Re: I would be happy with a no camera phone
So you're using your phone to make a call that doesn't use the phone as a phone...
(sorry, had to bring up the momentary dissonance I get when I do that)
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Yes, the "normal" Russian trajectory is just under 3 days, but that's a long time cooped up in a very tiny Soyuz.
They've spent a lot of time and effort getting an accurate launch, accurate tracking, and accurate correction burns. After launch they have a very short time to determine the trajectory and the appropriate correction, then do the correction. This took several years and 3 or 4 Progress missions before it was approved for manned Soyuz.
Things are launched east to take advantage of the Earth's rotational speed. it's WHY Kennedy is on the east coast.
Don't buy a phone with a glass back. I reached that decision with my Nexus 6P. Fuck that noise.
I drop stuff so often my grandfather had a special racist swear he would yell at me.
Did you know if you have an empty (no oil, no spring) motorcycle fork leg and you drop it, it destroys the bumpstop and all the hydraulic valves? That cost me nearly $450.
Did you know if you drop one of those WD MyPassport drives, even when it's off, it's destroyed and will never read data again?
You can also destroy Cisco routers and PIX firewalls by dropping them.
All of those options are a major PITA compared to a dialog that pops up for a new site and you just say Y/N
> hit the F12 button to bring up the Developer Tools when the open tab is the site you want to clear cookies from. Click the Storage tab and expand the Cookies option in the left hand menu. Click the relevant site name and all cookies for that site will be listed in the main pane. Select any you want to remove and hit the Delete key.
Seriously? Fuck that.
At least they seem to understand they fucked up. They're at least not going "we take our customer's privacy so very seriously"
OTOH I abandoned Twitter at the beginning of the month when they randomized their CSS to kill adblockers. I just don't have the patience to deal with the torrent of ads.
It's not irrational. TikTok does grab a ton of data.
"We're proud that tens of millions of Americans turn to TikTok for entertainment"
Why? That's like saying "We're proud that tens of millions of Americans babble about inconsequential trivia on Twitter" or "We're proud that tens of millions of Americans jerk it to PornHub" - who cares? It's not something to be proud of.
> I'm pretty sure most of the people I know are racist, but they're pretty sure that they're not
I was raised by horribly racist relatives in a podunk shithole in the Deep South. They thought "Roots" was a comedy, and Kunta Kinte was too uppity and needed to be beaten again. That was the point I realized something was wrong and started trying to get out of there. I think I was 14. My grandfather used the "n-word" at least 3 times a day. My grandmother swore "well, I'll be John Brown!" and JB was a famous abolitionist.
I'm probably pretty racist but I try not to be.
Stop charging $5 for the flight and $25 for each checked bag. Charge what it used to cost back in the early '80s, $800+ a flight minimum for that 50 mile jolly. Four digits for anything further.
Insist that people adhere to business attire... no more flipflops, shortshorts, and minimal bra top.
Flights will quickly drop to only what's really necessary.
Airlines will be able to serve decent food and provide comfortable accommodations and good service again.
Yet Another Shitty PDF Viewer (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/59275/U.S.-Gold-Another-Successful-Year-1986/)
Can we stop trying to reinvent the PDF viewer? Everyone has their own installed already, and it's a pain in the ass to spend 5 minutes trying to find the tiny download icon, if it's even there.
I'm sure the museum's time is much better served elsewhere.
Geographically dispersed teams suck balls. (edit: probably after it reaches about 2 dozen people - for really small groups it's fine)
You have to keep in mind which timezone someone is in, people miss important emails/slacks/IRCs/WTFs, and people end up forming cliques in each area, where the Switzerland group knows what's going on but doesn't realize the England/India/US groups haven't been fully informed.
No idea. There was a McDonald's and a Del Taco in Orlando (Florida) that didn't serve motorcycles in the drive-thru. That's ok, we just got 50-odd bikers together and filled the parking lot for a couple hours, and miraculously they changed their policy. We sent one guy in at a time to get a sandwich so we weren't loitering, we were just waiting to get food.
I've also seen places refuse to serve people on bicycles.
However, in Pennsylvania the Amish will not drive cars, so their horse-drawn buggies are seen (and accepted) everywhere. It's part of their religion, so if you refused horses, you'd have a civil-rights discrimination lawyer on your doorstep in a heartbeat. They live for that stuff.