mrkwse

Emily has a name, and I don't see how you've come to that conclusion.

Her account of living resonates with a lot of my reflections when I left my previous job. Perhaps you haven't yet been lucky enough to have a job that has been similarly fulfilling.

Not sure about LFT, but in the UK private PCR tests (required for travelling, professional elite sport etc.) cost between £80-130.

I purchased and returned a pair of the AirPods Max, with the discomfort being the deciding factor in me not keeping them.

I was mostly impressed with the audio (although the spatial audio didn't really resonate with me, pardon the pun), but they were not comfortable and after an hour I wasn't able to keep them on for longer. This is primarily due to the very narrow focus of clamping pressure at the top of the earcups where the headband is joined by the ball joint.*

The bluetooth was a little unreliable too, even with me trying them exclusively with an up-to-date iPhone/iPad Pro.

I ended up getting a pair of B&W PX7s instead which feel and sound about as premium, but for half the price after a Boxing Day sale (although many people will perceive the carbon-composite construction to feel cheap due to its weight).

I put some of my thoughts along with a diagram showing the pressure issue in a blog post when I returned them last month: https://mrkw.se/posts/airpods-max

* The pressure may have improved with time as the headphones loosened, but with the 14 day return period I wasn't confident enough to chance it.

I saw a journalist share Typerighter on Twitter and was intrigued, so I'm looking forward to reading this.

It's a bit surprising that the engineering blog appears to be embedded in the main site, though. I've worked at a news org in the past (admittedly much larger) and the engineering/meta blogs were entirely separated from the main news section. Obviously it doesn't make sense to reinvent your stack, but I'm surprised the surrounding site scaffolding isn't at least distinct to show this isn't primary news output.

That is an appropriate argument, but afaik it's along the lines of Peloton's subscription pricing. Peloton's shown there's a clearly established market that will pay that sort of price for a home fitness service.

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The duckduckgo icons are labelled as such. Plenty of icon sets will have recognisable brand assets for the likes of social media platforms and so on, which will allow use according to certain guidelines.

Their inclusion probably isn't an issue in itself, but the blanket guidance in the copy above the result will be.

> The icons below can be used for Personal & Commercial purposes. They can be used on your website, branding and designs.

Obviously assets relating to existing brands will never be permitted for use in the branding of an unaffiliated party. onassar may want to update the guidelines to note such exclusions.

> Quite frankly it's ridiculous - imagine needing to pay a "fee" to CNN/Fox News/NYTimes/Yahoo just because you have a internet connection and web browser.

This comparison is ridiculous. The license fee is a little outdated in certain aspects but it covers more than just broadcast news as the orgs you mentioned do.

The BBC has a broad remit to inform, educate, and entertain. Not in itself radically different to a lot of other broadcasters, and typical for a public service broadcaster, but the universal license fee is a key differentiator.

In requiring everyone with a television to contribute, the BBC has a duty to serve the entire population of a country, regardless of their income or demographic. This enables the BBC to produce content that may not be commercially viable for privately funded broadcasters that in term can serve communities that would otherwise be overlooked. BBC's Three and Four channels tend to best exemplify this aspect with content that can often be slightly niche and, in the case of Three, regularly have casts and production crews that are far more diverse than the industry averages.

The license fee is also independent of the state budget. The Government does have the power and oversight to adjust funding every 5-11 years, but the royal charter ensures that funding is separate from typical taxation and avoids the Treasury. This also ensures (in theory) that there is more autonomy for accurate, fair, and unbiased news reporting.

The BBC has also for most of its existence operated and maintained a lot of shared broadcasting infrastructure (which admittedly is less key as viewing moves away from terrestrial broadcast and towards IP services, and to a lesser extent cable and satellite). In the previous charter they also had a responsibility to improve broadband infrastructure in rural areas.

