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Chipsets have all sort of properties, including the instruction set, the consumption as you mention, their physical size and heat profile (related to consumption, but can be influenced by other factors) that make them better or worse for some applications.

Your point on lens weight is valid, but I don't see it as something that should be in every single lens optic review, all the more so the use case of 50mm lenses are not just street snaps for instance.

Would you make the same line of comment on a anandtech chipset review, arguing it's ridiculously technical and doesn't take into account the art of progamming ?

I am pretty glad dpreview does these kind of technical reviews, it nicely completes other photographer reviews who'll dig more on the experience and real world impact side of things.

I can also remove SMS as 2FA on my account, but I’ve had to give a phone number on all my accounts at different points in time, and they got confirmed by SMS.

What I was pointing at is not that SMS is the only option but that the phone number + confirmation seems mandatory at least once.

A lot of people commenting on using 2FA options other than SMS, but to the best of my knowledge it will only work after you’ve already associated a phone number to the account.

Wanted to check if I’m just dumb, and all recent answer point to the same issue: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-use-Google-2-step-ve...

I’d see those as one day internship to get to know an organization and what they do day to day.

The same way as companies allow kids to come to “do” their parent’s work for one day, it’s more of a PR move + keeping your org in touch with people from different culture/positions.

> you’re telling indie developers that no matter how hard they try, they won’t be able to match the functionality of Apple’s special friends.

To note, the entitlement switching from private-only-zoom-is-in-the-loop to public-and-documented doesn’t mean that indie devs get access to it. Apple still will grant it to special friends only, and random indie devs can request but will just be rejected.

I think our industry is big enough to have some parts where your point applies, and other pockets with completely different dynamics.

Two caveats I would put is: we can do self-development and learning during our job hours, I'd argue it's a right that is usually understood and well supported by our workplaces.

A somewhat darker point: in 20 years there will still be devs writing jQuery, but it will only be a super small fraction of the devs that were in it 10 years ago.

The same way we have devs writing new COBOL code now, and there will still be some 50 years from now, but you can't expect 20% of our field to be leading a successful career in COBOL for the next decades. It will be a selected few that get to keep doing that job for that length of time, the rest will have to move to something else either way.

Isn’t it actually an issue that soldiers are so bored in completely remote places for months and months?

People engaging in the army to get some hot action sure would have liked to know more about that aspect, and for better or worse the general public’s perception would also be different when accurately imagining x thousands of trained people stuck in the desert doing nothing 99% of the time.

One could argue the original band-aid was just rubber colored and non-racial in some way, but keeping ignoring it matched light color skins better was becoming a choice in itself.

Emojis are the same to me, in that they were introduced with very limited scope (original ones were simple outlines, with bright pink, blue or green faces). Then expanded and got more detailed, less caricatural, and stopped fitting a single byte.

IMO the can of worm got opened the moment we got detailed drawings with artistic choices that best match one category of people. We have shown we weren't limited in number, and accepted a ton of complexity to deal with flags or gender representations for instance, it would be tone-deaf to just go on saying it's too complex to also care about racial representations where they might apply.

If you're arguing for getting back to simple outlines of random colors, I'm with you. But I think we're not in a stable place right now to say "we made enough diversification, let's just stop here".

We can’t eternally keep the status quo just to avoid opening cans of worms. If we don’t intend to throw it away, we might as well open it and face the worms.

This all reaction reminds me of the “new” skin tone palette of band aids: some people were happy with the change, and it seems to me the impact for everyone else who liked the standard ones was null.

But there was sooooo many reactions against the very idea that more than one color was now available.

The people in these stories don’t buy diamond for their mechanical properties or bore tunnels, so everything surrounding the diamond itself is what matters.

How it was mined, where it came from, which company sells it and how all of that is marketed to the world (not even really to the owner) is the value of all of this.

It’s like sending a unicef postcard, what matters the most would be the effect on the receiver and how the sender feels about it. The object itself isn’t on the front stage.

Not a lawyer, but I would assume so.

I remember it as a matter of consent and most resources point to it being OK as long we both parties are aware.

e.g. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...

To me it's worse than that, as service providers will record calls and use these recording only at their benefit.

In these situations where recording is agreed by both parties, getting restricted on the individual side is frustrating.

Basically it's the proverbial technical solution to a social problem.

There was a good Polymatter video about this very topic: https://youtu.be/kJVj3vp-lho

McDonald’s model is pretty different from standard franchises.

