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kinttach,

It’s become a symbol that has meaning even if the physical object isn’t used or doesn’t exist any more.

This ⏳ is a symbol that means “time passing” even though the object is rare and obsolete. This ⚽️ is a rare type of soccer ball/football, but it’s the most recognized symbol for the game. This 🚕 isn’t what taxis look like in most places — and many people have never used a taxi; they take Uber.

kinttach,

For example in US soccer the balls look like this: www.adidas.com/us/mls-balls

You sometimes might see the black and white ball but it’s a retro/novelty thing.

kinttach,

I guess I was stretching it. In my defense I have never seen the black-and-white ball in play at kids’ or professional matches. And there aren’t yellow taxis in my city. Yes — in the US.

kinttach,

I would be interested in posts that link to the Telegraph daily cryptics. I do them a few times a week and follow up with Big Dave’s Crossword Blog to understand some of the clues. It would be nice to have another place to discuss it.

kinttach,

I recommended Brother laser printers to some older relatives and this happened. The printers required a power reset every few days.

You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?

You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

kinttach,

Come on, obviously they knew what pipes were in the 1940s. They are cylinders made of lead.

kinttach,

You never ask them if it’s plugged in. You tell them to unplug it for 10 seconds.

kinttach,

I don’t know. Microsoft across their product lines comes off as desperate for engagement. They probably don’t even care what option you choose as long as you keep their app running a little longer.

kinttach,

There’s no way Apple lets the automaker access app data from your phone. Apps on the phone can’t even see data from other apps on the phone.

There are two ways I can think of for the infotainment to get the messages. The first is by OCR-ing the CarPlay screen, which is shady as hell. The second is a feature like this one where the car has Bluetooth notification integration.

kinttach,

Supposedly most Gen Z now use subtitles and I don’t blame them. With the way movie sound is mixed it’s really hard to hear the dialog. Not everyone has a Dolby-certified sound system in their living room.

Even with a basic surround system that has a separate center channel (and fiddling with the settings for 5.1, Atmos, stereo) we still often have to use subtitles. It’s major failure on the part of movie studio audio engineers.

kinttach,

The legacy Date object has many problems and this is one of them. Another infamous one is that it uses zero-based month numbers: January is the zeroth month and December the 11th month.

This will be fixed Any Day Now™️ when Temporal is released. This is a carefully designed library that supersedes Date and is currently waiting on some standards to be finalized.

kinttach,

When they say they “reached out to Google but have yet to hear back”, what does that mean? Do they think there’s a Maps Department at Google with people who fix problems? The correct approach is to use the feedback feature within the app: Username → Help & Feedback.

I once reported a similar issue to Apple Maps. The local search and rescue put out a warning to raise awareness: they’d done multiple rescues for the last three months to a location that people were being sent to by “an online mapping service”. I found it, it was on Apple Maps, reported it via the app, and it was fixed the next day. The SAR agencies don’t understand how mapping apps work.

kinttach,

I don’t see an article link.

kinttach,

Google Bard can do this. I showed it a picture of my garage and asked for suggestions on how to organize it better.

Note that it will not work with images that contain people.

kinttach,

A fascinating alternative is “a pressurized ETFE membrane… periodically anchored to the ground by steel cables.”

In plain language: Fiber-reinforced rip-stop ETFE (a thin, strong, light, transparent material used for yacht sails) is used to make a roof and walls with the area under it pressurized and anchored using very tall cables, hundreds of meters high or more, to create a sky. The covered area is huge, the size of a city, compartmentalized for redundancy. People are able to go about their daily lives without use of space suits and it doesn’t feel like you are “inside”.

Domes are over-rated

kinttach,

We only recently got on-device Siri and it still isn’t always on-device if I understand correctly. So the same level of privacy that applies to in-the-cloud Siri could apply here.

How much bigger would a gnu/linux operating system be if there were no library packages and every program included its own libraries?

I’m talking about things like “python3-blabla” and “libsomething”. How bad would it be if nobody used these library-packages and everyone just added all kinds of libraries as part of an application’s package?

kinttach,

Is that basically the premise of NixOS?

kinttach,

Cute.

So these appear to be actual Lego sets, not a game like Lego Star Wars, Lego Marvel or whatever. I’d love to see a Nintendo-platform Lego Animal Crossing game.

kinttach,

Software fix to block the Instagram bug that was causing the overheating.

kinttach,

Bots aside this is kind of terrifying.

