Yeah, I'm not actually that worried. I've seen these in use at hardware stores for quite a while now. It's just useful to assume that Walmart is planning to fuck you over. That's a good point with BT though, many of the kind of microcontrollers that would be used for this sort of thing offer BT connectivity as well.

There's not really a way to do that with this technology. These are just price tags on the shelf, so if they changed the price it would change it for everyone in the store.

The deductible is an amount that you pay out of pocket before insurance starts covering anything. So if insurance doesn't get billed, the money doesn't count towards the deductible. This may make it difficult to lower the bill at all, it really depends on how much the entire bill is compared to your deductible. If you can't pay it though, they'll have to give you an affordable payment plan. Definitely negotiate and don't take a loan out from some other source to cover.

Seems to be this veto of Palestine being admitted to the UN as a full member.

I periodically stumble across Joel's blog and it blows my mind how relevant it typically is.

I don't know the ins and outs of the ADA, but I disagree with your analogy. What Starbucks is doing is akin to Walmart charging a different price for milk and oat milk, which I don't think anyone would say is not allowed. It's not like there's a sheet of lactose you have to walk through to get into a Starbucks or anything, there's just things on the menu that people with some food allergies can't order.

The linked URL at the top is The Seattle Times reporting on this comment. The original comment was just being reposted here for full context.

The most useful thing you can do for simple scripts is never use the same log string in two locations in your code. If you reuse strings it can become very confusing where a specific log line printed from. In addition, write logs that let you trace the execution of the program, down to some kind of identifier that allows you to determine (for example) the exact iteration of a loop that caused an error.

it needed to be broken down further to fit into the small furnace here.

Also, why not take the opportunity to cut up a statue of a traitor.

If you make your way up to Fajardo, Seven Seas Beach is beautiful. The House of Pastelillos is right next to the beach, had some great drinks and pastelillos. Kalizo was right up the street and had amazing seafood.

Sandra Farms Coffee was a trek to get to, but the tour was literally just the group of 4 I was with and some of the best coffee and chocolate I've ever had.

Make sure to try the rum cocktail pouches, they're literally everywhere lol. It's a gorgeous island with great people, you should have a great time. Just googling around we found more swimming holes than you could count a short hike away from some random road, especially around El Yunque.

1. I'm torn between face and balls, face would probably be more satisfying but balls are usually funnier.
2. Let's go no handle, the handle might impact accuracy.
3. I'm kinda feeling silicone, I think I'd feel bad about something harder. Silicone would keep the event fun and cathartic, ceramic might lead to blood everywhere.

I poked through the code some. They have some instructions to build the code for Android but I didn't see any built apks. They still have it marked as prerelease, so they may just be focusing on iOS for now.