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++ to fastmail. Their spam filtering has been excellent and they have a good stance on privacy.

Anything is possible, but I don't think judgement of visual aesthetics maps at all to quality of writing.

I'm a damn good technical writer and can break down complex ideas into clear and understandable prose, but I don't know the first thing about fonts or typesetting.

I think it's likely a sincere question. I, for one, would not wanting to be physically touching a radio that people may have been turning on/off depending on whether the device is located before or after their ability to wash their hands.

Thimbleweed Park was highly enjoyable. Done by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, two of the people from the classic days at LucasArts.

Facebook/Meta has a freeze through the end of the year.

> and if Visual Studio ran on Mac I'd probably switch my PC out also

Not sure if it supports all the features you need, but it exists.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/

We use Fluent Migrator for out C# based applications.

https://fluentmigrator.github.io/

It's not done using dynamic SQL tables.

The key insight is to note that FIELDS table actually defines the name, ordering, and config for each of the fields of a given note type, and that the actual notes data is stored in the Notes table in the DATA column, most likely as JSON.

Reminds me of this comic.

https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2003/04/27

The iPhone 12 User Guide warns about this.

From the online version at https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/important-safety-info...:

>Medical device interference iPhone contains magnets as well as components and radios that emit electromagnetic fields. These magnets and electromagnetic fields may interfere with medical devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators.

>Though all iPhone 12 models contain more magnets than prior iPhone models, they’re not expected to pose a greater risk of magnetic interference to medical devices than prior iPhone models.

>Consult your physician and medical device manufacturer for information specific to your medical device and whether you need to maintain a safe distance of separation between your medical device and iPhone. There are many types of medical devices, and manufacturers often provide recommendations on the safe use of their devices around wireless or magnetic products to prevent possible interference. If you suspect iPhone is interfering with your medical device, stop using iPhone.

Ah, that's from the Press Release, which is for a more mainstream audience who maybe would expect all features to work otherwise.

From the tech specs page on the product itself though:

> AirPods Max can be used as Bluetooth headphones with Apple devices using earlier software and with non-Apple devices, but functionality is limited.

"Secret tunnel" is one of my favorite TikTok genres. I find these fascinating as well.

I imagine that it's someone that runs either either a lot of virtual machines or a lot of Docker Containers.

> Do you carry liability insurance for your company? Have a contract lawyer that you know and use? If not then you are probably not big enough for the major RFPs.

I just wanted to dispute this. I highly recommend carrying liability insurance regardless of size (I'm a single person shop). It's relatively cheap. A million dollar policy will run you just a few hundred bucks. It's a huge protection and also a marketing plus since it acts as a quality indicator.

I also recommend having a contract lawyer, even for single person shops. Again, a little money up front can be a huge time and aggravation saver down the road.

Or "hide" the stuff you don't like. I like to do that so that when I come back 10 times later that day I don't continually have that annoyance when seeing the story again.

Suddenly Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Dead" makes a lot more sense to me.

1. Yes.

2. Yes. Though like anything, you get out of them what you put in.

3. Set on a per-person basis. Some people need/want to meet every week. A lot of them are younger developers and are looking for constant guidance/feedback on how they're doing, ways to improve, or just to talk through issues.

While a person is in charge of their frequency, we do require at least once a month. Those people are usually more senior in their careers. In those cases, a lot of times the meetings are shorter and we just have a quick chat to make sure everything's okay with both them and their team.

TestFlight. The user limit is 10,000. If beta review is slowing down your dev/release cycle, you may be using it incorrectly. After initial beta review, it's usually unnecessary to have subsequent versions reviewed unless you've significantly changed the purpose/functionality of the app, and that's keyed off of the questions they ask you when you upload new betas.

From "TestFlight beta testing overview" at https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/devdc42b26b8

A review is only required for the first build of a version and subsequent builds may not need a full review.

I think this is a great idea, security-wise. I prefer my installations to have as few attack vectors as possible. So having as few things enabled/installed by default is awesome.

You can disable WiFi quickly by swiping down (from the top right) to bring up control center and then tapping the WiFi button.

Um, vegetables, fruits, nuts, dairy, soy, etc.? I've been eating a vegetarian keto diet for a while now and have not been lacking due to a loss of sugar, grains, and starch.

I feel like you're glossing over several factors. In your scenario:

1: Person must have physical access and control of your phone.

2: Person must have Phone pin-code or password, in order to unlock phone and access either SMS, banking app, or password app. Or somehow brute force password or decrypt phone contents.

3: Person must have either password for banking app or password to Password App to gain banking password.

If you're not using passwords (and different ones at that) for your phone, password manager, and banking apps, then that's the whole in your security, not from using SMS as a second factor.

There are issues with using SMS in 2FA, but it's not the issues that you've brought up.

They said protein because that would also include such things as tofu, fish, and eggs; none of which are commonly called "meat". You're being overly restrictive by trying to move to the term meat.

After reading this line:

> Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.

and seeing the initial screenshot on the announcement, I thought that this was a joke post. How you can call this "focused on simplicity" while showing that horrific hodge podge of a screen shot is beyond me.

I would tend to argue that institutional racism is also bad for your health and mental well-being.

The problem is that there's a little more nuance than just "utility". As an example, take clothing. I don't think that anyone would argue that a single t-shirt didn't have utility. After all, I can wear it. However, I have several t-shirts from conferences or conventions that I don't ever wear. So while they have utility in theory, I'm not utilizing them in practice.

Not "good" as in "good vs. evil", but rather "good" as in "proficient at the skill of lawyering".

I find that there's tons of embedded systems work out there, especially in the medical device space.

> Stakeholders should be able to talk to devs

Not necessarily. The Product Owner should definitely be able to talk to devs, but not necessarily all stakeholders. What I suspect may have happened in this case, is that a dev talked to a stakeholder that was not the Product Owner, and instituted a change that was either not properly communicated to the team, or which was contrary to what other stakeholders or the Product Owner wanted.

I know you made this comment as a joke, but there actually is an entire sub-genre of geek-related romance novels.