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TIL: Texas still has Congressional consent to carve off 4 new states from itself. It pays to have been a country yourself before joining the Union, apparently. https://overcast.fm/+NG9L1B8JM

@jeremycherfas Ah yeah. I could see having to deal with multiple flavors of glasses making Lasik more appealing. I’m not there yet. (And liable to get implanted lenses instead along with surgery for the really early cataracts I likely inherited.)

@jeremycherfas I don’t even think it’s irrational. The potential downsides are fairly high for buying the small convenience of skipping the 5 min I spend handling contact lenses each day. @mandy @kosso @33MHz

@muncman Ah. :\ With my 6 Plus, I understand “forever to launch” all too well - system share sheet often times out before showing on my first try. Does mobile Web Facebook support deep linking, unlike mobile app Facebook?

@muncman No help here, but if you use the share sheet to Reminders, it’ll attach the link for you.

@joe @Skematica Quick rundown from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/8qfw8l/protecting_the_free_and_open_internet_european/

@Skematica This is about something independent of GDPR. @joe

@Wife We played this role from the other side for years. Not hard to do the other side’s lines.

@mikehoss “Write once, build only on Windows” sounds like a major accomplishment. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Disabling a (Slack, GitHub, InsertPlatformHere) integration should be called differentiating the integration.

It doesn't matter what monads are. The reason monads are useful is that they represent data types that you can compose together, and you can do so using a notation that lets you build on your experience and intuition about writing imperative programs. [drmaciver.com]

@mandy @kosso @33MHz Everyone I know personally who had Lasik seems pretty happy with it. My prescription changes each year, so it turns out not even to be an option for me.

But the study found that even 5 years after Lasik, nearly 50% had dry eyes at least some of the time. 20% had painful or sore eyes, 40% were sensitive to light, and 33% had difficulty driving at night or doing work that required seeing well up close. [mobile.nytimes.com]

As far back as 2008, however, patients who had received Lasik and their families testified at an F.D.A. meeting about impaired vision and chronic pain that led to job loss and disability, social isolation, depression — and even suicides. [mobile.nytimes.com]

@33MHz @mikehoss I know my company’s IT very strongly wants to keep Mac-only on the desktop. Way less work to keep running safely, way easier explanations for how we protect data.

@mikehoss Ah, that long scan time is the context I was missing. Yikes. Now your solution makes tons of sense. :) I wish org-mode had a more spiral learning style manual.

@mikehoss @33mhz I love how faster machines are just used as an excuse to make them slower with more ~~preemptive virus infections~~ antivirus software.

@rafaelcosta Overlap between message text and buttons in the data collection modal. Probably need to wrap body text in a scrollview to handle large text sizes and small screens together.

OK, that kinda explains the funky “donate” verbiage. Though not why you “delete” vs “revoke” a donation. Or even better, “take back”. “SiriKit donations, featuring free backsies!”

@mikehoss I for some reason prefer Noodle still, but now that I have Apero, it’s a moot point. @33MHz