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That isn't true.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/investigations

https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/investigative-journalism

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/

Same. Also, Target and Walmart free shipping usually ends up being 2 or 3 days for me whereas it seems Amazon now intentionally delays free non-Prime shipping to make Prime more attractive.

Just tried it in NYC: Mac/Safari couldn't determine my location for some reason and wouldn't play. The iOS app worked flawlessly. The quality is really nice.

Off to watch reruns of Hogan's Heroes...

I've actually found Apple Maps navigation when driving (though not just for looking up stuff) generally better than Google's in most of the above situations — particularly with regard to getting in the correct lane, multi-exit roundabouts (Ireland!!), and warnings for upcoming turns at the correct times.

Apple Maps did route me up a to the top of a mountain on a single-lane two-way road in France, but I had "avoid tolls" enabled so it might have been my fault. Can't say it wasn't scenic though.

The search, however, is absurd! It does constantly return places on the other side of the planet! And God-forbid you misspell anything by a single character. I wish there was a plugin for Apple products that would just return the "Did You Mean" result from a Google search. I'd gladly trade a little bit of privacy for crowdsourced spellcheck at this point.

It could be because it’s an aspirational brand (perhaps that caters to a consumer that prefers to upgrade more often) and/or the parts are more expensive relative to the residual value of the car.

The Integra was a great car though ...and great name!

Exactly. If you're able to document your cancellation process using only screen recording software, you're still in the top 10% of convenient cancellation experiences.

Whenever I get hyper-repetitive ads (usually GM, Dodge, or financial products - seriously, is that all of the ad inventory in the network on some days?), it usually has the opposite effect; I just assume those companies' products and processes are as inefficient and wasteful as their advertising.

I will say that I'm thankful that Squarespace, Audible, and Skillshare support independent video and podcast creators. I click their referral links sometimes to check out new features etc, but would only ever sign up if I needed that particular service. Still, I think that form of repetition helps their mindshare in a positive way.

I did buy the Glif directly from an ad on Daring Fireball, albeit months later, and in combination with brand awareness from their free time-lapse / speed ramping app.

See also: Seinfeld episode "The Bottle Deposit".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Deposit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1blsZxXDCU

Counterpoint: "Hey Siri, lock my phone." "Playing 'Locked Out of Heaven' by Bruno Mars..."

I have an iPhone 6 Plus that's going on 4.5 years old and it's doing fine (better than last year even with iOS 12), save a temperamental ring/vibrate switch. I recently sold my 4s that was in a drawer (about 7 years old at the time) and it also worked fine.

There are quite a few videos on YouTube where the owner (I assume, via an alert that the motion sensor is triggered) starts speaking though the device remotely "put that down" or "get out of here" and the would-be thieves usually drop the package and hurry off.

EDIT: I should add that a video circulated recently in my neighborhood showing someone stealing the camera. So there's that risk. I'm sure the thieves will be disappointed when they find out about the monthly fee.

This reminds me of the book Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert. There's a section were he discusses how we misremember how stressful and frustrating family vacations can be, and instead remember them as being more enjoyable due to some expectation that they should be.

In On Photography (I believe), Susan Sontag talks about how it has been a quintessentially American thing to ensure everyone was smiling in family snapshots. I wonder if cultures or families that tend to smile in photos end up taking more vacations because they misremember them as being better than they were.

This is the D&D I remember. Half the time we we didn't have the books accessible (basically each friend had bought a single book, so if they weren't around, neither was their book).

Due to limited transportation, we spent most of one summer playing on a 3-way phone chain. Whenever someone's parents needed the phone their character would become an NPC until they could dial back in. No maps — just a lot of trust and imagination.

We must remain vigilant against deadly drones equipped with advanced holographic cloaking devices, making them appear as ordinary plastic bags!

To summarize the comments here...

Apple sells outrageously-overpriced commodity technology, coupled with gimmicky features, buggy software, and planned obsolescence, to naive consumers who buy it every year regardless.

AND

Apple’s products are so well-designed and reliable that customers remain satisfied for years and don’t feel the need to upgrade on an annual basis because their current devices do everything they need.

Also, Apple’s constant incremental innovation combined with the fact that they stopped all innovation a decade ago (save for headphone jack removal) will be the death of the company.

Oh, that's great (and now I feel validated that my feature requests aren't crazy). Google definitely seems to be ahead in layering on top of traditional telephony to fix the limitations. I've used a Google Voice number for ages for this kind of stuff, and basically just never answer it.

I'd like an option similar to the old answering machine / secretary screening for unknown callers: 1. A voice assistant says to the caller "may I ask who's calling [records response] and what is your call in reference to [records response]?"

2. Siri announces the call to me if the phone is not set to Not Disturb mode.

3. I accept the call or decline. If I decline, Siri gives the caller the option to leave an additional message.

TL;DR Caller states their name and business before I pick up.

