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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • I understand the complaints because I hated it when Pixel dropped the jack. But it can be a smoother process than jacks.

    I get in my car and no longer fumble to pull my phone out and plug it in. Pairing is quicker than plugging in a cable.

    When doing yardwork I used to have to fish my cord through my shirt or it would get caught and yanked out by a tree branch. Even then it was cumbersome because of too much slack or too little slack causing disconnects or snags.

    It’s not perfect. A downside that still might exist (I bypassed the problem years ago so I don’t know if they ever fixed it.) was Google’s auto pairing that wasn’t able to be turned off. When I walked close to the house from outside, my phone would decide on its own to pair with speakers in the house. But that’s a Google problem, not Bluetooth. It didn’t exist with Nexus because you could manually control pairing.

    EWaste is a problem.















  • I’ve always hated recursion. It’s always seemed like a cutesy programming trick that’s not reliable in all conditions.

    You could blow the stack in an edge case that you didn’t think of. So it should never be a standard pattern. It’s only good if you need to rewrite something for optimization and recursion is appropriate. But in many cases recursion is slower.

    “Look at what I can do in 5 lines of code!” is for programming contests, not for anything important.