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Incidentally, WeChat mini apps (and the equivalents in AliPay and other services) are essentially specialized websites. WeChat itself on Android bundles a Chromium-based engine to …

A big part of the problem in Manhattan is that most places don't have alleys. There is nowhere for the trash to be left except on the sidewalk. Some cities have the trash trucks dr…

Which aircraft you are on is at best loosely correlated with the quality of in flight entertainment system you will use. Seats are purchased by the airlines, they are made by separ…

Spamhaus or another IP reputation provider will contact your hosting provide or ISP and warn them that either: - You need to follow their best practices (which practically for me m…

I have 7 Mitsubishi heat pump head units being controlled using ESPHome running on D1 mini clones (ESP8266). The D1 mini clones are powered by and interface with the head units wit…

T-Mobile has a SIM lock feature that you can enable to block at least most employees from being able to swap your SIM. You can enable it in the account management app or website. I…

T-Mobile already does exactly this for eSIM transfers, though the waiting period is 10 minutes, not 48 hours.

Energy usage isn't measured in "time the dryer needs to run". A typical US vented dryer has a 5500 watt element, although it doesn't use that amount of power continuously since it …

Here in Colorado (Denver metro) I frequently get items same-day, though most items are still 1 or 2 days.

Modern deep packet identification gear looks at packet size and pacing to distinguish video traffic patterns. It is possible to fool these systems, but it is not trivial.

Costco manages to do this well. If you buy a Mac (or almost any other high-value small item) you take a paper slip which is scanned by the cashier or self checkout. You then go to …

The brand "WeChat" is not as well known as you might think. In China, it's known as 微信 (Weixin), and most people in China have never heard of the WeChat brand. I also think it's an…

To be more precise, fractional scaling in macOS is implemented by rendering the entire display at 2x dpi at a resolution greater than the actual display resolution, then scaling th…

That reminds me of a story about SiCortex. My university (University of Colorado Boulder) bought one of a very few SiCortex systems ever sold. As an undergraduate I competed at SC0…

Bonnell has a branch predictor: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/bonnel... In-order execution does not mean that there is no branch prediction, it just means t…

In Google Chat, you can attach a Meet invite to a message for an impromptu meeting. Personally I am glad that people can't just call me up. I would rather be asked over chat first.…

Android has had the ability to disable notifications for at least the last few years.

Autoland is a common capability on many aircraft, and it is commonly used in inclement weather. I don't know what you are talking about with the A380. I have never heard about it b…

USB SuperSpeed requires extra wires and much better shielding, which means a thicker, more expensive, less durable, cable. You also can't make SuperSpeed cables that actually meet …

Taskbar buttons absolutely benefit from Fitt's Law. Fitt's Law says that the time required to interact with an element depends on both the distance to that element and the width/he…

The take away your card system doesn't work with phone payments. That's one reason why they haven't really taken off in the USA. A lot of chain restaurants now use tablets to let y…

Python is a distant fifth place at Google today behind Java, C++, JavaScript and Go. It may be behind Typescript too at this point. Performance critical, lower-level servers are ty…

Zen2/Zen3-based, non-APU Ryzen still has pretty awful idle power consumption compared to Intel desktop CPUs. My 5900X at idle draws around 22W. Modern Intel desktop CPUs (which are…

+1 to this. I mostly use the CLI, but it's really nice in my IDE (JetBrains Rider) to be able to browse version history or resolve merge conflicts graphically.

Typically you only get one or two phone screen interviews at Google, so the bar should be much lower. The purpose of the phone screen is to see whether it's worth the time for onsi…