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To me, the bigger problem is the lack of ability for Android phones to register an AirTag as recognized. They've never done anything to address the problem of "drive your wife's car and her AirTag is beeping at you and your Android phone is beeping at you and there's no way to tell either one to stop".

Every preset with powerlevel10k-style segments don't support hiding empty segments. Look at Pastel Powerline, Tokyo Night, Gruvbox Rainbow, Catppucin Powerline...

https://starship.rs/presets/#pastel-powerline

I tried making my own and the config TOML syntax isn't expressive enough to support hiding empty segments.

You're right that it's the thing with the Unicode character as separator, which all the alternatives handle just fine: powerlevel10k, tide, oh-my-posh... it's just everyone seems to love Starship, and that's what confuses me.

I'm surprised Starship is so popular. It's missing really basic powerlevel10k features like empty segments. If you look at some examples:

https://starship.rs/presets/gruvbox-rainbow

You can see that when the segments are empty, they still appear as a 1-width segment, rather than entirely disappearing.

It also makes you configure many things by hand. powerlevel10k has an interactive wizard that lets you design your prompt one option at a time (do you want a nerd font? do you want it one line or two? etc) but Starship makes you manually write escape codes if your preferences don't match one of the presets.

No judgment, but I do wonder what people like about Starship that makes up for these things.

<input type="number"> is famously really flawed and not worth using even if what you want is semantically a number and not just numeric:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/26/why-the-number-input-i...

Tables have a whole bunch of flaws, like not letting you turn an entire row or cell into a link. (Some things are semantically tabular data!)

<button disabled> doesn't trigger various DOM events, forcing you to use <button aria-disabled="true"> if you need them.

These are the ones that come to mind immediately. I wouldn't be surprised if there are others.

While this is mostly true, there were similar techniques even before XMLHttpRequest. iframes could communicate with parents, and also JSONP. I think JSONP was mostly pioneered as a technique after XMLHttpRequest, but the iframe trick did work (I even used it! just a tiny 16x16 iframe communicating with the parent element by calling functions on window.parent, worked great on IE5).

Heh, I saw this thread just recently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1euwht3/webstorm_is...

Most discussions I've seen, including that one, say that VS Code is slower than most lightweight text editors but faster than most IDEs (including WebStorm which is IntelliJ). I don't personally have experience with IntelliJ, but in my experience VS Code is very noticeably faster than Eclipse.

That linked thread also mentions that compared to IntelliJ, VS Code has better remote development, a less cluttered UI, better support for multiple languages in one project. And _many_ people mention the better performance.

Personally, running an open-source project with a lot of contributors who are young or from third-world countries, it also matters a lot that VS Code is free.

I feel like accusing someone of lying is a bit of a leap. I would just guess the guy you're replying to lives somewhere easier to drive than SF.

My friend's been learning programming with Github Copilot and gets refusals there sometimes, for seemingly no reason; so here's an example for you:

https://d.pr/i/XSiepe

Yes, most microwaves with dials do in fact work like this.

Compare the the distance between 0 and 1 with the distance between 5 and 6 on this microwave:

https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-NE-1025F-Silver-Commercial-...

You're misinterpreting that sentence. This overview of the case was posted:

https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/duffy-v...

And in it, it talks about Google's defenses (innocent dissemination, qualified privilege, and justification), so clearly Google did show up.

You don't have to write good UX from scratch to get non-OS scrollbars, there are CSS rules that let you style scrollbars while keeping most system scrollbar features and accessibility.

No comment on whether or not that's a good idea, though.

I suppose "nobody used that product anyway" is way more true of Microsoft's dropped projects than Google's, and that's important.

Everyone here can name Google products they loved which they can't use anymore. For me, the big ones are Google Reader (RSS), Google Inbox (bundles, and the Travel and Shopping email categories), Google Now (flight information), and Google Hangouts (SMS integration).

For other companies, not so much. I can name minor things, like I miss macOS's old 2D virtual desktop grid. And an AirPort router would have been nice. And I'm sad Amazon Go is being shut down. But nothing on the level of those Google shutdowns.

I'm pretty sure Caroline deleted her Tumblr accounts because a Twitter mob was digging through them and doxxing her friends (many of my friends were scrambling to hide their connections to her).

There's a sense in which cookies can't do any harms besides tracking, while a browser extension can do much worse.

The EU laws require the banners to be shown to all EU citizens regardless of the country they're in, right? I think the only way to be absolutely safe is to show cookie banners everywhere.

Yeah, I like my AirPods Pro precisely because I don't need to disconnect them from the previous device to connect to them from the next device. Bose NC 700s and Sony XM4s both have the problem where I need to disconnect from them on an old device before I can connect to them on a new device.

