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> 50 MB/s (yes, megabytes, not megabits) to USA which is halfway around the globe but the Play Store still manages to lag.

Bandwidth is not latency. If you're in APAC, the only thing that will help you is if Google opens a mirror of play store nearby. (Unless it's software latency and everybody gets the same behaviour)

> Still no native themes.

Version 8 opened some new possibilities over adb. Hopefully fully accessible by v.9.

> if you want to decrease media volume, most of the time you end up decreasing phone call volume

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomwandroi...

> I use my smartphone on average 2.5 hours a day and holy shit, that's ~17000 ad/tracker requests blocked a day!

If you think that's os dependent - it's not.

I get that there are various issues people spot and they can be annoying. But a lot of that is familiarity with the system. Use iPhone for a few months and you'll find a lot of issues as well - it's not like it's flawless.
Are you being serious or was that meant sarcastically?

I genuinely can’t tell as your comment reminds me of hilarious HDMI cable reviews.
Two hearing aids cost $7,000 because they cover a Dr visit?

And the point of the Dr. visit is to tell you if your hearing loss requires a hearing aid, or is just the result of wax buildup.

So...basically, the Dr. visit could be replaced with a Q-Tip.

Maybe each pair of hearing aids results in $6,500 worth of audio research, but if so, I think those researchers may not be a great return on that money.

It's a matter of time before Apple's Ear Buds, come with a $200 hearing aid upgrade.
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I really wish people like you would stop pooh-poohing legitimate complaints about attempts to prematurely retire tech just because companies have found something more lucrative for them.

We’re not luddites. We’re not short sighted. We understand tech moves on. That’s all fine and also irrelevant, because the situation here is that real tech used be lots of people every day with no real replacement is being yanked out from under us in the name of profit. Stop acting like you’re woke and the rest of us just need to catch up. It’s insulting as hell.
Apple computers come with SSDs only on the macbooks, so losing the DVD drive due to bigger hard drives isn't the case here because the hard drives are MUCH MUCH MUCH smaller now. I have tons of customers that face serious issues because they didn't know about this and they don't know much about computers.

Flash might be garbage, but its still super important.

Now lets talk about regular USB.... Apple dropped it without including a free adapter. They could have EASILY added one USB 3.0/3.1 port on the motherboard. There's plenty of space for it, but they would rather have you pay them tons of money for an adapter.
TLDR: mosquitos hate air current. Just buy a few electric fans. No chems and relatively cheap.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/a-low-tech-mosquit...
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If you’re having network hangs, does your IT department install a proxy or VPN? That doesn’t happen on normal devices but when enterprise IT is involved it’s common.
> It's the same attitude that leads some people to roll over and agree that "privacy is dead -- get used to it."

Spot on. I've been very vocal about my opposition to privacy. Read my comments history by any chance?
Likewise, my best mate has had hearing aids since ever, and now a cochlear implant. According to him, the official line is that prices are high because volumes are low and medical devices are expensive to design. The unofficial line is that they're price gouging because they have a captive market and no real competition.
Things that are paid for by other people tend to be expensive.
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> Profiles where you can set custom volume, vibrate, and sometimes other settings. e.g. "Home", "Vibrate", "Silent". And easily customise + switch between them.

There are many Android apps which provide this functionality. It doesn't need to be a part of the system.
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> Apple has a really good track record of dropping things at the right time: floppy, CD-ROM, Flash, etc

They have a good track record of dropping technologies in order to push their own proprietary technology instead. And failing most of the time, resulting in ultimately adopting the standard that everybody else is using.
For that last one, that’s never really been a problem for most people considering they charge their phone at night.
I developed a hearing aid/amplifier app for iOS a few years ago, and I think many people now realize that a free or cheap app can really help with hearing loss. I probably ought to dust off the codebase and modernize it.

People should still go see an audiologist to properly characterize their hearing loss and use that knowledge to choose a suitable product. There are a lot of hearing aid alternatives already out there, but they cannot be marketed to people with hearing loss until the new law takes effect.
Half second delay? what Bluetooth are you using? I suggest you to buy something better, my 3 years old bluetooth headset doesn't have any noticeable delay.

The other examples are not really good examples:
- bigger drives and faster internet connections? I don't think most of the countries where Apple sells had those things at that time. But, hey, it is a premium product, so they expect you to pay premium for other stuff too (read their new bluetooth earplugs)
- faster javascript and better browser? Chrome had those things, not safary, and it did had flash too.
Drought has been the major issue for Texas over the years. They really like damp environments, and most of the state has been incredibly dry for the past couple of decades. They're starting to rebound a bit, with the reasonable amounts of rain we've had for several years in a row now.

