jasonellis

People have been complaining about the shallowness and lack of travel of the new keyboard since it came out on the new MacBook, but it's really been an issue once professionals were forced into it on their MacBook Pros.

As far as the fatal design flaw, the earliest occurrence I know of bringing it out into the open is when Casey Johnston wrote about it for The Outline in October of last year: https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is...

Edit to add: Casey championing this issue is mentioned in the originally linked article.

Maybe they internally call it "deferred profiles" or "pre-activated profiles" but not exactly "shadow profiles".

I can't find the article now, but a few weeks ago I saw an article stating that they call them "Future users" or something similar.

It's considered a shadow profile because they create a profile that nobody can see that aggregates data about the user. It's more than just the mutual contacts.

When people upload their contacts to Facebook to "find friends by phone or email" Facebook takes the phone numbers and email addresses of people who do not have Facebook accounts and associates them with a shadow profile. If multiple people upload contacts and have this same phone number and email address of a person, they can associate any other data uploaded (obviously name, birthday, address, other social media profile URLs?) with the same shadow profile. When the person creates an account using an email address or phone number tied to the shadow account, they already have a reasonable amount of data on the peson, including every user who has them in their contacts and others on those social graphs so that they probably know what school the user went to and current/past employers.

The New York Times is reporting that they were also able to collect likes, because this was back when likes could be harvested through the API. Through likes alone, they could supposedly determine race, gender, sexual orientation, and other physical and mental traits/preferences with surprising accuracy.

Here is today's episode of The Daily where they discuss this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/podcasts/the-daily/cambri...

Yes, but the problem is that Facebook's API also allowed lax access to your friend data, so people who had not consented to the collection of their data through this app ended up with their data harvested as well.

Also, there are various ethical issues with the users consenting to provide data under the guise of academics and then the data being turned over to commercial and political interests.

If you're looking to actually do this, look into wireless broadband: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_broadband

There are currently small operations that offer wireless broadband by putting the receiving equipment on your roof (sometimes they give you a discount if you serve as a repeater) and they purchase wireless data from larger companies' cell towers.

Yes. I've fought this battle with Logitech wireless devices for years since I upgraded to a 15" MacBook Pro with retina (USB 3 only, no USB 2) and added a USB 3.0 hub. It's impossible to put the dongle in a USB port that doesn't incur massive interference. I've even tried using USB extension cables. It's terrible.

EDIT: I came across this whitepaper when looking into the problem a few years ago and just accepted that performance of wireless mice and keyboards is going to be bad. I haven't yet seen any good bluetooth replacements. Most of the bluetooth keyboards I see are smaller without 10-key. I think I had a bluetooth mouse at one point and the lag was unbearable (given, this was years ago, so maybe they're better now).

Yes on copy and paste, though you have to use a text box in the browser window (a menu on the left side) to mess with the clipboard. It's not ideal, but it's possible.

I cannot remember drag & drop files off the top of my head, but I seem to think no.

Not sure about local printer.

The preference for chicken breast in the US is because of the "low fat" focus of the past several decades. Chicken breasts have been promoted as a high protein/low fat cornerstone of a meat-eater's diet.

I also wonder if chicken breast consumption has been promoted by the poultry industry because it's easier to increase the size of breasts through breeding and injecting solution than it is other parts of the bird. That means they can produce more pounds of breast (at a higher price) for sale per bird than thighs, wings, or drumsticks.

After drying out breasts using a number of other cooking methods, I've found sous vide to produce breasts that are unbelievably juicy.

I bought an Instant Pot about 5 years ago because I saw some good recipes and a suggestion on a Paleo blog. The price on Amazon seemed reasonable at the time, so I figured "why not." It turned out to be an incredible purchase. I've grown to hate single use devices that take up space in my kitchen (ugh, blenders, crock pots), but the Instant Pot is so versatile that it earns its keep.

I've long since abandoned that whole Paleo thing, but the Instant Pot still makes great meals. I don't need a crock pot in addition to this. It makes amazing pulled pork and carnitas. I can throw a whole chicken in there and have it falling off of the bone in less than an hour. I can brown beef in it before adding other ingredients for a good stew or chili. It makes really good hard-boiled eggs (though I've recently discovered eggs in my sous-vide and will never cook them another way). I don't know how the Instant Pot brand compares to other electric pressure cookers, but I'm 100% satisfied with mine.

I liked it so much that I bought my parents one for Christmas two years ago and upgraded mine from the previous model to the newer model on last year's Prime Day mentioned in the article. The newer model solved my one gripe with the previous model (setting the lid on the counter was awkward when taking it off).

I recommend these things to everybody. Whether you enjoy cooking or not, the Instant Pot makes cooking meals easier.

Going from 7.1 to 7.1.1 on my Nexus 6p has ruined my battery life. Light web browsing for 1 hour in the morning while playing radio with TuneIn always cost me 10-12% of my battery. Since 7.1.1 it has cost me 30% of my battery. The battery drain has been insane. I've reset permissions and tried to track down what's causing this, but I can't find a culprit.

Unfortunately, I do not have any data, only my own experiences. I have spent much of the past year debunking countless fake news stories posted to Facebook by people I know. Many of them with college degrees.

I was told several times that Snopes is a liberal/democrat operative and has been proven to be wrong in the past. When requested, I was never provided with cases where Snopes was has been wrong. I was also told that PolitiFact.com was started and run by the Clinton campaign.

