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There are retailers in other countries and payment terminals that have implemented the self-checkout to be very close to "just walk out".

- no item weight confirmation - no steps in-between trying to sell me things - no annoying voice overs - decent UX (navigation) for the 99% case

Here is how I pay in those stores: - scan my item(s) placing them directly in my bag: taking ~1s per item - navigate through 3 screens by hammering the [Next] button that is in the same spot on all these screens: takes less than 1s - pay contactless with my creditcard: takes less than 1s

The US screwed up each of those 3 steps.

https://sectionhiker.com/why-does-dwr-suck/ mentions

- Nikwax (all products) - Sciessent Curb

I pay $40/mo for Hulu Live TV alone.

There are also reminders that string along as long as you don't check them off.

I wasn't able to get my country changed after I somewhat accidently opened a merchant account years ago. I have never used that merchant account. It also didn't tell me that I won't be able to change my country if I open one.

I've now been living in the UK for six months and three months ago I had a 3hr phone call with a very lovely support lady that tried to help but we didn't manage to change it. She told me that maybe I could just open a new account but then I said that my whole life is on this account and that is not an option. If I have to start over I'd rather make sure this won't happen again.

I cannot scroll on Chrome Android

I recently booked on airbnb in SF for a few days. The actual nightly price I paid was 40% higher than the list price (service fee, airbnb fee, sf occupancy taxes) which was towards the top of my price range filter. I still booked, so I guess it worked in favor of airbnb his time. But left a stale taste for future endeavors.

Why not use that intel to catch the person instead of telling him? He can now just use as different airline?

Differences between GSS and CSE: https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4541888?hl=en

As someone who just finished moving a custom search result site implementation from GSA (discontinued) to GSS this is highly outrageous. No access to the XML/JSON API is a showstopper.

If you look at the code they are all oneliners so you could just add aliases

Google Inbox allows you to do exactly this by saving links in your inbox through a sharing intent on Android or a Chrome extension on desktop.

I don't own a car but have a license and occasionally drive one. I'm not used to driving on highways with more than two lanes and when I spent a few months in the US I had panic attacks the first few weeks when riding at speed limit and there was no escape path. I had to leave the highway twice to recollect.

I know that I wouldn't. It's called moral compass and knowing how it would make the internet a shittier place the more people it would do.

While I don't necessarily agree with the monitoring of kids, there is also the Google+ Location sharing (which I use with my SO).

I use the most inexpensive whose taste I like

You can also be frugal in Switzerland and have it all. Start with cooking by yourself, you save a shitload of money.

I don't know about you but I can tell how important flossing is by the amount of blood that comes out of my mouth the longer I take a break from flossing

Only for a handful of countries, I'm very disappointed

Your SaaS' text to background contrast is quite low in some places, makes it very hard to read even with good eyesight

You need Android 6 for this

Apple seems to be putting form ahead of function these days.

I don't want to start a flame war here but I would be interested in the numbers of broken screens. I make it a habit to ask friends with shattered iPhone screens how often they dripped it w/o breaking and most tell me they never dropped it before

You can stream to Chromecast, what else do you need? A different app for each of the dozen platforms out there? Google Music All Access is one of the few streaming services that got it right.

" Ponzi scheme (also a Ponzi game or aPonzi)[1] is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned through legitimate sources." --Wikipedia

I skimmed through the article and didn't click the links. So there is that.

I only encrypt the /home dir with dm-crypt running ArchLinux. I did use TrueCrypt on my previous laptop but at a certain point it was broken and it seems development ended in 2014.

In Switzerland's airports they give you a receipt where you can collect it for $10 when you get back. They once confiscated a bike tool of mine. Why they only picked the adjustable wrench out of total 3 potential weapons is beyond me, though.

If you are talking about templates, then yes: https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-template...

I don't play games but have always been into 3D graphics and Visual Computing. Interesting read and watching the gameplay trailer afterwards was fun and very impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB0xy74Zrj8

Haven't tried it but for CLI apps, numbered references to items (named ID in taskwarrior) are often troubling for me.

In the Quick Demonstration[0] it seems that deleting will re-number the items but doing

    $ task 1 done
    $ task 2 done

    1  Buy eggs

or then

    3 Bake cake

[0] https://taskwarrior.org/docs/start.html

Here is my script that supports scaling up if your main monitor is hidpi while the external one is not:

https://github.com/rndstr/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/monitor-h...