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It's supposed to work by downgrading everyone involved if any are not on RCS, because there is no other option. Which has been working fine for me at least, normal MMS issues aside (MMS delivery is often awful). RCS keeps an "is X using RCS?" list on their servers, and every attempt to message someone checks that (with a local cache)... and like >99% of those servers are Google, at this point, so it should be pretty consistent.

That said, I have no idea how often that fails in practice.

And that is how reactions are sent in SMS/MMS. Your app just isn't recognizing them to display them nicely. Maybe try a different one?


> And that is how reactions are sent in SMS/MMS.

Imagine if IRC clients started adding such functionality. Certain protocols and conventions are useful precisely because of their minimalism.

Google and Apple are already running their own walled off proprietary messaging platforms. There was no need to tamper with SMS.


Yes? Countries that subsidize healthcare don't calculate infinite value per person.

Say you're a photo archiving app, and want to quickly show people something in their thumbnails when they fling back several years and tens of thousands of photos, into an area you haven't cached locally yet.

At 16 bytes per image, you can use this for even gigantic libraries with only a few megabytes. It becomes reasonable to just download and keep it all in memory at all times, so you can always show something vaguely representational instantly, rather than nothing but thousands of identical empty boxes. Often this is just a small nice-to-have bit of visual flair, but it can be useful too: I've been happy to have it when I was looking for moon pictures I knew I had taken, on a slow network, and they were super obvious to scroll to without having to wait for hundreds/thousands of thumbnails to download to find the right area. Instead I immediately found the dozen-ish I wanted and only had to download those to figure out the exact file I was looking for. (they're pretty easy to spot when you have a dozen that all look kind of similar in a row, compared to a whole bunch of things with wildly different colors for the rest of the week)

You can do similar things for showing placeholders on images in a website: it's so small you can just keep it right on the database row, and it won't be a performance or space concern on essentially any database, even for millions of users.


Yeah, I personally know a couple people where self-research found the correct diagnosis, and I am one of them. We had a fantastic primary, who worked with us quite closely and did a lot of research after we found some new information from him.

Doctors don't know everything and don't have access to everything, they are just quite a lot better than the alternatives in the vast majority of cases, so your default odds are much better following their recommendation than anything else. Training is worth a lot, and everyone also knows it's not perfect, and that's entirely fine.


tbh I thought it was explicitly stated somewhere. literally every seller I've talked to has mentioned it at some point.

- click simulate in the default "push button to turn on LED" demo

- clock advances

- voltage around the LED slowly rises to infinity for some reason

er.


Six feet under, but those piezoelectric speakers are piercing

The Tell-Tale Beep, by Edgar Allen Poe.

Those extremely rare moments when you open the door literally on zero, with no sound, and the display showing 0s, are like half of the reason I use a microwave. Man vs machine at its most visceral, it makes me feel alive

The only thing that comes close is trying to stop the fuel pump on a nice round dollar amount.

Supermarket checkout with a round amount feels like winning some lottery, admittedly.

You'd think that it would happen around 1% of the time, but it doesn't seem to.

Prices aren't random, after all.

Yes, but how random is the number of items purchased?

Not, even if you only consider between one and a hundred, it'll be strongly tilted toward low numbers, which means that prices, which are typically like X.49 or X.99 or more rarely X.00, will often float in the aggregate in the 40s or 90s before sales taxes in places that have them. So, if there is no sales tax, one would expect a strong band just under $1 or 50 cents, and if there are, it'll be more complicated, but still not evenly distributed across all possible cents.

I’m half-expecting a Therac-25 situation in those edge-case operating moments, but then remember that microwave ovens, unlike the Therac-25, have physical interlocks to prevent open-door operation.

You really don't want to succeed in faking it out, though. Not because it'll microwave you, but because part of the safety mechanism is a fuse that blows if the door is open while the magnetron is on.

I remember having some microwave oven that started rotating if I opened the door partially at just the right angle. Hopefully does not mean the magnetron was actually running.

That seems to be due to he microcontroller using its pins in duplex. There is indeed no radiation being emitted in that case, just the lamp and rotation.

https://hackertimes.com/item?id=46979936


In some states, employers are required to provide this as an option, at least for some devices: https://www.driversnote.com/blog/state-requirements-cell-pho...

Obviously it should be everywhere, for all tools needed to do your job, but it's especially clear for tech where nearly all large companies will also exert control over the device.


From seeing the feeds of a few categories of people near me (some using it semi-professionally, some just personally, some like me that avoid it unless strictly necessary)... it really does seem to be all of them. Absolute garbage is a majority, and they all complain about missing things they actually care about (though to be fair this has been true ever since it left colleges).

Facebook is truly awful to everyone. I can't believe people don't try harder to leave.


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