I thought Google+ had some interesting ideas going on. But something about using it for much at all really turned me off, even though for a while Google has some pro photographers heavily promoting it and it seemed to get some traction in that space...
But that was the thing about Google+, it never got any traction for anyone without pressure from Google, so as soon as that pressure even lightened up support evaporated. You just can't have a social network no-one is on!
I still can't put my figure though on why it never went anywhere with anyone I knew, when facebook and twitter lasted...
In the end I'm actually pretty happy it's going away so I can stop feeling bad for not posting there. Now I can focus on not posting to just instagram and facebook.
Skipping over considering even a single one of them isn't actually advancing the debate, you're skipping weighing any cons entirely as if pretending there were none.
Pretty suspicious that a bigot like yourself tries to attack someone on the basis of "pretending there were none" as if it were his place to point out the cons, when he's just questioning how bad they are.
If you claim they are bad, then present us some evidence or insight as to why they are bad - why wouldn't even attack you from not pointing out the ways in which they are good, because that is not what you were trying to question.
Cameras inside of a private apartment complex would seem like they would on balance be more bad than good, so what is the bad you think would be so very bad they should not be used?
Frankly the way society is today if an apartment complex did not have cameras I would install my own, at least for the hall I was on. It's just a good idea.
Nope, unless its been reported by numerous others, any local-exchange numbers will come through still.
That's why I use also Hiya, which blocks local exchange numbers that are not In my contacts. You can use multiple call-blocking apps.
I used to not let the app have contact access as I'm pretty selective with that, but it turned out ONE GUY I knew has the same exchange, and for a while I kept wondering why I'd only ever get voice mails from him and not hear the calls...
Shielding to protect against accidental inference with other electronics is quite a lot different than shielding to protect against something on the scale of an actual EMP attack, or Carrington event.
Sure, you can always improve shielding, but 'good enough' is good enough.
Not necessarily for an EMP attack.
FYI you shield electric transmission by burying it.
Yes you do! So you are saying there are no overhead power lines left, fantastic.
Oh wait, there are? So we could still improve that factor? Huh!
I have T-Mobile, and currently use Hiya and NoMoRobo for hobocalls (left amusing typo in there).
They both work pretty well, but it seems like an app tied to a carrier might be able to work better in some ways, and reporting calls from multiple people in the network might cause a system-wide block on T-Mobile's behalf sooner than if they didn't know a particular caller was bothering a lot of people with unwanted calls.
At this point VR causes me less nausea than bad 3D games played on a large monitor (like The Witness, which makes me sick after about a half hour).
You are right about gear being cumbersome but we are already seeing reduction in that area with self-contained headsets. If you go in something like the Void you basically wear a small backpack/vest and a helmet and you get fully mobile VR.
Won't this have the effect of restarting the arms race as each power attempts to ensure they have enough ordnance to overwhelm the anti-missile capabilities
If a country like North Korea cannot possibly build enough missiles to overwhelm anti-missile capabilities of America or any NATO country, then why would they waste money on building a lot of missiles to begin with?
Over all the effect is less missiles, not more, when really good defenses exist.
Awesome! So what effects did that "law" have? What was that called again? I guess since it was passed way back in 1982 the electrical grid must be totally OK with a an EMP attack!
Or wait, maybe we can actually improve on something to make it more robust? GASP!
When we are pretty sure we can live without worrying about large scale salvos of missiles between countries, I think the world will end up being a more peaceful place (in aggregate, not for all areas of course humans being what they are).
Between that and hardening agains EMP (which will happen naturally anyway at some point from solar flares) we are actually doing things that will matter on a country-wide scale.
Minecraft is probably a better comparison, and I don't see Fortnite having close to the same lasting appeal or impact. It's a stylish, but limited game that still revolves around guns as much as anything.
You are selling Fortnite too short, Fornite is a lot more than a gun game. Even just the popularity of the dancing aspect should provide an indication about that... it's not as much about building as Micecraft, but for a lot of people Fortnite is about building as well.
The thing that Fortnite has going for it is a continually, yet slowly, shifting landscape and story. They keep expanding what it is possible to do in Fortnite, even as they keep people coming back by updating the story and world.
Why would they stop working if they are well sealed?
If they start to not last as long, you can have Apple replace the battery.
And if they are dead dead you can turn them into Apple for recycling.
The reason they are popular is they work really well, are a good size, and are more comfortable (to me) than any other earbud I have used. They do things like auto-stop playback when you take one out, the charging case is a really nice way to approach charging.
Considering he actually got someone killed, and his sentence helps send a message to other potential swatters... the minimum amount of fla, err, sentence doesn't seem quite enough.
