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Wonder how long it will take until people are being put on mental health holds based on this data.

Good luck finding anyone who gets significant traffic from Apple’s App Store allowing this.

I highly suggest checking out Natural Atlas (https://naturalatlas.com/) by the same small team who made the CoTrex app (https://trails.colorado.gov/) for Colorado Parks and Wildflife.

A really fantastic team building some absolutely gorgeous topographic basemaps from publicly available data. Hopefully they'll find time to add a slope angle overlay at some point.

Wouldn't it make sense to take the group along and have everyone turn around when it is impassable? Is the scouting because the group is physically incapable of going the extra distance when route finding is needed?

From my limited experience with Iceland's terrain I think I'd be worried about "newcomers" behind me losing the trail so I think I'd be even more wary but perhaps it depends on the group, equipment, etc. While there isn't much dense foliage out here in the Rocky Mountains I've seen many people get separated even in alpine terrain. Especially in boulder fields where groups routinely get separated and I've seen several called for rescue independently after searching for hours.

> There are many times me going ahead a bit to scout the trail and judge the impact of recent weather

I'm curious what you need to judge in advance that's worth getting beyond line-of-site of "newcomers"? I suppose if you're preparing routes which take time this makes sense but I'm struggling to think of examples.

Things change awfully quick and it's a nightmare when you lose a group member and have a vast and potentially densely foliaged area to search with rescue teams many hours from responding.

As long as everyone's aware of the situation and properly prepared then it's certainly their choice to make.

Seriously. I think the author just chose a very poor analogy for their social critique.

> unless you're hiking in dangerous wilderness, there is no hard reason to prefer larger numbers.

This is simply untrue. Many people hike in groups because it is drastically safer than hiking solo. There are plenty of stories where separated hikers simply disappear after going off-trail in thick brush to use the restroom. THIS is the primary reason why the stigma exists and the author completely brushes it aside.

If you're a person hiking in "non-dangerous" wilderness you probably need the group even more since you likely failed to bring a map and compass, much less any survival gear. You may very well not know which trail you're on nor have planned for features and junctions to expect. The bare minimum you can do is stay with a few extra people who can help carry you out when you sprain your ankle or worse.

It’s almost like they’re thinking about more than just the immediate money and consider these part of their messaging around health & safety.

Kind of like how Collision Detection could have been an excellent Apple Watch upsell feature but was brought to all iPhones anyway.

They recognize the power of things like fall and afib detection for pushing into the ever growing consumer Health market.

Most people would much rather spend $20-$50 on decent external batteries and keep their all-in-one device than spend hundreds of dollars + monthly fees for dedicated satellite communicators or rescue beacons.

You can buy a satellite beacon and pay no monthly fees but you'll be paying up front.

> They could have just made a new fantasy story with short hair elves, and I think that would have been judged on its own.

And all of 10 people would have watched it. IP is for name recognition more than anything else. What percentage of people who watched the Peter Jackson trilogy actually read a book from the trilogy? I'd bet way less than 50%.

Jackson didn't adhere 100% to the source material either. There are length lists, including many substantial non-narrative related changes, for[1] each[2] film[3].

[1]: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_F...

[2]: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_T...

[3]: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_R...

Takes anywhere from 30s-1.5m on my M1 Max.

What part of opt-in advertising IDs is only lip service to privacy? Seems entirely about privacy and very little about security. Similarly, iCloud Private Relay is completely privacy focused and isn't really about security at all. Both of these things provide real value to consumers and dramatically limit data collection as evidenced by reports from Facebook and many others in recent quarters.

NSA data collection isn't anywhere close to equivalent to private companies storing it. The NSA programs could be shut down if the political will existed. Private companies with all of this data have absolutely zero oversight under US law at the moment.

> this process has to be a net positive or it's just unsustainable

Or it has to achieve the bare minimum: filling positions with anyone who makes it through the sieve.

> if it goes offline within the year

This would be a >95% reduction in lifespan. I'm really curious what source suggests anything close to such a colossal failure in the predicted meteoroid environment.

What's your differentiation criteria for whether a comment is worth posting or not?

There are all kinds of potential performance benefits to a native SDK. Cross app caching for such common data could be a huge boon for watchOS complications & Home/Lock Screen widgets, for instance.

