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i wonder how this would work when you are hired as remote, but your company has an office nearby?

+1 to Brother laser printer. i had mine for over 5 years and it still works great (i had to replace the original toner cartridge once). i recently had some smudges on printed paper and a quick chatGPT search later i was following Brother's troubleshooting guide which helped me get rid of the smudge (essentially showed me how to clean the print header). i even bought an updated printer for my parents whose old hp laser printer died after a firmware update (there are posts about it in their support forum).

I lost interest in Threads once their product guy said news is not a priority for them. One of the main reasons I use Twitter to catch up on world events from trustworthy sources.

Also earthquakes. Living in the California, I'm actually very impressed with Twitter's trending searches. I can always find few people tweeting about earthquake within 10seconds of an earthquake.

> Apple was one of the companies at the time that recognised the need for a safer, modern alternative to these languages. While no amount of compiler features can prevent you from introducing logic errors, they believed programming languages should be able to prevent undefined behavior, and this vision eventually led to the birth of Swift: a language that prioritized memory safety.

i'm pretty sure that's not the reason for the birth of Swift. Trying to access the 20th element from an array of 2 elements would cause a crash in almost all languages including Objective-C which Swift replaced.

+1. it's a toxic community and don't believe anything that's said on Blind. Glassdoor recently released their version of conversations called 'Bowls' and it's much better. less anonymous and more user friendly/meaningful conversations.

i wish 240V was more common. i can't charge my EV at a reasonable rate and it would cost me $15k+ to install a 240V in my detached garage (requires trenching).

man i went through the same thing. when Swift was introduced by Apple back in 2014(?) i pushed for its adoption as a senior engineer. when Apple introduced SwiftUI, I was like lets wait 2-3yrs and see how it goes before we adopt it and i'm glad everyone in my team agreed with me.

this was my gripe with Sonic which people love over here in the Bay Area. their trucks and billboards advertise $40/month for gigabit speed (this was a while back when i had them). they then charge you $10/mo for a phone line which i never installed but it was part of the package and there was no way to avoid it. the phone line brings in additional fees like 911 and other local taxes + the taxes on internet service and my bill was more like $62/month. $22 more than their own advertised price.

I would have gladly paid $62/mo for gigabit speeds but i felt like i was overpaying them by $22 because of their ads.

sigh. Android Sync was one of the best reddit apps i have used. it had tons of customization, never crashed, snappy, had multi-window support etc. Apollo on iOS was a distant second.

Volkswagen owns Electrify America the only competitor at scale to Tesla's supercharging network. they uses CCS and VW is one of the largest car manufacturers in the world. i think they can stand on their own. time will tell though.

The reason why they provide the payment infrastructure is because they can control everything end to end. Imagine if they allow payments outside the app and expect developers to pay 30% for those transactions. Yeah, that's not going to work. I don't think Apple/Google does payment infrastructure out of good heart. They just want to know how much an app makes and how much commission to take.

sounds like reddit want to kill all third party apps which is a bit unfortunate but this business practice is not very uncommon (Apple/Google with their 30% fees).

I mean that's a common knowledge, no? if the cost of raw materials goes up, manufacturers hike up the prices of the final goods and consumers pay for it.

i see. i didn't realize it was a 30 day notice which is pretty short.

we live 20mins away from Westfield mall but my wife and I rather drive down south to Serramonte or even Hillsdale mall (30mins+ drive). my wife doesn't want to deal with certain characters in SF downtown and i don't blame her a bit. i have seen my fair share of broken windows and general craziness in SF. i mean who wants to see a butt naked guy while shopping for a pair of jeans? pre-pandemic my colleague had the bad fortune of seeing someone taking a dump right outside Bart station.

can someone help me understand what's the core of the issue is? is it because they are now charging for APIs which used to be free? i hope that's the not the issue because that's not a sustainable business. third party apps can grow revenue using Reddit's contents and Reddit don't see a penny from them.

if the issue is the amount Reddit charge per call, why can't those third party apps charge their users more based on the API charge? the whole thing seems bit immature from both sides.

why can't reddit just give a 1yr grace period so 3p apps can update their pricing model to account for the new API prices? i know this is what I would do to avoid pissing off a massive use base if i were a decision maker at reddit.

i loved the HERE Maps when i had a Windows Phone. we navigated two countries in Europe without ever needing to turn on data roaming. this was back in 2013 i think? it was mind-blowingly good to navigate from one end of the country to the other end using just offline maps.

that's not true. it can navigate without internet as long as you have downloaded the maps ahead of time. i have definitely used it in a few parks including Death valley NP and it worked fine. maybe your download got corrupted somehow or expired?

> Compared to discord which feels near instantly loads whatever server/chat you click on (at least relative to teams).

except Discord sucks when you try to browse anything while offline. absolutely no caching whatsoever on their Android client which sucks. i try to load up some items to read while on the plane before take off and Discord is one of the worst apps to use while offline. the reddit client i use (Sync), Twitter, Chrome etc. does a good job of caching its contents for immediate use. Discord won't even load channels on the server let alone any messages.

i stand corrected. this is still 100x better than what we do in the U.S.

yep. same in UK i believe.

why is 6% drop in stock price such a big news these days? I'm sure it will be recovered in a few days. are they going to publish another article when it regains the lost value?

TIL but the California laws are very limited to a subset of items which are already cancellable nationwide. For example, you can always cancel your property insurance and get a prorated refund. OP was talking about hotel reservations which are not cancellable in California. I don't know the situation is in Brazil for cell phone plans but according to the link you posted, it's not cancellable.

that's not true. CMD + Shift + M mutes and unmutes your mic. you can also press Option + Space to temporarily unmute yourself.

that's weird. I was able to join the waitlist. maybe it's rolling out slowly across the globe?

someone posted this above but you can join the waitlist here https://bing.com/new

i wouldn't even call it a luxury car. it's a wannabe luxury car made out of poor materials and terrible assembly.

> The way luxury car brands usually do this is by slowly lowering the price, $1K-$2K a month, or offer incentives.

lowering the price for 2-3mos will make some people wait for next month to get it for a cheaper price. if enough people does that, it could affect their quarter.

i do like the incentives idea. if someone complains within x days, give them the same incentive or offer something else.

if you generate excess energy, can you store it for a later time when you need more energy (presumably summer time)?