On the other side of this coin how is it possible after years of swatting action, that it's still really possible to swat anyone? It seems at this point like just a single source call should not be quite enough to trigger such an extreme response, or more recon should be done, or something.
That is not true anymore, especially for younger people.
Fortnite has had huge gains in adoption, and has gone way beyond where Angry Birds was in terms of cultural impact - they are even attending concerts in Fortnite now, and lots of people watch streamers play which was never the case with Angry Birds. So it too is a kind of social community, especially the streams...
Yep, I know it could do multiple devices - the thing is though, I'm not sure when I'd have need of multiple device charging! The only time I can think of, is charging the phone and AirPods at the same time, which would be mildly handy... I can see maybe putting it in the kitchen to put a few phones down while you made dinner or something I guess.
To me a flat mat always feels like a secondary charging device at best in any scenario I can think of where I am charging today.
I think being a DBA is a great position, not only because it is less cool so you can always get another position easily...
In terms of the topic under discussion, databases are always important to public facing function as well as internal stuff, so you are (I think) far less likely to get axed!
Even when I thought the AirPower might ship someday, I was dubious about the utility of it.
For charging an AppelWatch, I greatly prefer a stand that can have the face act as a small clock by the bed.
For charging a phone, I greatly also prefer a stand so that you can leave the phone more visible than laying down.
For the AirPods, if someday I have a wireless charging case I wouldn't care, a mat might be handy but anything would be fine (I've seen amusing pictures of them propped up just high enough on a phone charger to back against the charging spot.
I do like the idea of a charge surface that is less picky about where exactly the item is to charge well (or at all). But the stands kind of take care of that anyway... maybe a stand with a low spot for the AirPod case (or anything else small) and a phone-positioned pad would be good enough.
Do other people like and use alternative flat charging surfaces?
When you start doing that it's usually because you're prepping for a recession.
No, that's when single companies are laying off 3000+ people at a time.
When you are laying off a handful of engineers? That is when your company sucks and Bay Area salaries are so inflated, they only way you can live another month is to drop salary by shedding a few engineers.
It sure seems like if it's really engineers being laid off they can easily find more work... it's Instacart that is having trouble, not the economy.
If you wanted to mess with gmail logins, there are lots of ways to do it that would break it - but it would break for all gmail accounts, not just some...
This is a case of a super-bad bug slipping past QA and the people that manage releases somehow (since they knew about this bug in the beta version). I don't see how they could ship a final release with this issue known about...
The real reason I don't think this is done by design, is that this bug does way more harm to Apple's relatively clean reputation of shipping updates you can generally trust to install (especially in point releases as this was 10.14.3 to 10.14.4). I turned of auto-updates on all OSX systems and will probably have that off for a few years now until I can be sure they are serious about shipping quality patches again...
I guess Apple engineers were too busy ogling Oprah to bother checking unfinished bugs before dropping a release.
Yes, the system pref prompted me to re-enter my passwords as well. After entering, Mail.app still shows accounts as offline, and eventually I am re-prompted... after about eight tries I figured it was probably not going to work. Also tried a reboot (which 10.14.4 helpfully auot-provided for me in the middle of processing a password entry response), but still cannot access the affect gmail accounts... to receive new email or send anything out...
As I said in my other message, the workaround for me was to add important gmail accounts as IMAP accounts so I can see and respond to email, I can just delete those whenever they figure out the fix for Mail.app.
I feel like this is a bug related to processing the authentication from Google, because trying this out on a laptop that is still on 10.14.3, Mail.app does NOT send you over to Safari to authenticate, it happens within dialogs. Somewhere the auth transfer is failing for some cases, they should have tested the hell out of a change like that.
This hit me as well, I have around five gmail accounts that no longer work - the interesting thing is, if I delete and try to re-add them, it can't even get account details from Google to complete the add.
The really curious thing though, is that one lone gmail account is working just fine! What the heck.
Because two email accounts still worked (iCloud still works of course, as does this other gmail account) I didn't really notice until this morning there was an issue... including one outbound email that never went... out.
For a workaround I re-added my most important accounts as imap only accounts, that still works at least. But it's pretty bad they shipped a bug with this magnitude (and the 10.14.5 beta 1 release just out, does not fix it either).
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I thought Google+ had some interesting ideas going on. But something about using it for much at all really turned me off, even though for a while Google has some pro photographers heavily promoting it and it seemed to get some traction in that space...
But that was the thing about Google+, it never got any traction for anyone without pressure from Google, so as soon as that pressure even lightened up support evaporated. You just can't have a social network no-one is on!
I still can't put my figure though on why it never went anywhere with anyone I knew, when facebook and twitter lasted...
