if you walk 20-85 feet away from your wallet, the app will make a sound and guide you back to it.
85 feet? So, far enough to be out of earshot thanks to walls and other obstructions, and even if you do hear it you might not make it back in time before someone else has been attracted to the sound and stolen your wallet.
And if you're so forgetful that you need this, you're probably forgetful enough to leave your phone behind too.
One of the other blocked sites, piratebayproxy.co.uk, doesn’t have any direct links to infringing material.
Are you sneakily trying to imply that the Pirate Bay itself does have direct links to infringing material? If the PB has "direct links" you might as well redefine "direct links" to include the proxy sites anyway.
Anyway, the solution is obvious. We just need a site listing all the sites that aren't Pirate Bay proxies, then visit sites which aren't on the list!
Yes, I already gave you the benefit of that split hair. I asserted (someone else's theory of) a hijacker, said hijacker being the pilot.
Then you apparently needlessly brought up (someone else's theory of) more hijackers:
so the hijackers could get off, perhaps with the cargo
Absent any actual evidence, a single suicidal pilot would seem to be a far simpler explanation than him being in league with a gang, landing the plane so they could steal the cargo, then flying off to his death. Hence my "evil wizard" comment.
Thanks very much for this story about a website no-one has heard of shutting down. Bonus points for not even telling us what the website's raison d'etre was in the first place, or why we should care that's it closing.
As you can see it has stimulated much discussion, all of which is so far on the topic of "what the fuck was Gigaom?"
No they don't - that is to say, I don't know that they illustrate typical expierences, because the article doesn't say so.
Even the rest of the article will only go as far as to say that there is a "growing body of evidence" challenging the apparently more widely held view that "people who died by suicide will ultimately do it even if temporarily deterred."
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They appear to be a news site of some sort
Folks used ta say that about Slashdot, back in the day... *cackle* *spit* *ding*
Suicide is all very tragic and it'd be lovely if no-one had to feel that way, but did we really need to throw in the anecdotes at the end?
Ken Baldwin, who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in 1985 and lived, told reporters that he knew as soon as he had jumped that he had made a terrible mistake. "From the instant I saw my hand leave the railing, I knew I wanted to live. I was terrified out of my skull." Baldwin was lucky to survive the 220 foot plunge into frigid waters. Ms. Barber tells another story: On a friend's very first day as an emergency room physician, a patient was wheeled in, a young man who had shot himself in a suicide attempt. "He was begging the doctors to save him," she says. But they could not.
How many people beg the doctors to let them die after a failed attempt?
Where did hijackers come from (metaphorically speaking)? If the suicidal pilot theory (broadly) fits the facts, why do hijackers have to get thrown in too? Why not say there was an evil wizard on board as well?
It lends a little weight to the "suicidal pilot" theory. Some pilots have suggested the tight turns it undertook before it disappeared were to provide a view of the island.
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Read what you quoted a few more times until you realize it's YOUR PHONE that makes the noise, not the wallet.
A few more times? I clearly didn't even read it once! Oops.
if you walk 20-85 feet away from your wallet, the app will make a sound and guide you back to it.
85 feet? So, far enough to be out of earshot thanks to walls and other obstructions, and even if you do hear it you might not make it back in time before someone else has been attracted to the sound and stolen your wallet.
And if you're so forgetful that you need this, you're probably forgetful enough to leave your phone behind too.
Sorry, Wikipedia is not a primary information source. Citation rejected!
Mars is about the worst. It's at the bottom of the deepest gravity well outside of earth
What's the problem there, if you're not planning to leave?
...beep!
Is the noise it had better make on boot.
Camelot!
Open Source Hardware Approaching Critical Mass
Are you sure you mean "critical mass"? Are you sure you don't mean "an arbitrary point that I'm using as a tenuous excuse to write a story"?
As the next paragraph from the article would have explained, had it not been arbitrarily excluded from the copy-paste summary.
A lot of developers dislike how much C++ can do "behind the scenes" with STL and Boost, leading to potential instability and inefficiency.
What does that even mean? Isn't the same true of any library in any language? And can't they also lead to greater stability and greater efficiency?
One of the other blocked sites, piratebayproxy.co.uk, doesn’t have any direct links to infringing material.
Are you sneakily trying to imply that the Pirate Bay itself does have direct links to infringing material? If the PB has "direct links" you might as well redefine "direct links" to include the proxy sites anyway.
Anyway, the solution is obvious. We just need a site listing all the sites that aren't Pirate Bay proxies, then visit sites which aren't on the list!
Yes, I already gave you the benefit of that split hair. I asserted (someone else's theory of) a hijacker, said hijacker being the pilot.
Then you apparently needlessly brought up (someone else's theory of) more hijackers:
so the hijackers could get off, perhaps with the cargo
Absent any actual evidence, a single suicidal pilot would seem to be a far simpler explanation than him being in league with a gang, landing the plane so they could steal the cargo, then flying off to his death. Hence my "evil wizard" comment.
[Lightning] is functionally identical to USB Type C
What is meant by "functionally identical"?
Lightning is 8-pin and USB Type C is 24-pin, so...
Just hedging my bets :)
Thanks very much for this story about a website no-one has heard of shutting down. Bonus points for not even telling us what the website's raison d'etre was in the first place, or why we should care that's it closing.
As you can see it has stimulated much discussion, all of which is so far on the topic of "what the fuck was Gigaom?"
The anecdotes illustrate typical experiences.
No they don't - that is to say, I don't know that they illustrate typical expierences, because the article doesn't say so.
Even the rest of the article will only go as far as to say that there is a "growing body of evidence" challenging the apparently more widely held view that "people who died by suicide will ultimately do it even if temporarily deterred."
They appear to be a news site of some sort
Folks used ta say that about Slashdot, back in the day... *cackle* *spit* *ding*
I wasn't trying to be edgy, and I don't drink coffee. I was critiscising the summary's choice to include those two anecdotes.
What purpose does your post serve, except to make you feel clever?
Suicide is all very tragic and it'd be lovely if no-one had to feel that way, but did we really need to throw in the anecdotes at the end?
Ken Baldwin, who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in 1985 and lived, told reporters that he knew as soon as he had jumped that he had made a terrible mistake. "From the instant I saw my hand leave the railing, I knew I wanted to live. I was terrified out of my skull." Baldwin was lucky to survive the 220 foot plunge into frigid waters. Ms. Barber tells another story: On a friend's very first day as an emergency room physician, a patient was wheeled in, a young man who had shot himself in a suicide attempt. "He was begging the doctors to save him," she says. But they could not.
How many people beg the doctors to let them die after a failed attempt?
It's not my theory, and you were the one (quoting "others") who added extra hijackers to the discussion:
so the hijackers could get off, perhaps with the cargo
We wrote a diagnostic to demo the problem, and with that the engineers were able to isolate and fix the problem
in short order.
That claim alone is enough to date your story back at least 30 years.
Where did hijackers come from (metaphorically speaking)? If the suicidal pilot theory (broadly) fits the facts, why do hijackers have to get thrown in too? Why not say there was an evil wizard on board as well?
People aren't going to be complaining to Apple because their alarm went off a second late/early.
Carved by wind? What does that even mean?
Ohhh, wind. Hard to tell the difference when it's written down.
It also ruins any attempt at making a joke about it. See above.
It lends a little weight to the "suicidal pilot" theory. Some pilots have suggested the tight turns it undertook before it disappeared were to provide a view of the island.
They've given themselves a guaranteed six months with no DST issues.