I can confirm both Pixels and Samsung phones have that feature (1/2/4 hours or indefinite). On my current phone (Samsung) you get the option by holding the DND button.

Interesting that Squidward is only happy as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

No, my phone went into SOS mode yesterday. No apps, just a button to call 911. And yes, if you lose a ticket, you can indeed miss a flight. Only tale I have for that is a colleague who lost their ticket and the time it took to look up their details put them past boarding, they were stranded at the terminal, but its still an actual risk you can’t wave away.

It takes 5 minutes to save an insane amount of stress and misfortune.

Leonardo De Lima, who works in technology, was on his way to Boston Logan International Airport around 5 a.m. for a business trip to Chicago when he realized his phone was in SOS mode. He initially thought it was a problem with his device, until he got to the Delta terminal and saw a lot of confused faces.

“I heard people talking about the outage, and everyone was lingering in the departure area because nobody could pull up their tickets on their phones,” the 32-year-old said. “I saw a lot of stress.”

It’s a pretty popular meme format, it’s not serious

Exact same here. Totally fine with showing the pass from my phone, prefer it even. But the stakes are too high to skip the 5 minutes it takes to print a paper copy. I can almost guarantee that everyone else is one close call/missed flight away from doing the same thing, too.

Haha thanks you too

Oof, and there’s only ten lines of code, too. And they look very purposefully written out.

Are… are you simping for North Korea?

Same with proof-of-concept and piece-of-crap!

Kubernetes is fine because it’s easy to keep track of, it looks and pronounces similar to the real word.

O11y for “observability”, though, that one’s pretty rough. And people trying to make the pronunciation “ollie” make me see red.

That’s factually false. Its main mechanism of action is adenosine antagonism, but it does cause a rise of blood adrenaline, as well as a release dopamine and norepinephrine to a handful of systems in the brain.

It’s true that it doesn’t improve mental acuity, and can leave you in an exhausted-but-anxious state, but saying it doesn’t actually stimulate you or wake you up is incorrect.

Twenty late-teen

Actually, aluminum foil is a pretty decent way to clean scissors.

Luckily my boss does, bless him. If I ever leave the company, his attitude is one of the things I’ll miss the most.

Oh god, I feel this in my soul. I feel so fortunate that most people only see the running average of my work output and not a live feed of what I’m actually spending my time doing.

For those interested, this is because of how Rust uses value gaps to represent its nullable/enum structures. E.g., like how None for Option NonZeroU8 [sic, can’t get formatting to work] is represented internally by a 0 instead of a wrapping structure.

When you have that many layers around a unit, it will start at 0 and bump the internal representation for each Some you turn into a None.

Fediverse could absolutely do better on just that data, though I do want to note the really effective (or addictive) algorithms for TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, etc. work on a hell of a lot more data than that. Not just what you directly interacted with, but did you even just click on the link? Did you go to the comment section? How long were you in the comment section? What comments did you expand? When you follow a link or look at an image, how long till you go to the next post?

Like I said, there are ways to do better with what we have, but the “ideal” behavior is secretly fueled by a whole lot of extra data collection that gets distributed everywhere.

What was that saying park rangers had about people not understanding the handle on bear-proof trash cans?

I think it was roughly “there’s significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans”.

I will say Tetris Effect in VR is a legitimately transcendental experience. I’ve had trips that felt less meaningful and awe-inspiring than that game.