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Yeah, I was wondering (I haven't updated, patiently waiting for the next major). But here's a great piece about them: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

IIRC, the Kinect was supposed to be an integral part of the XB1 package, but was made optional to compete (price-wise) with the PlayStation 4. Pretty unfortunate.

I know that Canada (where I live) has introduced the Air Passenger Protection Regulations[1] in 2019 (and making it better since then), which does have "tarmac delays" clauses[2]. IIRC, we modelled it after EU regulations.

[1] https://rppa-appr.ca/eng

[2] https://rppa-appr.ca/eng/right/tarmac-delays

Rocky IV always comes to mind as a (the?) prime example of this in film.

I have my LaTeX resumé on GitHub, and I have a GitHub Action that rebuilds it on a PR, allowing me to see a "staging" version of it. Then it gets deployed to its final destination on merge.

Actually I've used my CV but also its deployment pipeline to sell myself!

It's easy to forget that 10-15 years ago, the most common dev/ops model was "toss it over the fence"

15 years ago it was often still I without the C, integration that wasn't continuous. Code freeze 1 month before release, put all the bits of code together, everything breaks, try to fix it.

It is! It actually verifies the link on the Mastodon side, by adding a 'rel="me"' to the link:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

I don't know if that's everywhere in Japan but in 2014 I was in Tokyo having lunch outside when suddenly this fast alert (ie. not a slow siren) started blaring, 5 seconds later the ground was shaking.

I did some consulting work for a big Canadian telco, a project to monetize their cell tower data.

It was obviously all tokenized. Not sure if there was any restrictions on who could buy it, but use cases were mostly about knowing how many people were in a certain area (e.g. an outdoor space) and how long they stayed there (e.g. to properly price the cost of billboards).

It's pretty common, afaik, to measure how many pairs of eyes can potential see adverts.

but the anti-NFT crowd doesn't seem to get it and that is just as frustrating

I don't hate on NFT themselves, but the artificial scarcity bizzaro ponzi pump-and-dump cult aura around them.

Prime use-case for HTTP 418!

Calculators are still distraction-free. They're a purpose-build device.

Our exams in engineering school took into account we could solve 5 equations/unknowns problems with our TI-92 Plus (at the time).

Can't imagine students with Chromebooks during exams (edit: or maybe I'm just from a different time)

The Game Boy Advanced SP had a reflective screen and it played better in full sunlight. It was quite a remarkable display.

At this point it's like if AWS services are spread so thin so they can come up with new names (and sub-sub names, see: SageMaker).

i.e. https://twitter.com/wrongservices

It ended up being more like 5[0], but still a crazy crunch.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/03/06Apple-Announces-iPh...

If you get covid as a healthy young person you have about a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying

COVID is not just about death though, there's proven lingering neurological and cardiovascular impediments to survivors.

e.g. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brain/...

The FDB Record Layer white paper [0], section 8.1, does open with:

8.1 New CloudKit Capabilities

CloudKit was initially implemented using Cassandra as the underlying storage engine.

So it seems this is what happened, for CloudKit at least.

[0] https://www.foundationdb.org/files/record-layer-paper.pdf

I'll add Debuggex to the list that does a visual representation of a Regex and can be a god-send. https://www.debuggex.com