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Are you suggesting that the Terms of Service you sign when you create an account bars you from ever creating a competitor app?

That sounds like it would not hold up in court. It would be as if Threads could be shut down if a single person on the team had once made a Twitter account.

The source you linked to states that funding has fallen around $1220 per year per student, after adjusting for inflation. But it goes on to state that tuition costs have increased $2708 per year.

So what are universities doing with that extra $1500 per year per student? I agree that schools should be better funded, but ballooning tuition costs are more than just a lack of funding.

Why does Apple have the only map (that I know of) that projects Earth as a ball, as it is? It seems like a very obvious solution.

That was a strange one. My Freshman year of college I wore AirPods and everyone looked at like I was an idiot with too much money.

By my Junior year everyone was wearing AirPods and there was a greater stigma against people with wired earbuds (“oh, you can’t afford AirPods?“).

That was only 2 years. I think this AVP is more of a dev tool than a consumer product, but I think by v2 or v3 Apple will pull it off.

Likewise you have governments like the UK who are discussing bills that will effectively ban E2E encryption for children’s safety. If passed, companies like WhatsApp would just leave the market.

I believe your comment is somewhat true, but in your examples with the EU and California it’s mostly the case where (one of) the largest market(s) is able to set laws that govern the entire world. Which is great if everyone also happens to agree with the law, but it’s not the most democratic situation.

I’ve been trying it out, and I like it a lot. But I wish that you could still tap a post to collapse it, like marking a comment chain as read.

Agreed. The first 6 months to a year you might do it to get information, after that you keep it up so they can’t tell everyone what you did when they get released.

You also have to think the people employed at these prisons enjoy torturing (why else would they do it for 20 years - how do they find these people in the first place?) so maybe they keep them around just to have people to torture.

I think the point is the only evidence that you provided for the argument that “Musk got his wealth from his family’s emerald mine” is that his parents paid for his college expenses. And that is, in my and many others minds, is a pathetically weak argument.

Full disclosure - my parents paid for a lot of my college expenses. At least half of the people who go to Ivy leagues have parents that will pay for their college expenses. It’s almost entirely, if not completely irrelevant to his work at PayPal, the founding of SpaceX, and the building of Tesla.

So it’s baffling (to me, at least) that it keeps getting brought up as a reason to hate Elon Musk. It feels that people want to find reasons to deeply hate this person, and they through anything they possibly can against him, nonsensical or not.

You’re correct. I used Dark Sky for years and switched to the default iOS app when Apple bought Dark Sky and added all of the functionality to Weather.

I did prefer the design of Dark Sky, since the data was larger and more visually separate from the background, allowing it to be more readable at a glance. But I found that after the big update they had essentially the same functionality and the same UI.

I remember trying to get this installed on my Mac a while ago. Do you know if it can run on M1 now?

There’s a disconnect between what the masses find entertaining vs. what the elites find artistically valuable. This gap is far wider now than it has ever been.

Throughout the 60s and 70s 19/20 films that won best picture were in the Top 10 Grossing. Since 2003 there hasn’t been a single one. Even after they expanded the number of nominations there’s still only 0-1 nominations in the Top 10 Grossing every year.

This is really due to the the fact that nearly every film in the Top 10 Grossing is a sequel, a remake, or a franchise movie. These films print money so Hollywood keeps making them.

In 1979 Kramer v Kramer was the highest grossing film. In 2021 it was Spider-Man: No Way Home (the 12th Spider-Man film to come out since 2000). Spider-Man made over 3 times as much when adjusted for inflation.

You could say that the artistic portion of Hollywood is dying, though Hollywood is doing as good as always.

Somewhat of a meta-comment but I’m shocked at how many people are complaining about you not taking cash.

Has anyone ever walked out of your coffee shop because they only had cash on them? I can’t remember the last time I paid or even saw someone pay cash for anything.

I started buying UHDs (mostly Criterions) recently. I mostly don’t like owning too many things (and even buy most of my 4Ks on iTunes when they go on sale for $5) but for some films the extra quality is worth it (plus you can’t get the Criterions films in 4K anywhere else, and I like having the access to the features).

I always am wondering if I’ll regret it in 10 years when you may be able to stream super high bitrates, but as always, the future is uncertain anyways.

Could you give some examples of a page on Wikipedia being rewritten? I’m familiar with the incident of redefining what a ‘recession’ is but I’m always curious for more examples.

Not OP, but the reason is because that the values that you’re looking for tell you how to do the weighings, where the rows are weighings and the columns are the indices (it’s easier to see if you don’t translate from {0,1,2} to {-1,0,1}). Because of the problem you need the same number of balls on each side of the scale.

By choosing 7-19, omit 13, you finding the center values of the range 0-26. This is important because when you write the values in ternary each column has the same number of 0 and 2 digits.

This would not hold if you simply used the values 0-12, for example. Then the first column has eight 0’s and four 1’s, so it does not correspond to a valid weighting.

It’s important to note that this method doesn’t work for the problem described - it only works if you know that the odd ball out is heavier. You can see my other comment for a description of why, and a working solution.

I like how simple the deciding process becomes but I’m afraid there might be a problem. This solution works when the odd ball is always heavier, but it could either be heavier or lighter, and you don’t know which.

For example, say ball 7 is heavier. From top to bottom, the weightings would result in: 120. However, if ball 19 was lighter you would obtain the same weighing sequence 120.

