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  1. If you want to do automated stuff using email, and don't want to maintain your own mailserver and procmail scripts, you are better off setting up an address that goes through an inbound routing API provider such as mailgun or sendgrid rather than trying to scrape webmail from a company that is known for withdrawing useful services at the drop of a hat.

  2. Re:If This Then That on Gmail App Changes Will Cause Most IFTTT Features To Stop Working (extremetech.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google Inbox did that as well - it too is going away at the end of the month.

  3. Re:If This Then That on Gmail App Changes Will Cause Most IFTTT Features To Stop Working (extremetech.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "helps your apps and devices work together in new ways"

    ...as long as they use modern IoT/app http based protocols, and not the old-fangled purpose built protocols like IMAP, which could probably cover most of what Google is taking away, but is not trendy enough for modern developers to bother with.

  4. Re:Need to assess oil displacement per capita on China's E-Buses Dent Oil Demand More Than Electric Cars Do (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As of 2012, China's level of motorisation was at approximately 80 passenger cars per 1000 population, a level last seen in the United States in the year 1920 [1].

  5. Re:Bussed on the cheek on China's E-Buses Dent Oil Demand More Than Electric Cars Do (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I would guess that the impact here is influenced by high public transport use and low private car ownership in China compared to Western countries. More buses = more impact when you reduce their emissions. Possibly also, China may be upgrading from an older bus fleet, which is more polluting than the newer buses that are common in Western countries.

  6. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much of the third pilot's ability to recognize the problem and how to deal with it was due to him observing what was unfolding in front of him without the stress of flying the plane. It may be a strong case for a return to three person crews if the 737 MAX is going to continue flying and this will be happening on a regular basis..

  7. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Because they want to sell more planes. Telling airlines they can use the same pilots they've been using for 50 years with no additional training required was the selling point. Telling them that because they just tacked on bigger engines to a 50 year old design instead of designing a new plane, they have a tendancy to pull up into a stall, but don't worry we've got a new automated system to correct it, but just in case it goes wrong here's what you need to do... might have put a few buyers off.

  8. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Which appears to be the problem here. Boeing's sales pitch is that "no special training" is needed for the new versions of their 50 year old design. And yet we have 2 planes in 4 months falling out of the sky, apparently because the pilots were unfamiliar with the aircraft's new systems.

  9. Re:Obvious to anyone who observes them on Mercury -- Not Venus -- is the Closest Planet To Earth on Average, New Research Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Presuming as an armature you are not going around Earth to chase this ideal view and instead are waiting for it to happen overhead where you are at, you have to not only wait for the right two month period it is close, but also the right two year period it is closest to where you are looking from.

    You'd think if we had armatures for the Earth we would have figured out how to rotate it so everyone can get a look during those two months by now...

  10. Re:Why would anyone use this? on Google Debuts Video Games Streaming Service Stadia (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Inbox (the sane interface to Gmail)

  11. Who funded this study I wonder? I guess it was because of our ancestors' egg free diets that they had lower incidence of heart disease, and not because they didn't have high sugar, high sodium, processed food in their diet.

  12. Re: If Google took Android security seriously on Android Q Will Kill Clipboard Manager Apps in the Name of Privacy (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What they are currently missing is an "always ask" permission. You can either grant it permanently or deny it permanently (you can change the permissions deep within settings, but it isn't trivial to do, and there isn't an option to ask again). Even if the app doesn't make sense to use without a permission, I might still like to know when it is using the permission, especially if it is accessing my mic, camera or location.

  13. Re: What about flow restrictions? on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should try a dictionary. The definition of "reflect" should be in there, even if the word "gullible" is not.

  14. Re: "Don't disturb my thought bubble!" on Alphabet's AI-Powered Chrome Extension Hides Toxic Comments (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They won't get it right. But if there is an option to deemphasize such comments, such as greying them out but still showing them, and providing an easy way to declare whether they are right or wrong in their classification, then they could have the start of a learning classification system that could eventually work as advertised.

  15. Re:What about flow restrictions? on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The sound is reflected, it doesn't just disappear. The echo chamber inside your engine could experience some undesirable effects from all the resonance if the sound does not find somewhere else to radiate out from.

  16. Re: Back in my day,... on Boeing To Make Key Change in 737 MAX Cockpit Software (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Back in your day, plane crashes were a regular occurrence, even though there were far fewer aircraft flying.

  17. I noticed this yesterday on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I noticed yesterday that my feed had become flooded with misinformation, but none of it was antivax. So it seems their strategy to hide the antivax misinformation is to bury it with an avalanche of other misinformation. Every time they tweak their fake news algorithms like this, I need to click on the menu to hide more fake news publishers so I can use facebook to keep up with what my friends are posting, as facebook was originally intended.

  18. Frist Post on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The move makes Philadelphia the first major city to require that brick-and-mortar retail stores accept cash. Besides Philadelphia, Massachusetts has required that retailers accept cash since 1978, according to CBS.

    It's lucky there are no major cities in Massachusetts then, otherwise it might leave Philadelphia looking a little hasty making their claim to be first.

  19. Re:Do kids still get the word in school? on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    "#1 and #2 plastics, metals are recyclable"

    Plastic bags are #1 plastics. The problem is they use more energy and cost more to recycle then to make new ones. These days #2,3,4,5,6 plastics are considered recyclable, #1 only if they are the more dense form found in plastic soft drink bottles.

  20. Re:Single Stream is at fault on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Multiple stream never worked. They had to sort it anyway.

  21. Re:So let me get this straight... on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    It seems nobody wants plastic bags.

    Exactly. China used to take them, but last year they suddenly stopped. The world now has basically no facilities for recycling soft plastics, as all the facilities we used to have for recycling them moved up the value chain when China started accepting soft plastic shipments, and it just isn't economical to move back to recycling them locally. Initially Malaysian facilities had taken up the European shipments that China rejected, but they ended up with way more than they could handle and started illegally expanding their facilities and building new ones, as well as dumping the surplus in the interim, until the Malaysian government had to step in at the beginning of this year and shut off the shipments to there as well.

  22. Re:So let me get this straight... on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    China doesn't want your rubblish any more. That is why plastic bags mixed in with the other more valuable recyclable plastics have suddenly become a problem.

  23. Re:Traffic cameras to reduce number of collisions? on Google Maps Adding Photo Radar Warnings For Drivers In Canada (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    It varies according to local police budgets and priorities. In Canada they are not trying to raise money to pay for their next armored assault vehicle. Google may get a different reception for this feature south of the border.

  24. Re:More proof so-called 'AI' is mostly marketing h on 40% of 'AI Startups' in Europe Don't Actually Use AI, Claims Report (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems like the opposite to me. If the claim is true, and a full 60% of AI startups are actually doing AI, then it would seem that there is more to it than the usual hype bubble. But probably the authors used an extremely lenient definition of AI, like if tensorflow is linked in somewhere, it is AI.

  25. Re:Volvo drivers will never know. on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, Ford was not doing its design in Sweden...