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They will totally hand their phone over to "other guy" who will "do something, I don't remember what he did"… and they'll be subscribed to SketchyAppStore2023-HGTWRE.

I don't understand what risk they are mitigating by keeping the unverified developers to 3 days instead of one year. It is clearly an intentional action.

I guess you could have a business where you install unapprovable apps for people with a 1 year subscription and they have to physically come back to your kiosk and get an update from you each year.

Macs have a long shelf life, and ones capable of running current Xcode are thrown to the recycler, I assume you could nab one for minimal coin too. They'll be slower, like 1/3 the speed to build compared to new machines, but apps don't take long to build. Most of your time is "sitting and staring" followed by "typing". Neither of which is appreciably impacted by using an old machine.

I went from an 8 year old Mini to a new M1 when they came out. A world of difference! Buttery smooth window drags, gorgeous scrolling. But I don't really program apps any faster. Sure, I have a few seconds now and then on a build, but it doesn't add up to much. Then I switched up to a Studio with a brain the size of a planet… no real change for app programming.

Don't let lack of a computer be a problem. Grab an old mini and do your thing.

Edit: Ok, "true depending". If you are a registered developer then your apps last a year. If you are unregistered then you get one week, which would be a total pain in the ass.

I suppose there are people just itching to install closed source mystery code from unaccountable entities. Unfortunately most of them are the friends and family for whom I am first line technical support. I'm not looking forward to the change.

I'm willing to wait for the details, but at this moment, I am not a fan of unaccountable stores.

You are "in a city", but you are "living on Earth", both are present, separated by your front door..

Culturally, most of the residents will be observing sunrise and sunset prayers which makes the transitions of the sun a little more anchoring. Traditionally morning prayer is twilight until sunrise, the evening is sunset until the red leaves the sky in the west. (So says Wikipedia anyway, then it gets into astronomical math, so I expect everyone just has an app for it now.)

In general, the higher level your graphics API, the harder it is to get horizontal and vertical lines to draw on the physical pixels. At the frame buffer level it is trivial. Cocoa and UIKit it is possible with some effort. SwiftUI it is impossible (you will end up using the escape hatch to Cocoa or UIKit). HTML is hopeless.

When printing meant writing some Postscript it was a little work, but doable. Getting it onto a printer through a modern printer API is essentially impossible.

Fundamentally this is why most graphs you see online look like they were drawn with a worn out felt tip marker. It hides the sins at the expense of limiting data density and precision.

Now, once you anchor, if there are waves coming from a direction other than the bow (because they refract around whatever is sheltering you), and those waves are roughly the natural period of oscillation of your boat’s roll… then you get things flying out of cabinets and trying to sleep while clinging to your bunk. Scaling up to a mega yacht makes your roll period long enough that it isn’t so much of a problem.

All that said, I’m sure they have tanks for the pool water, since it is probably fresh water.

- leave the gps on all the time. This gets you a geotag but you have to charge your camera every day, like your phone.

- update the geotag when turned on, but use the previous location for any shots until there is a lock. This is ok for rough location but users aren’t going to like that the first picture of a trip has the wrong location if they don’t warm up the camera first.

- stay on after a picture is taken long enough to get a lock then rewrite the picture with the location. This works, unless you take the card out and hand it to someone before the rewrite.

Nabbing the location from the cell phone gets you a live location for free.

But the biggest difference for me was that record boundaries survived the stream so all the “how am I going to frame this data” part of protocol design was already handled. You got to skip all the “newline delimits, except if you escape it, or maybe a CR counts or maybe it is ignored, or only ignored if next to a NL”, or its evil twin “a two byte integer precedes the data, in a byte order that might be reversed or not and if your machine is in the right order you will never realize you missed or included an extra byte order reverser”.

And more a VMS specific DECnet feature, all IO had completion routines so for high efficiency servers it was a lot like programming in a modern async environment with “.then()” style. (Thought they ran at an interrupt level rather like signal delivery in Unix, so you had to be a little careful. )

• depending on your era the radios are easily replaceable with something that has aux in and bluetooth.

• towing insurance, the kind that actually pays for the tow, not the garbage my insurance includes which will pay part of a really expensive tow leaving you with more than you will find if you shop around.

• a flexible schedule.

• a greater than average tolerance for vehicular death.

