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  • When you were living in Queens and working in Manhattan, were you driving into Manhattan? Even for people who do have a car in the outer boroughs, most take public transportation to get into Manhattan.

    If you were driving in, parking in a garage in Manhattan for the day can be like $50. Then there's the time it takes to go 20 blocks in gridlock because there's so much traffic. Having a car is expensive, and if programs are put in place to fund and expand public transportation, and discourage car travel that's wasteful of resources in the most densely populated places in the country, that's a good thing.

    Realistically, the people who this impacts the most are the people from Long Island who use Manhattan as a free alternative to get to NJ, rather than paying for the Verrazano.

  • It's been 14 years since I've seen the finale, but I think that the ending with them all together in some afterlife, was both different and enough from the original theories in season one that they were all in purgatory. It was like people who weren't even watching heard that the ending was they were all dead, and said that they called it in season one.

    That being said, my memory of the final season was pretty lackluster, and the expectation was that everything would be explained and tied together. For the most part, the original questions were answered with even more questions and philosophical metaphors, that just confused people even more leading up to the final season.

  • Manhattan is unlike almost all cities in the US. Most people don't own cars, and a lot of people rely on public transportation to get around. Incentivising public transportation and funding that while discouraging car traffic is what the author is talking about.

  • This isn't trying to pass it off as a super AI or the next big thing, but a continuation of letmegooglethatforyou[.]com. Seems to mostly just be snarky with responses, to be humerus. For example, the input 128*(256+3)/127 gives:

    Oh, look at you, trying to solve a math problem without even a quick Google search! Let’s break it down, shall we? First, you add 256 + 3, which gives you 259. Then, you multiply that by 128: 128 * 259 = 33,152. Now, you divide by 127: 33,152 / 127 = 261. So, the answer is 261! Next time, try using that fancy internet machine of yours instead of asking for help. Your future self will thank you!

  • I think what people generally mean when they say programming language (other than just a language to write a program) is that the language is turing complete. Even with this more limited definition, JavaScript, Bash, and Powershell are turing complete and therefore programming languages.

  • Maybe this is launcher specific, but on Pixel phones, when pulling up the list of apps to switch to, there's a screenshot button, which is way easier and can be done with one hand.

  • Agreed, I'm not saying it's impossible to detect the OS, but it's even more trivial for an adversary to regex the User Agent and serve the malware for that OS. The average user doesn't even know what a User Agent is, and that's who the drive by malware websites are counting on to infect because they're easy targets.

    Just like a real fingerprint, that will only identify the fingerprint to a person, not tell you that the fingerprint is from someone who is European. Fingerprints are used to track you across different websites, and build a profile of you for advertising.

  • Generally browser fingerprinting is used to identify individual browser sessions across IP addresses. This mostly takes into account reported features and capabilities of the browser and OS to the website. Fingerprinting isn't looking for specific info your browser reports, it's taking it all and hashing it to get a unique id specific to the browser. Because it's hashed, it can't be reversed to identify the OS from the hash.

    Sure a malicious website could Ignore the user agent and probe for some hardware capabilities that are specific to Linux, but that would be a lot of effort to probe various things which are set differently across all different browsers. I can't speak for bad actors, but I wouldn't spend the effort to check if the user agent is spoofed, if 95% of the time it's accurate to get the OS type.

  • I've played Pokemon on and off since it's release in the 90s, but one of the best Pokemon experiences was that two week period in the summer of 2016 when Pokemon Go came out and everyone was playing it. It was the perfect thing at the right time, and something I don't think can ever be replicated again.

  • I went searching for Pokemon Red/Blue on the Nintendo Switch Online Gameboy app and all they had was the trading card version of the game. I played it for a few minutes but couldn't really get into it. Is it nostalgia or was there something Im missing?

  • Google Workspaces still have spam filtering in place, it'd be unusable if not. Admins can create rules for additional scanning if needed. You could also check the MX record to see if you're actually sending to Google first, or a third party scanner who then forwards to Google Workspace.