at is that in some situations using the chargeback mechanism can have wider repercussions. For example: if you are "ripped off" through Steam on a particular purchase and use a chargeback, they may shut down your account. In that case, you would lose access to all of your games purchased through Steam. Similarly, if you use a chargeback with a Google Play Store purchase you may lose access to your entire Google Account.

I wish I could even get my HP ZBook trackpad to function as nicely in Debian as it does on Windows. I probably need to dig in the Xorg settings, but the last two attempts saw me reverting to the defaults + Gnome tweaking, which seems to be insufficient regardless of how I tweak the simple options.

Please provide your trusted source then.

A lot of smart phones? Maybe I'm not a discerning enough Android fanboy, but none of my phones have had removable batteries:

* Nexus 4

* Nexus 5

* Nexus 6P

* Samsung Galaxy S7

* Samsung Galaxy S9

The only recent phones I was aware of with removable batteries were the LG G*, but I don't think the latest model of those has a removable battery anymore either.

The fob for my 2007 Altima with keyless start (not entry) has required at least one battery change since I inherited it and is now complaining that the battery is getting low.

I've had the same thought. Unfortunately at the rate we wipe out other species I don't know that they'll get the chance! But when debating conservation efforts for various species it does seem like there is the possibility that on one hand we could be allowing the extinction of a species on the cusp of "intelligence".

It's funny isn't it. I guess I don't try hard enough to find productivity-enhancing Vim plugins. I've tried various "Vim enhancement suites" intended to bring a number of useful plugins and had some success, but since I can't rely on them on new servers I find myself more often than not just using plain Vim.

Some other commenters in the thread have raised the point that having more supported functionality out of the box is a good selling feature. To me it seems that having it built it can (possibly) benefit from a more intentional effort to make it cohesive, whereas with many disparate plugins you have to encourage, force, or otherwise guide developers to build something that fits and behaves with the rest of the platform.

Maybe they will just deal with it as you did: fix it when it becomes a problem.

Hmm, is there a straightforward way to be a bit more careful without detracting from the usefulness? What about a default blacklist of commands with the ability to override it through a config file?

I remember this being a good apple in the past. Is it possible that modern practices of breeding and packing for shipping fitness have caused a decline in the quality?

People change; perhaps they had previously discovered terms in which monetization would be agreeable. Then when that monetization happened, the other party had a change of heart and no longer consented. If done in bad faith I could see that annoying someone.

Very interesting; I presume there is a way to determine the concentration of salts that "great many" represents. Would be interesting to compare with known halotolerant lifeforms' salt tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halotolerance).

Good to point out that iOS developers want a good solid laptop. It is definitely the case though that there are developers who don't/won't do iOS development but want a solid, well-built laptop with good components, good support, and good drivers. I have no idea if the Surface laptops fit that bill, but I assume they have lots of support from Microsoft.

I've been running a ZBook G3 with Debian 9 and have been having a pretty good experience so far. The laptop feels pretty good but I'm sure a MacBook Pro would be a step up in terms of hardware quality.

I completely missed Avatar: TLA when I was younger (it was a bit after my time) but have been watching it now as an adult and love this about it. My kids also got really into the conflicted nature of the "bad guys". They did a great job delving into the moral conflicts on both sides.

Also worth noting is that a bit of searching found this connection between Boeing and Lexington Institute:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/lexington-institutes-w...

"The Lexington Institute, in fact, is the one receiving money from a narrow corporate interest — Boeing."

EDIT: The only reason I looked for this connection was beacause the GP article was nicely written, long, and detailed, while the Lexington Institute seemed fluffy.

While I understand this sentiment, I think saying that you expect it to be scanning your entire computer is a bit of hyperbole. You expect it to be scanning your temporary internet files? Or DNS cache? Or your personal documents and pictures? I would expect those to be off-limits to a game library manager.

If you are saying that Steam was very upfront with its anti-cheat measures and that you agreed to it then so be it.

The linked article is a guide to "hacking" a $30 Xiaomi Dafang IP camera. This camera is an "indoor motorized WiFi camera capable of 1080P resolution and decent night-vision, its price is cheap".

If you bought one, all the "hacking" required is inserting a MicroSD card with a custom firmware on it and pressing and holding the camera's reset button to flash the custom firmware. From then on, the camera has the ability to boot from your MicroSD which can contain services that allow the camera to stream to local clients, among other things. More detailed instructions in the article.

Because of these issues I abandoned moving my family to G-Suite I had setup and instead use it for forwarding to our free Gmail. Not sure if we're missing out on anything much we would've had from the free tier of G-Suite.

Different strokes. Although, given a long enough period of working through assembly it might break the strongest of wills. I can imagine some people being very excited at setting up tests to ensure compatibility and watching them slowly going from fail to pass.

In Canada it's a semi-popular summer job to do tree planting for forestry companies. After the harvesters roll through and take process the mature trees you're left with a bit of a wasteland. Since the areas are highly managed there isn't a lot of natural young growth coming up to replace the harvested trees. Young people who aren't adverse to working long days and living/camping in tents for days on end walk these swaths of land with shovels on their back and bags of seedlings that they plant, and make good money doing so.

This is the scenario I see these drones as being useful for. The logistics of getting people on the ground in these remote areas can be difficult and costly.

Wouldn't have the same concerns for angry wildlife either!

What about allowing/respecting an Accept header in the Request? In @doh's case, if the client only specified Accept: application/protobuf that would override the default behavior of returning JSON encoded errors.

And mandating fences and sidewalks to give more visibility? Building codes that ensure there is visibility in all driveways? There probably are a lot of policies you could put in place.

Could be, although that was 2013 and this trademark was just filed: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4801:7o1...

Eclipse also had one (strangely called "Display"), though as with most things I found IntelliJ's a bit more user-friendly.

Anecdotally, we ended up with a Nissan Altima with CVT, the first automatic I had driven for years. I loved the CVT with its smooth transitions between gears and no loss of power. When we got rid of our other vehicle with a standard transmission and picked up a non-CVT automatic, I was stunned by how sloppy it felt. I hadn't realized or remembered how "normal" automatic transmissions behaved and it was very jarring.

I'm assuming the poster is pointing out that regardless of your political leaning, it might be naive to blindly trust these companies in their battle against "fake news" as it can inadvertently (or, purposefully) lead to censorship. Well, I suppose it is censorship in any case.