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bhuber
·2 yıl önce·discuss
The Honey discount browser extension, owned by PayPal, allegedly scams not only its users, but the influencers who promote it.
bhuber
·2 yıl önce·discuss
This phenomenon consistently happened to my college bus system, but on an even worse scale. The main bus line did a loop around campus, which took ~20 min to complete and buses scheduled every 5 minutes. In reality, you got a caravan of 4 busses arriving every 20 minutes, with the first one totally full and the last practically empty.
bhuber
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Tesla owner here. If you have the Tesla app installed on your phone, you can "share" addresses from map apps to it and it will auto-sync them to your car. So the workflow is open calendar on your phone, click on location for appointment, open with Tesla app. It's not quite as seamless as android auto, but much better than having to type everything in manually.
bhuber
·3 yıl önce·discuss
This is mostly true, but sometimes the cost of evaluating the condition itself is non-trivial. For example, if a and b are complex objects, even something as trivial as `if (a.equals(b)) ...` might take a relatively long time if the compiler/runtime can't prove a and b won't be modified between calls. In the worst case, a and b only differ in the last field checked by the equality method, and contain giant collections of some sort that must be iterated recursively to check equality.
bhuber
·3 yıl önce·discuss
They stopped just fine, but their stopping distance was twice as far, and more like 3x in the rain
bhuber
·3 yıl önce·discuss
> But 700x28 is really the maximum tire size you can possibly fit with rim brakes

This is patently false. Mountain bikes have been running tires over twice as wide on rim brakes for decades. I had one growing up in the 90s. Perhaps you mean caliper brakes? Even if so, I currently run 700x28c on my 10yo racing bike, I don't think I'd have any trouble going up a size or two.
bhuber
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I take it you've never actually cared for small children. One of the most obvious problems they solve is the ability to go outside earshot of the nursery - doesn't matter if the kid cries if you can't hear them! Besides that, kids often cry temporarily and then go back to sleep like 30 seconds later. It's very convenient to be able to detect if that's likely to be the case without having to walk across the house and open their door.
bhuber
·3 yıl önce·discuss
> This is one category of problem that should be solved through legislation, but I doubt that should such laws be passed, that they would be actually enforced against bad actors.

IANAL, but I would think this would be covered by existing false advertising laws, and maybe breach of contract. They advertised a product as coming with features x, y, and z; people paid for those features; and then the company unilaterally disabled those features. So now features x, y, and z no longer work on the product as advertised. I'd be surprised if we don't see class action lawsuits for this.
bhuber
·3 yıl önce·discuss
As a parent of two small kids, I just did an old cell phone running tinycam + generic ip webcam (amcrest makes a bunch of good ones). The dedicated cell phone is mostly for nannies/babysitters, I just have tinycam installed on my own. The only downside is it only works on your local network, but if you really care about that you can setup a home VPN. That last one is beyond the capability of the average consumer though.