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The good news is that you "just" need the window manager/display environment of an OS.

The bad news is that it is still a lot of hard work to nail down that kind of experience

I imagine some apps will be VR-optimized and others just flat

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I thought that in checks we surround the amount with hashes:

#$105.90#

Is this just local to me?

buying a bunch of SIM card from other companies

Sounds like some employees already had those for such an event, which is impressive. From the article:

some employees started swapping out their SIM cards for Bell or Telus SIM cards that they had received back in 2015 as part of an emergency contingency plan established between the wireless carriers.

This was a great read and indeed quite tragic

People have been trying to build a library like this for ages—to do so, they’ve said, would be to erect one of the great humanitarian artifacts of all time—and here we’ve done the work to make it real and we were about to give it to the world and now, instead, it’s 50 or 60 petabytes on disk, and the only people who can see it are half a dozen engineers on the project who happen to have access because they’re the ones responsible for locking it up.

Could have been great but it wasn't perfect for everyone so it was scraped because surely Congress would take up this noble quest...

My favorite was this:

"A game without someone to play it is hardly a game, and it’s only because of our players that our games have meaning and a life of their own."

A lot of 2FA SMS will refuse to send to VOIP providers.

Since moving a mobile number to twilio and setting up forward scripts, I can get SMS, including short code sms, but the 2FA sms do not get delivered.

Twilio support said it is blocked from the sender side due to the provider being Voip. As hard as it is to believe, I think they're telling the truth.

I grew up in a somewhat vehicularly lawless society where mopeds going the wrong way down a one-way street are an everyday phenomenon.

I legitimately look _thrice_ before crossing: expected traffic side, other side and back once again.

I am paranoid about getting hit by a bus/car/...

I'll likely be done for by a falling piano.