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Ah thanks for finding the name, I tried to describe it in an older comment [1], on the same topic of Framework laptop expansions.
Agree with you, I hope such a version exists one day!
And during a brief period, I also had a windows phone, where you could say "Call Cortana". Cortana was registered as a fake contact behind the scenes, and all it would do is trigger the Cortana assistant through that phone call. You'd then tell Cortana what you wanted, and it had much better voice recognition and capabilities than Sync, so it did what you wanted 99% of the time. It was pretty cool.
Of course it was annoying and a waste of time as you had to always make that call first, but I'm glad the engineers on Cortana remembered that "all problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"!
The terminal was unresponsive and displaying the following error: "cannot connect to mainframe" (This was in 2019).
Specifically, how to make the sum of all monitored "pillars" more useful than each of them individually.
3 major pillars being:
- Metrics (whether application or higher-level of the stack, like OS)
- Logs (whether structured or unstructured)
- Traces
Observability is these major pillars and how to easily "jump" from one to another to very quickly identify the root cause of an issue. I.e. go Metrics <-> Logs, Logs <-> Traces, or Metrics <-> Traces,
For instance, with good Metrics, one can easily figure out & get alerts when there is a large spike of 500 errors. But when Metrics & Logs can work together, one can easily see the exception from stack trace that are emitted with those 500 errors.
Similarly, with good Metrics, one can easily figure out that the frontend service latency p90 has increased by 5x. But with Metrics & Traces working together(for instance via Exemplar[1]), one can look at a bunch of the traces that have a very high latency, and identify the upstream service responsible for this increase.
With Monitoring only, you could get a nice Metrics solution in place, with fancy alerting rules, but all it was good at is informing you "Something bad is currently happening". With a good "Observability" setup, you should also be able to change it to "Something bad is currently happening and the root cause is right here."
[1] https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/basics/exemplars/
I definitely filter those out.
About once every 6 months the tweets "liked" by people I follow pop up again, it's usually very noticable as the feeds quality turns down dramatically.
To get rid of those, I do the "..." > "I don't like this tweet" > "show fewer likes from XYZ" on 2 or 3 tweets, and they're all gone for another few months.
It's not ideal, a settings menu where you can disable those permanently would be far better, but it works.
That's funny I remember laptops from the 2000s with those swappable cards with different ports.
One I distinctly remember because it was clever way to keep the card ~3mm thin were the Ethernet cards, where the Ethernet port was hidden inside and you'd press it to make it pop, similar to handleless kitchen cabinets.
I found a picture of those on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card The framework expansion port seems to be a 2021 version of this, although I don't know how standardized these new ones are.
EDIT: From the framework's configuration page:
> > Will you be adding additional Expansion Card types?
> Yes! We'll be adding new Expansion Cards over time, and we're also opening up the design to enable third parties and community members to create their own versions. We'll be making these available in the Framework Marketplace
That's awesome, then in theory Ethernet expansion card could exist (and use similar design to the PC cards above, where the Ethernet port can be retractable)
You can basically take 101 intro course of any field from great universities. And if you want to go deeper, the advances courses on a university's page usually have syllabus, with recommended readings etc.
It's basically like a coding whiteboard interview, but instead of being asked to invert a binary tree, you're asked a math question (proof of something, etc)
It doesn't seem to be the main reason, otherwise how can you explain Sublime text popularity prior to VSCode?
The tunnels and their exits next to interstate highway already exist per the article, so at this point the construction costs are assumed to be negligible (compared to a "$2.6 billion and take thirty years to build" system quoted in [1])
it would be used exactly like it was in Seattle: as a shortcut through the city for some routes. The bus retains all its advantages outside the tunnel, it's basically an underground dedicated bus lane.
If really popular then it can get upgraded to a real train, like it was done in Seattle.
> The DSTT was used only by buses from its opening in 1990 until 2005, and shared by buses and light rail from 2009 until 2019
That's 15 years with bus only, then 10 years of shared bus/train.
In this case, Buses can drive in the underground tunnels that were built for this subway, can't they? Seattle did it for many years until they replaced it with trains: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etT_wVuKy_I
In that case, the only thing slowing down the bus is speed limits, which are probably a bit lower than a train, since train would be safe on rails, but still I wonder why they didn't use that given that the tunnels are here and in good condition
Why not use buses in those tunnels as well? Maybe there is no traffic jams above ground?
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Seattle_Transit_Tun...
You can use QWERTY with accents very easily with "International keyboard with dead keys"[1]. You can configure OS to switch keyboard with Alt+Shift to have the regular QWERTY and the International-QWERTY when you need it.
[1] https://web.cortland.edu/ponterior/keyboard/#:~:text=The%20U....
Completely agree, that would make the experience more user-friendly for the person looking to rent.
This is an AirBnb platform issue, not necessarily a owner "scam".
