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Apple Business 4 months ago

It would be great if you could get correct invoice and pay price without VAT in EU as a VAT registered business. It is incredible they can get around without providing such a basic thing for so long.

In EU we typically have separate waste bin for food leftovers that I expect would go to this garbage disposal in kitchen sink. So if you put the food leftovers to separate garbage bin, there's pretty much nothing that will end up in drain filter to be cleared. It's just different routine. I think you also misread the response about the fatty foods. I don't feel it was related to fatty food in USA, it was more in a sense that if you shred fat leftovers, it will eventually clog some pipe down the line.

Gradle still sucks 3 years ago

I agree it is not easy to use correct local version, but that is why gradle wrapper is there. In case you do no trust it, you have workaround for it. For projects from company repository, this should not be issue. For random project from github, it may be worth to go the safe way.

Gradle still sucks 3 years ago

You do not need to use the gradle wrapper - you can use your own trusted version. Wrapper is there just for convenience. I understand your concerns, but it is not the only way and you are not forced to use it.

On the device you do not want them to connect to automatically go to Bluetooth settings, find your AirPods, click on (i) and change "Connect to this iPhone" from "Automatically" to "When Last Connected to This iPhone".

This is not possible in most of EU markets, KYC is mandatory and even prepaid SIM cards must be registered and verified with ID before SIM is used for data or calls. Old SIMs without registration were blocked until they would be registered. Some exceptions may exist, but this will be harder and harder in future.

Interesting thing is that there is no way (that I could find) to buy apps in AppStore for my VAT registered company in a way that I could receive invoice with company details and all necessities to be able to get VAT refund. They seem to pretend they are always selling to private persons and this is not necessary, yet there are many business apps and I am quite sure for business app VAT on 10,000 Eur app would hurt.

I think it is related to how you organize your data structures and business logic - you may have rich typed model that models specific domain, but OOP would typically call to include all the business logic that modifies attributes of class to be part of that class - eg, you do not externally set specific values to class instance, but instead execute some action on the class instance that may change these attributes. If you use type system just to model data structures and have external business logic to use/change it, it would be called anemic model.

Article specifically says that "SARS-CoV-2 infection can result in viral reservoir formation" and that this may lead to repeated release of virus to body. This may cause the rise of immune activation and "SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that bears resemblance to Staphylococcal enterotoxin B, triggering broad and non-specific T-cell activation. This superantigen-mediated immune-cell activation has been proposed as a causal mechanism of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children".

As MRNA vaccine do not make recipient body to create replicable viral protein, I fail to see the mechanism that would create this viral reservoir and article does not even mention this as possibility. Moreover, MRNA vaccine itself is not injected into your blood, but to muscle tissue, so how would that MRNA vaccine get into milk? Especially if you compare it with much much higher probability of child simply being infected with live virus.

This IP based personalisation is such a pain especially if you work remotely and need to use VPN to connect to company network that happens to be based in different country. Worst thing is that Google knows very well who am I (due to me being logged in to GMail), knows what language I use, but still serves me completely wrong results only because my IP is suddenly from different country.

I fortunately never had personal experience with this, but around here (central europe) car thieves often steal car and then just park it in some neutral place to let it "cool down" for couple of days - if it contains any tracking devices owner will get it and they will not reveal their garage. There are facebook groups where people post details of their stolen cars and people report if they see them parked somewhere. If this is the case, tracking device may be quite helpful.

General Aviation is in totally different situation than what Tesla is doing. GA is so over-regulated that we're flying decades old small planes as it is financially not feasible to bring something new to market and have it certified. Progress is mostly done on experimental/ultra-light planes. Those suffers similar issue as they are limited to certain weight and even feasible safety features often can't be added due to weight limits. On the other side of safety spectrum you have Tesla that is pushing something-like-autonomous-driving software to common people to try out on real streets.

Linux on a 486SX 4 years ago

We ran our Java Users Group website in 1998 on 486SX with 16MB of RAM. It was running Slackware and website was served by Apache + JServ (this was before Tomcat existed) + MySQL. When I was sitting in the office where the "server" was located, I could hear when we had visitors - HDD was frantically swapping to switch between Apache and MySQL. It's hard to compare to the luxury we have with servers today.

So you would effectively have 2 passwords reused across all sites?

1. If any of that site is compromised, 50% of your sites will be quickly owned due to password reuse with same username.

2. If someone will get hold of two of your unencrypted strings, they own 100% of your accounts.

- You may solve #1 by creating new password for each site.

- You may solve #2 by encrypting the file.

Voila, you just created your own password manager.

The main problem is that to push you back, the motor actually has to go faster to get in front of your center of gravity and this is exactly what is hard when the battery is getting weak. That's why nosedives often happen when users want to go too fast, ignoring the pushback from the wheel and actually "rinding the pushback". At some point, the motor does not have enough torque to counter the push down on the front and give up. This causes the front side to collapse and we can all imagine possible results when feet "want" to stop and the head is going 20mph+. It's not that battery management will simply turn the device off (although it may also be an issue in some cases). Usually motor just becomes too weak to counter rider push for a short moment and the front part of the board hits the ground.

I do not have experience with Onewheel XR, but pushback on the Pint series is rather noticeable and hard to ignore when you hit set speed limit. Onewheel XR is said to have weaker pushback.

It is obvious advantage if you have nice surround spraker system that is not made for movies only but is good enough for listening of music. I tried this with Apple TV and 7.1 system and it works quite nice. For headphones it makes sense if they react to your head movement like some airpods do. When I first watched movie with iphone and airpods pro in spatial audio mode, I had to remove headphones to check that the sound was really comming from them and not from phone. It is actually quite good. I haven't listened to music like that yet.