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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I have a petty one:

    1. Go to Settings and disable Apple Intelligence
    2. use Siri voice control for a task
    3. the Siri icon thing remains at the bottom of the screen because it’s listening for the next command.
    4. tap elsewhere on the screen

    Expected: Siri goes away

    Encountered: the tap does nothing - Siri will continue listening until you say “thank you” or turn off the screen.

    Workaround: restart the phone and the problem goes away.








  • I think this is just a picky optimization.

    The first one runs the constructor to instantiate a new string, then gets its class (which is presumably a static property anyway). The second doesn’t have to run any constructor and just grabs the static class name from the type.

    Maybe there’s more implementation nuance here but it seems like an opinionated rule that has zero effect on performance unless that code is being called thousands of times every second. And even then the compiler probably optimizes them to the same code anyway.










  • This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.

    In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.

    So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.

    So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.

    He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”

    40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.


  • Amazon pro tip: if you find something that has lots of good reviews, sort them by Recent. Those ones are the reviews by the people who were suckered in by the initial dump of 5 star fake reviews and you’ll probably see a lot more honesty from those people.

    Even better: run Fakespot on the listing to see if it detects manipulation or fake reviews.

    Best: don’t use Amazon to buy things.