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I dealt with an addition for several years. Maybe you don’t need to change who you are, but some of us do need to.

If you use Gmail, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through. If you use Outlook, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through. If you use Yahoo, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through.

If you use virtually any email provider this is true.

This is quite mind-boggling. Thanks for sharing.

I just wish the bureaucracy in so many levels of government was vulnerable to change. It seems like bureaucracies are quite resistant to change because the system fundamentally lacks a structure for improving itself. It reminds me of how GM's poor management style and lack of respect for its workers led to labor strikes and entire facility shutdowns. Eventually they teamed up with Toyota to form a new facility [1] that used Toyota's style of continuous improvement. They managed to increase production while making workers happier to work there, in part because management listened to employees at all levels and empowered them with the tools to directly influence change. A worker thought a part could be made faster a different way? Perfect, just show a team leader and send it up the chain. Constant improvements were being rolled out and it was the respect for the individual's capacity to think that drove the improvement IMO.

I wish we had levels of government that worked the same way. Dedicated pathways for suggesting, researching, and implementing organization-wide improvements that can change everything, even the structure of the organization itself. Seeing our lack of reasonable governance just frustrates me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

> I think you're misunderstanding the point of these apps

Reminds me of the "Why are you trying to do this?" reply that is almost automatic on Stackoverflow, lol

This is very much up for debate. Elected officials actually have free postage and can send letters if they need to. Not only that, they likely enjoy direct access to their local news networks and can broadcast messages through that avenue. Most have email lists, and can send interested constituents updates through that platform. Most also have websites on official .gov accounts where they could host press releases as well.

Not everyone has a Twitter account, and I think you need to seriously reframe your perspective if you think it is the cure-all for delivering news to constituents.

- Completely redesigning their UI two times over, - Launching a subscription-based service (which seems to make it the first social media network without ads) - Lengthening tweets to 280 characters - Letting users make money off their following (super followers)

I'm confused as to how any of this makes it stagnant.

So many people compare twitter to the national government (even Elon) and make the case that their censorship is akin to a violation of free speech. I would say they need a civics class more than anything.

But in terms of a nationalized social media network, I can't imagine it going well. The lack of innovation in the government would probably mean the site gets overwhelmed and taken down shortly after it was made.

Very much so!

I really love how certain execs spend the time to read and respond to their emails. Tim, Craig, and all the C-level employees must be incredibly busy, so it's pretty refreshing to see that they're responsive.

> About a decade ago, Columbia University scientists proposed that a different type of UVC light, known as far-UVC light, would be just as efficient at destroying bacteria and viruses but without the safety concerns of conventional germicidal UVC.

Why does everyone keep calling this "new"? I've seen it published in articles seemingly everywhere within the past few days. It's not a new technology; Boeing was prototyping this in their fleet several years ago[1].

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeings-self-cleaning-lavatory-...

A Verge article written about a YouTube video. Interesting how authors get their content these days haha.

An interesting article, but I do wish we would see the 'inevitable' ending of Putin's hold on Russia happen soon. All I see are opinions on how Russia is being brought to its knees from sanctions and how it is crushing underneath the pressure-- and yet Ukraine is still being invaded with more and more force.

What are you talking about? This article is praising Apple for a smooth feature rollout. He gave a rather honest mention of an older botched rollout, but I don't see any bashing at all.

But they do? Each version of macOS is numbered. We're on macOS 12 right now.

I agree. If we get to that point I feel like the world won't be worth living inside of.

0 links provided, point dismissed

I've heard nothing but bad things about the housing market in California. It makes sense that development is going to be hard when you have so many stakeholders for each and every plot of land, but still.

I remember reading about how single individuals and families will sue entire developments and usually succeed in stopping them [1]. Can't imagine the frustration that developers and government officials have to deal with.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-...

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It's not a security measure because the original comment spoke about how they couldn't even search for the login inside of the autofill icon. I've had that issue too and it's very frustrating. Yes, it makes sense not to show it by default, but to disable any sort of search functionality inside of their new autofill UI is annoying.

Edit: This was not an issue before 1-2 years ago when they pushed massive feature updates. It used to be Ctrl+\ or Cmd+\ to autofill and boom, the login was filled. But NOW they have decided to drop a "1Password X" browser extension that throws itself into every single login item on the web and constantly harasses the user any time they use keyboard shortcuts to navigate. Typing an email address and see your Firefox/Chrome/Safari autofill show up with a dropdown of emails to choose? You can't even use the arrow to go down and choose one; 1Password X will rear its ugly head the minute you hit the arrow down, and it'll either prompt you to autofill something or save what you just typed into 1P.

