Klassy.

There was a time as a first time manager when I liked Hazelnut Coffee. I thought it was more special than your typical coffee.

Software engineers of the world, I beg you.

Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.

Sincerely,

Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.

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To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread.
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Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.

On the plus side, you made Captain! Much better retirement benefits with that rank.

The original version supported much of that by being a hybrid app - downloading a core from the web but by being a native app being able to access the OS. I'd think they could find a way to split that difference.

That said, I agree they want to be able to evolve quickly.

BTW: You click that button, you just get a web page. Co pilot for work is a web page.

Imagine - Distribution is so critical Google pays billions to be the search engine on iPhone.

Microsoft *removes their AI from their OS*.

Does Microsoft not want you to use Copilot?

Copilot on windows 11 is such an unforced error. It started great - a native, built in copilot for your day. This could have been groundbreaking.

And the team.. Decided to rip that out and make it a web app? Why would I use that it's no longer integrated into my workspace.

Well. Huh.

Stepping back, it feels like we made a real mistake in the 90's as an industry coupling encryption and proof of identity: Having to get a full fat cert proving you are who your DNS name says just to enable encryption sucks in scenarios like this.

We really want a frictionless onboarding process - so "fire up the container with no config and you get encryption" seems valuable. Also, I've noticed the container options on Azure don't support SSL offload well - so having it built in seems handy.

This week I'm with the Loupe team in the UK working on our new "instant container" version of Loupe. One thing we're vascillationg on is "do we auto-create a self-signed cert for SSL?

If this is a normal fridge/freezer they often share air between both sides - could be vapors from the fridge side getting pulled into the ice.

And with that pleasant thought...

I’m doing the jet lag adjust in the UK right now and 3:30 am is always the worst. I usually manage to make it all the way through the first night but the second.. awake at 3:30. Grrrr.

RIGHT?!? Thought of that. And was doubly annoyed . I even said once in chat “I know enough about networking if I wanted to use a VPN and bounce this off a satellite you’d never know.”

Oddly didn’t help my case.

My hat is off to the designers that came up with it though - it’s a great example of excellent design being nearly invisible.

There was a big argument then in which seat was what - which shows just how powerful and intuitive the landing effect was.

When one passenger pointed out the individual screens also show the seat number that barely slowed the roll of one of the parties (in the wrong seat)

Aircraft overhead bin with correct signage

Here’s one row earlier for comparison. Note the difference - the human figure is showing which seat you’re standing next to and the seats are drawn in the opposite perspective.

Aircraft overhead bin seating label

This incorrect placard caused quite the argument over who had what seat. It was put on the left side of the row, and it’s a right side placard. See if you can spot the problem.

Do you even Hulu?

Every time Verizon gives us a new IP we get blocked for using a VPN and I get the fun of using their chat to convince them they’re wrong and only they can fix it

Good times.

I bet your dog understands more voice commands.

a man is talking on a phone and saying hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again . ALT: a man is talking on a phone and saying hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again .

BA tech support talking to our pilots right now..

They had a very accurate countdown to the plane going dark. It looked like all the isolated emergency lights worked too- so that’s nice!

15 minutes later each IFE is still booting. I didn’t think they made new computers that slow…

Does feel a bit Hail Mary though.

Not counting the IFE system there have to be a hundred networked computers that run this thing, and they’ve been running for at least 10 hours at this point - so sure, it’s definitely worth a go before you declare the flight canceled due to the plane.

I’m enjoying my flight experience to the Uk so far. We haven’t left the gate and after an hour of them trying things to fix the issue they’re going to reboot the plane.

There’s a part of me that thinks this is laughable - but from an engineering perspective : yes, let’s try that.

Having ads constantly diminishing the experience is so on brand though…