"Phone Drone" It also could deliver Frappuccinos and offer "Umbrella as a Service" for multiple revenue streams.

Fates and Furies - Lauren Groff Brilliant. It's considered "literary fiction" but I found this book to be an absolute page-turner, much more so than what is usually described as a "page-turner". The summaries / back-cover marketing copy can't do it justice.

Florida - Lauren Groff Sublime, poetic, haunting collection of short stories.

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang Exhalation - Ted Chiang Being released in May 2019 (I got an advance copy), but many of the stories are previously published and/or available online. "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" is just wonderful. Ted Chiang's work is the definition of economy in storytelling. Absolutely quality over quantity.

The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End - Liu Cixin I’m not sure how fulfilling it would be to just read the first one. They really feel like a single (big) novel. Worth it.

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O - Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland Kind of Stephenson-light(?). Smart, entertaining and seems destined to be a TV series.

The Secret History - Donna Tartt A bit slow to get going. Lots of Greek, snow, and booze at a private liberal-arts college in Vermont.

The Grownup - Gillian Flynn (short story)

With Medicaid (in New York, at least) a provider isn't allowed to bill a beneficiary for treatment. It is such a huge stress reliever. I can't figure out how so many people continually fall for the propaganda against single payer / Medicaid/care-for-all.

Source: https://www.nyacep.org/practice-resources-2/resources/practi...

I've always believed that this was one of the primary motivations for Facebook separating Messenger out into its own app: it feels separate and therefore more private, without actually being either.

The content of a post with privacy controls restricted to just one other person is functionally the same as sending a message to that person on Messenger — only the UI is different. But, to the average person, it feels completely different because it looks like texting.

Not sure why this was downvoted as it's a valid issue. For the last 16 years I've used some kind of Mac hooked up to a stereo receiver as a media server and had a similar concern.

  2002 - 2006 G4 tower
  2006 - 2016 2006 Mac Mini
  2016 - now  2012 Mac Mini

For music, the Mac Mini is used headless via screensharing. But it's set to never sleep because it sometimes doesn't wake up properly.

I'm always curious if an Apple TV would basically pay for itself over a few years with reduced power consumption vs having Mini with an 12TB external dual-drive running 24/7 (the drives do spin down on their own though).

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edit2: I did some rough math. Apple TV at idle (2w) vs 2012 Mac Mini at idle (11w) = 9w difference. At roughly $0.20/kWh the 32GB Apple TV 4k ($179) would pay for itself in just over 11 years.

Probably sooner because: 1. Electricity prices are likely to increase in the next decade. 2. Assuming the power usage difference is higher when actually playing/streaming music (given how bloated iTunes has become). 3. Even more power saved when streaming Netflix / Amazon Prime on Apple TV vs in Chrome on the Mac Mini (and up to 4k vs 720p on Chrome).

Nice work! Just curious, any reason that the output image is constrained to a lower resolution?

Also, any thought to handling video in the future?

If only there was some way to deliver water directly to homes though a series of pipes. Like an Internet of Water...

After having a titanium plate surgically attached to my wrist, I heartily recommend sitting in the lodge by the fireplace and playing Alto’s Adventure instead.

It’s an endless loop of ‘click here for pricing’ that goes to a page that doesn’t have pricing info and says to click another link for pricing...

PR firms don't write articles for legit journalists and they certainly don't pay staff journalists at the reputable publications to write them (not without disclosing them as sponsored content). At most journalist publications sponsored content is handled by an entirely different group (not the editorial team). And journalists get really annoyed if they feel like a company or PR firm is trying to tell them what to write.

A PR firm will help find a story, write a pitch, and package up the details to make the reporter's life easier (studies, data, contact info, etc). They might help with things like vetting the subject or coordinating scheduling for an interview, etc. In this case, even the photos were taken by a staff photographer for the SF Chronicle.

Is the company going to pitch a story on how many ER doctors their scooters are keeping employed because customers injure themselves? Probably not. But it's not their job to and it's certainly not unethical to pitch a positive human interest story.

Anyone can pitch a journalist. That's frequently how they find stories. And it helps if you include information that will make writing about it easier.

I remember being at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference in the early 2000s. Lots of UNIX-loving people had just bought their first Mac laptops and basically the whole room was taking notes in a single SubEthaEdit doc via BonJour[1]. Some people were typing verbatim notes from panelists, others were going back and fixing typos and spelling, still others were researching topics that had been mentioned, contextualizing them, and adding links.

In the end we all had a clean, detailed, copyedited document. It was a pretty amazing experience. I was sure I'd just witnessed the future of collaboration for lectures and conferences[2].

[1]At the time, SubEthaEdit was called "Hydra" and BonJour was still "Rendezvous". [2]I guess the actual future turned out to mostly be scrolling though Twitter. c'est la vie.