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TSA precheck was originally for avoiding removing shoes, belts, and laptops. I had it at some point and gave up because random lines kept making me remove stuff anyway, but only telling me that after my bag was already taken aside for search, so it wasn't worth.

Newer xray machines don't require anyone to remove laptops. It's about 50/50 whether I get a new machine lately. Just today at SFO, had to remove laptop but not shoes.

Was Reza Shah any better? He was overthrown by WW2 Allies, mainly UK and USSR. Anyway I wouldn't put it past the US to have messed up Iran during the coup against the PM, but in that case it's the Israeli control I was complaining about. Anything we do in that region is probably not in our own interest.

But Cuba and Venezuela govts deserved what they got, and it was plenty of our business being in our backyard.

Yes them

I was about to guess that Pinyin was yet another Python package manager, that you have to install with pipx

Both of these started as scripting languages

Yeah, I've thought about this since I do prefer JS as a language... Always thought the main advantage of Python was interaction with C libs. Which is also why CPython was the only serious option for an interpreter, even though things like PyPy were faster.

These articles keep coming up, and the author never actually tries agentic coding in Rust vs Python. You will probably find that the LLM does better with Python for kinda similar reasons as humans. It's succinct and can be rerun quickly while you iterate. There's also the difference in training data. If/when a human needs to review code or intervene, same applies.

Can't say I've tried Rust, but my AI tooling has always been noticeably worse at doing comparable tasks in C++ instead of Python. Not just toy examples but real systems in prod with testing, maintenance, oncall, feature rollouts, etc.

I'm fine with Pax Americana, even if you call it American imperialism, but this whole involvement with Israel and its problems is not in our interest. It's abundantly clear that we have traitors in our government working for another country. Sure Iran has a terrible regime, not supposed to be our problem though.

The cheapo ones probably won't have it. Any brand name will have its own app that will have a rename feature like half the time. Not particularly expensive brands either.

I mean something like taking control of the plane or else they blow it up

That's basically how it is in the US, except that sometimes there aren't enough machines so the lines are long, and it's the spinning scan thing rather than a metal detector. Usually no line in major California airports when I've gone. NYC is hit-or-miss. Just did a transfer through LHR and the security line was insanely long.

It used to be much worse though. I think the new machinery has made the difference.

The bus/train is different because they're harder to weaponize. Everything we got was a response to the 9/11 attacks.

Ah so the wording suggests that it's a thought/speech crime, not that the particular event is outlawed. Yeah that's still nuts.

Isn't the whole point of this thing the hardware? Cause it runs free software, but you can't find many pocket PCs. But yeah the specs don't matter so much.

Not sure. Those lockfiles don't seem really human-readable. I wouldn't approve a change that randomly changes the lockfile without explanation, but I would also want the project file to set the requirements rather than relying on the lockfile, cause that's not the lockfile's job.

Nowadays I don't need to remove shoes in the US. I vaguely remember times it was randomly required or not, not sure when, and back when it was always required. I'm not TSA precheck or anything. But yeah we have the liquid limit, which always seemed like the one dumbest thing to me, maybe even a way to sell drinks.

I mean for a flight that doesn't go to/from the US.

Honestly I didn't think about that. Maybe they didn't either. Good example of why seeing something vaguely threatening and out of the ordinary is a reason to turn around, even if you don't know why exactly they'd do it.

I agree. Sure you can still get weapons through screening, in fact I've accidentally done it twice with like 4" pocket knives, but not sure what the odds are. A lot of the "security theater" argument seems to be annoyance at having to go through TSA, cause what's the alternative, just barely screen people like before?

Does that actually get you arrested, or do you have to go to a Palestinian Action protest? Not that there's that big of a difference.

Passenger trying to warn the crew would leave the device on

I wouldn't want to see slogans like this on an airplane of all places. I agree with the slogan. There are plenty of other times/places to say it. Unfortunately freedom is already out the window the moment you go through TSA security, so if I'm getting my crotch patted down to fly, they can be quiet for a few hours too.

Honestly they would probably know decent English

Was wondering the same thing. Maybe there's some regulation about this, but the flight crew wanted to bend the rule to keep the plane going, figuring it was just a poorly named device.

iPhone BT settings also let you rename devices, but I think that's just a local setting, not like the BT spec has a rename feature. Not sure cause uh, my iPhone broke. But for sure there are speakers that have their own apps that let you rename them.

Rename is a fairly common feature on Bluetooth speakers and headphones, for example my Bose NC-700.

Every other country seems to do the same thing though

The article mentions that terrorists have used fake bomb threats to achieve some other goal, which makes sense

It's not normal for things like this to sell out. Most businesses want to be able to fulfill the sale when the customer is already on their site ready to pay, not make them look elsewhere. Either they're having inventory problems, or they're testing pricing, or they're trying to build hype. It's interesting even though I don't care to own a Steam Deck.

I agree, the title and article say exactly what happened

Was curious about the price hike. 512GB OLED model was $549 and is now $789.