There's also a final aspect to this in that the BBC performs a lot of public service open research into emerging technologies as well as the social impact of them and different forms of media. Most media organisations don't care about anything other than how much of a person's attention they can capture at the expense of everything else. More eyes on a media org = more advertising sold. The BBC's model means they can actually give consideration to what healthy consumption is and how to promote digital wellbeing etc., as well as ensuring younger audiences are better catered for (there's a great article on how YouTube Kids has severely let down its young audiences in the past here: https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in... )

People don't tend to hug their hobs though...

Just realised I never mentioned anything from other manufacturers:

- LG were great because their hardware was appropriately powerful at the time and WebOS was well optimised (as well as being straightforward to develop for)

- Samsung were fine from a user perspective but had a lot of quirks for development

- Panasonic were similar to Sony (underpowered Android) but had far worse remotes and less spaghetti UX

Everything I've mentioned certainly applies to the 2017 flagship A1 OLED (which I use daily at home), so it was not limited to the cheaper models.

By XMB evolution I mean it's not quite the XMB, but the secondary menus when you get into settings etc. are carried over, and it's a separate interface and paradigm to the Android interface.

As someone who a few years ago worked for a broadcaster and had a small amount of experience with building applications for television, Sony were always ambitious for their UX and would make good decisions such as going with what was at the time Android TV.

Sony had a couple of issues a few years ago:

  - they would always produce televisions with underpowered hardware for the software experiences
  - their operating systems would have as many as three competing interfaces in different parts
    - Android Apps
    - weird XMB evolution for settings etc.
    - separate third party interface for digital tuner that also had a duplicated wrapped XMB interface

I wonder if they've managed to remedy some of that mess, as they would have been some of the most solid sets if it weren't for the bloat and chaos.

It's both remarkable and entirely unsurprising how poorly the transition has been handled by the government. Regardless of the longer term impact of the deal or its positives/negatives, it's a mess currently.

The mess could have been at least reduced or perhaps avoided entirely had a deal been agreed earlier in the year, affording businesses trading to/from UK to actually have time to understand and respond to the new processes.

I always recall William Gibson's description of the city-state as 'Disneyland with the Death Penalty'.

The accompanying 1993 article for those who haven't seen it previously: https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/

I’ve just remembered about the BBC series ‘Hospital’. I’ve not watched every episode but those I’ve seen have been profoundly impactful.

It’s a brilliant showcase of Britain’s National Health Service, showing the absolute brilliance and dedication of its staff even in the most trying of circumstances as well as sharing really moving stories from patients too.

If you can find it, episode one of the second series is incredible, focusing on the aftermath of the Westminster terror attack from 2017 and how St Mary’s responded to the gold incident.

The standout for me is The Crash Reel.

It’s a tremendous look at Kevin Pearce’s road to recovery after sustaining a traumatic brain injury in training for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. I’m a skier and was aware that TBIs are a bad thing, but had no idea of the spectrum of symptoms and outcomes that could be caused from them. As well as being eye-opening, the entire Pearce family are incredible in their response to his accident.

Yeah that seems a real missed opportunity here. I’ve never seen the show but admit that old SD programmes tend to fall down the list of shows to watch.

To have the opportunity to see a high-fidelity but true-to-composition version would really pique my interest. I guess managing and serving two different versions probably isn’t straightforward, but I believe Disney already does it with The Simpsons, so perhaps one day there will be a ‘remastered’ original cut.

I managed five bites first time but have been 6-7 each subsequent try...

Have you considered a hybrid approach where you publish to both Medium and a self-hosted solution, but set the canonical link on the Medium post to your own site?

I'm not entirely sure of the SEO implications (your own site would take precedence, but as for whether it would get the same boost from Medium views, I'm not certain), but possibly a good compromise between keeping the Medium community circulation and having it in your own space where you have more control.

I got a lot of joy from your assessment so likewise

Not only do I agree that it would probably be less enjoyable, but I also expect it would be less safe.

A driver actively piloting a car will be focused and experienced at that task. That same driver will not have had any tuition or assessment on their ability to judge whether a car with advanced assistive piloting* is acting sensibly.

In the case of some event requiring manual intervention, I'd be surprised if the driver's focus would be significantly worse than a similar event while actively driving. Not only that but the judgement, knowledge, and experience of being able to identify such events in a timely manner.