It’s not like this will keep happening every year. No, it’s much worse. Temperatures will keep getting even hotter for decades until greenhouse gas emissions reach zero. In a few decades we will wish it was only this hot.

kinttach,

Doesn’t it vary quite a bit by province?

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kinttach,

This is SEO not a real article.

kinttach,

And of course there have been forges launched, including SourceHut, Gitea, Gogs, Forgejo…

kinttach,

But can you connect to the Microsoft Support Usenet server?

kinttach,

As Mark Twain said, “Never discuss politics, semicolons, tabs, or religion in polite company.”

kinttach,

What runtime do you need? If it’s Node.js, the “slim” Docker images are lightweight and based on Debian. (for example node:lts-slim)

kinttach,

Standard node images are around 1 GB. node:lts-alpine is about 176 MB. So it’s fairly close to alpine in this case.

kinttach,

It would be interesting to see what the difference is. The slim image doesn’t even have vi installed, although it does have bash. And of course, git, etc. are not present. Much of the difference could be the size difference between musl and libc, and the size difference between apk and apt metadata.

I don’t think OP is going to find a non-musl distro as small as Alpine. These stripped-down Debians are a lot bigger, but among the smallest non-Alpine that you’ll find.

kinttach,

FDA saying out loud what we all knew already.

BTW if you are young enough to never have used “real” Sudafed, it actually works and you can easily tell that it is working. You can still get it if you ask the pharmacist.

kinttach,

Yes. You have to be 18. They check your ID and make sure you’re not buying too many boxes of it to stock your meth lab, but otherwise it’s not restricted.

kinttach,

Yes - this is how Memmy does it.

kinttach,

Not Plex, but yes. I use it with Microsoft Remote Desktop if I need to access a work-related computer that I keep at home while traveling.

I also use it for the more typical use case of a cloud server that I can ssh into even though it exposes zero ports publicly.

kinttach,

It keeps clearing my list of blocked instances. I’m on the TestFlight beta so maybe it’s a bug.

kinttach,

I second this. Paprika is especially good if you have other family members who want to share the recipe database.

It also has a not-bad grocery list feature. Again, works well if multiple family members are planning meals.

kinttach,

There are very few manuals still sold in the US. The holdouts are ultra-budget models or pretentious sports cars. I can count on one hand the number of people I know who can drive manual.

I can drive one because my dad had an ultra-budget hatchback that I learned on, and later I had one of those pretentious sports cars, which I swapped for something more practical when I had kids. Age: old enough to have kids.

kinttach,

DuckDuckGo is the same. I searched for “ham and cheese recipe” and Yummly is the top result.

kinttach,

I doubt swiping is faster than touch typing but I get what you mean. Sometimes you just want to swipe on a physical keyboard or Ctrl-F something in the real world.

kinttach,

There is no one right temperature — it depends on the humidity. In the winter I often have heat at 71. In the summer 68.

Sacrifice - Mark Rothko (1946) (www.guggenheim.org)

In the 1940s Rothko, together with his friend Adolph Gottlieb, believed that the painting of myth, with allusions to tragedy, was the proper response to the horrors of war, the Holocaust and the atom bomb. He once wrote, with Friedrich Nietzsche in mind, that ‘only that subject matter is valid which is timeless and tragic’....

kinttach,

OP, you posted the wrong summary.

Rothko is usually so abstract, sometimes just blocks of color, but this looks to me like a brunch buffet.

kinttach,

NASA does this. Looking at the metadata from last year’s moon orbiter photos (like this one), it was shot on a GoPro HERO4 Black. Here NASA scientists talk about the cameras on that mission.

kinttach,

Naruhito?

kinttach,

The satellite SOS feature is only on the iPhone 14 which has a starting price of $800.

kinttach,

The Register likes to use old fashioned British slang and cheeky headlines that punters might find humorous.

kinttach,

It takes Apple forever to add obvious features like this but I’m glad they have. I’ll use it a lot.

kinttach,

Brave is a nice browser but I’m not going to trust crypto bros with my privacy.

kinttach,

LK-99 is a potential room-temperature superconductor. The Wikipedia article has a good overview, including how attempts to replicate the findings have so far failed.

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