By contrast, we have to change our laptops every three or four years. Our phones every couple of years. And all other pieces of equipment (charger,router, modem,printers,…) need to be changed regularly.
This is such a horseshit statement. We change those things because of social pressure, not because they wear out. My mother is still using her first generation iphone SE, eight years later. It still facetimes and texts and watches netflix just like it did in 2016. The Nighthawk R7000 router I bought 11 years ago still isn't fully saturated by my network traffic. I have USB chargers in use that came with phones I bought in 2009. My HP printer/scanner is from 2005 and they still make cartridges for it.
My insight into corporate legal disputes is as meaningful as my opinion on Quantum Mechanics.
What an immensely cowardly statement. Zeldman is not some naive worker elf and pretending to be such as an excuse to avoid saying anything is contemptible. If you don't want people to know what you think, just say that, or say nothing. Pretending you don't have an opinion because you don't understand is just...ick.
I'm going to miss CD players in cars mainly for the fact that they are a convenient place to securely mount smartphone holders that's in a prominent position without blocking anything important.
If I dismiss a tab the "you dismissed a tab" popup blocks the view of the next tab. If I full-screen a video, the "you fullscreened a video!" message blocks the entire video progress bar so I can't move forward or back. I don't need the damn browser to tell me what I just did. I was there. Adjusting the volume while watching a full screen video drops the whole browser into a 4mmx4mm picture-in-picture window on my home screen. Oh, and the bug where using the back button sometimes completely breaks the "view desktop site" button until I manually kill the app is still there.
I wish someone would release a good mobile fork. Firefox Mobile probably has the worst UX of any mobile browser I've used since 2009 and I'm convinced whatever intern they have locked in a closet coding it doesn't use it themselves. It's as if they used a supercomputer to predict user behavior for the sole purpose of making sure their obnoxious purple toast messages cover the exact button you need to use and that they last exactly one second short of the time required to make you uninstall it in fury.
So did these people get into YC with a smart idea which they dropped in favor of this idiotic one, or did all the smart people at YC call in sick the day this company was accepted? Because dayum.
Blame the EPA for forcing vehicles larger and larger using a nonsensical method of calculating efficiency requirements. Companies would be happy to sell compact pickup trucks that got 30mpg but they aren't allowed.
That headline is a wild extrapolation from the actual study. They showed that in mice a species of bacteria can travel from the olfactory nerve into the brain which results in the production of amyloid protein. The olfactory epithelium is 7cm inside your nose. You are the nose-picking champion of the world if you can get your booger-hook that deep.
Morally justified or not, it's really hard to feel bad for someone who stuck their dick in a bear trap when when we all stood there screaming "don't stick your dick in that bear trap" so loudly blood shot from our eye sockets. The Internet Archive doesn't deserve to go down like this, and regardless of his long history of fine efforts, it doesn't deserve to be run by that God damned idiot.
Isn't everything set in stone from God's perspective? He knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. Including his own actions, presumably, so he's more of an omnipotent record-player than an intelligent being that makes decisions.
Delay-line memory used this concept in a variety of ways, such as by bouncing slow sound waves around a chamber and by transmitting twists along a long coiled wire.
The author is doing several things here which might bother you. Among them is mixing the meaning of "enchantment" with the meaning of "wonderment." He begins the article by defining enchantment as "magic, mystery, animate spirits, or other non-human forces and agents" but through the whole body of the article only treats it as a sense of wonderment, which is not the same thing. You are right to be irritated by this. Another thing he is doing is repeatedly asserting the enchanting qualities of the world without ever addressing why these things are enchanting, with the implication that the why isn't worth addressing or maybe isn't possible to know, when it is obvious. In most of his examples, the reason is because we are naturally reductive and reduce complex phenomena to much simpler mental models. Then when we look closer, we marvel at the far more complex reality. The author behaves as if this is some sort of deep mystery of the universe.
They weren't criticized for simply existing without purpose. They were criticized for blocking the view of multiple points of interest and confusing navigation.
While in the mainstream trigger warnings are hated by the righties and content warnings are hated by the lefties, once you get away from the culture war everybody loves content categorization. For example, before you read any piece of fanfiction you're greeted with a long list of tags describing it's content, particularly the content some readers might find distressing. It's a tool for readers, not a government conspiracy.
Try explaining to a space alien the concept of "well first we tax the people to raise money, and the that money is given to scientists to conduct research, and then we sell that research back to the people on an individual basis so long as they can afford access to it."
Despite being a voracious reader all my life, I'm surprised I never noticed until now that there is no literary equivalent of the ESRB. Perhaps someone should work on that.
Any amount of time is unreasonable. We already have laws against corporate espionage and sharing corporate secrets. Competitors offering better compensation to workers is fifty percent of the basis of capitalism.
Well damn. I've used Microsoft Authenticator for years and just happened to have never used the QR code feature. Is there an easy way to migrate all the data into Google Authenticator?
In my experience Plex has a serious problem with determining whether or not it's capable of playing a file back directly without converting. I regularly have to switch it to "convert automatically" to make a file play.