As a caveat to that, from the reviews it seems the sound is produced by vibrating the outer shell.

I wouldn’t be surprised if removing the outershell or altering it would stop it making much noise. We’re in a situation where there is intention to hide the device, so making some effort to make it silent should be taken into account.

The tax case takes so long because they have a participating government on their side, and it’s far to be clear cut on a legal perspective. The app store issue is in many respects simpler.

Said like that, your arguments sounds like “I had a friend in another business who was abused way harder, we should give Apple a break for abusing only a little”

I think we’d agree reducing/eliminating undue middle-men fees should be a goal whatever the amount.

In particular Spotify for instance gets little benefit from having Apple as a middlemen, while smaller players would sure appreciate the convenience. The argument would be to have a choice to rely or not on what Apple provides.

Yes, it's really a disservice to have "Please contact your administrator for assistance" messages, putting the user in a "you should get some help" position that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

Except when they do: they were only at lower risk, not no risk, and the new variants also had more and heavier effects on children.

Compounding this with parents having to bring their children to school, thus generating more contacts than just kids alone.

All in all, there was some data at the root of the policy, but sending kids to school is still a shitty proposition from a safety perspective.

> they think they caused the issue.

Which is the underlying cause of the universal “I didn’t do anything” disclaimer before they even start explaining the issue. And the aggressivity if that tension is not defused before replaying their actions to get the context.

Solving issues requires way more social skills than people assume.

This is the interesting takeaway from the current situation: lockdown exceptions directly reflect priorities, and while teachers and parents were crying bloody murder the school stayed open to allow people to go to work.

This looks like the best course of action in the current situation.

Now the different accounts would still be linked to the same entity, and as stories like this make the news, more people would split their services on multiple account. As a response, it doesn't look like a stretch to me if next time Google would go after all account owned by the entity the deem responsible.

I mean, they already crossed the line of banning all services associated with an account. Wouldn't be surprising if they cross a few more lines as long as there is no critical impact for them.

The subtility is they don’t actively _want_ these small publisher to do something.

It could be better if the issue is fixed, but Google’s skin in the game is small enough it doesn’t matter, and they already chose to get rid of the publisher as an efficient solution.

Wether a case is deemed baseless is not cold and dry facts, there is a judgement of merit and intention of the filing side.

Also taking into account the surroundings of a case, including who’s involved and their history is not preconception (or then everything becomes preconception).

It’s not the same if you’re a CEO filing a suit against a grandma who shouted insanities at you when you fired their son, and if you’re a worker subject to verbal abuse from your boss.

Arguably shouldn't judges follow their judgement on the cases they work on ? Throwing out baseless cases happen every day, a company abusing the system having their ridiculous complaints thrown out would be reasonable.

To me that is the basic reason for having humans in the process.

I have been in and out of the Apple ecosystem, now with a foot in both sides. In this specific case, I still prefer the iOS app over the alternatives I've been trying on android for instance.

I think there is something to say about the sheer money size of the iOS ecosystem that allowed talented devs to get a decent ROI, even on niche apps.

I am happy with an android phone, but only because I also keep other iOS devices around for when I really miss some apps. And it seems a lot of people are on the same boat, looking at iOS apps as unitaskers that they'll chain and shoehorn into workflows that fit their needs, more than as "just works" magic tools.

The third half doesn't feel beauty in knots and just buy shoes that don't rely on that.

I think it's the same process as button shirts. This is a whole culture and social marker, but ultimately you can live your life without wearing them more than once a year.

Phone scanners are already there.

Auto scanning with border and angle detection works decently well [0], mini tripods with phone brackets abound. It’s very easy to set a phone above the table at a slight angle (that makes it easier to move the docs in and out and get rid of shadows) with the app auto scanning every sheet that’s laid below.

[0] I used Scanner Pro by Readle, on iOS for reference

I'd be with you if there was any kind of consensus on this.

For instance GIF's creator clarifying the pronounciation of his file format was mostly met with a mild middle finger. Is the Lego company meriting more bending backwards than him ?

West europe didn't have good options to go to USSR. Politically it was a no-no, going there meant you would be tainted as a spy even if you went back after a while.

So, sure the USSR might not have been stellar, but in the cold war the camps were already cut either way and you didn't choose the US or USSR.

You only chose to stay were you are or go for top entity of your block.