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by jonpurdy 5y ago
GP here. I use iMessage with an email address, and Signal and other data based messengers and I’ve been doing so since 2014 almost exclusively when I started thinking about using a data plan for my phone service. As a result my SMS usage is
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
That’s correct, waiting for a push + acknowledgement would be too long which is why it just automatically does it. I did the push so I’d be able to track unexpected usage and there wasn’t a single one the entire time.
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
I literally do the same thing, except "press 1 if you are a human". I haven't had any robocalls get through. I don't have a direct cell number as I just use a cheap data-only iPad plan with my iPhone only, combined with
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Hi Dave, I just found out about your tool from this post and it looks amazing! I was about to download it to try it out but I'm now hesitant to try (and possibly later purchase) if it's being rewritten in Rust + Electron rather th
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Bonus points for ingenuity, I guess? /s As a non-American considering going through the Green Card process and with an American-born daughter, stuff like this dampens my enthusiasm for living here long term. I guess the USA is just a p
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Very good point. I do get frustrated when watching Korean media with my wife and needing Korean subs for myself and English for her. I notice that the subs frequently mistranslate, or convert to a Western equivalent, which drops the nuance.
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
I don't know why I didn't think of this before... thanks! I will definitely try that out, especially since at such a young age she won't be able to sit through a whole film anyway.
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
> I think there's a lot of gatekeeping about this. People - perhaps rightfully so - believe subtitled versions to be more ... "pure" than dubbed versions. Well, they are more pure than dubbed versions. There is so much nua
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
I would be happy to pay the subscription fee for a native app, especially since my partner and parents can use it under the family plan. It works great for that! I've been paying for upgrades since 2007 (version 2.0 I think). Except th
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
There’s a great quote from Jackie Chan about fight scenes: “I never move my camera. Always steady. Wide angle.” Most action scenes in movies have moving cameras with fast cuts and zoomed in faces. Makes it impossible to actually track what’
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
I ran a similar calculation for my Spark EV with 14 kWh capacity remaining. I can run my router and two wifi APs for around 15 days (at least) if needed. So I picked up a small inverter and will manually fail over from my UPS if a power out
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Exact same thing in South Korea. Folks afraid of embarrassing themselves with their English, but once you speak Korean (and look presentable) it's not a problem. Funny thing about the oversensitivity to racism: many foreigners assume r
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
It’s amazing to me how much more usable those UIs are. Not to mention how much more performant they’d be than modern Electron garbage. But forget about Mac OS 9, we don’t even have native OS X or Windows interfaces anymore. Doesn’t help tha
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Thanks for this suggestion. We are not in a Family Sharing group, so I’ll look into whether this helps. I also might just move her AirTag to my account to track her keys, since if she’s misplaced her keys there’s a good chance she’s misplac
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Thanks for this. My wife often doesn’t bring her phone on walks, but does bring her keys. That would make sense!
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
So I and my wife both have AirTags. Every time we take a walk together, we both get notifications that there's an unknown AirTag with us (each others'). You can pause these notifications for just one day, which means we get notifi
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Speaking of old Macs, I use a 1993 Apple M1242 Adjustable Keyboard (via USB Wombat) as my daily driver※. When I first learned of Kintsugi a few years ago, my keyboard was the first thing I thought of. The original keyboard had about half of
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
When March 2020 hit, I was really hoping that Asian mask culture would finally hit North America and people would choose to wear a mask when they have a cold or other illness, even post-COVID. Unfortunately it seems to have completely gone
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
I have never interviewed at Stripe, but I did interview at Coinbase in mid-2020 and it was among the best interviewing experiences I've had. The hiring manager for a TPM role (NM) was awesome, as was the entire loop. I didn't end
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
So I really see the value of voice-activated stuff now that I have a baby. I have a few Ikea dimmable LEDs which work reasonably well aside from the 0.5s-5s delay to actuate them. I've even set up Homebridge to get non-Homekit baby dev
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
This is easier on dual sport motorcycles where it's easier to shift position while riding, as well as stand on the pegs to stretch out (at lower speeds of course). My longest days of riding were around 650 km and I was totally exhauste
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
It wasn't until I rented a floor of a house (and garage and front yard) in SF (Outer Sunset) last year that I really noticed the problem in North America with personal responsibility and keeping streets clean. I'm constantly picki
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
One of the problems with SF streets (especially in Sunset where I live) is street width. With residential streets wide enough for six cars side by side, drivers feel like they can go faster without danger to themselves. The solution is to m
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Also, the stats for cars show that speed increases cause deaths to go up non-linearly, so your chances of dying in an accident are way more than double at 100 vs 50 km/h. I would assume the same about motorcycles and ebikes, but presum
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
I ordered one, then quickly cancelled because of the lack of pre-soldered header. Looking for a drop-in replacement for my Pi Zero WH due to time constraints (new baby). I presume they didn't make the pre-soldered header available at
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Curious about your opinion on bamboo products. I assume you're referring to modern bamboo desks, shelves, and other items that are made from Chinese bamboo and made in China. They typically slice the bamboo grass pieces into ~8 section
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
I think that the new laptops are a huge deal for Apple. Some folks argue that we're celebrating them putting back ports that should have been there from the beginning. And that the keyboards should have never gotten so bad. I see it as
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Having lived in Korea and visited Japan, ubiquitous vending machines is an absolute game-changer. Especially with a choice of hot or cold drinks, vending machines really make life super convenient. Pretty cool to see the Victorians had this
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
This is awesome. I'd love to see this exact setup applied things other than web hosts!
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by jonpurdy 5y ago
Noticed this when I moved to SF a couple of years ago. No idea why it's so popular here compared to Toronto, especially when people are alone and can just wear earbuds.

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