Equilateral triangles can fall in. You have three dimensions: the height of the triangle is less than the side length of the triangle, so it fits in near the sides of the hole.

The OP mentions curves of constant width:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width

Which includes circles and Reuleaux triangles, which are much more difficult to manufacture than circles. I think this can be rounded off to "circles are the only well-known shape that can't fall into a similarly-sized hole".

I also have this problem (it might be related to my ADHD). 2x speed (with occasional pauses/rewinds) works much better for my retention; I've often explicitly noticed myself not paying attention and learning nothing at 1x.

That seems really low. The point of copyright is to incentivize people to create more art, so We The People can experience more art. If you're not going to sell your art, why are we enforcing your rights at all? I'm not saying you don't have a legitimate reason to share your art with all except one person you hate, or to keep it locked where no one can see it, but I am saying that there's no need for Us The People to use our government apparatus to help you with that.

I don't think "it's there because the A/B test says it works better" is a good reason to lie in a fundraiser. If I say "please donate to support my dying child", this will probably get more donations than "please donate so I can buy a gaming PC". But if my child isn't dying, perhaps the lesson here isn't "I should lie" but "my gaming PC isn't as important as I think"!

(That said, I agree that individual WMF employees aren't overpaid per se. But perhaps it doesn't need quite as expansive of a bureaucracy as it does. Not to pick on Wikipedia; I see this phenomenon in other organizations, too: my university has been expanding the bureaucracy and hiking tuition while more and more professors are adjuncts earning below-minimum wage on food stamps. The individual bureaucrats may not be getting rich, but they sure don't have food insecurity like the adjuncts, and perhaps hiring more of them was a poor decision.)

Yeah, this would be much more persuasive if he gave more reasons about why not to buy from Amazon.

(Mine shipped with a minor issue, but the seller agreed to reimburse me for the price my local repair shop charged to fix it.)

I've poked around with Wireless Diagnostics in the past and I've never seen any graphs or signal strength metrics. It's only ever created a diagnostics data file (which takes many minutes and can't be cancelled once it's started) and done nothing else.

The diagnostics data file is annoying to read, too...

The big unanswered question there is: Why go through the effort of making the headers real, if you want to intentionally filter out the kind of people who would look at them?

You're very close, but I think "browser makers" makes it sound like it was more than one. Microsoft Internet Explorer defaulted it to on. Every other browser was in agreement that it would only get advertising industry buy-in if it was defaulted to off.

I think Microsoft's default-on stance was likely intentional sabotage - Google operates a big ad network and would have to deal with a lot of the fall-out.

I don't think it's about who's at fault, it's about what risks you're willing to tolerate.

Insurance is always a trade-off of EV for tail risk. In exchange for losing money on average (the insurance company has to earn money somehow, after all), you're protected from the worst case scenario. You can think of it like, yourself from parallel universe where you don't get into a crash, pays yourself in the parallel universe where you do get into a crash. And the insurance company skims a little off the top as payment for the service of sending money across parallel universes.

But if you can afford to just eat the cost of a crash, you don't need to pay the insurance company for that service. And maybe you can eat the costs of some crashes but not others: If you crash into a rich guy's car, maybe you can't afford those costs, but damage to your own car is capped at the price of your own car. So that's all Dan's doing: insuring the costs he can't pay (damage to others) but not the ones he can (damage to his own car).

The math isn't affected by his chances of being found at fault, or how good of a driver he is, at all.

No one has explained what you got wrong, so in case anyone reading this is still confused, Apple compared an M1 Max to a 3080m. An M1 Max's graphics card is ~4x as fast as an M1.

Secrets like passwords are not "security through obscurity". The existence of a key that can open a lock is not security through obscurity. "Security through obscurity" refers to obscuring techniques, not obscuring passwords and keys. No one has ever referred to RSA as "security through obscurity" because it requires obscuring your private key.

For me, the big thing I can't do with a web app is work around the keyboard. If I try to write a chat app, the keyboard will often cover the text box, and there's often no way to prevent this. There's no APIs for "tell me where the on-screen keyboard is so I can move the app UI out of the way" or even "automatically resize the window to exclude the keyboard".

The options for showing a numpad are also very limited. <input type="number"> exists, but it doesn't work for things that aren't numbers, like codes starting with 0.

Most sources say that cotton is worse than plastic or paper.

https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotto...

Intuitively, this makes sense to me: cotton comes from a plant that can be harvested and replanted, just like paper. The main difference is that you use a lot more cotton to make a cotton bag.