I use a 1990s F250HD when I need a truck, love it, can't stop to put fuel in it without someone coming over to talk truck stories. It has more miles on it than the Artemis space capsule. But, it does strand me from time to time (water pump bearing, transmission, instant total brake failure on a downhill grade into a contested intersection with 4 tons of boat on the hitch…)

As much as I use it for its truck super power, I would be money ahead to sell it and just rent Home Depot/Menards truck for in town use and an Enterprise 3/4 ton for long distance towing. But, its "my truck", and I'll keep it until the next transmission or engine.

Also, as a bass player. I don’t care. I mean, I’ll whine if you go to Gb, but it’s mostly just for form. Any awkwardness in fitting low lines on the instrument is more than made up by telling a guitar player to play the Cb chord.

Instead of some clever bit of selective plant killing molecular wizardry, just spray the weed with lye (NaOH). Dissolve the weed and any overspray or residual will lightly raise the pH of the soil. If you have alkaline soil problems, then maybe use sulphuric acid instead.

In practice you keep “the gap” over the part of the floor with the greatest cooling capacity and put your quick turnover “inserted warm” items on the bottom layer there. They cool fastest and are easy to get to.

In contrast, if a buyer is forking over for a Sprinter chassis then the RV builder figures you want nicer construction and all the pieces are better and it doesn't disintegrate around you nearly as rapidly.

And just to put some concrete the class C quality… in no particular order… exterior latch screws which rust instantly, exterior locks with corrode to useless in a couple years, generator fuel pump lasts 30 hours, water tank did not have drill shavings removed when drilled (end up in strainer), water pump strainer installed backwards so it can't be emptied of said shavings, winterization drain valves are undocumented and inside a sealed compartment (found while replacing water pump which turned out to just be blocked by shavings), 120v electrical box with no cover because the wires were too bulky and it would not fit on (under the sink where you stick metal trays), roof membrane was slightly too short to overlap and engage front roof (manufacturer covered with copious sealant goo to hide, eventually failed and inflated roof while driving down road), mysterious current leak will drain starting battery if you park too long, battery combiner to use house batteries and generator to start main engine clicks relay but does not actually combine batteries, likewise circuit which chargers vehicle battery when plugged in does not function (there are no wiring diagrams available, not clear where it even should be), house fuse panel is so badly made that fuses bounce out while driving, furnace failed two ways in 5 years (once off, and once always on. Good variety at least), knobs snap off, anything screwed in might drop screws, black water tank outlet didn't fit so manufacturer kind of gooed it in place (it held for a couple years, sorry about that mess on your road, great state of California) . – In short (long) a class C is cheap for what you get, but is an ongoing project. Good news, you have room for plenty of tools and recovery equipment.

They’ve finally figured out how to make people use pax.

Drag racers can do 3gs, but that's at higher average speed.

I think of it as a peer to the 2005 proposition that electric cars didn't need to be golf carts and the technology was coming into place to make high performance, real cars that were purely electric. Could have been true. As they say "very dangerous, you go first." That one paid off.

I wonder if there is a list of large dollar, novel, engineering expeditions and how they turned out.

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¹ Where "miracle" means some really smart people worked really hard at it for a long time.

In climates where you will have a bed of snow during the winter months, your optimum tilt angle for a fixed solar panel is something like 30° off of vertical or steeper. I find that on mine the snow falls off since it is a south facing, steep, dark surface.

You engineer to make sure you have enough energy captured each month to meet that months needs. That might lead you to a tilting mount, or just a fixed angle and having surplus energy most months.

In my case, panels were much more expensive when I designed my system, I initially roof mounted them, but when replacing the roof under them I moved them to a pole and went with a tilting mount and manually move the panels twice a year. My load is much higher in the summer, but I still need some power in the winter. And northern winters can be cloudy a lot and have limited sun even on a clear day. At my location there is about a factor of 5 difference in solar energy per square meter per month. So you design for each month and then pick a solution that is best. In my case the summer load is so high that even though I get 5 times the energy, it is still the driving force on sizing the system.

Some of Europe fluoridates tap water. Much of Europe has adequate fluoride levels naturally. Some countries supply fluoride in table salt instead of water. Some have insufficient natural fluoride levels and do nothing. Some have too much fluoride naturally in their water.

Bonus: Three phase transmits more power per "mass of copper" than single phase.

Extra bonus: You will never have the stupid starting capacitor fail on any of your larger domestic motors!

Or some clown has a patent conjoining some aspect of UWB and audio, or protocol switching. Apple never says "we don't do this because there is a patent in the way". It isn't their image.