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Support period != warranty period. The OnePlus 15 will get 4 years of Android updates and 6 years of security patches.

I think this is more common when reporting heights in feet+inches than in cm. Rounding up 1.76m to 1.80m seems much weirder than rounding up 5'11" to 6', since all measurements in …

Why do you think being regulated utilities would preclude having multiple classes of service? Airlines had first class before deregulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_clas…

In Celcius, it's less common to round to the nearest 10 degrees (or say things like "in the twenties" as you might with Fahrenheit), because that makes a much larger difference tha…

Do we know that those heavy duty trucks were formerly used to do things you need heavy duty trucks for? It seems more likely that 18% (or more!) of the usage was by people who thin…

There are, in fact, some efforts going on to improve beyond the status quo on permission prompts in browsers, e.g. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/... T…

Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-5/#randomness WPT test results: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-values?label=master&label=ex... Only Safari supports it for now, it seems.

The actual number is 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem The square root approximation works well for large numbers, but leaves out some factors that are relevant fo…

You're right that AES-128 is fine. Normally the birthday paradox only applies to cryptographic hashes. The only way it would apply to symmetric keys is if you have a server that st…

> The chances of generating two GUIDs that are the same is astronomically small. > The odds are 1 in 2^122 — that’s approximately 1 in 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000…

I may be missing something about how the PHP compiler/interpreter works, but I don't quite understand why this is apparently feasible to implement: class BlogPostRepository extends…

Fair enough, I'm willing to believe it's doing evil things to hosts on the platform, indeed. But FWIW, the EU is at least making an effort to regulate the company: https://nltimes.…

I think there is some cultural difference between the US and Europe where in the US it's seen as somewhat OK to hold the customer service agents as personally responsible for the f…

Apparently Priceline.com Inc. took over Booking.com (founded in the Netherlands) for € 110 million, and then changed its name to Booking Holdings to reflect the fact that Booking.c…

How so? At least Booking.com shows me the total price for an accommodation up front, without any additional fees or surprises coming up later in the booking process. The same canno…

It's interesting to claim that tourism in Europe won't be "durable" at a moment when tourism in the US is sharply declining.. Anyway, Booking.com is a European company and has many…

> I arrived in Lyon recently and figured, hey, this is Europe, why not try the European app again, and used Bolt. A bit off topic but IMHO your first thought should instead be: "he…

I, as well, had degraded performance due to the temperature in Amsterdam today :) Can't complain compared to folks in Spain or Italy, though.. But hopefully they're better prepared…

Is it easy/cheap to get a stable IP address? I would worry that if I just get any cheap VPS host, they might switch the IP address at any point, but I'm not sure how true that actu…

> But you would also not be reachable if the killswitch is active ;) I would be, because I asked for a killswitch for the microphone and cameras, not a killswitch for connectivity …

I don't think it's easy to not carry a phone, nowadays. Let's say I'm meeting up with someone: I'll need to use navigation, potentially message them if I'm running late, and so on.…

I'd be happiest if they'd provide a physical switch for the microphone and cameras. That way, you could have a private conversation and be sure you're not being recorded. Turning o…

Yes, I understand and never said I disagree with that :) I'm just trying to provide some nuance and background about the specific issue discussed in this submission, as IMHO I thin…

I would usually tend to agree with that, I was mainly just responding to the specific claim that OpenPGP doesn't have a definition of a well-formed packet sequence, which is false.…