rjmorris (u/rjmorris)

rjmorris commented on De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices bbc.com/news/articles/cwy... · Posted by u/colinprince

sarchertech · 4 months ago

I mean you can still pay the $3-$5 import tax on them.

rjmorris · 4 months ago

Unless you get hit with the flat fee instead.

> Packages sent to the US from mainland China and Hong Kong with a value of up to $800 now face a 120% tax rate or are subject to a flat fee. The fee started at $100 and is due to rise to $200 at the beginning of June.

rjmorris commented on Customizable HTML Select developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/dsego

InsideOutSanta · 6 months ago

I think it might be this one?

https://caniuse.com/selectlist

The blog post says that "we're excited to see this feature progress through working groups and standards bodies" but doesn't link to anything that would help figure out which standard this ostensibly implements.

rjmorris · 6 months ago

This is specifically not selectlist. "Previously, the Chrome team was working on the idea of a selectlist element. What's described in this post is that feature redesigned to reuse the existing select element instead."

rjmorris commented on Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks heise.de/en/news/Hard-dis... · Posted by u/namanyayg

reaperducer · 7 months ago

Amazon and eBay are companies, which will do whatever is profitable and legal. The entity which should crack down on this is the government.

Amazon and eBay should crack down on it so the government doesn't.

History is full of examples of companies doing the right thing if only to prevent government regulation.

rjmorris · 7 months ago

> History is full of examples of companies doing the right thing if only to prevent government regulation.

Citing a couple would help your argument.

rjmorris commented on Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/bmaupin

sega_sai · 7 months ago

I've updated a couple of weeks ago, but I already had a battery replaced last year, so I didn't notice anything untoward with the charge. I did however start to have a vertical green line on the screen that appears for a while, then disappears for a while. (it is possible the line is just a coincidence and an unrelated screen defect).

rjmorris · 7 months ago

You were lucky. Lots of people who recently had their battery replaced (before the update was announced) were affected by this.

rjmorris commented on Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/bmaupin

OliveMate · 7 months ago

I can say from experience that it doesn't. I get daily notifications & popups telling me that I'm X days out of date.

rjmorris · 7 months ago

> I can say from experience that it doesn't.

No, I don't think you can say that. If you're getting daily notifications about being out of date, then you clearly haven't gotten the update yet. There are two possibilities: (1) You have rebooted. In this case, the dev option must have worked, because you rebooted and didn't get the update, exactly what the dev option promised. (2) You haven't rebooted. In this case, the dev option doesn't apply, because it specifically refers to what happens after you reboot.

rjmorris commented on Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/bmaupin

josephcsible · 7 months ago

Be careful about doing that. Google announced that starting tomorrow, they're going to be remotely wiping all Pixel 4a's that aren't running the new update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pixel4a/comments/1id6zw8/attention_...

rjmorris · 7 months ago

Google didn't announce anything. That's a message from a customer support rep to a single individual.

rjmorris commented on Ever used Google Chrome in incognito mode? You could be entitled to up to $5k bivens.plaintip.com/index... · Posted by u/RadixDLT

pringularity · a year ago

The date of birth section only lets you select January through June lol.

rjmorris · a year ago

Only for 2006. All months are available for earlier years.

rjmorris commented on A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines discuss.python.org/t/shou... · Posted by u/oblvious-earth

EvanAnderson · a year ago

I'm an outsider who only knows Guido van Rossum by way of interviews his writing.

Assuming your quote is what the original text said (I don't disbelieve you-- but nobody can see it to confirm) why would this have violated community standards? Is there some rule about not mentioning "un-persons" or something?

It's very confusing.

Edit: Answering my own question. There appears to be a kerfuffle afoot. Apparently the Steering Council has suspended a core developer for 3 months[0] but isn't naming the suspended developer or citing specific reasons why (per [1] and sparking a call for a vote of no confidence in the council which did not succeed).

Apparently even mentioning the suspended person (without naming them) is enough for even Guido van Rossum to be censored. Wow.

Edit 2: The suspended developer is Tim Peters[3].

Edit 3: Altered paragraph "Edit:" from "...or the reason why[1] (" to "...or citing specific reasons why (per [1]".

Edit 4: Added "which did not succeed" after "...vote of no confidence in the council".

[0] https://discuss.python.org/t/three-month-suspension-for-a-co...

[1] https://discuss.python.org/t/calling-for-a-vote-of-no-confid...

[3] https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr...

rjmorris · a year ago

I don't understand why you said they didn't explain the reason for the 3-month ban. Your link [0] lays out the reasons.

rjmorris commented on Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs servermono.com/... · Posted by u/yankcrime

queuebert · a year ago

To be fair, they did say it was inspired by typewriters, and most old typewriters don't have a '1', so you type a lowercase 'l' instead.

rjmorris · a year ago

How did they type '2' on those old typewriters?

rjmorris commented on General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker cpldcpu.wordpress.com/202... · Posted by u/pontifk8r

NikkiA · 2 years ago

I'd rather they didn't, I recently upgraded our household flashlights and was pleased to be able to get 3-mode rather than the ridiculous 5 and 7 mode that they were replacing, no more having to loop through 'SOS' and several ridiculous flash patterns, a half-dozen brightness settings and so on to get to the 'full brightness, no flashing' setting that was needed 100% of the time.

rjmorris · 2 years ago

Maybe I misunderstood you, but Anduril doesn't include strobe modes on the main cycle, and it lets you configure how many brightness steps you want (or hold for continuous ramping). So it sounds to me like you should want people to check out Anduril, since it addresses the two issues you mentioned with your old flashlights.