No idea if they are implementing those kinds of enhancements but it’s no surprise that a native SDK would be provided.

Also, how would they implement the privacy preserving black box location implementation with a REST API? There is no need for the app to ask for or receive specific location details by using this SDK.

> this surgery clinic will treat your appendicitis for less than the average patient's deductible + coinsurance. I'm including the flight + hotel stay in that estimate.

Are there really people flying to avoid overpaying for an appendectomy?

I've found Fork to be faster than Gitup for very large repos. I used to use Gitup exclusively but switched to Fork a few years back. The graph drawing in Gitup can get bogged down when you have hundreds of branches. I still love that representation of branches but I'm usually not that confused about the repo state and I've found the vertical layout that Fork uses to be sufficient.

Surely you aren't questioning that Twitter has users beyond our Solar System.

Definitely one of the stranger sources of economic doomporn I've seen, but at least the whole vibe seems a bit more self-aware than most.

I hope a bunch of screenshots of indices at 5-year highs with conveniently short time frames (excluding the last major economic shock only ten years ago) isn't considered "pretty deep analysis" now.

I guess when your newsletter is titled "Doomberg" and you brag about prepping to IRL friends [1] the lack of context outside of the carefully selected graphs and time periods seems less surprising.

1: https://doomberg.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-gas-pum...

You replied to a report about two more Northern European countries joining NATO who seem to have been against it before by saying Putin is freezing NATO membership where it is?

It seems like things are going completely opposite of the way you describe them.

Is any part of Chernobyl still in operation? It seems like everything was shut down by 2000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant).

I'm a bit confused by this take so my apologies if I'm missing the point. SwiftUI leans far more in the direction of declarative layouts with very little actual code required. It defaults to bottom up sizing so that view sizes are based on their contents and automatically uses default system spacing for basic layout tasks.

The only comparable thing in UIKit is UIStackView. In fact, UIStackView was clearly added to reduce the explicit constraint layout code required for simple layouts. While you don't "write" UI code with Storyboards, it's certainly there, just encoded into a non human readable format.

SwiftUI has many problems (mainly bugginess and missing APIs) but I don't see how the old APIs required "not much UI code ... to be written". If anything, this is one of the primary benefits of SwiftUI: getting to remove most of the explicit layout code and complex type system required to do basic layout tasks with UIKit or AppKit.

There's a Google Drive workflow for Alfred which I've used previously.

https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/17318-google-drive-%E2%80%...

Yes, it goes into effect on May 15 [1].

1: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acqu...

Kagi has a "consumption" section where they show how much your searches cost to perform.

I've done 20 searches this month (I haven't switched it to default) and it says I have incurred $0.25 (between $0.01 and $0.02 per search) so it would seem that it's very expensive for them to provide results at the moment. It would absolutely be unsustainable at a few dollars a year given these consumption numbers.

Mermaid rendering is also hopefully coming to Github soon (Q1 - 2022). https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/372

Meanwhile, Tesla seems to be using them nearly interchangeably in its marketing.

https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer

Tesla attempts to bury the lead by saying drivers shouldn't use these features without being "fully attentive" but uses names like "Full Self-Driving" all over their marketing material.

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

This is great to know!

I've been enjoying Orion a lot so far. Thanks for all of your work on building something new!

> Only Safari can have extensions, only Safari can have iOS Content Blockers, only Safari supports Screen Time limits on websites and iOS parental controls, and only Safari is allowed to launch apps

I don't think any of these are strictly limited to Safari. As far as I can tell, every feature you mention could be implemented by the third-party browsers.

> Only Safari can have extensions

The Orion browser [1] supports extensions, although I suppose the App Store rules could prove to be a problem with executing arbitrary code as it hasn't run through the full review process yet.

> only Safari can have iOS Content Blockers

Brave blocks content and ads.

> only Safari supports Screen Time

There is new API [1] for this and I believe everything you mentioned is available to developers, although I haven't used it myself.

> only Safari is allowed to launch apps

This should be possible to implement by checking the `.well-known/apple-app-site-association/` and calling `openURL:` on matches. It might be difficult to know for sure if some apps were installed or not, but that doesn't seem to be the key issue here.

[1]: https://browser.kagi.com

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/deviceactivity/dev...