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It was this company per the Wired article about the incident.

It's funny you mention air conditioning in NA - we are moving towards more insulated, energy-efficient homes which tend to mean much less air movement through the home. The problem with this reduced air movement is a reduction in humidity movement which can lead to mold and other health problems. As we improve our impact with our housing air conditioning actually becomes more important although not so much for temperature control as for humidity control.

Overall it would be fantastic if more of the population could be happier without the newest shiny and an eye towards the durable, the repairable, and the least impactful but it takes a lot of effort to incorporate that process. I don't think it can happen without a broader cultural shift, particularly by those with the most wealth (who many first-worlders want to emulate even if only in one small aspect).

Do these programs have an overarching name or a good reading point I could point others to? I think it's in the realm of the possible for me locally but I'm not going to be able to get it off the ground if I have to pull together success stories, plans, etc.

Not to mention how incredibly recyclable it is. In the US alone aluminum is made from scrap >30% percent of the time [1].

[1]: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/aluminum-statistics-and-in... (click on an annual PDF).

To save a search for those who might not know off the top of their head - New England is home to leading zero ZIP codes (e.g. 02122 for Boston).

They haven't broken ncpa.cpl just yet and it works back to XP.

The iPhone.

That's a little generous, but the rise of smartphones (and their data connections) brought widgets and gadgets to the handheld, with-you-everywhere device and a little advertising on top didn't hurt. The motivated persons who developed the gadgets for free or donation moved to apps because it worked better for them _and_ they were able to get some extra money on top.

Then you have MS playing catch up and trying to merge mobile and desktop in all the wrong ways with 8 and the userbase shrunk. What was left was OS X and I'm not sure what happened there.

I wonder if there is a disconnect for people who were brought up in butts-in-seats culture who then count presence at work for 10 hours as work despite possibly turning in 50-60% of that time producing something of value.

Then you have others who are more used to billable time or flex work or similar where they view that 5-6 hours (+ breaks and food) as an '8 hour' day and the two can't understand how the other manages.

Lucky is the person who can throw themselves at problems 10+ hours a day and look forward to going back to it the next day, I guess. I can easily and happily do that in the 6-8 range and feel proud of the previous day's work and be ready to do it again the next day.

I think it's also worth noting that many of those states allow cash discounts.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerc...

If the app or site isn't trying to sell me something then I don't see the draw. I understand the research around the marketing aspect but if I've already paid for something using a sleep() doesn't seem like it would make me trust something. I think I would rather ask why something is so slow (and doubly-so for anything on-prem which should be fast!).

If research shows users aren't sure if something happened then fix the UI to give some feedback to the user that their action was registered. This will likely involve a small delay even if it's just in the user's perception of the feedback but less than presented in the articles.

It's been much too long since I've run or participated in a UX study so maybe it's a good time to get back into it.

It sounds like you might eventually be able to write a kaitai struct [0] for the resulting format which would make it fairly easy to use the format in your language of choice.

[0]: https://kaitai.io/

I fully agree that an airline seat is more comfortable than bleachers but how do you put your bag under your seat - there's almost always someone else's feet or bag there?

Are you otherwise able to purchase those legs with points?

I understood your previous comment that you're already in a situation where it's taxed; I was thinking of someway to have it cost the advertising company money even if it only serves to have them put out the flyers on sunny days.

I was thinking more as tool for insurance and/or attempting to force the company to pay for the cost of an exterior detailing of your car since they plastered something to it (with the help of the weather).

In many US areas there are online police reports for minor incidents and the purpose of the report is almost solely so that you have a record for insurance.

It may also help if you call up the company (or publicly shame them with a tweet) to ask for reimbursement for the cost of a car detailer to remove their litter from your car without damage. Having a police report means you could put it all in the hands of your insurance company who have lawyers on staff or use it as part of the negotiation with the company.

Maybe enough police reports about a given company and you could petition the council to revoke that company's ability to flyer any longer?

I know I'm probably dreaming that it would make a difference. The only time I've had an experience with this a friend used twitter and got a public apology from the company along with some monetary compensation around the removal of the ink residue from the windshield.

Check out [1] - also the Melomanias are the closest I've found to wired quality headphones (and absurdly good battery life) that also are close enough to 'just working' but they were $99 last I looked.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21985320

Does this mean you can't wear in-ear monitor type things, e.g. memory foam tipped earbuds that stay in (I thought) through pressure in the ear canal?

They may have been though - there's talk of liquid helium tens+ of gigahertz (8-bit) processors being purpose built (in 2002). The National Cryptologic Museum next door to NSA HQ is a fascinating place and has some very cool displays to include a large disk changer and a piece of a cooling system. There's a PDF at [1] but the discussion at [2] I think might give a better idea.

