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berelig··on Apple Watch Ultra 3
Solving for a longer charge may get them some sales from holdouts who went out and bought a Garmin instead. Cramming more features that make existing Apple Watch users feel like their watches are obsolete will get them a lot more.
berelig··on Making Software
I've been looking around for a book like this that has scientific/engineering topics presented in a bite-sized fashion so a teenager (or even adults) can discover which ones pique their interests and are worth a deeper dive.

Would this book work or is it a bit too simple? Does anyone have another book to recommend?

berelig··on UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan
NYT gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/nyregion/shooting-midtown...
berelig··on The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
Just adding this on OP's behalf:

WGU = Western Governors University

https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/computer-science.html

berelig··on Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)
Note that by doing this most (or maybe all) credit card companies will only honour whatever protections and insurances they offer on the original portion of the limit. So if you make an $11k payment, $10k of that is like handing cash to the vendor.
berelig··on Ask HN: Please share tips and strategies for dealing with eye strain
Mine had a similar recommendation about eye drops and additionally strongly advised me to never use drops with vasoconstrictors like Visene.
berelig··on Wayfair is laying off 1,750 workers
20 days into the new year and there have already been more than 1/3 of 2022's total layoffs.

Admittedly most of those have come from a handful of large companies.

berelig··on Salesforce, but for Dating
I kept a note on my phone with details about my girlfriend (now wife) that I would otherwise easily forget. Favorite flowers, songs, restaurants, etc. As I got to know her family I briefly had a few lines for her parents and siblings but now that we're married I can just bug her for info instead.
berelig··on Canada buys 88 F-35 fighter jets for $14.2B
Per year? What length of time are you referring to?

$14,200,000,000/27,855,050[1] = $509 per tax filer (regardless of tax contribution)

Also, the bottom 40%[2] of Canadians pay $0 in income tax, so every Canadian that actually contributes to the national revenue has paid nearly $1,000 just for this purchase.

I support defence spending but let's not sugarcoat how much it really costs.

[1] # of taxfilers in Canada in 2020 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/478908/number-of-taxfile... [2] https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/taxes/trudeau-is-...

berelig··on How to store your app's entire state in the url
This is exactly how Shel Kaphan (first eng @ Amazon) handled the state of a shopping cart in the mid 90s. Here is him discussing some of the pitfalls: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1995NovDec/020...
berelig··on Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions
It has a $3/month Premium account tier for no ads, increased storage, and double the steps history.
berelig··on Ask HN: What Happened to the Reddit IPO?
There are exceptions of course: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/tripactions-ipo
berelig··on Ask HN: What do Russians on HN think about this war?
> ...like that villain from Shrek: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make".

Surely you see that in this analogy it is Putin who is the villain (Lord Farquaad)?

berelig··on StackOverflow: Sunsetting Jobs and Developer Story by April 2022
Companies that otherwise spend $20,000 to fill a role. Headhunting is a huge overhead
berelig··on How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
> I've been using MacBooks for 8 hours a decade, for over half a decade now

To be fair, 4 hours is not a lot of time to learn a new OS :)

berelig··on Launch HN: Kitemaker (YC W21) – Fast alternative to Jira, built for remote teams
For one it doesn't lag when I scroll through their landing page unlike linear.app

2015 MacBook Pro with Firefox

berelig··on Firefox 86.0
There is an option to print using the system dialog on the right panel after you press COMMAND + P
berelig··on A TL;DR after analyzing Clubhouse app
If an app like Clubhouse wanted to hide communication with Chinese servers would it not be trivial for them to proxy all of the telemetry calls through a US-based AWS or Azure server?
berelig··on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
Are they not in line with the APA styleguide?

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-...

I know it's a recent trend but I thought the capitalization was applied to all ethnicities.

berelig··on The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
Also not if for most of humanity the mates with this hypothetical gene were repressed into heterosexual relationships.
berelig··on Apple releases open source modules of Big Sur
Can someone explain what this means? Does it benefit those working on Linux support for M1?
berelig··on Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
I should have prefixed that this is drawing heavily on what I remember reading about Walmart and their effect on rural/suburban economies when they expanded. In that sense it is conjecture on my part as I'm not drawing on any studies about Amazon in particular. I only wanted to show how large corporations that compete directly with small retail employers can get an unfair advantage against their labour force.

Your theory could obviously be valid as well.

berelig··on Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
As Colin says, I don't disagree. I don't think twice about ordering an item on Amazon for $2 that a hardware store downstairs sells for $5. I understand why the store's margins need to be that high but I also need to make sound financial decisions and don't make enough to subsidize anyone else. At the end of the day I'm still contributing to Amazon's growth at the expense of a more fragmented market of small businesses.
berelig··on Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions
You live in a small town with small businesses that are undercut by Amazon's price and scale. Those businesses slowly die out as everyone in your region switches to ordering online (primarily from Amazon). Amazon opens a warehouse in the region to meet the demand and is now the largest employer around.

This exact transformation already happened with Wal-Mart in the 80s and 90s. Obviously no one is literally forcing workers to go to Amazon's warehouses but you can see how in essence this leaves them with no choice (i.e. forced).

berelig··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
Looks like it has (as of 6 hours ago) https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2020/11/geekbench-53/
berelig··on Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
berelig··on Firefox 73
Unfortunately Firefox on iOS doesn't have access to content blockers and can't install its own ad-blockers.
berelig··on Relentlessly Simplify
For a blog post about simplifying there sure are a lot of links embedded in the text to take your attention away.
berelig··on Launch HN: Carve (YC S19) – Rent Cars from Local Dealerships
I don't have any comments about the product but the background image on your site is 5MB! Makes the page look like it's loading slowly even if below the fold everything is ready to go.
berelig··on First Evidence of Sleep in Flight
I subscribed in early 2018 and have only received two issues since. Sometime in the summer I received an email that they were having issues raising the funds necessary to publish the upcoming print edition.
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