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> I keep hearing the language is going to be stable "soon" I think you may be referring to the promises of ABI stability? They kept promising that "soon" starting around Swift 3 (I…

Pet grooming has been classified as essential (by California) since late April. Our local groomer reopened quickly after that. There might be some cities that have other restrictio…

You can generally only copyright the parts you change. Sort of like how Disney can copyright their version of Rapunzel, but they don’t own the fairy tale. (Edit: that’s assuming yo…

Back of envelope: With running status, a note on message is two bytes on a 31250 baud connection. That means the latency from transport is on the order of half a millisecond. If yo…

> it takes 2 to 3 hours to get anywhere useful with it Everyone's definition of "useful" is different. I personally run into far fewer last-mile issues with Metro Rail than I did w…

If it’s at all like driving for Uber/Lyft, they likely do both.

I have small kids who are prone to tripping over cables while trying to squeeze into tight spaces. Lightning connectors handle that stress just fine, but micro USB is no match!

In my experience, the connector has never been implicated in a failing Lightning cable; it’s always been the cable itself. By contrast, the average lifespan of a micro USB cable in…

The last thing I would want is a peripheral whose data connection was on a MagSafe connector. It’s specifically designed to be able to disconnect easily by accident.

I'd like to find out more about what kind of setup Grandma has, in that case. I'm sitting here on an unmodified Safari installation, and the top of the window is obscured by a gian…

Nah, we’re just jealous because you can fit in those half-size street parking spaces in the Sunset.

Same here, for what it's worth -- I got redirected to a fake antivirus download (also in Safari), but only on the first load.

> whether one can trust iOS airplane mode to fully take the phone offline. I mean, if Apple says airplane mode turns off the cell radio, that’s a falsifiable claim, so you don’t ha…

Strictly speaking, they also have to be compiled against a new enough SDK to get Dark Mode support via the native GUI widgets. For apps that need backward compatibility, that can g…

3 Galatians is largely a deprecation notice for all the Old Testament laws (at least in the context of Christianity). But yeah, some people like to ignore that and use Leviticus to…

Just a friendly reminder that many trans women and some intersex women do indeed have prostates. So although it’s a safe bet statistically that the commenter was not referring to p…

Programmable means something can have bugs. I prefer my celery bug-free.

> We're putting it out there as a toy. And that right there is the honesty that the rest of this thread is missing.

> Every person to person transaction of the instrument leaves no digital record or footprint That's true of cash as well, but that doesn't mean it's totally untraceable, as bills s…

Yeah, peanuts really show the quality difference. Half of the fun size Snickers I’ve gotten the past few years have tasted straight up rancid.

It did suffice! There used to be a pencil indicator next to the channel name in its usual spot, and it worked great. It maybe could have been more visually obvious, since leaving a…

> The age-old advice of not installing applications you don't trust still applies. That's the one thing that seems to be a legitimate point in this article -- Android phones tend t…

It also has a physical Escape key, which seemed to be by far the most common complaint about the Touch Bar. Physical F keys are quite a niche desire.

Speaking as one of those people, dongles don't bother me in the least. You're absolutely right that many peripherals are prohibitively expensive to update just for a connector, but…

That company name is listed on https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/ (the record does not have a unique URL to link to, sorry). There is one officer listed, but it looks like the LLC was dissol…