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Kevin Karhan :verified:

[#TLDR: JUST TELL ME IF YOUR TABLET CAN DO #CALLS!]

#DearVendors of #Android-#Tablets:

Off all the #Functions you can put into a #Specifications Sheet of your Devices there's one you should ALWAYS answer clearly on your #Website:

DOES YOUR TABLET [with #4G / #5G / …) SUPPORT MAKE PHONE CALLS?

Like: IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK TO HAVE THAT INFO IN THE SPECSHEETS?

You're obviously able to list all the #Codecs natively supported and the user-available storage as well as supported Frequency Bands, WWAN modes, WiFi channel width and the Display Glass vs. Panel dimensions including DPI of the latter and whether or not it has a hall effect sensor to detect your overpriced 1st party tablet covers!

Now some folks may ask: "WHY does this matter?" or outright dismiss this as a problem.

Listen:
Not everyone is able or willing to carry two devices when 1 SHOULD BE ENOUGH and also some places (i.e. #Turkey) have #ImportRestrictions re: #MobileDevices, so having more than 1 #IMEI is already a "NOPE!" by the authorities.

  • Also this isn't something one can "fix" post-purchase like installing #VLC to decode some obscure file format in Software: Either the #Baseband and #ROM support #PhoneCalls or they don't!

So why do NONE of the #Tablet manufacturers allow to #search or #filter for that???

NO, instead one has to download an obscenely huge #PDF just to then read on page 34 that for any "#telephony" function you NEED YET ANOTHER DEVICE FROM THE SAME MANUFACTURER AND HAVE TO SIGNUP WITH AN ACCOUNT and even that level of #abuse WON'T GUARANTEE THAT IT WORKS...

  • I mean, come on, this ain't some obscure functionality like #OMAPI to do some "evil sourcery" like managing an #eSIM that is in a #SIM-Card form factor!

Pretty shure A LOT of other folks have the same question and ain't willing to get yet another device & #SIM just to recieve the occasional call because #TechIlliterates can't be assed to send an #eMail or learn #XMPP+#OMEMO to message one...

  • Obviously they same manufacturers are able and willing to specify f-stops of the built-in cameras and list EVERY SINGLE #WEARABLE they made and certify as 'compatible' with, as if anyone is gonna take their non-#waterproof #Tablet for a marathon or god forbid triathlon...
Photo of a disappointed looking Elementary School aged boy with the tag line: "WHEN YOU ASK SOMEINE A BOOLEAN QUESTION AND THEY RETUN A STRING"
#Rant#TechSupport#Technology
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Aral Balkan

Oh my goodness, how did I miss that in ES7 you can use a closure as a method. Goodbye `bind()`, you will not be missed :)

e.g.,

```js
class A {
b = () => console.log(this)
}

const a = new A()
a.b() // A { b: [Function: b] }

const c = a.b
c() // A { b: [Function:b] }
```

Nice! :)

**Edit**: Be careful with this. See this note by @marsup: mastodon.social/@marsup/113799

MastodonMarsup (@marsup@mastodon.social)@aral@mastodon.ar.al Respectfully, this looks like an anti-pattern. `b` won't be part of the prototype, potentially preventing some meta programming, and you're going to get a new `b` for each instance of that class, consuming that much more memory for each instance you hold.
#JavaScript#EcmaScript7#ES7
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🇺🇸 Bewickwren 🇵🇹

The #fractiousness within the #GOP could #imperil some basic #functions of #government.
The first under threat could be the ability of U.S. government to stay open and pay its debts, since many of McCarthy’s foes oppose raising the #debt #ceiling or cutting spending deals with Democrats, and could move to oust him from his job if he tries to do so. wsj.com/articles/speaker-fight

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Stephen Gruppetta

Are you comfortable with the difference between positional arguments and keyword (or named) arguments when calling a Python function?

And which order to use them in?

Here’s the second article in the Intermediate Python Function series, hot off the press, so to speak

thepythoncodingbook.com/2022/1

The Python Coding BookPositional arguments and keyword arguments in PythonThis article explores positional arguments and keyword arguments in Python. It's the 2nd article in the Intermediate Python Functions Series
#Python#programming#coding
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Matthias Tschumi 🦉

Toot toot! Here comes my #introduction:

I am a #researcher at the #Swiss Ornithological Institute investigating #bird #ecology.

I am interested in basically everything but mostly
#behaviour
#animal #movement and #dispersal
#conservation
#biodiversity
#agroecology
#communities
#ecosystem #services and #functions
#ornithology
#bayesian #statistics
and #photography

Earlier at Lund University, Agroscope and @unibern

I hope to find an inspiring, supporting and collaborative #community here...

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