In the end I'm actually pretty happy it's going away so I can stop feeling bad for not posting there. Now I can focus on not posting to just instagram and facebook.
Skipping over considering even a single one of them isn't actually advancing the debate, you're skipping weighing any cons entirely as if pretending there were none.
Pretty suspicious that a bigot like yourself tries to attack someone on the basis of "pretending there were none" as if it were his place to point out the cons, when he's just questioning how bad they are.
If you claim they are bad, then present us some evidence or insight as to why they are bad - why wouldn't even attack you from not pointing out the ways in which they are good, because that is not what you were trying to question.
Cameras inside of a private apartment complex would seem like they would on balance be more bad than good, so what is the bad you think would be so very bad they should not be used?
Frankly the way society is today if an apartment complex did not have cameras I would install my own, at least for the hall I was on. It's just a good idea.
I can see where people would indeed be at risk of too much Burnout, given how many releases they have had.
The answer might be to take a step back for a while, and maybe not play the game that is Burnout.
Nope, unless its been reported by numerous others, any local-exchange numbers will come through still.
That's why I use also Hiya, which blocks local exchange numbers that are not In my contacts. You can use multiple call-blocking apps.
I used to not let the app have contact access as I'm pretty selective with that, but it turned out ONE GUY I knew has the same exchange, and for a while I kept wondering why I'd only ever get voice mails from him and not hear the calls...
Shielding to protect against accidental inference with other electronics is quite a lot different than shielding to protect against something on the scale of an actual EMP attack, or Carrington event.
Sure, you can always improve shielding, but 'good enough' is good enough.
Not necessarily for an EMP attack.
FYI you shield electric transmission by burying it.
Yes you do! So you are saying there are no overhead power lines left, fantastic.
Oh wait, there are? So we could still improve that factor? Huh!
Except that even knowing all that previous attempts have failed, so in fact is is a bigger deal than you are trying to convince others of.
I have T-Mobile, and currently use Hiya and NoMoRobo for hobocalls (left amusing typo in there).
They both work pretty well, but it seems like an app tied to a carrier might be able to work better in some ways, and reporting calls from multiple people in the network might cause a system-wide block on T-Mobile's behalf sooner than if they didn't know a particular caller was bothering a lot of people with unwanted calls.
At this point VR causes me less nausea than bad 3D games played on a large monitor (like The Witness, which makes me sick after about a half hour).
You are right about gear being cumbersome but we are already seeing reduction in that area with self-contained headsets. If you go in something like the Void you basically wear a small backpack/vest and a helmet and you get fully mobile VR.
Won't this have the effect of restarting the arms race as each power attempts to ensure they have enough ordnance to overwhelm the anti-missile capabilities
If a country like North Korea cannot possibly build enough missiles to overwhelm anti-missile capabilities of America or any NATO country, then why would they waste money on building a lot of missiles to begin with?
Over all the effect is less missiles, not more, when really good defenses exist.
The USA passed it's law in 1982.
Awesome! So what effects did that "law" have? What was that called again? I guess since it was passed way back in 1982 the electrical grid must be totally OK with a an EMP attack!
Or wait, maybe we can actually improve on something to make it more robust? GASP!
When we are pretty sure we can live without worrying about large scale salvos of missiles between countries, I think the world will end up being a more peaceful place (in aggregate, not for all areas of course humans being what they are).
Between that and hardening agains EMP (which will happen naturally anyway at some point from solar flares) we are actually doing things that will matter on a country-wide scale.
Further analysis showed that the "deletion" chopped the front off a nearby, previously unknown gene the scientists named FAAH-OUT.
Hmm, is it April 1st where this was posted from or what?
This gene pairs well with the lesser known GRO-VY.
Minecraft is probably a better comparison, and I don't see Fortnite having close to the same lasting appeal or impact. It's a stylish, but limited game that still revolves around guns as much as anything.
You are selling Fortnite too short, Fornite is a lot more than a gun game. Even just the popularity of the dancing aspect should provide an indication about that... it's not as much about building as Micecraft, but for a lot of people Fortnite is about building as well.
The thing that Fortnite has going for it is a continually, yet slowly, shifting landscape and story. They keep expanding what it is possible to do in Fortnite, even as they keep people coming back by updating the story and world.
When they stop working you just throw them out?
Why would they stop working if they are well sealed?
If they start to not last as long, you can have Apple replace the battery.
And if they are dead dead you can turn them into Apple for recycling.
The reason they are popular is they work really well, are a good size, and are more comfortable (to me) than any other earbud I have used. They do things like auto-stop playback when you take one out, the charging case is a really nice way to approach charging.