Not a trivial engineering problem as the dynamic price based on length of your stay can't be cached easily as base-price-per-night, and I assume caching prices per listing is what makes the map quick to load and responsive, but it'd be a welcome change!
I'm not sure I follow here, the cleaning fee is announced before you confirm the booking isn't it? In a way it's similar to airlines having cheap tickets to then adding seat-choosing fee, bagage fee, etc. The initial low price is slightly deceptive to appear cheaper on aggregators, isn't it?
Here the "scam" is they use same deceptive practice to appear cheaper on the Airbnb map?
For any serious booking, people explore their options and open a few tabs of different listings to pick, since they have to check other things (smoker/non-smoker, pets/no pets, etc). The cleaning fee for the trip is listed there.
Some owners prefer long term stays, so putting a flat higher cleaning fee is a good mechanism to incentivise longer stays imo, as yes, cleaning is time consuming.
Maybe the Map itself could improve to show the total price for the trip instead of base-rate-per-night.
I like it especially when it's a single URL as OneNote automatically appends a snapshot/screenshot of the page in the note itself, so even if coming back to it much much later, less risk of the original webpage being 404 not found.
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-email-to-send...
Which other key do you miss now that Esc is back?
1) Getting a mobile phone number seems much more difficult than getting an email. It provides some amount of country verification: If a service runs for let's say Danish people, then they can expect the phone number to be a +45.
2) taking over someone's email seems much more easy than taking over someone's phone, since many people reuse same password everywhere, then if you already have the password of the service requesting the OTP, good chance is that you also have the email password. The email address is not hard to find if attacker has password to the first email too. Hoping for security by obscurity (i.e. the 2nd email is now a "secret") isn't great.
3) physical security: without sophisticated attack, SMS can only be received on the actual user mobile phone, even if a phone with no passphrase. "If the phone is stolen" isn't a realistic scenario against a scammer on another continent.
Also from a theoritical point of view: it's a completely different communication channel, so if someone has somehow taken over the first channel (via some malware running on the email client/computer), then they still need to take over second channel. So for instance, if a USPS snail mail wasn't so slow (or you don't need the OTP code right away), even if really insecure, it'd be better than 2nd email, as it follows same benefits as SMS.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-... is a great resource on the subject.
You can be fully Server-side (regular php), you can do full JS client-side rendering, and you can have hybrids that mix both.
There are many other tutorials online from various sources which use different machines (sewing machine, 3d printers, etc), so people can improvise based on what they have.
The PDF shows detailed price breakdown for materials of ~$5/mask and estimates 10 minutes per mask, since of course it's diy, there's a lot of warning labels, but it's better than nothing. If people can produce ~40 masks per day using basic tools, this can scale based on the availability of raw materials and tools.
I grew up in France and drank milk without problem my whole life, but when moving to the US, I started noticing dry-patches on my arms, and digestive discomforts after breakfast.
It took me a while to pinpoint the root-cause, but after some experimentation, I figured out it was either the whole-wheat bread, or the milk. Today I'm pretty confident this is the milk.
For a while I thought this had to do with some difference in UHT/pasteurization process (all milk in France is shelf-stable until opened, whereas here it has to be refrigerated at all times). But then I realized then that this A2 milk is popular in Australia, and I had never heard of this A1/A2 distinction, but apparently France's cow is 100% A2 only, so I tried their milk, and I don't have any digestion nor dry-patch on my arms anymore. Maybe it's placebo effect, but it works for me, so now I'm back at drinking milk.
A1/A2 apparently isn't as big of a deal for processed dairy (Cheese, yogurts), but I buy the one imported from France/Switzerland, so those are probably A2 anyways.
Based on the description of the company, they are working on hardware.
I'd agree with your statement if this was a pure software company, but anything involving tangible products can require initial capital orders of magnitude more than what 3 engineers are worth..
My favorite other nicety is forward and backwards compatibility. Having an older binary being able to easily handle the next version of the incoming proto, and also to not loose any of the not-yet-understood fields.
Short blog giving a concrete example: https://www.beautifulcode.co/blog/88-backward-and-forward-co...
At the time you opened the tab menu, you're already in a new tab.
1) Tap the tabs button
2) You're already on the new tab, so either
a) Search in the search bar: this opens your search results in this current new-tab (you can also type an address there and search see your recent history)
b) Click on one of the links saved in a "Collection": this opens in this new tab.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
> They are not enough of them and are often unappreciative and judgemental--complaining it is not like their mother's cooking!
> The African restaurants that succeed make it exotic and exciting enough to appeal to Americans and the broader populace. They may invent dishes or create a 'fusion' menu but who cares! After all, there is no "General Tso's" chicken in China!
is Ethiopian cuisine special here? I see 100% Ethiopian restaurants on the west coast, and they seem successful, without having to go the 'fusion' route.