I never saw them growing up in Texas, but now I live in a house with a creek right behind it, and they're active all summer. I still get really excited about seeing them!

My friends who grew up in Houston find it completely unremarkable, though, due to how wet it is down there. Apparently a very common occurrence.
Personally I think of Google as being Orwell's 1984 'telescreen in your pocket'.
>Experts don’t know exactly why hearing aids are still so costly

No, they do.

The short answer is: you need to develop your own custom IC's
that 1) have analog circuitry 2) support Telecoil[1] - an ancient induction standard from the 1970's 3) are made by 1 of 4 companies in Copenhagen or Switzerland - one of which has 55% market share and 4) run on fumes. Seriously, the crest factor on these is ridiculous.

The long answer is available in this great podcast episode: https://theamphour.com/338-an-interview-with-jorgen-jakobsen...

Of course, Bluetooth alternatives to hearing aids are being developed. People in the industry know this and joke about it. But, crucially, they can't be called "hearing aids". It's a protected term. An interesting example are Bose's new $500 "Hearphones" strongly targeted at an older demographic[2] with features like Bluetooth and tunable noise cancellation based off their earlier $300 QC30 dynamic noise cancelling platform. But also not the exact same use case. More power intensive. More capable. But less endurance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_aid#Telecoil
[2] https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_...
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iPhone 7 dongle audio quality is apparently fantastic, no reason to think iPhone 8 isn't the same.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qua...
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In what way is Flash still important?

I have had Flash disabled via a browser extension for what feels like years now.
Worth noting that the Pixel 2 regular size isn't affected by the low gain setting the XL is. It's still using a cheap DAC/amp dongle, though.
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And sadly - if someone emails a PGP encrypted mail to a protommail address using a key the recipient knows but protonmail doesn't - it doesn't work. Protonmail gives an "unable to decrypt" error, and doesn't hand over the encrypted body...

For me - I think they're useful protecting against dragnet "full take" surveillance (especially since I'm a non-US citizen, so am considered "fair game" for warrantless surveillance), but I don't for a moment think they'll protect me from any sort of state actor level interest targeting me specifically (I'm still gonna get Mossad`ed upon...)

(In more paranoid moments, I suspect that the first "dragnet" protection quite probably makes the second "targeted interest in _me_" more likely...)
Maybe VR/AR offices are the future. Certainly they'd present less legislative and social hurdles than self-driving cars.
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Absolutely. I'll be totally fine with the lack of headphone jack when wireless headphones last 72+ hours on a single charge, or they charge wirelessly from the bag when I walk into my flat. Until then, wireless headphones are something terrible I have to put up with to make the gym easier, and absolutely not something I want to consider using as I work during the day.
Spot on.

Lose the dogmatism.

People remember how you handled a problem, not what the problem was.

Relationships with others are more important than being right about some technical thing.
vscode does share code with the browser-based editor used in MSFT sites like VS Team Services and onedrive. It was actually first released there as a browser-based editor before being adapted for use in a standalone desktop application.
I don't know much about audiology, but I suspect it's a niche expertise that is much more complicated than deciding between a Q-Tip or a generic hearing aid.
I do hear this as a common complaint, but there's an adapter for this so I'm not sure what the big deal is? http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/google-pixel-2-headphone-...
> ...one path to citizenship in the US is to serve in the military.

True statement.

> So, if all members of the military have some degree of clearance...

False assumption. Jobs that fall under services, personnel, public affairs, medical, contracting, vehicle maintenance, and supply come to mind. This is far from an exhaustive list and will vary in scope between branches of service.
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You don't have to use bluetooth for audio. Every iPhone comes with an aux port adapter for a reason.
Auto-repair/auto-insurance doesn't fit this explanation. Repair is still a competitive industry with rather low margins.
Not true, you can hold a clearance and stay a dual citizen.
Competition is good duh.
you're right. https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/17
The home row isn’t magic, I don’t get the obsession with it. Our fingers don’t lie in a naturally perfectly straight line—each finger has its natural zone, it tends to stray vertically from the home row.
Then just flag it and save us all the time!
serious people map caps lock to escape!

Seriously though, using the corner esc key to get into normal mode sucked anyway.
The Hearphones have a 10 hour battery life and don't have replaceable batteries. My hearing aids have a 3 day battery life and have replaceable batteries I can carry around on my keychain. They really aren't useful for the same things at all.
After my Nexus 5X bootloop problem, this about puts the nail in the coffin of LG phones, for me.

By the way, what's wrong with this scenario?

= Lots of people want a headphone jack. "You can't have one."

= Lots of people want limits on tracking -- and on incessant nagging to enable settings that track. 'Wall of deafening silence.'

= People want some semblance of privacy. Sign on Chicago Apple Store door, to the effect of: 'By entering, you agree to let us collect and use your image for [non-security purposes].'

