btreesOfSpring's comments

Would rather a more robust and distributed app store system that figures out how to police these edge cases of fraud rather than one vendor (Apple or Google) whose monopolies push developers into subscriptionware across the board. Something more akin to how internic moved from one domain name registrar to what we have today, chock full of competition and new top level domains.

It feels like independent development on devices has slowed in recent years. More stores appealing to different developer models/tools and monetization strategies please.

I have been trying to trouble shoot a Time Machine issue since upgrading to Tahoe. It is usb backup. So far none of the most recent stated fixes work.

An initial backup on newly formatted disk will run but very slowly. Perhaps reaching 100% but it never finishes. At some point the percentage will change and the backup will stay stuck at somewhere near 10%. Cancel backup and run it again. Gets to ~10% and stays stuck. Multiple drives. Re-fs'ed. Boot into safe mode. Networking off. Etc, etc. etc. The TimeMachineMechanic app doesn't have any revealing feedback. I can run a full tar backup to the same disks.

No idea.

I haven't tried backing up to a network share but really, it shouldn't be this difficult.

Clearly someone didn't test a bunch of edge cases when pushing this one out.

It is always funny to see the brain force a context switch. Clicked the link thinking this was going to be about golang.

Nope, go game.

Thanks for the pleasant surprise.

Your post reflects another online observation. With the rise of online sports books, this sort of predictive doomerism has flooded almost every team's online comment section. It no longer feel like fandom or community in the same way. Just lots of voices that will be glad to say, "I told you so," in the loss and crickets with the W. Wish there was some accountability mechanism for all the negative noise broadcasted into the channel.

When I was part of a team developing a highly durable texting protocol, those of us in NYC would regularly test messaging while riding the subway. Between stations, you didn't have network access but different devices upon entering the next station would handle and recover from the interruptions in various ways.

The subway produced so many repeatable network connection edge case problems. It was fantastic.

A shorter and consistent iteration cycle by meaningful working groups on the legislation until a long term workable legal framework is enacted from the lessons gathered. Something like, every four months, X working group will present updates to legal recommendations and they will be voted on at that time. Allow for public input throughout the process. Mistakes will be made but can be short lived with the correction cycle. They are trying to tightrope walk complex legislation for tech. Might as well take on a tech release cycle to get out of beta and into release version 1.0 of these laws.

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Reminds me of the time I wasn't passed on an interview for a product I was part of the pre-release testing team but I didn't have enough year's of experience with the tech for the job. I'm guessing it was just an excuse to say I wasn't getting the job but it has forever given me the ick with HR tech pre screen interviews.

Found the anecdote at the end about him diagnosing problems while on a modern computer automated aircraft fascinating. Of course the roll of flight engineer was going to go disappear but it seems the are still knowledge gaps that modern pilots have that this roll was able to better address.

In Search of...[0] was the introductory conspiracy show for baby boomers.

The X Files was GenX's turn at the Art Bell wheel[1].

Stranger Things[2] is built on these foundations for the younger generation sprinkled generously with nostalgia of those eras of conspiracy television.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._(TV_series) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things

For WatchOS, you would start by running the Sleep App[0] and notice that there is an issue with your sleep stages.

Next you might move onto an app, like SnoreLab[1] where you record the audio of your sleep each night and can listen back to where you are having sleep interruptions. At that point, you would likely hear your breathing process.

Moving onto the Withings Sleep Analyzer[3] (as shown in the article) will fill out your data but by step 2, you will should probably already be setting up an appointment with your doctor for sleep apnea.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/track-your-sleep-apd83... [1] https://www.snorelab.com/ [3] https://www.withings.com/be/en/sleep-analyzer

The Economist ran a story the other week on the topic of food costs talking about how the tomato can be looked at as a type of energy store & how British supermarkets differ from other European supermarket chains by rationing out veg rather than increasing pricing. [0] This was to say the "shortages" were more of a quirk of the British market rather than purely due to Brexit.

0. https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/03/02/britains-tomato...

Not sure what the end-game is in this line of thinking but the consistent narratives against both charitable giving or government intervention to produce institutions of social assistance can not be good for the unfortunate and marginalized.

Garmin user for ages. Forerunner 9 series is my jam but you might want to find what works in your price point along with the need-to-have/want-to-have feature matrix of your choosing. Garmin's UX is stuck in the Symbian era of OS design. So I appreciate the competition that Apple brings to this segment.

Sport gear reviewer DC Rainmaker has a full write up on the good/bad/ugly of the Apple watch for athletes[0]. He also has plenty of other reviews on other brands of sports watches if you want to see what is out there for you.

[0] https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/09/apple-watch-ultra-in-dep...

All great points. It is also a young enough language that significant kernal dev can have significant influence on the future of the language itself. CPP's future seems to be predicated upon its past adoption.

Here is a 30 minute podcast episode titled, "Different, But Not Worse," on SwiftUI vs UIKit.[0] This thoughtful take is a whole lot less adversarial towards adopting SwiftUI than what you tend to read on this forum.

[0] https://www.relay.fm/radar/247

CityNerd does an informative video on SF-LA highspeed rail vs aircraft[0]. Your variables may vary.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cvt8QA4SvY

This makes the most sense.

Not sure why the calls would be scam calls though. It would be one thing if they were legitimate marketing spam calls originating from phone number traceable back to the business originating the conversation but these are clearly cases where the number is faked in the new area code/country::city code in order to incentivize picking up. (Is that the car rental company? Is the hotel reaching out for some reason? Etc...)

I guess my paranoia here stems from this link in the OPs pdf[0].

0. https://venturebeat.com/2014/09/18/the-cell-tower-mystery-gr...

I don't know if other travelers have run into this but somewhat regularly when I arrive in a different major metropolitan area, I will get scam-spam calls within a day spoofed from that area code despite the fact that my phone number has nothing to do with that region and I haven't been in that specific location either ever or at least a longtime. It happens in both North America and Europe.

I know fake base stations might not be the reason for scammers targeting my phone but would be curious if others have seen this and have their own hypothesis?