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My impression from the (now deleted) text is that the phone wasn't booting or in a state where it could be factory reset, at least not without considerable effort.

Another way to look at it is that lotteries are a way for poorer people to subsidize college education for richer people.

It seems there's a lot of criticism here about Backblaze - about how other services do it better, etc. I'm a current Backblaze customer, not a data hoarder, etc. If you're not usin…

A team getting to 100% test coverage and enforcing it feels like an application of Goodhart's Law. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. At my last job, …

We tried it and moved away from it. A few reasons - one is IDE support, which has been mentioned in this thread. The other was release configuration. At the time we were working on…

My issue with polling is that many races were well beyond the margin of error. The Senate polling in particular was bad this year. Sara Gideon was favored to win the Maine race in …

Placement. Either you want a probe thermometer measuring the internal temperature of the meat or an air temperature probe on the indirect side of grill. The gauge on the grill is l…

Using a meat thermometer (leave-in probe or instant) is a fantastic element of modern cooking, and a huge advancement in food safety. I can't imagine cooking without it. It doesn't…

The temperature gauge on the lid is a terrible judge of what the actual air temperature is inside your grill. It's often low quality and not in a proper placement for your indirect…

It's probably because HN is a particularly privacy-focused community and Zoom's privacy policy is a bit more questionable than other companies

On my current team, we would all WFH on Thursdays and Fridays as a norm. At the beginning of the month, we were told that we should WFH indefinitely because of COVID-19. I've got a…

This sounds like Scrum with one week sprints.

Fingerprint sensors work in the dark. Facial unlock doesn't. Edit: looks like I'm probably wrong on this one

I think the bigger issue with Epstein specifically is that it was an open secret that he hadn't changed anything about his behavior

Oh look, it's the weekly "Agile is bad" post. I've successfully worked on two teams (including my current job) where we're a truly agile dev team. We value interactions over proces…

What's the benefit of a hot code upgrade vs a blue/green deploy?

It's weird -- I use Google Fi and loved it, and I got great customer service, up until the point I ordered a Pixel 3 through them back in November. I had to contact them so many ti…

Some of the AWS UX is okay but the parameter store UX for the web console is some of the worst I've seen. It's difficult to navigate and paginate, and the search function is barely…

Thanks for writing this! I've been interested in computer graphics for a while and too many tutorial dive straight into the details without explaining key concepts. I'm eager to ge…

I work on a team where our products are all in Fargate containers. I understand the appeal of serverless -- you never need to exec into the container, but half the time when we're …

Yeah I don't get why so many other commenters seem to think a direct listing means the company's all of a sudden about to die or its product is all of a sudden going to turn to cra…

Guess there's a conflation of terms. I think a lot of people enjoy the "automatically play the next episode after this one ends" feature. Recently, however, Netflix has added a "bl…

I don't see how the local police would have any more access than they would if Comcast were in charge. They'd still have to get a warrant to search anything.

To be fair, the proposal would have raised our already high sales taxes, and those pushing for the proposal didn't do a good job convincing us that it would actually solve our traf…

This is an absolute no-brainer. Mosquitoes are flying disease vectors that deserve to be eliminated. In the Americas, they're an annoyance, but in many other parts of the world, th…