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We put AirTags in road cases/Pelican flight cases packed with AV/IT equipment. Pelican makes a stick-on AirTag holder that works well. We’ve found the AirTags work just as well as …

I'd love to see my Tesla use Starlink LTE. Whatever local provider my Tesla connects to doesn't have great reception. The onboard streaming music often cuts in and out.

My colleagues and I put the work line on an eSIM so we can turn the work “phone” off completely with a toggle in the Settings app. (If anyone from Apple is reading this, would be g…

Weirdly -- I seem to remember seeing a lot of ,€“ on my old Macintosh ~25 years ago. I think this could be intentional reminder of the "old days", and not a mistake.

Understatement is a hallmark of the Kiwi culture. “This is not OK” is also a very stern telling off from your mum or school teacher.

I used to work with a delivery route planning system that had 24:00 as midnight on one day, and 00:00 was midnight on the following day — the same “instant” but on two different da…

Smoother surfaces, less friction, less wear, increased longevity.

I drive a 2018 Hyundai IONIQ EV. The forward radar is hit-and-miss in heavy rain: the car will often barrel quite happily into stopped traffic when it’s raining hard, requiring a s…

Friend of a friend works the satellite trucks for onsite broadcasting at sports events. He told me once that he phones the satellite operators and they coordinate to make sure the …

It’s true! They’re teaching kids at the local school how to build AI to help assist with their grammar and arithmetic!

I can’t speak for other ObjC devs back when the iPhone SDK was released; but I remember just being so grateful that I had any tooling to develop for iOS that I was more than happy …

It’s been almost a decade since I did any ObjC, but I’m fairly certain that you want to use NSMutableString here :p And, don’t forget to release your alloc’d objects (or use an aut…

I did a 100-level paper at University that explained floating point arithmetic and how to solve for equality. Without being snarky, how do developers miss this sort of stuff?

My EV is 1/10th of the cost to run and maintain than my diesel car. I’m more than happy to spend an extra 20-30 min charging on a 4 hour drive when I choose to drive the EV. My die…

Hey, I felt exactly the same way about ICE vs EV. I have a V8 that I tinker with on weekends. I have 4 other ICE vehicles. The kicker for me was borrowing a friend’s EV for the day…

We bought an EV 6 months ago. We financed ~60% the purchase cost over 3 years. We would otherwise never have spent this much on a car. We calculated our estimated petrol savings an…

We switched to buying USB-rechargeable AA/AAA lithium ion batteries. The brand we buy is Pale Blue, but there are many other brands. These batteries have a regular form factor, wit…

Take a look at Mosyle, free for up to 30 devices? I think it’s where we’re headed when we leave Profile Manager.

I took apart a 2010 Mac mini the other to install an SSD. It’s basically been running non-stop since new in a corner of our office for over a decade. Sure, there was some dust but …

Can you? I was away with work for a week and left all my keys (with AirTags) at home. Got home and they were all in the fridge.

Is it _really_ an American thing? 11/15 of my top conversations are iMessage. Of the remaining 4, two are automated SMS (2fa, delivery notification) and the other two are Android u…

The checklists bring the aircraft back to a known state. One 777 pilot commented to say that this issue should have been caught by at least two checklists, implying that neither ch…

If this interests you, read more here: https://sf2platinum.wordpress.com/2018/10/21/getting-started... Ben (sf2platinum) has been working on and off on reversing SF2 for many years…

My memory of Mac OS 7.1 was that it was rock solid. When it did bomb it wasn’t a surprise — you knew it was coming because you’d been messing around in ResEdit or playing with the …

I’ll often have an espresso in the evening after dinner, and I sleep well after.