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This is especially annoying when it hops onto a 1 bar xfinity WiFi that barely works at all, or one that I just passed by at 60 mph, instead of just using 4G. I could never get my S6 to stop connecting to them, even after doing "forget this network". Thankfully I've replaced it.

I understand what they're going for, but I'd rather have some kind of app manage it in such a way that it requires a certain strength and for me to be in the vicinity for more than a microsecond.

The issue is that it is presented as if it is actual, current gameplay.

I don't think anyone would have an issue if there was a giant watermark that said "CONCEPT" across ones that are no where near being represented in the final product yet, but it obvious that these companies are being intentionally deceitful.

In all honesty I don't know how anyone can make 60$ purchases on games without seeing what it looks like. I can't comprehend it at all. Preordering was never even a question for me even before all of the recent issues with it. I just cant understand the mindset for anything other than cult-like franchises.

I can only imagine, with contempt, the cube jockey who figured out that distributing game demos was bad for their bottom line.

The flickering thing has always made me feel bad for my dog and dogs in general. My entire office room is monitors/TVs and I can only imagine what she sees, like a rave 24/7. But she will still sleep in here when she can go anywhere else in the house.

Fortunately I don't work with any electronics. I never had the patience for dealing with PCBs or even breadboards.

Some of the Harbor Freight stuff is great. For wrenches and ratchets that get pushed to the limit though I'll exclusively use one of the more pricey brands just out of fear of slamming my knuckles after a tool snaps. Its one of my biggest fears working on anything even after having it happen with minimal damage enough times. For everything else I'll use whatever is closest.

This is just SnapOn's attempt to get you to buy a 50$ 12" prybar. Also to stop you from sending your screwdrivers back on the truck every week.

But who cares, they're replaced for free and delivered :)

Ask a random nine-year-old to create a Word document. If triviality is your concern, everyone is at some point required to learn Word. It is quite literally one of the first software anyone in the US is introduced to. You are absolutely guaranteed to encounter it at some point K-12 or and in college. Random markdown syntax and git, not so much. The idea that you are going to dictate how you communicate to and share with the rest of your organization (sales, marketing, compliance, legal) because of an affinity for software related tooling is laughable.

All of those things are collaborative. Project managers aren't going to learn how to edit those documents. Sales guys aren't going to start including their bits with markdown and the marketing team isn't going to fiddle with images in markdown.

Its a solved problem, I don't see why you would want to engineer so much around such simple tasks for the only reason seemingly to be not using Microsoft.

I've seen anything and everything passed around in Excel.

Project timelines, infrastructure descriptions/allocations, working on systems that allow users to deposit parts of their workflows via spreadsheets (financial related), some RFPs come and are returned in Excel form.

I can't speak to any exceptions but I personally use Word and Excel semi-daily.

I also believe there are a variety of people on HN beyond traditional strictly software devs. DevOps, Cloud-related (myself), Product Managers, Project Managers and the like.

My main use cases for MS Word is RFP responses, architecture descriptions, requirement definitions. Neither of those options would satisfy that an an inter-operable way with the rest of the relevant people.

I guess if you're purely writing code all day then I could understand never needing productivity suites, but I assume most roles have either customer-facing or organizational interactions beyond consuming Jira tickets.

Using a database and scripting is overkill for 90% of things and is just over-engineering a problem that spreadsheets already solves well and are understood by the people who are meant to read them.

Word and Excel are probably worth running Windows/Mac over Linux GUI alone if you have to spend any time in them, which I do in a non-Microsoft stack for business-related things. I'd imagine most people have to spend some non-negligible time in these.

O365/open source office products come nowhere close.

I have an Alfa Giulia and the knobs are amazing. It is always in reach of my hand since they are located right in front of the gear shifter and flipping through the menus became intuitive after a couple hours. No fingerprints is an added bonus. I don't have the nav option, so inputting addresses or other long things might be cumbersome (but likely unnecessary with Android Auto or the Apple version).

Image of the controls for those curious: https://car-images.bauersecure.com/pagefiles/85459/alfa_rome...

The large round dial is used for most of the menu navigation. The small one to the right is for changing radio station/tracks and volume.

By comparison, my fiances Jetta's touch screen was pretty cool when we first got it. But then noticing how unresponsive it was, misclicking, and dirty it gets I don't think I will go for a touch screen again personally.

I'd be curious if there is any correlation to people's daily routines being disrupted and then having any sympathy for the protester's cause.

