IncandescentGas

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by IncandescentGas 2y ago
Yes. You can restore your icloud backup to another target iphone without wiping the source iphone, as long as the target iphone has enough storage capacity.
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by IncandescentGas 2y ago
Right! Backup planning is not black magic. And neither is testing icloud backups. It's quite easy to restore an icloud backup to a different phone or even ipad for testing purposes, if one were reliant on icloud to hold their data.
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by IncandescentGas 2y ago
Your phone could become damaged and inoperable every day. From dropping it in the toilet, being stolen, a house fire, etc. If you're "petrified" of losing your data, it's worth the work to ensure your data backup procedu
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by IncandescentGas 2y ago
=~ s/server/serve/ :D
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by IncandescentGas 2y ago
> I think everybody can agree that improving efficiency is a good thing At what point does demanding top efficiency from a human every minute of every work shift cross the line into abuse? I would argue this tool is miles over that that
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by IncandescentGas 2y ago
Would you arrest a road worker because the highway onramp they just repaved was used by bank robbers to flee the scene of the crime?
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by IncandescentGas 2y ago
Learned regex in the 90's from the Perl documentation, or possibly one of the oreilly perl references. That was a time where printed language references were more convenient than searching the internet. Perl still includes a shell comp
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
This is very problematic when monopolies are involved. “You are banned from Taco Bell for the rest of your life” is very different from “You are banned from all restaurants anywhere for the rest of your life.” If all restaurants are Taco Be
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
We already have purjury law, which are so routinely broken by the police there's a common term for it. Testilying. Purjury is supposed to be serious. But it's not enforced against police officers. Other misconduct like prosecutors
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
Hey didn't get special treatment. They got the published rules changed in regards to ALL E-Mail apps. Not just theirs. And they clearly show the resulting policy update in this post. That's not special treatment. That's progr
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
They must know this right? It seems the "Be helpful and engaging" is a bit of self delusion to pretend they aren't having such a wide negative impact on all of humanity with this kind of research. If the premise is to determi
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
These regularly spaced and frequent junk notifications are so important to tech companies because they drive product addiction. Interrupting your day 16 times forcing someone to decide to scroll their feed yet again today, until they'r
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
Apps using repetitive junk push notifications to drive product addition has a side effect of driving smartphone addiction. Good luck expecting apple or google to curb smartphone addiction.
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
Because Microsoft may punish the UK’s ruling by ignoring it and halting game sales in the UK
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by IncandescentGas 3y ago
> meaning that it is easier for other vehicles to sneak ahead of them in traffic Changing lanes is "sneaking" now? Does somebody really think we need autonomous driving trained to block other cars from safely switching lanes?
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
> I wonder how many people never find out due to national security letters not allowing it. There's an annoying thought. Amazon could be providing a live feed of every ring device directly to an aggregated intelligence data center,
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
Would an Amazon owned clinic responding to an injured warehouse worker not be incentivized to protect the parent company instead of treat the patient?
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
> Statistically criminals will commit crimes again if let out even on minor infractions. Japan seems to have realized this and capitalized on it. What a worthless bit of nonsensical rhetoric.
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
Wikipedia deleted the page for Marty Stratton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
The obvious answer is working on non user facing features. Advertising platform, infrastructure, harmful content filters, propaganda as a service, etc etc
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
Do you have data suggesting twitch auidences are mostly teenagers? According to GlobalWebIndex in Q2 2019, this is an approximation of the age demographic on Twitch, ranging in age from 16-64 years in age: 16 to 24 year olds: 41% 25 to 34 y
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
Not that that law mattered before it was repealed. Here's a nytimes articles from 2005. > To a viewer, each report looked like any other 90-second segment on the local news. In fact, the federal government produced all three. The re
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
Why should software companies, developers, product managers and executives remain immune from consequences of willful negligence, when that negligence results in real harm? In college I took an Engineering Ethics class, where we studied eng
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
You're probably thinking of the bend gate controversy, where the bend in the case in the plus model was severe enough to damage the logic board. That, also, was not rare. We saw it constantly in the shop. Nearly every iphone 6, 6s or 6
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
I wonder if reliability was a factor in ending this feature. 3D touch malfunctions badly with a slightly swelling battery pressing against the lcd backplate inside the phone. Or a bend in the phone chassis. The 6s case was bent for every pe
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
Or even AT&T. Compensation in their retention department at the moment starts with a bonus amount, and subtracts from it for any number of normal things that happen during the course of their business day, such as a customer who talks t
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
When I moved states several years ago, the spam callers were mostly choosing DIDs from my immediately local area within a few months of having moved. This isn't new. Wild guess, geolocation data collected from a phone, either from an a
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by IncandescentGas 4y ago
> idiotic licensing issues nobody cares about The owner of the license cares about it. This is not copyright being self defeating. This is copyright working as intended. If the persons who own the rights to something don't want to s
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by IncandescentGas 5y ago
> he first one to make a full confession and implicate others gets off, the others get prosecuted. This is how you get false confessions and wrongful convictions. Especially for conspiracy where burden of proof is he-said/she-said
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by IncandescentGas 5y ago
Can confirm, payments API is timing out or returning 500s and 503s

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