PunksATawnyFill

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Comment · 6 years ago
Was wondering the same thing, and downloaded the source to experiment. I’m on Mac.

What do you think it would take?

Comment · 6 years ago
EXACTLY. I called them out on this bullshit the other day, and they tried to sell me a “small business” commercial license or something.

FORK YOU, Qt Company!

Comment · 6 years ago
That’s the whole point of tabs. How is this an argument against them?
Comment · 6 years ago
I just had the maintenance of an Android app dumped in my lap, and I’m dreading it. I have a decent amount of experience with iOS development and have been pretty impressed.

But everyone characterizes Android as a shítshow. As a consumer, Android’s profound problems are evident from the fact that millions of devices are orphaned soon after release, because users must wait for every telco to dribble out a special version of the OS for every device, one at a time.

WTF? This is a 21st-century OS?

Comment · 6 years ago
You’re not the business owner who just had his reputation stolen.
Comment · 6 years ago
Not accurate. The AOPA typically takes positions that protect public safety, such as opposing Trump’s attempted giveaway of our ATC to the airlines.

However, the GA industry should be condemned for its failure to face the writing on the wall about leaded gas, which has been obvious since the ‘70s. On the other hand: Until recently, stifling certification requirements made it nearly impossible for these low-volume manufacturers to innovate.

Nobody wants leaded gas.

The other sham being perpetrated is advertising some plane engines as running on “automotive” gas. This is BS, because that means only PURE gasoline, not gasohol. I challenge you to find a gas station selling 100% gasoline. I haven’t seen that in decades. So the touted “mogas” is nearly as much of a niche fuel as 100LL.

Comment · 6 years ago
Way more than that these days. There’s only one supplier of 100LL, and even they don’t want to be in the business anymore.
Comment · 6 years ago
The point wasn’t that the address is exposed by Apple; it’s that E-mail addresses are widely exposed by USERS, out of necessity.
Comment · 6 years ago
Let's start with the fact that Apple is forcing people to use an E-mail address as a user ID. That's just straight-up stupid.

How many members of the public think that they have to use their E-mail account password as their password for Apple ID and every other amateur-hour site that enforces this dumb rule?

MILLIONS. I would bet a decent amount of money on it. So if any one of these sites is hacked and the user database is compromised, all of the user's Web log-ins that have this policy are wide open.

Then there's the simple fact that everyone's E-mail address is on thousands of spammers' lists. A simple brute-force attack using the top 100 passwords is also going to yield quite a trove, I'd imagine.

Apple IDs didn't originally have to be E-mail addresses. They're going backward.

Comment · 6 years ago
WTF is a "zero-day?"
Comment · 6 years ago
This is always the argument against tabs, but it makes no sense. So what?

If you don’t like your tab width, CHANGE IT. That’s a huge win over spaces, where indentation is hard-coded.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yep. I have yet to hear a coherent argument against tabs.

It’s such a tiresome squabble.

Comment · 6 years ago
Flexgate is still a real, profound, and disgraceful defect.

This is the one where your MacBook Pro’s screen stops working because Apple ran a ribbon cable through a hinge or some such stupid shit. Been happening since 2016 and still rendering $4000 laptops useless after 18 months of light use.

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