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Studies of larger populations yield more typical results. Consequently, studies of smaller populations yield more extreme results.

That's not to say that these results might not be significant -- what you propose may be the case -- but I'd want to see an actual mechanism of action before buying something like this.


It's hilarious to see the old joke actually playing out in real life. Kudos!

On a meta note; would you consider adding a left margin to your site? Reading from the very edge of my screen feels somewhat strange.


Clicking through the links in his article, I came across a guy who apparently did the same thing at Apple - he introduced the "auto remove" feature for expired passes added to your wallet, then promptly quit. I had no idea that's how that feature came about, but now I'm going to send a little mental thank you to him every time I get off a plane. That shit was FRUSTRATING.


That reminds me, I need to apply for a job on whichever team hasn’t added a toggle to remove contact names from the autocorrect dictionary…


Crazy because I remember that the first few iPhone OS versions had really bad autocorrect dictionaries, especially for German. The workaround for that was to make contacts for missing words because contact names never got marked as misspelled.



Oh wow. Guess I need to get a job at Apple just to add a `Mark all as read` button to voicemails.


I need to get a job at Apple to stop “omw”-> “On my way!” (Complete with the `!`) from reappearing in my Text Replacements every month or two, no matter how many times I delete it.

(Try typing “I’m omw to the car” or something to see how annoying this is)


Apparently the current state of the art to fix this problem is to remove it and add an "omw" → "omw" text replacement in its stead. A friend recommended this to me and I haven't had problems with it since. Yes, it's nuts, but it is what it is.


And the ability to undo deleting voicemails. And record voicemails client side using AI transcription to deliver thnesss


Meant to say “to deliver the same experience as Visual Voicemail” but accidentally posted it from my pocket before I could finish writing it out.


> he introduced the "auto remove" feature for expired passes added to your wallet, then promptly quit

This still didn't work reliably, unfortunately. I still have expired passes, tickets etc. in my wallet


Personally I don’t see why you would want to delete these expired passes. For the longest time they haven’t shown up alongside active passes.


> For the longest time they haven’t shown up alongside active passes.

They have always shown up for me, and the only way to delete them is from the wallet app. Note: from the app. You can't delete it from convenient screen where you access them


Well, now you know the drill!


BRB polishing my CV


Hotz said this, but I couldn't find any actual evidence so didn't include it.


Maybe you should get hired by OP and fix it yourself ;)


Site is actually open source lol - https://github.com/skeptrunedev/personal-site


>Get hired by github > force push the pr > get fired > profit


This is dark. Get hired at GitHub and you can even fix bugs in private repos! This is the real move.


I am not a fan of sites that waste screen real estate.


> On a meta note; would you consider adding a left margin to your site? Reading from the very edge of my screen feels somewhat strange.

What!? I love the fact that it's left-aligned. That's the way text should be!


Alignment and margin are different concepts. You can be left-aligned and still have a comfortable margin.


True enough, but considering most websites these days consider "a comfortable margin" to mean "4-6 inches", I'm delighted to see a site which actually lines things up close to the left side of my monitor. Like I said, that's how text should be.


Unless you have a wide screen display and have to physically move your head to read the text.


Comrade, we have invented tiling window managers. You can simply move the window

E: I still like margins though. A visual delineation from the window border is nice.


Maybe I just didn't read carefully enough, but I'm having a hard time understanding what the sensors are actually meant to detect. Is this a foundational technology for a suite of different sensors, or just used for heart-rate monitoring, or..?


Yes. My reading is they are printing wires, and the sensor bit is science fiction. Maybe the actual sensors are external, picking up deformation or position of the printed gunk?


Not only is this unnecessarily rude, it is also not the case, as noted by a comment posted almost three hours before this one.


Not to be confused with Deluge, the BitTorrent client :P


I honestly thought of that immediately. Deluge was one of the nicer clients I could ever find that was cross platform. As nice as uTorrent was, I preferred clients that were cross platform. qBitorrent became my favorite sometime later though.


Not to mention the bad reputation uTorrent gained with embedding ads and malware galore that followed.


I very much want the thesis of this article to hold true, but I have to wonder if the causal relationship in the article is reversed in reality.

A quick skim didn't reveal anything, but is there any evidence against higher earners being afforded more time to sleep because of a high-paying job?


I use FreeBSD on my home server and love it. I'd daily-drive it too, if it had better WiFi support out of the box.


You should try wifibox! It works surprisingly well and is very fast. Basically, it's a tiny linux running inside bhyve doing all the wifi stuff. But 14.0 has many updates to the WiFi so I'm not sure it is even needed anymore.


This is brilliant !

I would also love a similar setup with OpenWRT as it comes with a familiar configuration & UI.


Anecdotal, but I've been using the doas in Arch's repository since switching to it. So far, I haven't come across anything that requires sudo instead of doas.


There are actually 2 Arch doases, note, one in the AUR and one in core. One is OpenDOAS, the other Smith doas.


I think the addition of new pieces was incredibly clever.

When I started playing, I first just tried to play like it was regular Tetris on the furthest side of the board -- a strategy that was quickly foiled.

The implementation of an extra dimension is also pretty cool, but as a game design nerd, I think it's more awesome that you managed to force players to engage with the concept.


Thanks! I was actually going to make an algorithm to find all the possible variations, but I realised that the additional options were limited and immediately obvious, and hard coding them would give me more control of game balance.

The blog is really about sharing ideas, so yes "forcing" the read is part of it XD - hopefully some ventured into the rest of the blog, which is more "saving the world" sort of material. I really appreciate your comments here, I wish I'd found them straight away :)


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