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A lot of years ago, while living in Beijing, I once bought ticket to a morning (9:30 or so) show in a theatre. Then came that day, it rained unexpectedly, so I ended up getting the…

I was flying out of LHR yesterday (Monday). I read the news before so asked the agent at security check "I don't need to empty my water bottle now right?" and she was like "nah tha…

lol I have another story regarding Apple gift cards. Many years ago we had an iMac at the house as the shared desktop computer. After a few years, it started to have the signs that…

I'm not sure it works that way. _In general_ before the recent announcement you are supposed to sign the debug build (what you feed into adb to install) with your debug key that's …

I have a magnet that's a mosquito with text "Alaska state bird".

I don't understand how this got so many upvotes. Embedded struct fields are never "promoted", you always need to access them via the embedded type's name, so there's nothing to con…

I tried to use fish on some of my debian servers that i only rarely update packages/kernel, so I don't have to carry my bashrc there, but found their completion for apt is pretty n…

I would recommend https://cactus.chat/ , which is based on matrix. it has guest support (so people does not need a matrix account to comment), but if you use your own matrix accoun…

Yea I saw your other reply later and agree on most of it. But I'd say there's a balance between simplicity of the API and more specific cases. For example they can make an optional…

The request body on the client do a lot of other things than reading the body once (an io.Reader can only be read once). There's Content-Length, and there's also the need to read i…

He is also one of the authors that (almost) all his eBooks sold on Google Play are without DRM.

Garmin's hardware, including the hardware of their smartwatches, are very tempting. They are designed to be easy to use even with gloves, have good battery life, and on some high e…

I had a facebook account from the early days. I deleted my facebook account at 2018-ish. I never had an instagram account. Recently I got an email from instagram saying it's "easie…

I'm not sure what UX you are talking about, the majority of the websites supporting u2f/passkey have UX to manage your u2f keys/passkeys. (the only exception I can think of is earl…

>exposing yourself to the mercy of a single organization The nice thing about passkey is that unlike password, you can have multiple per account. So you can register a passkey from…

I use Sleep as Android on my Pixel Watch 3 for smart alarm. I also found the lack of native smart alarm feature on pixel watches weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_level... amd64 v3 are instructions included in CPUs starting from 2013, so basically any modern amd64 cpu supports all of the…

A few years ago we added `GOAMD64=v3` [1] to how we build our go binary into docker images, as all our production servers have support to that and that can give us some free perfor…

Compare to European cities San Jose definitely is bad on bike infrastructure. But if you compare to neighbor cities like Santa Clara (low bar, I know), it's pretty ok. Sam Liccardo…

I switched from reMarkable 2 to (my wife's old) Kindle Oasis to Kobo Sage, and I love Kobo Sage, despite some minor annoyances (like how this is the only thing that don't auto down…

I don't think that's even new for the big N us airlines. I noticed about 10 years ago that there were some united flight number used by not really related flights, or for both outb…

The big difference is that CS is not the user. In you analogy it's like your car allows you to drive off a cliff, and an (almost) essential part of your car (for example, the pedal…

but it's kind of their fault? they designed the api that way, they decided what can be done in userland and what must be done via kernel. they at least _allowed_ it to happen every…

Yea. There's a recurring theme in Ted Chiang's works about the inability to change the future.

>It's probably far worse with Android users that Google is not disclosing. [citation needed]