These "news" articles got even worse with the Podesta emails. It's easy for the blatantly false alt-right sites like InfoWars to make up stories and then these click-farming sites run those stories with even more sensational headlines. This was the case I saw with the "Spirit cooking" and claims that the Clinton camp was really a pedophile ring (using an email chain referencing kids in a swimming pool as "entertainment" as proof. In context, the emailer was someone speaking of bringing their own 3 kids to the party)

I don't know if these people were tricked, or if they were willfully ignorant because these "news" stories mad them feel justified in their preexisting hatred of all things democrat, liberal, and Clinton.

That article is very poorly written. It hurt to read. Also, the site hijacks my browser history to force spam advertising sites on to me when I try to return to this post.

https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/

The one word typo was in the code, not the paper. It was setting DETREND to FALSE instead of TRUE. Their assertions were based on thinking they were working with detrended data instead of the raw data that they actually used.

I really regret buying into the Nest Cam ecosystem. I have 3 now. Sure, it's convenient to view things remotely, but I also run a NAS and I hate not having the option to record locally or serve the camera streams myself instead of relying on Nest's service or paying an outrageous price for recording.

The only reason I went with them in the first place is that they have a very good picture and viewing range.

Here is my Cliff's Notes version of the article's list:

5 Ways to Increase Your Cognitive Potential:

1) Seek Novelty. Openness to new activities correlates with IQ, because those individuals are constantly seeking new information, new activities to engage in, new things to learn, and new experiences.

2) Challenge Yourself. Brain games like Sudoku don't work to increase cognitive potential if you keep playing them. You play them, learn how the game works, then move onto a new challenge.

3) Think Creatively. This doesn't mean "thinking with the right side of your brain." It means using both halves of your brain to make remote associations between ideas and switching back and forth between conventional and unconventional thinking (cognitive flexibility) to generate original ideas appropriate to the activity you are doing. Like thinking both inside and outside the box when trying to solve a problem.

4) Do Things the Hard Way. GPS as an example. You may use GPS because you have a poor sense of direction. Using GPS will make it worse because you aren't giving your brain a chance to learn and build its ability to navigate. Same thing with auto-correct/spell check. You can't spell anymore because you rely on software to fix your mistakes.

5) Network. Whether on social media or in person, this gives you exposure to different ideas and environments that you otherwise wouldn't be exposed to. It allows you opportunities to practice the previous 4 objectives. Knowing more people gives you the chance to tap into more collective knowledge and experience.

The article says you can network via social media or in person. The goal is to know more people so you may be exposed to more collective experiences, viewpoints, and intelligence.

It's mostly about increasing the size of your filter bubble.

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That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

I have found no indication that my TeamViewer computers were hacked, but after reading this for a few days I finally disabled TV on them last night and I'm looking for other solutions.

After using TeamViewer for over 5 years, I started getting a handful of invites on the service from random names about a month ago (I had never gotten a single invite prior). That alone signaled to me that something may be amiss. I'm afraid that where there is smoke, there's fire.

I was under the same impression. I've never developed a chrome extension, but just from following developer communities I thought I had seen complaints in the past about broad access to website data that the Chrome extension API required you to request.

Now that I look, it's probably a misunderstanding most of us have because of the lack of granularity in Chrome extension permissions: http://lifehacker.com/5990769/why-do-chrome-extensions-need-...

I've had problems with 2 of the 4 Fitbit devices me and my wife have owned. Her Flex was intermittently powering off. I contacted support and they sent a new one within days. My current Charge HR (bought in October) band started bubbling and pulling apart. I contacted support last week and a replacement device should arrive tomorrow.

I think they required receipt information for the Flex (that was a few years ago). For the Charge HR, they just asked me where I bought it and what country I live in, then offered a replacement.

Fitbit devices haven't shown good durability, in my experience, but the company has proven very willing to replace defective devices.

Module import/export syntax was in ES6, but the browser implementation has not yet been standardized.

Unfortunately that's only a feature of Motorola phones that they built on top of Google Now. It's really brilliant and I wish Google would allow it on stock.

I've retrained it in a quiet room in my house and it didn't help, but it's worth trying again. I'll give it a shot, thanks.

This is great and all, because I love Google voice search, but the problem I REALLY wish they'd solve is false triggers of "Okay, Google."

I often listen to podcasts on my car bluetooth and on a bluetooth speaker at home. On my commute, I'll get at minimum 5-15 "Okay, Google" triggers in a 50 minute drive just from people on the podcast saying things like "and" or "okay" or phrases that sound nothing like "Okay Google". I have even done the voice training so it's only supposed to listen for my voice. On the other side of the coin, I'll sit in my car screaming "Okay Google!" over and over with no response.

I think it's a good compromise. It's like if you were to buy the product (full price or 12 payments plan) then you get the product that was released on the day you bought it. I assume the "version" they're talking about is major releases, so you'd still be getting patches for that version.

It does through plugins. The language-specific IDEs are updated with language features earlier than the plugins for IDEA and they have simplified project creation/management. For instance, it's a lot easier to setup a Python project and choose your interpreter/packages in PyCharm than it is in IDEA.

You are absolutely right. As someone who uses PHP, Python, JavaScript and a little Ruby, I had purchased IntelliJ so I didn't have to renew multiple licenses each year. If they had just come out with their "All Products" subscription service at $149/year, I would have signed up for it immediately.

I don't like their proposal that I must forfeit my perpetual license to IntelliJ to take advantage of the lower price and that if my subscription lapses for any reason I'll be forced to pay an extra $100 a year!