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by varenc 4y ago
They scan your ID and look up your flight in databases based on your name. It’s been happening for a few years now: https://thepointsguy.com/news/tsa-new-technology/
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by varenc 4y ago
This is a digression, but in reply to: > Twitter's original win was that it was staggeringly simple, just asking new users to post about 'what they're doing right now' and offering simple controls to reply, repeat, o
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by varenc 4y ago
I too am wondering that. Doesn’t seem to be any corresponding asterisk explanation.
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by varenc 4y ago
As a half solution: You can create a Shortcut that turns of BT/Wi-Fi completely. You can then add that Shortcut to your home screen for easy access. That's what I do and it's way nicer than going to Settings, though I wish it
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by varenc 4y ago
You can create a Shortcut (in the Shortcuts app) that actually turns off Bluetooth completely. Then you can add automation to run your "turn bluetooth off" shortcut multiple times a day. Haven't look into it but you might be
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by varenc 4y ago
Try compiling ffmpeg with `--enable-librav1e` and use the `rav1e` encoder implementation. It's supposed to be the fastest software encoder, though of course it can still quite slow depending on the settings. If you have a newish Intel
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by varenc 4y ago
I hate Dice. Mainly because of their instance of getting your phone number and requiring their phone app to use your ticket. But almost every time a venue is selling tickets on Dice I've discovered that they're also for sale on Re
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by varenc 4y ago
> I feel like the bar should be lowered - not too low, obviously. I suspect many Wikipedia editors believe exactly that. They just think they’re enforcing that low bar, but not too low. No matter where you make the cut off there’s going
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by varenc 4y ago
I pay for a bunch of streaming services, for semi-moral reasons, but I still pirate 99% of content. Pirating is the only way to get accurate high-quality subtitles. I’ll automatically download them from Opensubtitles and then strip out the
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by varenc 4y ago
> what good is it to have a repair manual when you cannot buy genuine parts? You can absolutely buy genuine parts for recent iPhones: https://selfservicerepair.com/order (that website looks random, but it's actually
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by varenc 4y ago
Making repairs much easier is still a huge win. We're also constantly moving the goalposts on Apple. The iPhone 11 had no public repair manuals and only special authorized repair centers could purchase genuine parts or perform the &quo
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by varenc 4y ago
These are the scores for the ballot measure that Texas voters were supposed to vote yes or no on. So absolutely yes. When you're asking people to vote on something, and you actually want informed voters, I unquestionably want ballot
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by varenc 4y ago
You can find the full report, along with the appendices with the list of crew and passengers, here: https://books.google.com/books?id=twnY7_eFDuQC&pg=PA7287&lpg... The tables are also more nicely formatted in this v
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by varenc 4y ago
From watching some Strong Towns videos I really do think that for many towns the property tax revnue coming in really isn't enough to support their maintenance costs. Especially for sprawling low density developments where every single
825.
by varenc 4y ago
Expanding on that a bit: Many suburban towns rely on growth for a large portion of their revenue. When growth eventually slows they no longer have enough money coming in to the meet their maintenance costs. Strong Towns calls this the “Grow
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by varenc 4y ago
digression: the linked URL seems to be using some internal apple domain. The "proper" link is: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252794122?page=49 My guess is that the `origin-discussions2-us-dr-prz` subd
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by varenc 4y ago
Still down for me. Sometimes getting this message: Server Error We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve
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by varenc 4y ago
For apps that don’t need internet access to function I just block their network access. Or block their servers at the DNS level. They can’t force an update if they can’t phone home.
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by varenc 4y ago
Certainly! But then how do you decide what degree of already-sorted-ness fairly represents real world data?
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by varenc 4y ago
Creating a single benchmark seems tricky since Timsort’s key strength is it performs particularly well on real world data where subsequences of the input are often already sorted (runs). With random data it should have O(n log n) time like
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by varenc 4y ago
Have you enabled Lockdown mode on both devices? Then that's almost certainly the cause. Without the JIT you're going to be burning a lot more CPU cycles running JavaScript.
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by varenc 4y ago
> Is there some software (macos) to regularly create screenshots throughout the day? On macOS here's a little shell command to take a screenshot every 60 seconds and place it in the /tmp folder: while true; do screen
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by varenc 4y ago
I'm not confused.. but as demonstrated in this thread, confusion exists amongst users. Also your example sort of made my point. The names "threadripper 3990x" and "ryzen 5500" are pretty meaningless by themselves an
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by varenc 4y ago
I think the grandparent commenter is illustrating how confusing this is. To break it down, here are the chips and laptop models: - M1 Macbook Air (old) - M1 Macbook Pro 13" (old) - M1 Pro Macbook Pro 14" (or M1 Max)
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by varenc 4y ago
Agreed. I wish iOS had a "network access" permissions just like Android does. (Though to avoid permission fatigue for the average user, perhaps make it something only users that care can deny) That said, I think this is pretty un
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by varenc 4y ago
If you’re worried about package interception I’d recommend just trying to buy your electronics at a local retailer. Decide which one you’re going to right as you walk out the door so there’s no reasonable way someone can even predict where
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by varenc 4y ago
I don’t believe the nine lines of code was the relevant part leading to damages. It was the fact that Google copied this entire API design (SSO) for Java. I don’t think GPT-3 is in danger of doing that.
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by varenc 4y ago
> No need to memorize different shortcuts for each kind of screenshot. Just a single shortcut to enter screenshot mode You don't need to memorize any shortcuts on macOS to take a screenshot. Just open up "Screenshot.app".
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by varenc 4y ago
You can use SMS as a backup 2FA to login to your online Apple ID account, but that's not enough to access the iCloud keychain. The decryption keys for that data are only stored on your iDevices. It's E2EE after all. So while you c
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by varenc 4y ago
Fun fact: The definition of a cathedral includes hosting or being associated with a particular bishop. So if it hasn’t done that I don’t think it’s really “cathedral”.

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