I’m waiting for the open source EW project that attacks the uplink. Now that would be a fun competition.

And then the rocket maker pivot back to control by wire, as in the drone sphere. DIY TOW when?

Apparently S being a level above A comes from Japanese grading. I’ve been confused by that, too.

It's very common in Japanese-developed video games as well

The phone will still make sound if I launch a music app, why is a web page different?

And I hate web pages making sound! But the UX is confusing, and it’s changed over the years, seemingly without reason.

Iphones now have a software toggle as well, which may have coincided with the shift from “mute ringer” to “mute (almost) everything” that came with the multifunction button.

> why is a web page different?

Web browsers on desktop operating systems initially allowed any website to play audio without any interaction required. Some websites would blast annoying audio ads as soon as you opened a page on their site. So effort was put into making it so that web browsers on desktops would only play sound after user interaction via mouse click. Later, some websites were exempted from that by some desktop web browsers, for example YouTube I think.

Even without ads, background noise that starts automatically as soon as you visit a page can be distracting and disruptive.

I’m perfectly happy that Safari on iOS does not play background audio when I have my phone in silent mode. Even when I have tapped on buttons on the page.

Silent mode is not entirely only for notifications anyway. The built-in keyboard is also silent in silent mode, whereas when silent mode is off it makes an annoying click sound for every button that you press. Likewise the builtin camera app on iOS makes a shutter sound when you take photos with silent mode off. With silent mode the camera app is silent. Same with taking screenshots. I take a lot of screenshots, and prefer that people around me don’t think I’m taking photos when I am taking a screenshot on the phone.

Meanwhile, if I open a music player app on my phone and hit play, I have made a very deliberate choice about playing sound.

All of the games on my phone I can think of are also silent in silent mode. Not sure if all games have to be silent in silent mode or not on iOS (i.e. if “can play sound in silent mode” is a special permission in iOS and if Apple disallows apps categorized as games in App Store from having that permission or not). But I like that the games I play on my phone are silent in silent mode.

There is some inconsistency indeed about what is silent or not, but I am happy with the way that it is as someone who prefers surprising silence over surprising noises from my phone when it’s in silent mode.

That screenshot matrix gets painful quickly once devices/locales grow. Are you doing iOS/Android and roughly how many locales x sizes?

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China is still moving tankers through the strait, Iran has no quarrel with them.

If you like reading LLM output, just talk directly to an LLM. Problem solved.

On the other hand, if you went and browsed the visual interface, you might discover you could purchase a 1/2” drive to 1/4” hex adapter, thereby opening up the possibility of using the entire set of impact driver bits you already own.

That doesn't solve the problem I have, because I already have a 1/4" ratchet and I don't have a 1/4" T50 bit.

Furthermore, a T50 bit with 1/4" drive would just snap instantly. If the bit didn't break, you'd twist the end off the extension bar.

I have a specific problem, which I already know how to solve, which has a specific solution, for which I need a specific component.

Nonsense. They make T50 bits for regular impact drivers and they don’t immediately self-destruct.

Anyway the point was about the discoverability factor of user interfaces.

So why would a 1/2" to 1/4" adaptor help, then?

Consider that to crack the seat bolts free initially, I need to use a metre long breaker bar to get them moving, and I need to torque them down to something ridiculous on refitting.

You know how there are two sexual orientations: straight, and Political?

It’s sort of like that.

Even more, Xoogler.