Considering he actually got someone killed, and his sentence helps send a message to other potential swatters... the minimum amount of fla, err, sentence doesn't seem quite enough.
On the other side of this coin how is it possible after years of swatting action, that it's still really possible to swat anyone? It seems at this point like just a single source call should not be quite enough to trigger such an extreme response, or more recon should be done, or something.
Facebook is a social hub for most people.
That is not true anymore, especially for younger people.
Fortnite has had huge gains in adoption, and has gone way beyond where Angry Birds was in terms of cultural impact - they are even attending concerts in Fortnite now, and lots of people watch streamers play which was never the case with Angry Birds. So it too is a kind of social community, especially the streams...
Yep, I know it could do multiple devices - the thing is though, I'm not sure when I'd have need of multiple device charging! The only time I can think of, is charging the phone and AirPods at the same time, which would be mildly handy... I can see maybe putting it in the kitchen to put a few phones down while you made dinner or something I guess.
To me a flat mat always feels like a secondary charging device at best in any scenario I can think of where I am charging today.
I think being a DBA is a great position, not only because it is less cool so you can always get another position easily...
In terms of the topic under discussion, databases are always important to public facing function as well as internal stuff, so you are (I think) far less likely to get axed!
If you can. be part of the company that makes something the company derives revenue from, not part of the team that is "overhead".
Even when I thought the AirPower might ship someday, I was dubious about the utility of it.
For charging an AppelWatch, I greatly prefer a stand that can have the face act as a small clock by the bed.
For charging a phone, I greatly also prefer a stand so that you can leave the phone more visible than laying down.
For the AirPods, if someday I have a wireless charging case I wouldn't care, a mat might be handy but anything would be fine (I've seen amusing pictures of them propped up just high enough on a phone charger to back against the charging spot.
I do like the idea of a charge surface that is less picky about where exactly the item is to charge well (or at all). But the stands kind of take care of that anyway... maybe a stand with a low spot for the AirPod case (or anything else small) and a phone-positioned pad would be good enough.
Do other people like and use alternative flat charging surfaces?
it sucks to get laid off, but what's your opinion on the best month to be laid off in, in the US, from an office job?
In SF any month is fine, since you can just go get a job the next day and the weather will pretty much be the same whenever.
When you start doing that it's usually because you're prepping for a recession.
No, that's when single companies are laying off 3000+ people at a time.
When you are laying off a handful of engineers? That is when your company sucks and Bay Area salaries are so inflated, they only way you can live another month is to drop salary by shedding a few engineers.
It sure seems like if it's really engineers being laid off they can easily find more work... it's Instacart that is having trouble, not the economy.
If you wanted to mess with gmail logins, there are lots of ways to do it that would break it - but it would break for all gmail accounts, not just some...
This is a case of a super-bad bug slipping past QA and the people that manage releases somehow (since they knew about this bug in the beta version). I don't see how they could ship a final release with this issue known about...
The real reason I don't think this is done by design, is that this bug does way more harm to Apple's relatively clean reputation of shipping updates you can generally trust to install (especially in point releases as this was 10.14.3 to 10.14.4). I turned of auto-updates on all OSX systems and will probably have that off for a few years now until I can be sure they are serious about shipping quality patches again...
I guess Apple engineers were too busy ogling Oprah to bother checking unfinished bugs before dropping a release.
Yes, the system pref prompted me to re-enter my passwords as well. After entering, Mail.app still shows accounts as offline, and eventually I am re-prompted... after about eight tries I figured it was probably not going to work. Also tried a reboot (which 10.14.4 helpfully auot-provided for me in the middle of processing a password entry response), but still cannot access the affect gmail accounts... to receive new email or send anything out...
As I said in my other message, the workaround for me was to add important gmail accounts as IMAP accounts so I can see and respond to email, I can just delete those whenever they figure out the fix for Mail.app.
I feel like this is a bug related to processing the authentication from Google, because trying this out on a laptop that is still on 10.14.3, Mail.app does NOT send you over to Safari to authenticate, it happens within dialogs. Somewhere the auth transfer is failing for some cases, they should have tested the hell out of a change like that.
This hit me as well, I have around five gmail accounts that no longer work - the interesting thing is, if I delete and try to re-add them, it can't even get account details from Google to complete the add.
The really curious thing though, is that one lone gmail account is working just fine! What the heck.
Because two email accounts still worked (iCloud still works of course, as does this other gmail account) I didn't really notice until this morning there was an issue... including one outbound email that never went ... out.
For a workaround I re-added my most important accounts as imap only accounts, that still works at least. But it's pretty bad they shipped a bug with this magnitude (and the 10.14.5 beta 1 release just out, does not fix it either).