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They also popularized decaf https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/decaf-coffee-nazi-part...

The EU is by far the biggest contributor though:

> Europe is responsible for the largest portion of construction costs (45.6 percent); the remainder is shared equally by China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the US (9.1 percent each)

That was awesome, thanks!

I’m running Pianoteq indeed

> Even the earliest Spanish expeditions were (in part) state-approved, armed and essentially get-rich-quick plundering schemes.

Maybe I’m not getting your point, but how does that fit with building up universities? What were they expecting to get out of them? Student debt?

I found out today that the first university (!) in the continent dates back to the 1550s [0]. What made the Spaniards so successful that they were able not only to defeat a full blown civilization (as opposed to the weaker natives in the north) and were able to fully bootstrap their territories where the English took many attempts and failures? Was it the technology? Or just the nature of the northern territories?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_universities_...

I've started to use a RPi4 instead (output is through a simple USB DAC) and the quality is pretty much the same. Additionally, it makes for a simpler setup if you have a dedicated unit for the purpose.

It’s debatable whether there’s an actual difference nowadays.

It’s remarkable they changed the spelling in the title to match the British customs, one would think this is a proper and not a common name in this context.

Sure it has! The question is, do the positive effects compensate for the negatives? Another question is, who’s job is effectively obsoleted if most of the work force (for this particular context eg STEM) works remotely?

If Apple can afford losing the fight and Epic can’t, they’ve already lost. Having said that, I’m not really sure that the points in TFA are really solid, nor I see the impact of losing access to their developer account as stated, after all the framework binaries for UE don’t have to be signed. If anybody can elaborate on why losing access to the developer account is such a big deal, I would love to hear about it.

Not for the standalone headsets

Maybe they are referring to the ‘Sign with Apple’ mandatory feature.

The dragon model is already based on GPT-3

https://medium.com/@aidungeon/ai-dungeon-dragon-model-upgrad...

> How easily could a hobbyist Cessna pilot land a passenger jet in the Hudson river?

Poorly, but he would have a heck of a shot.

Are big ISPs such as Comcast affected by this ban? We’ve been watching a lot of Comcast vans in our area in the past weeks, along with outages almost daily. We contacted tech support and they were unable to explain what this so-called ‘scheduled maintenance’ was about.

Maybe is different for countries, but in general reputation is slowly gained but quickly lost.

Xcode 11.5+ runs only on Catalina. If you want to use it, you’re mostly forced to.

Why not both? It’s not unreasonable that some of the technologies (incl. data analysis) could be shared.

The cost of the MIC is not only measured in dollars, but also in lives

Thanks for the article Ken. I’d like to remark the small refresher on how transistors works, it makes up for a really pleasant read. Also the footnotes are actually useful in decluttering the articles but amenable and clear to read.

> But outside of those complaints, the Pro Display XDR stuns in every other metric it competes in, earning our Editors' Choice.

There’s an open source implementation that can be worth exploring:

https://github.com/broadwaylamb/OpenCombine

A few days ago our 8 years old was asking my wife how she got introduced to computers. She described how she transcribed with the help of her sister games listings from magazines to her C64. When she described how the process took a few days long of typing hex number he was completely astonished. My wife and I, both having the same background, looked at each other unable to express the marvel of succeeding in getting it to work, often times after numberless tries, to a child whose primary reference of a computer is an iPad. Later we discussed how grateful we were to having lived in such an era where the sheer naïveté allowed us to learn and experiment in ways now out of reach.

One of the greatest minds of the past century, often times unjustly forgotten. He always reminds me of Miguel Servet, alto a pioneer in the medical science field.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus

Everyone knows MSX were the truly superior computers at the time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX

I’m a massive fan of Fitbit devices, they work great. But the same can be said of my Plantronics BT headphones, which I’ve used daily for almost three years, same for magic keyboards, mice and touchpad of different generations. Truth to be told, any cheap device that wouldn’t work reliably (I can think of a few BT headphones in the past) I just tossed or returned when possible.

I’ve been using exclusively BT keyboards and mice for 10+ years ... what’s exactly wrong with them?

That doesn’t seem to be a problem with French or Spanish, arguably also quite popular.

For each chemo session, our hospital is currently charging around $25k. A complete breast cancer treatment, including surgery and reconstruction, is $500k or so.

This is through insurance. Cash payment is negotiable and possibly much less, but that’s negotiated case per case.