I believe that there is another condition that must be imposed on the matrix - namely, the column must be unique, but also -1*column must not be another column.

I created the following matrix, which can identify the ball and if it is heavier or lighter. However, this does not line up neatly, and would require a table to decode the output of the weighings.

-1 -1 -1 -1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 1 0 -1 -1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 -1 0 -1 1 -1 0 1 0 1 -1

For example, the sequence 001 means the first ball is heavier. The sequence 221 means the first ball is lighter. Etc.

I did too, but the first line of the thread: “winter is coming (freezing emoji)” primes you to think about temperature. I’m not sure it would have been nearly as obvious if after a few months in the field I suddenly got a few bug reports. I think this might be a case of confirmation bias that people experienced when reading the article since the author tells you the solution in the first sentence.

I never watched Twitch but this is true of myself for YouTube and Reddit.

I was never ‘happy’ when I scrolled through Reddit for 3 hours. (Reddit in particular was horrible for my mental health). I never watched 4 hours of YouTube when I had friends to go out with. Finally I realized that I felt much better when I cut those out and spent time on more important things.

All of these websites are trying to take as much of your attention as they can and it’s difficult to have a healthy relationship with them.

Short answer, no.

It might be possible that with very ($1000+) high end headphones about 5% of people could tell a difference, but even that is questionable. I have done many blind A/B tests with my $500+ headphone setup and no one has ever been able to accurately tell the difference repeatedly. There is absolutely no way that someone would be able to discern the sound difference between 320 and lossless on an AirPod-quality speaker.

I’m not sure about large speakers however. I assume that it’s equally difficult to tell any difference, and I couldn’t when I tested my setup. However, I have listened to some incredible $4000+ speakers before, and at that level I wouldn’t be surprised if differences emerged.

There’s so much snake oil in audio and placebo can effect sonic perception so heavily that it’s nearly impossible to find anything objective. There’s also a lot in the chain - the DAC, the AMP, room acoustics… that will effect the sound, sometimes substantially - let alone the speakers and the actual source.

While microphones obviously exist, you can’t measure sound the same way that you can measure the nits and white point of a monitor - it’s far more intangible.

I agree with all of your points. To me this seems like correcting an oversight in Apple’s original implementation vs Apple taking away a ‘feature’.

I’ve gotten AirDrop spam here in America and welcome this change.

Where do you live? That sounds absolutely insane.

He’s kind of said it himself on multiple occasions.

“Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/jack/status/1518772754782187520

Twitter has lost money nearly every year since it’s been public, and was losing $4 million a day when Elon took over. If jobs don’t generate money they can’t exist in the free market, and the real shock is that the previous board of directors didn’t initiate layoffs sooner.

> There’s nothing inherently interesting about photos with a blurry background

Congrats! You took a bad photo with a shallow depth of field! I guess the photographer does matter more than the equipment.

> Achieving it with software effects is perfectly legitimate

Sure you can. But if you think software bokeh can compete with any dedicated camera bokeh (even a vintage 35mm camera for that matter) than you need to try and use a dedicated camera with a good prime lens, ie 50mm f/2.

The biggest thing that a dedicated camera can get you is simply options. You can choose the depth of field of the shot. You can choose the shutter speed. You can choose the focal length. Sure you have some control over these things in some apps, but it’s not the same level of control.

I shot on my iPhone for years, but after I got my mirrorless camera I have taken so many pictures that never would have been possible on an iPhone.

It shocks me how many people link articles they don’t even read.

There’s a lot that goes into it. I’m mainly talking about iPhone, because I’ve personally only been disappointed in expensive Android phones.

Camera, as you mentioned. But also the build quality, the display, the longevity (software updates last for years, so you can wait 4 or 5 years to upgrade). Personally I much prefer the software experience of iOS vs Android. The speed of the device, where you’re never waiting for something to respond.

But I once you go to the high levels, and looking between the normal and ‘Pro’ versions of flagship phones, it’s just the camera that separates them.

Like most things, you get what you pay for.

I’m surprised to see that Apple isn’t on the list of companies being subpoenaed. Maybe one advantage of not announcing your hotly rumored VR project until it’s done and available is that no one can subpoena you to ask about it.

For what it’s worth I was also unable to reproduce this. I’ve tried scanning but not clicking, AirDropping, iMessage, adding to Photos library, getting the url from Photos library… nothing triggered as a page visit.

Relatedly, searching for the url in my photos library does not return the picture as a result, indicating that the scanning is not being used for indexing currently. I was trying to test with other QR codes that I happened to have in my photos library, but every one of them has the website name in the picture.

I will keep the files on my computer and continue monitoring but I am becoming very skeptical of the Twitter thread author’s methodology.

Yes, this is also what I most appreciate about Apple’s approach. They’re the only company that care about calibrated displays on consumer products. Even top-end TVs like LG OLEDs ship with terrible default settings. The only display that’s as color accurate out-of-box as Apple’s are the ones on my professional camera.

If I edit a photo and I send it to someone with an iPhone I know the colors will look exactly like how I intended it to look. You can’t say the same about Androids because the screens often aren’t even trying to be color accurate.

I’m never sure if some of the photo file types are an extension of Apple’s “walled garden” approach or if other companies just make lazy products. But the rarity of consumer displays that aren’t tuned for maximum blue-light emission is maddening and other companies really need to step up their game in this area.

Apple News+ is going after this market. I don’t pay for it but when I have browsed it I would say they do a good job.