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linooma_on Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood

> I think O is recessive

Strangely, O is very common.

linooma_on NLP Course – For You

Has much changed as far as parts of speech tagging in the last 5-10 years?

linooma_on Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls

> You’re describing removing the rear glass (and it takes 30mins, tops, I’ve done it).

And? That just seems to prove ifixit's estimate are accurate.

> It literally says the following about removing the battery (emphasis mine)

AFTER spending 30+ minutes very carefully remove a glass cover (as you even attest to). It isn't simply unscrewing screws as portrayed.

> Complain about how hard it is to get the glass off, fine, but that’s got zilch to do with the EU law

I wasn't commenting on EU law, but how "Screws are how in fact one accesses the battery in an iPhone" is very misleading.

linooma_on Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls

A 1-2 hour process which includes heating to soften glue, high potential of damaging internal components, or high potential of cracking some piece of glass is not "Screws are how in fact one accesses the battery in an iPhone."

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+14+Battery+Replacement/1...

linooma_on The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries

Not here in the US. The carriers wanted to discontinue 3G for years. They really only started it in earnest in 2018. It took them about 3 years longer from the first dates given to finally kill 3G. It sound to me as if 3G phones didn't bite the dust as fast as carriers assumed or customers refused to upgrade at the rate they expected.

linooma_on Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says

A customer who cancels isn't really a customer anymore so it follows that they wouldn't pay too much attention to their experiences.

linooma_on NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts

>> No need to buy Apple

> you're definitely not seeing genuine AirTags 5 for $13

I didn't see anything in the comment which suggested they were. It is specifically points out there are devices not produced by Apple. Third parties can create compatible devices:

https://developer.apple.com/find-my/

linooma_on S.F. landlords, property owners sue to block voter-approved vacancy tax

How would you feel if the government would tax you for being unemployed?

linooma_on Bing AI can't be trusted

> I mean Bing had like a whole three weeks to slap this together after OpenAI first demoed it's ability to make things up.

How do you know that's when they first learned about it? Perhaps the Bing team had access to it for weeks prior to the demo.

"Microsoft provided OpenAI LP a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a second multi-year investment in January 2023, reported to be $10 billion."

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