But at the time that software was "new" and unreliable.

ah yes, one person understands the point I was trying to make (:

They are doing it now.

Summed up in a recent headline "Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill that deletes climate change from state law"

That law thing is more grandstanding and placation of his base.

Nature will do what it's going to do, which is scrub the lowlands clean every few years. Insurance can not be forced to pay for that, so the homeowners will figure it out. Pay to rebuild repeatedly or leave.

I think you mean this link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

Indeed.

Given that I am the original russian translator of this article, shame on me for not remembering exactly which article it was.

Maybe you only get a second notification if you dismiss the first?

That's a fair point. I'll try to remember to dismiss next time and see.

Can I see the clues after I have solved it?

Group messages.

If I send an SMS message to a group of people, they all see a message from me. They don't know who else got it. And if they reply, they reply only to me. Is your experience different?

WhatsApp (and I think iMessage) allow me to create a group with a name/purpose and send messages to the group and receive replies to the whole group.

(P.S. I went from dumb-phones to Android and have limited exposure to iMessage's feature-set).

I imagine your experience of sending a message to multiple people and it not making a "group message" was your older dumb phones weren't switching to MMS, it was keeping it as pure SMS. In the SMS world, there is one recipient. In MMS, it's like an email, you can list a lot (100+ in some cases) of receipts and they can all see the list.

Just checked my provider's pricing ( in the UK) MMS are capped at 300kB and cost 30p (0.39 USD) per message.

That kind of pricing made WhatsApp an infinitely preferable alternative.

Phones automatically switching to MMS would be catastrophic.

Data (WhatsApp) is essentially free in comparison. £10 (13 USD) per month gets you 20GB: which doesn't care how many messages/recipients/photos you send.

Dang, that's some highway robbery pricing right there.

Here in the US its common to have at least 1MB MMS max size. Back in the day 300-600KB was often the max size, but that's definitely changed over the years. Maybe its just splitting it up and re-assembling it behind the scenes, I'm not sure.

I can't speak for all history, but from about 2004 or so in the US MMS and SMS were often bundled and billed the same, especially for networks which had rolled out 3G/EV-DO. Having a plan with 500 messages usually meant 500 combined SMS and MMS message.

> If I send an SMS message to a group of people, they all see a message from me. They don't know who else got it. And if they reply, they reply only to me. Is your experience different?

Does MMS not exist in your country?

It does, but is priced uncompetitively compared to mobile data.

Interesting. Here in the US, plans that don't include unlimited talk+text are hard to find, even among the budget MVNOs, and that's been the case for at least a decade.

That used to be my experience years ago, but now whether I use android or iphone, I see the whole group.

100% this.

It might not occur to people in North America that even British English users are inconvenienced when restricted to ASCII only (GBP vs £) and therefore the name implies that this tool is not for us.

You can configure alternative phone numbers to receive the SMS code. (Family members, friends).

They would only get a message if you hit "try another way" and choose one of your alternative numbers during the login challenge.

> You can configure alternative phone numbers to receive the SMS code.

Where is this option?

g.co/2sv, login, click on the phone option and just add more numbers.

Thanks looks like I have disabled 2FA couple of years back, dont want to enable it.

Careful or you will regret it... (either if the password is lost or if you get a new device)

Or if you change countries. The only thing able to save me was my open tab from my computer that thankfully I only put to sleep before travelling.

Another source on the "Jake brake" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...

And to quote the important part:

"Most diesel engines do not have a throttle body, so regardless of throttle setting a full charge of air is always drawn into the cylinders (excluding the valve fitted to certain diesels, such as fire appliances and generators on oil and gas platforms, to prevent diesel engine runaway). Compressed air generated during the compression stroke acts as an air spring to push the piston back down. As such, even with fuel supply cut off and no power strokes taking place, a portion of the energy absorbed by the compression stroke within each cylinder is returned to the crankshaft. This results in very little engine braking being applied to the vehicle.

The typical compression brake consists of a hydraulic system using engine oil which transfers the motion of the fuel injector rocker arm to the engine's exhaust valve(s). When activated, the exhaust valve opens very briefly near the engine's top dead center, and releases the compressed air in the cylinder so that the energy is not returned to the crankshaft. If used properly, a compression release brake can assist a vehicle to maintain or even reduce speed with minimal use of the service brakes. The power of this type can be around the same as the engine power."

Basically, jake brakes vent the compressed air in the cylinders at the top of the cycle.

But the virus is already in the live prod environment!