[1]: https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/nsa/sta.pdf [2]: https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=485458&cid=22736288

File a police report for vandalism by the company?

There's often some noise reduction (the plastic may be backed in foam) to quiet down the direct injectors on modern cars. There's also an element of less weather-proofing required for the connectors underneath the plastic (or at least easier to undo/replace).

It's also certainly about aesthetics when the car is being sold new - you open the hood and knowing nothing about cars (or modern cars) you see lots of little piece and become concerned that there's lots of things that could break. You open a car that says "$BRAND" in a $30 piece of plastic and you think, "Nice, this is a simple, reliable, easy-to-maintain vehicle!" There may be some small effect from highlighting the typical user service ports as well (windshield washer fluid, oil, brake, coolant reservoirs).

I doubt it's the fact that they're American flying American planes as egregious accidents happen even in those sorts of scenarios (cf. Air France 447, French pilots, French plane, French carrier).

There's the NY Times Magazine article that reminded everyone of the word 'airmanship' [1] although it wasn't terribly well-received [2], [3] by some other pilots.

If you don't want to read all those, basically pilots in richer countries might be more likely to also be private pilots and more familiar with how an aircraft 'feels' that translates to a better sense of what's happening in larger aircraft. Combine a lack of that in poorer countries with the dumpster fire of Boeing's choices, crap replacement parts, and 'limited' training regimens and you have a fatal error chain forged.

The criticisms focus on the idea that heroic pilots who could recognize and avoid the situation probably aren't the norm. Further, there's often prejudice against pilots from developing countries even when they are competent; neither of these excuse the systemic failure and getting to the conclusion of "but for the pilots the crashes wouldn't have happened" is somewhere between insulting and reductive.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-c... [2]: https://medium.com/@elanhead/the-limits-of-william-langewies... [3]: https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/explosive-new-york-times-st...

Isn't this part of why postmaster and abuse addresses exist? Perhaps a WHOIS entry that was specifically for security issues?

In addition to all the siblings, government isn't always spelled with 'gov' so it would be useful to the subset of countries where those letters make sense. Compared to say Mexico with http://gob.mx .

If you want an all-in-one there are climate cabinets that keep separate cool air and hot air loops e.g. [1].

The downside is of course the price at >$5k for a 24U.

[1]: https://www.blackbox.com/en-us/store/Detail.aspx/ClimateCab-...

When you say 'reputable' IP do you mean non-residential or is something like AWS, Linode, etc enough?

Edit: duplicate to sibling, apparently I had this tab open longer than I thought.

If the illegal-ness later comes to light would a court consider evidence from the 'valid' warrant tainted? Always, sometimes?

In that case you as a citizen are allowed to enter, but whatever they're searching (phone, computer, etc) may be detained and you'll be given a receipt and (often) an opportunity to claim it at a later date.

That reminds me of my favorite MA fine - $1 for the first few times you jaywalk and $2 for the 4th and subsequent instances.

Interestingly there are 2 bills seeking to make it so the fine can go up or otherwise limit jaywalking [1] & [2].

> [...] Whoever violates any provision of any such rule shall be punished by a fine of one dollar for the first, second or third such offense committed by such person within the jurisdiction of the district court in the particular calendar year, and by a fine of two dollars for the fourth or subsequent such offense so committed in such calendar year. [...]

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Ch...

[1]: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3030 [2]: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3283

It's nearly as secure as going to the ATM to deposit the check and most banks are OK with the increased risk because they have extra identifiers (phone/app info) when you 'scan' the check. Which is to say the whole process is not terribly secure.

History wise it came about with the removal (or reduction) of check float when checks began to be processed electronically (turned into an ACH transaction with images of front & back being taken by the submitting bank). In the last TOS I read about check scanning what is actually happening is that your scanning of the check replaces the bank's scanning and they are using extracted data to create the ACH transaction. In the meantime they extend credit to you to match the amount they would normally advance you (varies by account and amount). It's been a while but I recall it being specifically credit as opposed to the usual 'available funds' at an ATM; this seems a distinction without a difference.

In the end - it's not secure or at least not much less secure than going to an ATM to deposit the check. The difference is that the ATM keeps the physical check for some small period of time such that if there is a problem with the ACH the bank might have physical possession of the check to assist in a fraud investigation (not that I think they'd need it as the law enabling electronic clearance I believe made the electronic images equivalent in all ways to the physical check).

The GP may also have had microphone and other permissions disabled for Google Play Services which can get cranky with fewer than full permissions.

Back in the Lollipop, maybe even KitKat days the maps app would save searches locally without web & app activity on similar to how the current gmail app keeps the last few searches locally even when you have web & app activity turned off in your profile.