Currently I'm using a 43" 4K monitor, and although I love it, there's one thing where the huge size isn't useful: terminals. They're basically the one thing where extreme vertical space isn't that useful. The most important output is almost always at the bottom, because that's where the prompt is.

For other stuff, browsers, IDE, mail, chat clients etc, it's incredible.

Doesn't Tile need lots of people having the app installed on their phone? Or do they now rely on Apple's AirTags technology? If the former, I can assume it's basically worthless in large swaths of the world (Europe, for example).

Am I crazy? I don't see any way to build the source code. There's no .xcodeproj folder with associated files.

In every iOS project, at the root, there's the .xcodeproj folder and inside there's the project.pbxproj. Which basically is the Makefile of Swift code. It's not there.

This code is just a dump to peruse. Not to actually build the app.

Semi-spoiler :D

I'm going to have to re-read them. I was quite mad about the series, I even bought the "Amber diceless roleplaying game" and the prequels by another author...

I loved the books when I was young. They seem omnipotent but they really weren't.

IIRC, Corwin tried to usurp the throne from his brother Random, and as a punishment had his eyes burned out. Nobody expected he'd regenerate his eyesight, but it did, during years of imprisonment.

Also, what I liked is that they'd all have their own particular skill. Although Corwin handled a sword really well, he could never win against his brother Gérard. He could cast a spell but never as good as his sister Fiona.

There's multiple interesting threads going on. Their power comes from the Pattern (i.e. order), but there's also the Locus (i.e. chaos). There's a court of Amber, but also a court of Chaos. Then there's a whole bunch of family members, who Corwin knows or doesn't know.

However, I don't blame you for finding it a bit boring. We all have particular books and TV series which didn't "click" with us. I mean I found Lord of the Rings entertaining overall, but the writing style extremely long-winded.

Or just have paintings or realistically drawn portraits. I'm a freelancer and need to have a somewhat public presence because I have to whore around, so on my LinkedIn profile, I have a nicely drawn portrait.

Really? What I found out, is that there are different levels of pinlock. Sales people don't tell you that, perhaps even they don't know. There's 30, 70 and 120. I unknowingly bought a 70 for some reason. Perhaps you have a 30?

I've got pinlock for my motorcycle visor, and it works great. For those not in the know, it's a plastic sheet that you stick on the visor inside your helmet. It's lined with silicon channels, so there's trapped air and that's an insulator, so it doesn't fog.

Works great except when you wear glasses, because then these still fog up.. so I want this gold nano-coating on my glasses.

It doesn't just save you the step of swiping a keycard, it also makes something wireless (NFC) into something wired. In my country, The Netherlands, there's a charging network that also lets you just plug in (Fastned). Combined with the fact that they virtually always have 4-8 level 1 chargers, not just one or two, my navigation almost always follows their charging network.

I remember listening to Zac Price (CEO of BlockFI) on the Animal Spirits podcast. It's a pretty well-known podcast and they asked him about what was going on back then, which was in July this year. Zac Prince said that although media said BlockFi was "rescued", he entertained several options from several organizations. And that FTX gave the best offer. Prince definitely did not come across as a YOLO-ing frat-fucking crypto-bro.

Turns out that going with FTX really was the fatal mistake here. I think it's a shame that BlockFi is in so much trouble.

Well-said.

I find direct product plugs a little icky in open source software -- but the approach you outlined there wouldn't bug me, and Yes, would be useful.

Micro-rant: Breadcrumbs that lead to more information go missing all to often in the FOSS world; maybe it's because the often-correct perception is that anyone who cares enough or is likely to benefit from deeper information will also know how to find it anyhow, so why make it any easier? Doesn't take malice, and indifference might be too harsh. Just means there could be more empathy. That's why I like splashscreens, project blogs, and "About" entries under a Help menu, too.

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