Technically in most jurisdictions in the USA you’re supposed to make a reasonable effort to find the owner (eg asking nearby people if they dropped it)
This makes no sense for loose money. There’s no reasonable way to ID the owner. Anyone can say it’s theirs.
For a wallet, that’s a different story. Even without documents you can ask them to describe how it looks and what’s inside.
I’d like to hijack your comment for a quick PSA for today’s lucky 10000, even though I doubt many of them hang around these parts of the web.
The compatibility issues aren’t the alternative’s faults. Rather, the cause is Microsoft playing dirty.
Microsoft Office silently breaks compatibility with its own self-made document format (the so-called “Open Office XML”). They made the public standard and switched to it around 2010, and yet they still sometimes just… stray from the standard.
Since most everyone uses MS Office, people’s first instinct is to doubt the small player for being bad, underfunded, low quality or whatever else instead of doubting MS for playing dirty. The entire tactic reads like a slightly modified Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
And how do you verify the source of the “yes/no” signal is a valid ID card? How do you know it’s used by the person linked to it?
Either the yes/no is trivially faked (so you might as well skip the formality), or the user secretly does get ID’d.
As long as it’s profit, not revenue, even 50% is little.
Once it’s revenue and they’re in the red will the fine be more than a regular business expense.
The alarm is fucking stupid on some models.
I will not put on my seatbelt when I take the car out of the garage for a wash 2 feet in front of it.
I would also like the car to be “smart” enough not to beep that it’s in reverse before I had the chance to change it out of reverse myself. And of course, the tone is a 120hz sine wave and way too loud. Great to calm the nerves right before work or a long road trip.
And you know what’s the bonus point? The headlight on alarm is quiet like a fucking lullaby. Of course my battery died once.
I can guarantee the tones being as loud and obnoxious as they are is the reason people turn them off or buy those clamps to fake wearing a seatbelt.
Even when people use them, they do, they annoy and distract. Which causes accidents.
I’m not going to claim that they cause more accidents than they prevent, but I will claim that these are the most preventable accidents as they are actively caused by literal safety features!
I have quite a few issues with modern cars. Most I’ve had the opportunity to be in are asinine.
Important, rare warnings get lullaby tones, while the most common ones sound like someone’s actively dying on life support.
One had the genius behavior of showing a large ice detected message that took up the entire dashboard and hid away all the dials.
Most also show a tutorial for how to start the damn thing, as if it in any way differs from any other car. And as if you don’t need to pass a practical exam before driving it.
One thing I really dislike about the Mobile ecosystem is how much different each device is to each other.
I thought you were sarcastic when I first read this part, since way back when phones used to be innovative in both hardware and software. The current market offerings are all carbon copies of eachother with a strong trend towards converging into the exact same lineup.
Multiple cameras, one in front, 2+ in back. A power button and two for volume. Reader apps may hijack it for scroll. Gesture movements. Fingerprint and face id. Less and less conusmer freedom in software choice. Irremovable battery. No removable back plate. A rectangular brick. A near-100% display area. No headphone jack or SD card, with SIM on the way out.
Covers the vast majority of offerings on the market, with a few slight adds/subtracts. Dumbphones are a rounding error.
This definition covers even tablets, and it isn’t even deliverately vague.
Without much experimentation and development on the hardware front, no wonder software’s behaving exactly the same.
There just isn’t enough interest for proper innovation and experimentation.
Honestly, as bad as it is, there might be one good effect: apps and software will get less bloated and spec-hungry.
It is like replacing an aggressive cancer with a congenital heart issue though. Both are terrible in their own and unique ways and choosing the worse option isn’t all that sensible of an ask.
That’s nice to have. For both GIMP and the industry’s sake, priorities should be:
GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop. It isn’t a psd reader.
Being the format jack of all trades yet master of none isn’t too great of an idea. It’ll just exacerbate GIMP’s main current problem: an ancient UI Photoshop enthusiasts dread. A lot might consider switching if the bad GIMP UX was better than the also-bad Photoshop UX.
If I had to say what my main design gripe with gimp is, that’d be modularity. Seperate the ui (skins) from the tools, effects and rendering (formats). The UI is especially egregious in its hard-codedness while effects are pretty well-supported.
A few more apis would go a long way. Hell, even the closed Photoshop has open(ish) apis, since even Adobe know the value of an ecosystem and not just their internal r&d department!
Maybe that’s what it was. It doesn’t necessarily need to be that going forward, as project putlooks anf goals change with time.
Also editing is quite a lot of more work to support than mere viewing. As all tools and actions need to behave correctly - not jusbt the renderer.
And something proprietary can hadly be a “industry standard”. It can be “most common” or a “de facto standard”. But all “industry standards” are by definition open as any industry worth its weight doesn’t rely on or include a single point of failure anywhere within itself.
Yeah. What this lawsuit in effect did is say “Games can fall under art and education. Publishers shouldn’t think just including a swastika in a game is illegal, because it isn’t. Just as a movie can include it, a game can as well.”
Of course, it still needs to not glorify nacism deliberately or inadvertantly. But it’s sad that it took this long for this non-question “legal question” to have been finally asked in court, and answered with the most expected answer - and dare I say it - one more expected of past decades than this one.
Their interpretation did. Games now classify as art and fall under the art-related exception from censorship.
the default web UI
Isn’t that the Tesseract from the recent trama?
Honestly, Chromium seems to have the basic features like history and passwords figured out way better than Firefox (or rather, Chrome does), while stripping most of the junk away, as it luckily happens to be proprietary Google bullshit.
Firefox has a bunch of telemetry and bloat, but the fact that my only real dealbreaker for a browser is quality adblock makes Firefox pretty much my only “vanilla” choice.
A “10-month lead” less than a month ago at that
Torx screws are almost as common as philips and flatheads as they’re long out of patent protection and vastly superior.
It’s almost impossible to strip them without actively trying, unlike the others mentioned.
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Not reached, but breached?
What is Linux, a virus?
I remember whn Linux hit 4% as if it was yesterday.
In other news:
Water tebds to be wet. Dehydrating it is hard as well.