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Re:CarPlay Is Additive on Friday July 03, 2026 @04:12AM (#48772313)
In my Hyundai pressing the mute button while on Bluetooth/Android Auto pauses playback and mutes. Pressing again resumes playback and volume to previous level.
There's also a sort-of-middle-ground here. There are trolleybusses which also have batteries, and can operate as regular busses where no overhead power is available. Basically you get continuous charge on parts of the route, while also being able to operate in other areas. Granted, this works for cities which already have trolleybus infrastructure in place.
Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:58PM (#27838346)
That doesn't really work when the app you're presenting with is actually MS Teams, as for whatever reason, during a call when you're screen sharing, Teams still shows notification pop-ups.
Re:US ends era of emotional support animals on planes on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:20PM (#25293281)
We actually had to take advantage of this loophole in order to get back to Europe with our dog during the pandemic, since no airline flying from the US accepted animals in the cargo hold.

But in general, yes, I'd be willing to pay for their own seat or row, just like when traveling with him by train we need to buy a special dog ticket.

Re:How Spotify ran a large Google Dataflow job for Wrapped 2019 on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:14PM (#22359873)
It's not really random, in the sense that if you have a playlist and hit shuffle it'll always play in the same order instead of randomizing the play order each time you listen to that playlist. Basically, with the current behavior, once you learned the order of the shuffled songs you can always know what comes next.
Re:Windows Terminal Preview 0.9 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:24PM (#22323149)
Can you share your config for that?
Re:Scaling to 100k Users on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:12PM (#22252251)
Speaking as a software engineer working on the devops side of things, it's best to have someone with experience in scalable architectures from the get go, otherwise things might get really complicated really fast if you want to transition an existing project to a more scalable, observable hosting platform.
Re:Introducing DarkSky.net on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:14AM (#12548301)
I have some bad news to give you: forecast.io is going to be replaced by darksky.net[1].

1. (http://blog.darksky.net/introducing-darksky-net/)