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Comment · 1 year ago
I had to return my AirPods Pro 3. I upgraded from AirPods 4 with ANC and they were worse in every department I could see. I assume battery life is better, but I've never ran out of battery anyway.

I've never much got on with in-ear rubber tips, and these were no different to any I've tried, despite reviews stating they were super comfortable.

My left ear is also worse to get it fitting right than my right ear. I have tried every size provided, none seem right. A grimace in the gym is enough to unseat even the most secure fit/seal, in either ear.

My main gripes specifically with AirPods Pro 3, which I've not seen in any other review;

- Because the rubber tips vary in size, the case has to accommodate the largest. This means if you're using small tips, there's a lot of spare room, which means the AirPods can easily be mis-seated, breaking the charge connection.

- The case is substantially bigger than AirPods 4 with ANC. I would say ~40%.

- The volume swipe on the stalk action is very tricky to trigger.

- Any stalk action is a bad idea when it's so easy to unseat them. I skip songs with a double press regularly, and nearly every time I had to push in and rotate after.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you're going to do this then make sure you use 302 redirects (temporary) and not 301 (permanent). Otherwise browsers (and Google) will cache the redirect, then if your fuzzy matched URL one day becomes a real URL, people might not be able to access it.

Someone could seriously mess up your site by simply publishing their own page with many invalid links to your site, basically a dictionary attack, and if Google was to crawl those links, they'll cache all the redirects, and you'll have a hard time rectifying that if you were wanting to then publish pages on those URLs.

Also to reiterate other suggestions - your idea is not great for many reasons already stated (even with 302s). As suggested, just simply have a 404 page with a "Did you mean [x]?" instead. Use your same logic to present [x] in that example, rather than redirect to it.

Comment · 3 years ago
TM means nothing. You can put it on anything. The R symbol however is Registered Trademark, and you can't just put that on anything.
Comment · 3 years ago
Everything in a car that's gone from physical input to a touch screen, other than intricate and advanced media controls, is a step backward. The single biggest reason is that you need to be looking at the screen to operate the inputs.
Comment · 7 years ago
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
I can't find one either. I've decided the best option is depositing/withdrawing using localbitcoins.com, then transferring in/out of there to your preferred platforms.
Comment · 9 years ago
Take your best estimation. Increase the unit by 1 and double the quantity.

Eg. 2 minutes becomes 4 hours. 10 days becomes 20 weeks. 6 months becomes 12 years.

Comment · 9 years ago
My microwave has two buttons. Start and Stop. Press Start once, it starts for 30 seconds. Press it again and it adds 30 seconds. Keep pressing it to add 30 second intervals. If you want to stop before the time runs out. Press Stop and it resets.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah, it's just Electron isn't it?
Comment · 9 years ago
Who signs off moving huge, billion dollar companies onto immature, "hip" JavaScript frameworks? I don't get it. It's too niche. It's too risky. How are you expected to make hires for specialists in such a niche technology which may or may not be here in a few years?

Do they just hire good JavaScript developers and train them for Ember? And also tell them they may have to retrain in another framework in a couple of years when Ember becomes defunct?

Comment · 10 years ago
Yep, I just posted almost exactly this on the blog.
Comment · 10 years ago
I love cURL. Keep up the good work.
Comment · 10 years ago
Cool feature. Stripe are pretty awesome at creating marketing pages for these things too. Although it's a shame they messed up the green HTTPS padlock on that page by serving mixed content. (The Teespring video on AWS S3 simply needs the protocol changing from http to https to rectify this.)
Comment · 10 years ago
This is cool. Would be much cooler though if instead of the animations being linear, they were actually representing the athlete's run. So, Bolt's recent run started slow and sped up after 60m.

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