shadowflit's comments

I’ve had both. I find the Disney+ app to be one of the better ones (on an Apple TV). Paramount wasn’t even in the same league.

For reference, my PG&E bill splits out transmission/delivery and generation very conveniently, since SF provides its own power generation utility service. It appears to be closer to 60/40. At PG&E generation rates (a little higher), perhaps up to 55/45.

Incidentally, $0.13748/kWh in generation costs, with an increase of only $0.01/kWh for exclusive wind/solar sourcing.

Not case sensitive, huh? How about not even distinguishing between letters and numbers?

When I called a prominent bank* recently, I was asked to enter my password via the phone. As in, the digit-equivalent of my password. At least I finally figured out why their password length is capped so low - user experience!

*I began this post with the bank name, and then wondered if given their approach to security, even that might be a bad idea.

17" screen + powerful GPU doesn't leave too many sleek options a la macbook. But if you look towards gaming laptops you'll find plentiful options.

Ubuntu might be a little more difficult, depends on driver support I suppose. Most come with either no OS or Windows.

Here's a search for 17" + 1060/1070 + 4k. I'd probably stick with 1060 to keep some sort of handle on heat management unless you really need more. I've had a good experience ordering from here in the past (Sager NP8660, great machine with an unfortunately large power brick).

http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gaming-laptops-notebooks-gamin...

Also, while this store sounds like a great place and one that I would visit... this article is the first time I have seen the name. I live in SF, I could have been going here, and yet I did not know it existed (and close enough that I could have combined it with Tartine visits to boot). Sure, it's partially my failure, but it's also a marketing failure.

I just moved to CA for the last election, and I voted for her. This was after already sending her mail saying she was doing a bad job. But as much as I didn't want to vote for her, the opponent did not look like a "moderate Republican." Stood for a ton of things I disagreed with. Maybe it's just party lines, but then they should have strayed from those lines if they wanted broader support to capitalize on anti-Feinstein.

Some thoughts from my typical meetings...

Almost all of the presentations I have seen at work have been shared with people on the phone as well (using terrible sharing tech, I might add). I agree with other posters that having an offline backup solution is important, but given how losing network connectivity already breaks meetings for us, I think having to load up from a USB drive would be an acceptable delay.

A portion of our meetings have demo sections. Either showing off features of some web app from their computer, or VNCing into a server and demo'ing functionality from terminals.

We have to hook up a computer to the projector in a room regardless - there isn't one already there. Having multiple presenters in one meeting would definitely go smoother, though it doesn't happen that often. Startup time would definitely be faster though, as noted our web conference software sucks.

I also like the idea (posted elsewhere) to be able to draw on the slides / point things out.

I loved the demo :)

Out of curiosity, does the QR app you used load webpages within the app?

Mine (RL Classic) asked me if I wanted to open the webpage and launched Safari.

If you have two factor authentication but leave yourself signed in, a password alone will not get an intruder into your account, but a cookie will.

As an outsider looking in, it seems like the whole prefix thing is approaching the problem from the wrong direction.

Why do we have prefixes at all? Well, because developers want to start using new features before they've been fully standardized. Fine, understandable.

Browser developers make browser specific prefixes available, because you can't expect all browsers to roll out the same new features on the same day. Ok, that's one approach, but I can think of two others.

1) Don't wait for the entire standard to be formalized before expecting it to be implemented. A rolling standard approval process, if you will. It's basically what we have now where new features become available far ahead of the full standard, except prefixes won't be necessary because everyone will implement stuff on a rolling basis. That might be a little demanding of browser developers though, which leads to option 2...

2) Best effort evaluation iff you choose to use non-standardized features. Sort of how python lets you import from future, declare somewhere that you're using non-standardized features. After that, the browser switches to best effort mode, and just throws out any attributes it doesn't understand. When running in a dev environment mode, all these errors would show up, so you can see why things aren't behaving as intended if you're using an unimplemented feature.

> We do have some games like that: Civilization and SimCity, both games that teach the critical skill of resource management

The Settlers takes that a step further and emphasizes supply chain management, production bottlenecks, etc (and I thought it was a fun game, too)

I'm not sure what dividing by population is trying to prove. Using very fuzzy numbers, there's almost 100m (or about 30%) people not eligible to vote in those population numbers.

Just to clarify, since it took your second comment to get me to this understanding -

Someone who was not the real owner of the apartment (presumably thief/criminal) put the place up on AirBnB. You unknowingly rented the place from this person, and during your stay, the real owner showed up and asked what you were doing in his house?

So of course I agree that spam results are the heart of evil. But I'm confused. After reading the DDG comment, I plugged both "VLC" and "VLC Media Player" into both google and DDG, expecting to see bad results at google. Instead, the top 4 results (ignoring ads, of course) all point to videolan.org. Is this a case of my results being pre-filtered or something? I don't recall hitting the "this is stupid, make it go away" button too often on Google.

CCP statement: http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=4616&...

I admit, I was at work for the entire downtime so it didn't bother me, but I am pleased with their response to the situation. Hitting the big red button may be a drastic step in response to DDOS, but at least they were willing to take security seriously.

> I'd also like special people's names to be highlighted such as the OP's and admin's.

I like this. I sometimes find myself searching a page with the OP's name to check for responses. As for the rest though... I kind of like the "anonymity" of posting without a sig/avatar/anything because I don't do any pre-filtering of comments by user.

Wow. I missed a Delta flight in SF (that while I'll blame the PA system for anyone who listens, was entirely my own fault), and I ended up first on the standby list. I always got the impression agents put people who miss their flights pretty high on the priority list, as opposed to people who just feel like going standby.

Weird that treatment would be so different across airlines.

I believe that's the point. These companies did not anticipate the direction they would be dragged by technological progress, and other companies have filled the void. I'd really only say Amazon is a valid example for books though, as other companies currently have a larger presence in the rest.

While I don't disagree, I had to reopen the link to figure out what you were talking about. The even bigger banner and traffic cone logo drew my attention away from the top of the page such that I never noticed the self-promotion up there.

Of course if I actually tried to navigate on the site, it would be a different story, I'm sure.

Also - I only noticed that there was mouseover effect while I was mousing from the middle of the page to the back button. My mouse started in the middle of the page, I scrolled, read some text, and moused over to leave - at which point I discovered there was a better way to read.