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What happened to Apple University, or whatever they called Job’s attempt to document their key to success?

Some MBA poisoned it?

> I mean web ads in Safari.

That’s just the internet isn’t it?

Not sure we can blame Apple for that, but I’m sure they could cook up a decent blocker if they wanted.

> You don’t go to a BBQ place and get mad that it serves meat and demand they start serving vegetarian food.

You might if there were only two restaurants and both were really meaty.

Yes, there are more than 2 phone OS options but nearly the whole of the market is those 2.

If you could buy into an account like this, with the cost being just over the ad profit from my account, I’d be interested.

> I am not sure how a trackpad can be better or worse for scrolling or clicking. You slide 2 fingers, it scrolls right? you click (or rather tap these days), it clicks?

I laughed. I have a work HP machine. The click is only available on the bottom half or third of the trackpad, with no visual indication of the area. It takes a strong push. It’s bad. The scroll is shiite too.

When you get one that doesn’t work right, you really miss a good one.

I’m surprised you can tell it isn’t a button anymore, the fake click is very accurate feeling. The lack of moving parts is a good upgrade.

> While I generally like Mac hardware the trackpads are quite mediocre. Lenovo and Dell have better ones

I find the Mac better for scrolling, clicking, gestures and zooming. It’s rejection of eg palm input and the size of the touch pad are great.

How can it be that little? Showing any one player would get you more than 1 advert on screen the whole time.

I wouldn’t put it past FIFA to make an award ceremony like the Oscar’s so that they could win it.

Like the FIFA peace prize.

I think you mistake my position for being pro China.

America was a bulwark against Chinese expansion, and that ended a while back, maybe with WTO entry?

International relations under this regime is a new poison, and is aiding some awful regimes.

> Do we really need to frame China’s succes here in terms of American decline?

What view do you have on the trajectory of the U.S.? Is America ascending or declining?

The success China is having isn’t something that’s occurring in isolation. There is a void and they are filling it.

This is focusing in too close.

Bezos has been working with Trump. The instability has been hugely exacerbated by Trump. The issue lies at home.

> ads that were never severed

A lack of ads is an argument for more downtime.

> Apple's search is so comically bad.

There needs to be more rage at search in Mail.app.

It’s quicker to rollback through them all than it is to use search, but when you get tens or hundreds a day it’s excruciating.

Please Apple, fix email search.

Are they useful for human bodies?

We have a dumb system here in New Zealand. Most people seem to know their height in feet/inches and weight in kilograms.

You’re describing another (intentional) part of NZs ACC. It frees up the courts. This suit is just covered, and the courts don’t get bogged down (well, they do, just not with this stuff).

It definitely doesn’t save money.

Tipo 00 is great for making pasta and pizza, but it can be hard to get.

I as 50g or so to a batch of normal bread to help it out. It’s pretty unscientific but it works.

Also: don’t spill it. If makes glue and is hard to clean off. It sets like rock.

I add gluten to bread occasionally.

It good when making pizza and makes bread rise nicely.

> I consider myself a decent amateur baker and I've never noticed a huge difference in bread flours.

If you make sourdough, have a crack at using standard supermarket flour and then try adding some organic stone ground or other expensive flour with special snob factor.

I am far from expert but notice a big difference.

(I’d say to try 100% organic stoneground but getting a good rise can be quite hard).

> Forget the ridiculous minimum coverage requirements, a huge percentage of Americans drive around with no insurance whatsoever

Here in New Zealand you aren’t required to have insurance at all, although every gets healthcare and lost wages paid for (ACC) in cases of injury, which is a kind of insurance.

Taxation destroys money?

The scenario has 3 problems. The surveillance by Wayno, the US police propensity for shooting people and kids having guns.

Wayno picked a difficult market.

What? How?

> there was a fear of "alert fatigue" coupled with a lack of confidence about the strength of the signals they were getting.

This and the parent comment might be correct, but also, the US has one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world and the US defence budget dwarfs everyone else’s.

They failed spectacularly in the role they exist to perform. This deserves criticism.

> A regular water heater needs about 12kWh a day,

For reference: I’m in a household of three. Over the last month (winter, when n case that matters) we averaged 7.9kwh per day.

I recently did the maths on switching to a heat pump hot water cylinder and the payback was surprisingly long at 5-7 years.

I don’t know a lot about heat pumps, but one inefficiency that irritates me is that we are doing opposite things in isolation frequently.

I want to cool the house (so have waste heat) but also want to warm my water, so make heat. In winter I warm my house, except for the fridge where it’s trying to cool its contents.

If there was any overlap or coordination it would surely be possible to have less hardware, working smarter and using less power.

> you can bet the US will run an expensive campaign to discredit it in public opinion.

The US has effective run this on itself for the past few years. The Chinese look fairly benign in comparison.

I was thinking of journeys that are hundreds or thousands of years.

If the acceleration was too great but survivable, what happens? I can’t imagine my back, knees or ankles would like it.

Gravity on Earth varies about .7%.

Increasing the acceleration a little bit more than that (eg to 1%) would make a difference.

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

Sony tv with an AppleTV and a pihole.