I'm genuinely shocked that this feature is allowed on public roads. It's one thing a car owner consenting to being a trial participant, but pedestrians and other road users have no such opportunity to provide or deny consent and are at equal or greater risk if things go awry.

*I refuse to use Tesla's irresponsible 'self-driving' marketing nonsense

Perhaps not the most insightful, but definitely my favourite:

> I'd rate the news as "vibing" on a scale of clickbait to party for the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25035508

Phone photography is brilliant nowadays. In recent years with the emergence of computational photography, smartphones present a fantastically accessible way of creating very decent images.

You'll have certain constraints caused by the lack of a zoom lens (or limited alternate zoom cameras), but such constraints often can lead to good creative challenges.

The single best thing about smartphone photography vs. a dedicated SLR/mirrorless camera, however, is the ease of editing images with the varied apps that provide all sorts of creative control (with degrees of involvement/automatic adjustment).

I'd second this and also add that there will be plenty of good tutorials going through a lot of this stuff. They'll be very opinionated and produce particular solutions, but if this is your first project you don't want to worry about which framework etc. to use, you just want to ship something.

Netlify produce a lot of very thorough blogs that will cover a lot of the things you're yet to sort out. You'll end up in their platform as a result, but it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out how to migrate away once you've got something up and running (or you might find that Netlify fits your use quite neatly).

FWIW I do also have an iPad Pro + Pencil, and that was sensational for note taking during lectures etc. while studying (GoodNotes made all my scrawled handwriting indexed and searchable by text) and it remains great for drawing diagrams with neat shapes and various colours.

I use a paper notebook for rough notes. My use is for recording exploratory thinking while solving (coding) problems and early thoughts of tasks to do that I might refine and document in a digital tool such as Notion etc.

I could just as easily use a markdown file or similar for it, but I find writing quick and fairly effortless and I really enjoy using a nice combination of fountain pen and quality pad. It can also be nice to have something I can look at from time to time that isn't emitting light and causing eye strain.

I'm unfamiliar with the FAA so is there a particular set of circumstances that would give incentive to them being complicit in the cover up?

Do Boeing contribute funding to the FAA in a direct and discretionary way?

I can't comprehend how a federal body would aid a private company like this when the ramifications could be so severe (threat to life and to the FAA's public credibility).

This really resonates with me. I realise a lot of people will pay for individual Twitch subscriptions, YouTube memberships, and Patreon memberships, but it can be quite a hard sell in comparison to some of the things you list above.

I wish there was a better funding model as those creators. I'd like to direct more money to that category of creator. However paying one person (or team of people) around as much a year as I pay for my TV Licence just cannot compare in terms of value to me as a consumer.

YouTube Premium is apparently a reasonable compromise from what I've seen some channels report (a decent bump in income for them for each premium view and for the end-user a decent enhancement in experience across the platform), but I wish there was a similar scheme for more niche web/news publications (Apple News+ looks reasonable, but has a limited catalogue in the UK).

Cloudflare themselves have gone into significantly more detail in a blog if you're interested beyond the curio in the main link: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encr...

> Every other pair of over-the-ear headphones I’ve ever used feel a bit cheap in comparison

This has always surprised my as someone who's owned a couple of pairs of B&W P-series headphones (P5 then PX). Portable headphones should be built to last, not just flimsy plastic. B&W got it right with metal construction (and with the newest PX models forged carbon fibre), no surprises Apple is building robust headphones too.

What B&W provide though, is a really solid benchmark (of many) (with the exception of spatial audio - which from Gruber sounds like it still has some shortcomings to overcome). They're £200 cheaper, really substantial and solid construction (with a proper hard carrying case - although similar limited folding), the newest carbon models will be noticeably lighter (if still a substantial 310g).

Obviously the Sony XM4s and Bose 700s are well in view too (although plastic construction can make them seem a less premium alternative).

I expect these will sell relatively well, but I can't see them flying off the shelves like their in-ear namesakes in such a crowded and competitive market, even with Apple's software bonuses.