...they're not? The commission still goes to Apple.

It causes developers to raise prices, which hurts the user. The user does not know why the prices went up, or that they can purchase outside of Apple for a significantly cheaper price.

It's also not right to say that this is fine since users still use Apple. Remember when Apple said they would introduce CSAM scanning into iOS? Was their entire userbase going to ditch them and move to Android? Definitely not. But they still retracted the move after constant negative press coverage and outrage from consumers. Some of us still want to use these platforms but are upset at Apple precisely because they can change.

I prefer to use library genesis. No nonsense PDFs of entire books.

The part that confuses me is why someone would think the SpeedCrunch implementation is correct:

Say again that you have 1/3x. This is implicitly stating 1/3x. However, no parenthesis are used, and multiplication & division are on the same level in the order of operations, so the expression gets evaluated sequentially from left to right.

If you have 1/3(9.8), evaluating the parenthesis gives you 9.8. So you now have 1/39.8. The expression inside the parenthesis gets evaluated first, then the final result is just multiplied by whatever precedes or succeeds the parenthetical if no other term is given. So 1/3+(9.8) would obviously evaluate to be 1/3+9.8.

Again, if the parenthesis aren't enclosing operations within themselves, then they shouldn't modify the way you'd evaluate the expression. I've had this problem with SpeedCrunch many times over and wish they would update it. Still the best desktop calculator IMO.

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Not at all. Many of the people from Reddit are specifically applying using local zip codes, local addresses, and local area code phone numbers. Kellogg is going to have a massive headache trying to sort through these imo.

Edit: One thing I didn't think of was application source IP address. It's possible the ATS records that info when an app is submitted, so they could possibly delete bogus records that way but I'm no ATS expert and this is literally just my own conjecture.

Regardless, I can't see how anyone could fathom prosecuting thousands (if not millions?) of participants in a DDOS attack and actually being successful.

Google's 2FA is very frustrating to say the least. The forced use of a mobile device with a Google app installed as my primary 2FA device is nothing if not annoying-- I already have 1Password set up in the browser to autofill 2FA codes. Google doesn't seem to like this because after sign in I always have to wait for the prompt saying "open the google app on your phone", then scroll down and click "try a different way" and THEN click a selection to enter a 2FA code. Very very frustrating.

I've never heard of this before. Are you talking about services like Apple pay, arcade, tv+, fitness+, icloud+?

This is what I don't understand about their plan. Who on earth is planning to adopt this? We've seen a push from all sides of the tech industry to open up the AR/VR space, and it never took off.

Remember the Snapchat Spectacles? They still sell them but I don't think they were ever popular. Google glass? Popular, but discontinued. Apple's ARKit? Definitely much less adoption than their commercials would have led you to expect.

It seems like this is an experiment bound to fail, so good luck to the execs at f̶a̶c̶e̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ meta who have to clean this up in the end.

The issue of subscriptions gets worse --not better-- if there are more companies competing for subscription revenue. Having to use more than one service to manage all your subscriptions would make things even more of a headache, so I don't see how consumers would benefit.

Ex. if a 3rd party makes their own subscription management that somehow allows you to cancel subscriptions faster than Apple does, maybe that is more convenient, but now you have to figure out which of your services work with that provider and likely would have to use both as neither could offer you everything you wanted. I understand how the idea of competition for revenue could incentivize better management from the likes of Apple and others but I just don't think the market for this will be competitive at all.

OP is quite literally blaming the user.

I hear you, 100%, but as a longtime Apple and iCloud user I have been through the absolute ringer when it comes to iCloud and have little faith in it operating correctly.

1. About 3 years ago, there were empty files taking up storage on my iCloud account, and they weren't visible on the website so I couldn't delete them. All it showed was that an excessive amount of storage was taken up. Apple advisors had no idea what was going on and my entire account had to be sent to iCloud engineers to resolve the issue. They never followed up, but it took months for these random ghost files to stop taking up my iCloud storage.

2. Sometimes flipping them on and off a lot causes delays in the OS and then you have to kill the Settings app and re open it to see if they're actually enabled. Back when ATT was just being implemented, I noticed it was grayed out on my phone every time I was signed in to iCloud, but was completely operational when I was signed out. Many others had this issue and there was literally no setting to change within iCloud; it was a bug that engineering literally acknowledged to me in an email (they acknowledged that it happened for some users and fixed it in a software update).

Screwups happen in an increasingly complex OS and I just feel that there will be a day when this type of bug surfaces in addition to everything that already happens to us end users.