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by gnaffle 13y ago
I don't think anyone who has read a bit about how Apple and especially Ive works are very concerned about that. Their primary concern isn't first and foremost how things look, but how they work.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Just getting a working subject / from / to search would be great. That said, my primary purpose with GPG is securing the emails in transit, not on my laptop. I already use disk encryption and most of the documents I send are stored unencryp
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I did that, unfortunately the search feature in Thunderbird is just terrible compared to Mail.app (maybe there is a plugin I don't know about?)
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Hopefully it'll be at least some time before the make such a big change to Mail.app. Remember it worked well for many releases before we got into the current situation.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Of course it's logically inconsistent, but this is the real world and trade-offs like these are made. Same with Lithium batteries, although there have been several confirmed cases of such batteries catching fire in flight they are still all
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, this isn't scientific discourse, it's about erring on the side of safety. And it's not like it's easy to get any other kind of evidence from actual flights.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yes. This is a trade-off. Do they search your hand luggage for air band radios? No, they don't. That's also a trade-off, even though you could certainly cause interference with one.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
There are two assumptions that people in these discussion make 1) If 30% of the passengers leave their devices on today, leaving 100% of the devices on won't cause any increase in problems, and 2) If something happens it's either a) nothing
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think you forget that many of these instruments have _antennas_. While they are very well insulated against unwanted interference, it's not like it's feasible to protect against _any_ interference. After all, the pilots are talking on an
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by gnaffle 13y ago
They do perform those tests, but they can't account for all potential future electronics devices. Likewise, you can test your database server for all known exploits and it might come up clean, but if you open your firewall you can still be
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It's because those are critical phases of flight, with an especially high workload on the pilots. This is also why small talk between pilots is disallowed during takeoffs and landings. If an instrument acts up in cruise, the pilots have a l
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I'm pretty sure I read at least on of the NASA reports where the pilot in cooperation with the passenger positively identified that the interference stopped when the laptop was turned off, and started again when it was turned on.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
In my experience, I simply do this as a way of polling the app to see whether it's still working. A working app will often have the main gui loop running so you'll be able to see the GUI respond to clicks, focus changes etc. If the app does
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, I'm not talking about the merchant writing down the credit card number. This happens through the terminal. Do you work in banking and know about this, or are you making assumptions about how payment terminals work?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, at least where I live I've encountered this a few times. The payment terminal shows "connecting" for some time, and eventually prints out an extra receipt that I have to sign (whereas usually entering the PIN is sufficient). Can you t
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think you forget that the payment systems are designed to tolerate failure and still work. For instance, you may be able to use your credit card at a store even if their phone line or internet connection breaks down. So it's possible to s
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Saying there will be a cure to depression like we have with other diseases is a bit like saying there will eventually be a spray-on lubricant that can magically fix any malfunctioning machine. It really oversimplifies the problem. We'll get
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I don't think you can compare RPI to Arduino at all. Arduino is certainly not an obsolete technology. There are lots of projects where prototyping with an Arduino and finishing the project with a super cheap AVR chip is the way to go.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
And that's OK. Not everyone needs a smartphone, but that wasn't my point. My point was that many people (even tech people) immediately ask this question in a dismissive way before they have even started to think about what this technology c
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I have a sat nav, but after having driven a car with a HUD once (showing navigation, speed and OCR-read speed limit) I'd love to have Google Glass just get this feature without having to buy a new car.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Lots of people say "don't get it" when faced with a new technology. That's the problem with generic platforms. "Why would I need a smartphone" is a similar question. The potential answers are obvious today, but they weren't 10 years ago. I
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think the big danger Spolsky warns about is the "stop working on the old code and spend a year doing a complete rewrite". Many very smart people have underestimated the risks in doing that and the time it will take, while overestimating t
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Not only that, but he was interim CEO for quite some time before that.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
There are many ways to do meditation (and many goals) but generally in silent meditation you pay attention to what your mind is doing, how you are feeling emotionally and physically, etc. To have a "reference point" you can pay attention to
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by gnaffle 13y ago
You can also find stories about how Steve would hold doors open for people. He wasn't an ass all the time.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Indeed, and that is why that management was replaced.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It's not that the Japanese are bad at software. But the big electronics companies never realized the importance of software/hardware integration. Sony even has a lot of in-house expertise that is probably just not put into god use. There is
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by gnaffle 13y ago
No, but it's interesting to ask why, for instance, Sony lost its position as the number 1 cool gadget inventor. There are many reason for this, including politics and sticking to proprietary technology for too long, but I agree that a lack
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by gnaffle 14y ago
No, but you can't promote an energy source on the basis of some idealized dream where every ounce of waste is properly taken care of, when the reality is different. If the UK has handled waste in this way, do you think other countries have
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The problem with nuclear power is trust. That trust was broken with Chernobyl, and broken again with Fukushima. Pre-Fukushima, most pro nuclear people would argue that the chance of a nuclear accident in an first world country was close to

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