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811.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Apple has my location at every moment of my life, from birth to natural death, and they can't switch the default card based on the store I'm in? Will wonders never cease.
812.
by bombcar 6mo ago
For all I know there is something like that, but it'll be buried in settings, probably in accessibility, where nobody ever goes. Discoverability of options on the iPhone is fraught with danger and distrust, I learned about CarPlay widg
813.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. My debit card from my credit union is easy to map to the account as they share digits, but other debit cards from other institutions are completely unrelated.
814.
by bombcar 6mo ago
As we more and more mandate smartphones to live, we need to take accessibility into account. Watching "the olds" (which we are all fated to become someday unless something intervenes) fight technology is eye-opening; especially wh
815.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Some banks are better than others - Apple is amusingly bad at it if you have the Apple Card and your wife has you shared on hers. Two white rectangles, both alike in dignity, in fair Cupertino, where we lay our scene.
816.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Some banks have their debit and credit cards almost identical. You may have multiple cards from the same bank (personal, family, business). Different cash back from the same bank making you want to use one card over another.
817.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The only information sent to the card processor is the swipe (number expiration date) and sometimes the zip code and verification code on the back (if entered by hand).
818.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The oldest theaters might still be the way they always were, but most have gone to offering direct ticketing (to cut Fandango and friends out) and they need something to offer you to make you buy ahead - being able to select the seat is t
819.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Especially since you may have someone walk-up and willing to buy-in to the movie even though it started ten minutes ago, so I think I've answered my question above - they just show everything no matter what the sales look like.
820.
by bombcar 6mo ago
You don't even have to pay for a projectionist anymore, so you might as well digitally project to an empty theater than risk missing out on a ticket sale. I wonder if they even bother turning the projector on if they sold no tickets? H
821.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The problem is that if you take this too far, nobody knows what it costs to go to the movies, so everyone will just stick the "high cost" in their mind, and not go. This is why they always gravitate to "$5 before noon/4p
822.
by bombcar 6mo ago
MST3K is definitive proof that "not all the old movies were good" - there were some stinkers, and they only picked out the ones that were "so bad they're good" - there's much worse. Most movies are decently b
823.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It's like eating a burger - they're basically all the same, but there are variations. And a burger isn't anything amazing (even if you find a pretentious one, it's still a burger), but it's still nice to go out and
824.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It's all variations of Gell-Mann Amnesia. Any portrayal is a betrayal. Of course, if I'm going to talk about something I know deeply, I'm almost certainly going to begin with "this is all incorrect in the details, but co
825.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It's inherent to video that you "have to make up data" - if I tell you the barebones of something that happened in real life (we went to a doctor's appointment but discovered it had been scheduled earlier than we thought
826.
by bombcar 6mo ago
People couldn't care less about being careless with could care less.
827.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Opening night most if not all of the ticket price goes to the studio anyway, but it's the ticket price not the per-showing price - so if they have a theater empty anyway (and I've not seen a blockbuster fill all theaters at a
828.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The idea was they'd bootstrap it by giving you a credit card that could buy one ticket (which is all it was, a weird debit/credit card with a $15-20 authorization limit and a limited number of merchants accepted) - and then get th
829.
by bombcar 6mo ago
It'd be interesting to see what the wrong checksum it calculates is ...
830.
by bombcar 6mo ago
"Mac? Oh, Sex!" is how everyone pronounces it. Very few people "properly" say Mac Oh Ess Ten.
831.
by bombcar 6mo ago
I think there's also an idea that sustainability requires constant maintenance and improvement; but TeX is sustainable and it's approaching a limit function - it (plain TeX) gets no new features, but has very few remaining bug
832.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Even where it's not legal you can often do much of the work and hire a licensed contractor for the "final step". It can be worth asking around.
833.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Yep, watching the store/usernames of sellers can be instructive (many thrift stores, pawn shops, consignment stores, and others list things on eBay, especially for fixed price). One of the reasons to refund an order is “already sold in
834.
by bombcar 6mo ago
They’re called consignment stores and some have an online component (which can involve eBay or other similar marketplaces).
835.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Legacy is pre-bedrock and it’s NOT decompiled; some consider it to be the “last good” version of Minecraft that wasn’t Java - and perhaps could be used to do something interesting on non-jvm platforms. Decompiled code is great, but having a
836.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Using Vanguard anything as a counter-example isn't terribly persuasive; they're unique in the market.
837.
by bombcar 6mo ago
Is Claude better with Javascript than it is with Go code? Seems like it could be true.
838.
by bombcar 6mo ago
"Profitable" is the wrong metric, really, it's whether it is sustainable - can development continue indefinitely given the current financial situation?
839.
by bombcar 6mo ago
The closeness of the trees to the runway kept giving me extreme pucker ...
840.
by bombcar 6mo ago
A house with a runway is cheap in some places; I've seen driveways that are marked as private runways in the rural areas.

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