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At 193 cm in height, I have large hands too. I currently use a Zenfone 10 and a Galaxy S10e before that, and I can grip them both just fine in one hand, but I can't also control them with that same hand without awkward contortions and a reliance on gravity.

The only phones I've had that I could comfortably use one-handed were my old BlackBerry Q10 (2013) and BlackBerry Classic (2014). The Q10 because it's short enough to hold between my thumb and ring finger such that I could use my index and middle fingers on the touch screen (slightly unorthodox but it worked really well), and the larger Classic because it has an optical thumbpad and excellent software support for it (it was so good I rarely used the touch screen at all). And both had physical keyboards.

At $138 I can't imagine that the Bluefox NX1 will perform very well.

(By the way from some reason aiphor.com automatically redirects me to google.com unless I disable Javascript.)

Folding phones don't solve the problem of oversized phones, which is that they are awkward and cumbersome to use.

Excellent statement, but who is the "great man" who once said this?

I used floppies as late as 2010 when I was in high school (we had a very old Windows 95 PC at home with no support for USB, and no Internet access). Luckily, the school computers were also old and still had floppy drives, so I could type up my homework at home and print it out in the school library. I used Wordpad, if I remember correctly.

But yes, they were very unreliable. I used to copy the files onto two disks because it was very common for one to not work.

Usually these LED puck lights are only held in place with little spring-loaded arms that grip the back side of the drywall, and all you need to do to remove them is tug on them a bit and they'll come out. The light is connected to the electrical junction box with a short low voltage cable with a plug on it, and the LED driver and line voltage connections are all inside this junction box.

True enough, there are endless subtleties to language (English in particular) that make words simultaneously vague and extremely specific.

Wiktionary defines bitter as "cynical and resentful", which doesn't quite capture the "more longer-lasting, somewhat less emotional condition" part of it.

'Salty' in that context means 'bitter', ironically.

People adapt though. I don't hear complaints about shopping bags anymore (except for American visitors), the way I still do about paper straws. Plastic bags at checkouts were only banned where I live a couple of years ago, and most people have learned to keep a few reusable bags in the car, and generally to plan better.

I actually worked in a hardware store for a while, and after the old supply of plastic bags ran out it was common practice for customers to either bring their own bags, carry stuff out in their hands, or use one of the hundreds of small cardboard boxes or trays that were set aside on receiving day when the shelves were stocked.

Reusable shopping bags cost about $10-$15. No one is buying them frivolously.

I think the issue here is one of semantics. The so-called "reusable" bags you're talking about are still classified as single-use plastics.

If you look at BC as an example, where ALL single-use plastic bags at checkouts are banned, people have adapted just fine. In some stores (like restaurants) you can buy paper bags for 25¢, but generally people either don't bother with bags at all and simply load things directly into their cars, or they bring their own bags or baskets. Now, pretty much the only litter I regularly see is paper coffee cups or candy wrappers. Bags have disappeared, and bottles and cans usually collected for the deposit.

Incandescent lights are still widely available if you still want them. Nonetheless, modern high quality LED lights can actually exceed the colour rendering index of incandescent lights, though they tend to be a little more expensive. I don't think it's a big deal to pay $15 for a bulb that will still be there in 15 years.

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Lots of unnecessary complexity. In this case it makes sense because the majority of the line is directly over a river due to space constraints, but it's a lot simpler to build a concrete viaduct and run normal trains ovwr it. This also allows the train to transition to run underground or at-grade.

It is on Windows.

Automatic wi-fi syncing to iTunes still works fine as far as I know.

Donate their wealth before they die and leave only a token amount for the kids. Enough to give them a headstart, but not enough that they never have to try.

Prefixes are no longer used for new features, and any that still exist are old. What happens now is that features are gated behind feature flags for testing until the browser working group settles on the final spec for that feature, at which point any browser-maker is free to implement it in public releases.

Google Docs has a feature set more in line with Wordpad (the stripped down word processor that comes with Windows) than Office Word. I can't understand how anyone can use it for anything at all without running into its limitations, so I'm not surprised it's not all that popular outside of basic shared documents.

The average annual cost of owning a car in Canada is >$16000 CAD. In the US it's even higher at >$12000 USD.

Obviously owning a bike, taking public transit and taxis, and occasionally renting a car isn't free, but if you live in a walkable neighbourhood and can take public transit to work it's easy to keep your monthly transportation expenses under $200. The great part about not needing to own a car is that there's no sunk cost that incentivises you to choose one option over another.

Vancouver. The first section of SkyTrain was built in 1985 (40 years ago) well after cars had dominated the city. I couldn't find historical figures for transit mode share, but today more than 50% of all trips are made by public or active transportation, and 90% of residents live within 10 minutes of a frequent transit line.

For context, in most US cities that figure is 2-3%.

DUNS is used globally.

In my opinion the answer is curation. If you're getting so many magazines and newspapers in the post that you can't read them all, the answer isn't to hire someone to cut out random pages for you to read (oh, why are they all adverts?), the answer is to stop subscribing to so many publications.

I never fail to read all of my social media feeds and email messages, because I actively cancel subscriptions to stuff that I don't have time to read. After all, it's entertainment/casual education, not mandatory learning.

Most of the books weren't very good though. They tended to be glorified audiobooks and didn't make effective use of the technology.

By far the best one I ever saw was the sample book that came with my family's Quantum Leap. It was quite thick and had a wide variety of different topics, all of which were extremely well produced, and every page was filled with things to explore. As a child, I particularly liked the pages on US presidents (including well-known quotes or recordings of many of them), Europe (with the national anthems of every European country and memory games to learn each country), and the super cool Parts of the Body (with translucent pages showing each layer, and funny sound effects when you explore each body part).

Some of the Magic School Bus books were decent too. The Solar System in particular had excellent games—you wouldn't think audio-only games pointing at a static page would be very fun, but some of them were very creative.

Rent control serves as a means to add stability. If landlords could evict tenants without cause and immediately rent to someone else for $100 a month more whenever the market changes, they would. That's bad for everyone.

The problem is that when a tenant has been renting the same place for 20 years with the landlord raising the rent as much as legally allowed each year, and it's drastically below market rates, but if the landlord evicts them they can't rent to anyone else for a year. The solution to that is to build more housing to bring down market rates so that people aren't trapped in one place forever.

I consider that an advantage because the light stays nice and steady while I weave around bumps in the road.

Some electric vehicles use drum brakes on the rear wheels, like the ID.Buzz.

I regularly carry four cases of water (48 cans) on my standard bicycle without a problem.

Whenever I go grocery shopping I mount a milk crate to my rear rack (this takes about six seconds) and put the cases in vertically. I can also carry a 4L jug of milk in the handlebar-mounted basket.

They're not testing the browser, they're testing the Web. Testing in the real world with real users is the only way to adequately probe the effects of potentially breaking changes like this.

This is not new either. Many such changes have been reverted after discovering that they broke more things than expected. One example is the Object.groupBy static method, which was initially Array.prototype.group.

The second type is ubiquitous in gas station convenience stores in America. Which says everything, really: it's car culture.

The UK definition of a city is arbitrary and unrelated to the usual meaning of the word. St Davids is objectively a small town.