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Statements like that pop up in quite a lot of programming blogs like these, they used to annoy me more until you realise it's less gloating and more naivety from the 16-21 age bracket with less "professional" experience.

Mozilla is definitely doing the right thing by reviewing the extensions, but the issue here is that were wrong, they found issues that didn't exist (such as claiming it contained obfuscated code and collected private data).

It appears the issues were found using simple heuristics (e.g they detected string pagead2.googlesyndication.com in a comment) and these detections weren't then manually reviewed as claimed, which is wasting everybody's time.

How long does the world-wide-web have left? It's always felt like it would be around forever, but at some point it will fade into obscurity like IRC has done. The golden age, I feel, has been gone a while, but "AI" seems like the beginning of the end.

"deliberate" and "horrible design mistake" aren't mutually exclusive (see: touchbar). I don't think anyone's suggesting Apple didn't recognise the conflict with charging and usage until after they'd made it.

Now we've reached the conclusion of this discussion with a good old "well that's just like, your opinion, man" I would like to add that the magic mouse is not as popular as their other peripherals. In fact, at least in the office I work in, people would rather use a £5 Amazon special than one of the spare Magic Mice laying around.

This applies to mobile apps a lot. If you're not careful (especially when using the iOS/Android simulators too much) you can create tiny awkward hit boxes for buttons that are difficult to tap with fingers

What happens if you plug in headphones into the 3.5mm jack?

I had some success making lenticular sheets using a 3d printer by printing a single-walled cylinder using a clear PETG, cutting it up and flattening it out using a heat gun. You can use the layer height to control "LPI". One problem is that it's double-sided, which reduces the quality quite a bit.

Definitely not some phishing attempt?

.sys files in Windows are usually drivers rather than configuration files.

Likely by convincing him to install some remote access tool. The scam is just your regular tech support scam.

Unrefined brown sauce.

Another SPAC bites the dust, why these aren't banned will remain a mystery...

Aren't we all paying for it anyway when we buy products from companies that spend that money on advertising?

They aren't fungible, but even for a high-end 512GB SSD, $200 is rip-off pricing. In fact, a top-end SSD range won't even offer 512 sizes because aside from not really being worth it, transfer-rate performance is lower with smaller chips.

HN has got worse in some places - I think size is the enemy of any community - but HN has comfortably sat behind the curve because it doesn't try to leave its niche. It is mostly outside forces that have changed HN (I.e growth of the general Internet population and big tech), whereas Reddit, etc try to change themselves (by changing their format and gamifying engagement)

Hmm, I do see some of my repos there, but only public ones. It would seem a bit too foolish of GitHub to put private repositories in a public dataset.

Is there any other corroboration or proof?

At an agency I worked for, one of the reasons firing shitty clients took so fucking long is because "xxxx $" always seems to include prospective figures from future sales that were perpetually just one signature away. It seemed that the personalities that made them act like cunts when anything went wrong were the same kind that would change their mind at the last minute and we'd waste even more time on proposals.

The headline seems a little clickbait and I don't think it's HN worthy just because it has Apple in the title. This is really a dull "pension fund investor sues company" with little to do with iPhones.

If I had a dollar for every time some slick SV website had a broken layout due to scrollbars, or tried to give me a seizure when scrolling with a mouse wheel, I might be able to buy a mac with more than 8GB of RAM.

Edit: To add a couple more: using system fonts without a suitable fallback, and not being careful with modifier keys when doing custom hotkeys

That privacy policy is so boilerplate, it still has

> © 2024 Brand Name

In the footer. I wouldn't trust this policy explains the full extent.

Hollywood does slow explosions too. Its kind of a funny meta-anachronism when CGI uses the slow firey explosions that I suppose are inherited from the limitations of practical effects using gasoline deflagrations.

YouTube has shown people real big explosions (Beirut, Tianjin, etc) and how vicious they are, but you rarely see a CGI shock wave.

Rockets too, RPGs are fast but movies have them sauntering through the air.

Latency is important because that 3MB isn't one 3MB transfer, its a tree of dependencies that can't be completely parallelised.

On high latency Internet with otherwise OK speed, pages of "only" 3MB can take several seconds to load.

This[1] (rather poor) article suggests that the owner had previous AI generated ventures self publishing on Amazon.

[1] https://www.glasgowworld.com/news/disastrous-glasgow-wonka-e...

A cheap 30day SIM with 2GB pf data can be had for £5-7 in the UK, so it sounds pretty terrible to me.

As I found out recently, these features are Geo-locked. Both Pixel & Galaxy phones have this functionality built into the Phone/Dialler app.

In the UK, despite that it's legal for individuals to record their own calls without any consent or notification to the other party, these foreign companies have decided that it's either illegal, or that we're just now allowed to use it, and the features are disabled.

The built-in options are therefore unavailable, and Google seems to have gone on a crusade to make sure these apps in the Play Store are nerfed or removed. APIs that apps could use to provide this functionality have been removed and the only option now is to use he accessibility APIs which involve manually installing apks, and dismissing scary warnings. I don't expect this will work for much longer.

Where's Stallman when you need him...

This covers the readonly filesystem, but doesn't cover the write protect flag that you can set on the microSD card itself[1]. The flag will configure the card's controller to drop any writes, and is thought to resist the corruption issues that can still occur even when the filesystem is readonly.

Also, creating a readonly root out of an existing disto is a bit of a pain, my preference is to use a distro (like TinyCore) that's already a readonly root.

https://github.com/BertoldVdb/sdtool

These are surely not purely client-side XMPP... clients, though? In order for you to receive push notifications, some server somewhere is connecting as you in order to relay the messages through GCM.

"Falsehoods blog writers believe about programmers."

Never fond of these articles myself either. One I read was "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" and part of the reason they annoy me the assumption that programmers create these requirements in the first place. Like... I believe that all users are simply identified by a GUID, it's someone else that wanted your first name, family name, pet name or whatever.

This one seems particularly weak though, the biggest timezone mistakes are usually made by users. We had a recent one where all the scheduling got fugged up because someone was changing the timezones to account for daylight savings. One of those things where I can laugh with my fellow programmers... "users, am i right XD", while secretly wondering how to improve the timezone selector UI.

I've seen this without mould too. I've left stainless cutlery in a stainless sink with just a little bit of water, and seen run form between the two.

How old is this site? I'm sure even in 2002 JPEG was a better option than GIF