To the people saying, “You will be judged!” - If you’ve read John McWhorter’s “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English” you will learn that the rule against ending a sentence in a preposition stems from the middle ages, when scholars revered Latin so much they tried to make English syntax and…

Be careful rolling over to a personal IRA, as this could have negative tax implication that would make opening an additional Roth IRA infeasible. I learned this the hard way rolling employee 401ks to a Vanguard IRA, and now I can’t open a Roth without significant tax penalties. It would have been better for me to roll…

So is the reverse true? Can I embed a hidden Alexa commands by clipping everything *but* the 3k-6k Hz frequencies from the command, and overlaying that on an otherwise benign audio? Asking for a friend...

I can tell you for a fact that USPS drivers do things like this. Earlier this year I got a failed delivery attempt notification from Amazon stating that I wasn’t home to receive the package. Which was a lie because I was working from home all day and there was no doorbell, knock, or even a note left to indicate a…

Careful... there’s a look-a-like playlist called ‘your time capsul” that’s not what you are looking for. I had to type the whole thing out (including the last “e”) before the correct playlist showed up in Spotify.

I’m all for the meaning of words evolving, but there should be some logic and degree to it. We can’t just let anything mean anything or words no longer have meaning, and you end up with irregardless meaning the same as regardless (instead of being an unacceptable bastardization of irrespective and regardless). So…

It’s not just a colloquialism - it is actually more correct to say that you are doing good. “Doing” is a linking verb- it links the adjective to the subject, NOT to the verb, so you want an adjective, not an adverb. Same with “How do you feel?” If someone asked me that, and I said “I feel well” - I’d be giving them…

I’ve had extremely good results with professional monthly fogging of the entire yard. Obviously this won’t help for other locations, but I highly recommend it for your private property. It’s a deterrent - not a pesticide. The first few months I started it, I didn’t see much results. But mosquitoes actually don’t…

I use to experience severe post-exercise headaches (migraines) during the cool-down phase quite regularly. My neurologist explained that our blood vessels dilate during exercise to accommodate the increased blood flow, and sometimes they return to normal size prematurely - causing an increase in blood pressure and a…

I do the same! Waze should implement a “reliability score” for users - if people are constantly removing your reported hazards, you are probably just a Waze points addict and your reports should be considered less reliable.

The problem is that too may idiot Wazers over-report every stopped vehicle to earn Waze points, including unattended cars that are safely off the shoulder into the grass. So it becomes a bit like crying wolf and the safety value is completely lost.

I am a member of the beta program and have been complaining (along with others) for a long while about the incessant “vehicle stopped on shoulder” alert. They consider it working as designed - not a bug - and just ignore us. Unchecking that alert in settings will only remove it from the map display, but the audio…

This looks nice in the notification center, but Inversion (inversionapp.com) is free and sits just as conveniently in the menu bar.

If the save sheet is too large to grab an edge to resize it, I believe another work around is to go full-screen mode for the problem app (assuming it supports it). This will resize the sheet such that you can drag it smaller.

For iOS users, you can replace the official iOS app with a home screen Safari bookmark for m.facebook.com. The browser version of the app is just as feature rich, uses less data, and won't try to force you to install the stand alone message app. The only downside is that you lose notifications, but that can be a…

How so? It's asymetric encryption - you share only your Minilock ID, not your passphrase.

The security seems dependent on your ability to select a strong passphrase. Longer doesn't necessarily equal strong (e.g. 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....'). Also, what encryption algorithm is used on the back end? SendSafely.com is a similar solution that is more enterprise friendly. It isn't free, although it has a free…

Chemical safety may not be the only concern. If I shampoo my dog with some "human" shampoos, she gets tiny pill-y scabs on her back. She's already prone to these, but the wrong shampoo makes it worse. It's probably a pH thing. Softener probably won't really harm the dog, but I'd keep an eye out for skin problems…

I took two flip-top toothpaste lids, cut off the lids, and glued the top openings together to create a refill adapter. So now when my travel sized toothpaste tube gets empty, I use my adapter to connect the travel tube to my full-sized tube, squeeze, and refill.