Gee, it's almost as if we aren't even customers. Certainly not customers who are listened to and respected.

But of course! I should simple sit back and let Google/Apple/X's AI tell me what I want!

P.S. Bluetooth is still significantly suck-y. And, on my "temporary" two and a half month old current-generation Motorola phone that I bought to tide me over after the Nexus 5X bootlooped, I've not yet received a patch for the recent Bluetooth vulnerability (not to mention the current WPA fiasco). Fortunately, if somewhat inconveniently, that Motorola G5+ has a headphone jack.

SO... Am I going to go from that "tide me over" Motorola to the Pixel 2, that I was waiting for?

I'm more and more dis-inclined to do so.
Ah interesting. Apparently there is no exempt quantity of Cf-252.
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"It will come back to me soon."
Instead of "I can't remember."

Help with this scenario, I use this inner dialogue as a generative command, I say it gently and with trust in the innate wisdom of my consciousness and sure enough within a minute or two this command runs in the background and then what I'm looking for will become present in my mind. (I learnt this from The Silva Method).
I'm curious about this kind of inner pattern, what other generative inner commands and questions work for you?
There is a company in Arizona that refurbishes battery packs for the Tesla Roadster. There are 2 options, a performance pack that reduces pack weight by 350 lbs. while sacrificing 20% range. Or, a long range pack that gives you 400 miles range. Tesla even makes an upgraded range pack for the Roadster.

I have also seen upgraded battery pack options available for the 1st gen Honda Insight.

Much like internal combustion cars, aftermarket performance parts are usually only geared to more expensive or enthusiast vehicles. In time, I could see battery upgrade options being more common.
Well https://axonvr.com/ is working on it from the haptic feedback end. But I'd like to see a different approach altogether: stick some wires in my head/spinal column. If you can hijack the input/output signals of my brain to the rest of my body, you don't need any sophisticated external machinery or nanobots or holodecks to immerse me.
It depends on the local market. For example in my local market, with 5-10 years exp you max out at around $85k. The ceiling for me seems to be around $120k (15 years Java enterprise). I judge this on constantly interviewing the past few years.

The idea being, if you're at market rate for your skill set, you may not see much increase at all.
The key to a successful BuzzFeed restaurant would be lots of different restaurants, each catering to a different market segment.

It’s like the old story about how Prego discovered that you can’t just make one sauce everyone loves, you make a chunky and a smooth and a meaty and meet the needs of each different set of tastes. Just like how Netflix doesn’t have a single hit show, they hit all the different demos.
You should come visit, it's nice! My wife and I frequent Ann Arbor and also like it a lot.
I preemptively remapped escape to caps lock since my next laptop probably won't have an escape key. It took about a day to adjust to. Now, I can't see how I ever used escape in the first place, it's so far to reach.

Although now, I keep turning on caps lock when I use other people's computers.
ProtonMail seems very nice, however, I'm concerned about if it is truly private.

ProtonMail has being known to shutdown accounts related to right wing, anti-semantic groups. Granted that those are extreme group. However, it will become a very slippery slop. http://govtslaves.com/2017-08-29-eff-warns-that-banning-extr...

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I have personally met foreign nationals who were infantrymen. It is possible my statement is overly broad. But if being in the infantry, like my ex was, grants some degree of clearance, then I have personally known foreign nationals in the US military who must have had a security clearance to do their job at all.

I based my remarks on a remark my ex made. I spelled that out as clearly as I could.

My conclusion is correct that my background knowledge suggests, yes, it is possible for immigrants to have some degree of security clearance. But, hey, I googled it just to be sure and posted that. And it is correct that it is possible for foreign nationals to have a clearance.
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adapters are a hack, not a final solution.
No. Same age as Google.
As to the question posed, there are two competing hypotheses. Blocking, where the correct answer is prematurely discounted as false, and partial activation. Introduction to this paper has an overview:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758%2FBF03202721.p...
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Well damn! I just got what likely will be my last shipment for a while now.

That sucks I been using soylent for months now.
Looking at Redfin, I see similarly-prices places in Presidio Heights, Marina, and near Dolores Park in Mission, all with much smaller lot sizes.

Sure, Peninsula is expensive, but its proximity to jobs is the major driver of its housing costs.

You can have all that and more in Salinas or San Luis Obispo, but you’ll find that the lack of jobs makes property values far lower.

You don’t have to tear down parkland or pave the horse trails to allow a few more large apartment complexes next to the already noise-polluting Caltrain line.
Strange that they got a quote from the lady that operated the victim boat, but couldn't get her to explain why they practically rammed the DEA boat. Maybe they just didn't see the other boat because it was dark?
STARTTLS is used though.
Honestly, I feel like this is an argument for watching HBO vs NBC, say. HBO makes a "honest" product and charges for it, while NBC uses the platform to sell advertising.