I mean, who is going to get stuck in the air for an extra hour, land, and say "man, those guys are right".

At worst, it would just make me feel contempt for them. At best it just invigorates the people who already were on their side.

Although which Amazon product wasn't specified, the AWS console is a shining example of something that does micro frontends badly.

To your point about respectable customers using the API, according to Amazon the majority of customers use the web interface for most things. I forget the number mentioned at the AWS Summit, but it was significant.

Even I work full time on AWS and do most provisioning via API actions, but still end up in the console tracking down various things since the API is very cumbersome.

The AWS console is a jarring experience due to this and, in my opinion, not very well done. Every service has a different theme and it is generally ugly.

From a business standpoint, I doubt many people are turning away from them just because of this though.

This seems to be on par with most other store cards, for example a card from Best Buy.

The answer is probably that it is a service that banks and everyone else who uses the scores has decided is worth paying for. If finance institutions wanted to do all the legwork or just decided the credit score was useless they would probably just not request scores from them.

Just my thoughts though, no source to back it up. I'm not aware of any mechanism that requires organizations to use the credit scoring companies.

Well he was half in my lane by the time I overtook him without telegraphing his intent. Truck drivers are some of the worst drivers on the road, at least in the US. Though fatigue is probably a large factor.

Happens often on interstates. Only a couple days ago my only option was to get ahead of a semi that was intent on merging into my lane. The other option would have been to brake and hope I can decelerate fast enough to get out of the way of his entire trailer, and the traffic behind me doing 80 would have been a problem.

Is this outside of NA? I've never seen this feature in the US.

When you say speed limiter are you referring to cruise control? Or an actual speed limiter that won't let you go over X kph with your foot on the pedal?

If the latter, it seems like a strange feature to have/want.

I struggle with this when everyone outside of tech asks me what I do.

My answer always changes since I haven't narrowed down a way to describe "cloud engineering" to people.

I've heard this saying before and every time I think, "maybe I don't know what I do".

Unless your goals are physical in nature(I want to be able to check the mail again or otherwise return to a level of mobility, become a body builder...etc) I see very little benefit.

"I want to not die, and if I must, preferably at a later date." About sums it up.

It is a fun way to mess with your friends who use speaker phone to talk to you while at home.

Why is aircraft pilots so high? I'm assuming it isn't just commercial airline pilots?

I wonder if there would be any merit in replicating the experience on a fully remote team.

Maybe something like everyone schedules Slack video calls once a day with a random team member. Or a quick Flask app to output a schedule for the day.

That may be partially true, but there is a grounded sense of accountability in any case. I'm sure you can find issues and your occasional booger eater with any restaurant but, in my experience working in such places, typically those jobs are micromanaged in the sense that the entire routine is choreographed from start to finish to save costs and reduce liability.

We can see egregious examples of displacing any form of accountability in the gig economy to the point that they are already immediately met with distrust and disdain when they encroach on another market.

I was never super into Java development. I started working in 2014 and was introduced to Weblogic, Jenkins, huge Maven POMs and all the rest, then went into Cloud consulting. When I sit down to do anything I get so wrapped up in all the stuff that comes along with Java and feel like I have to use some huge IDE like Eclipse (I hate) or IntelliJ (I <3 U Jetbrains) to do anything "real".

If I could just write code and have a simple package manager like NPM or even Go packages and not be hindered by trying to get VScode to work I would never look back. I just waste so much time trying to understand the ecosystem. I know that isn't a great excuse (not wanting to take the time to become an expert on tooling), but people who came into the professional space in the same time frame likely also just see it as an obvious path to just avoid all the cruft.

What I really want is to get a "lite" Java project like this up and running with all of the smart people's opinions in place that I can develop entirely in a lite editor (preferably without XML anywhere). Maybe something like Spring Boot would solve that but I have not investigated that yet.

Except for literally causing financial harm to the elderly that they prey on. With email there has always been extra scrutiny, after all it is the tech literate who were and are most likely to use email. And by literate, I mean can turn on their computer and visit Gmail. I doubt we will see the similar scenario with email due to spam being commonplace since the beginning.

Not to mention every other person is actively bothered in the real world by a real alarm instead of just scrolling past while checking their email. Email spam vs robocalling is not even comparable in terms of the effects. I miss real phone calls from people, such as job offers, due to spammers forcing me to send everything to voicemail. I'm not a hateful person by any means, but I honestly wish the absolute worst on anyone who is behind scamming robocalls purely due to the amount of minor annoyance built over time.