NBC must therefore be "dishonest" because they're showing you 30 second ads. Despite the fact the business model of serving content for with ads has been a successful (and accepted) business model for decades.

Google's privacy policy is open. No one is forcing you to use it, just as no one is forcing you to watch NBC.

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
The headphone jack is one of those things no one should ever remove. I despise having to charge an additional set of hardware, namely bluetooth headsets ...

I had the Pixel 2 in my cart thinking I could convince myself of a no 3.5 mm future, and like hell I could so I aborted the checkout. At this rate, if they do not bring it back, I will wait until I can get superb USB-C headsets inexpensively... or most likely, Samsung S9 is going to be my next upgrade.

Loved Google's Nexus and even the Pixel 1, but they have gotten complacent, do not listen anymore and actually believe that copying Apple in any way shape or form makes them look better.

Can't wait for that Librem phone either. That one sounds better than anything else Google has to offer at least for the HN crowd, if not wider...
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It's less than you think in the Bay Area. Above average engineers easily break 300k. Really good ones will break 500K.

After rent and taxes in the Bay area though, if you're in the 300k bucket, you'll only have 140k left not including higher food / transportation / private school costs. Definitely a good amount but much less impressive than the original sounds.
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This article makes the asinine inference that hiring a ts worker somehow magically grants you access to ts data. Sf86 makes it perfectly clear: you can be tried for treason up to and including capital punishment for leaking state secrets at the ts level. The information is on a need to know basis and requires the company be certified by disa, NSA, and cleared to have a compartmentalized government facility that includes an FSO and yearly dod inspections. The government also chooses you for classified work and sensitive data. Not the other way around.
Are you going to say something of substance or just act like a douche?
You should be able to manually update it to newer android versions after the official updates end since it has treble. The kernel as of now is still stuck on 3.18. Unless the blob makers update to 4.4, that will be the limiting factor regarding security updates.
I've said it multiple times now but I was exactly the same way. I was a little bit annoyed at the removal of the headphone jack but then ended up getting the iPhone 7 because I wanted the newer features. I didn't have wireless headphones, so I went all in and got the AirPods along with it and, holy hell, this is the closest that any technology has come to really feeling like magic to me. The pairing process was awesome, the range is great, the sound quality is great (after breaking them in hard for a week or two), and I literally forget that I'm wearing them sometimes to the point where it feels like the music is coming from inside my head. They're just so convenient and nice that I'm ok with doubting Apple initially but relieved that they proved me wrong. Forget the headphone jack. If this works the way these AirPods do going forward, I'm a convert.
An audiophile quality DAC costs 20x what you see in smartphones.

You also need an amp for audiophile quality headphones.

Do you know any audiophiles who use phones to listen to music?
I had barely any issues with Airpods on iOS 10, but iOS 11 absolutely made them terrible. Constant stuttering, disconnecting randomly, falling to connect. Shame. I'll be moving to an Android now.
Lack of headphone jack on Pixel XL 2 is what drove me from my Pixel XL into the loving embrace of my new Samsung Note8. There's no excuse to drop headphone jack.
Apple and others should have only considered removing the headphone jack if they were prepared to do all of the following at the same time:

1. Abandon all proprietary connectors and adopt USB-C only on the phone. Keeping the Lightning port while moving MacBook Pros to USB-C-only was incredibly dumb because it immediately made the new products less useful than ANY older and less-expensive combination. Let’s see: older iPhone with charge cable and earphones that seamlessly plug into both the phone and the computer, or new-and-expensive-for-no-reason computer that can’t do any of that!?

2. Put multiple ports on the phone to avoid port-unavailable issues during charging; or, make sure that so-called “wireless” charging is working first so it can be a viable alternative. Instead they just broke a bunch of things and figured at some unspecified point in the future it would all work out. Well, what exactly is the point of buying the product in the meantime?

3. Assume that people will still want wired earphones. Wireless is NOT automatically better, for any number of reasons (risk of loss, sound cutting out, constant recharge, worse sound quality).

I have wireless headphones and I basically hate them; seems that every other time I want to use them they’re already out of battery, or they just STOP working halfway through some music. And it’s one of those products that can’t be used while it’s being recharged. As a result, I just use them way less, and it is a step backwards in every conceivable way. All I want is a wire.
While the problems with cities giving big business too many perks is a serious one, by the end of the article it seems this is just another negative piece on Bezos, "a demented tyrant", by the author.
Why do you doubt that?
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Neat, TIL about wavelet trees. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelet_Tree
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I would think WordPress is a good example.
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