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> audiologist confirmation my hearing was 20/20

it’s possible you didn’t go to an audiologist.

(/s)

Vso on a transport category aircraft is way faster than a helicopter is going to carry it. You’d be better off just dropping it at a real airport, if you can lift it anyway.

Not always - if you have dashcam footage that proves brake checking or other poor behavior, it can be decided in the rear car’s favor.

This frames it as an anti-repair thing.

A more honest phrasing would be “if the factories are stealing their IP and profiting off selling the screens on the black market”

1) Once you consider resale value, total cost to own an Apple product is often at par or lower than a comparable Android/Windows product.

2) I’ll mostly give you this one, but I do enjoy not getting calls from my iOS-using grandmother about “they told me I needed this new store thing for candy crush”, like I did when she had an Android tablet

3) Pretty easy to repair the breakable bits in an iPhone. If iFixit can sell $29 battery tool kits, that seems like a pretty low bar.

It might be easier to justify than that, though - the EU has shown an increasing willingness to dictate; Apple may project that out to causing more than $90B/yr in harm or slowed growth in the global business.

Probably bought it back from the insurance company after the first totaling. You have the option to receive $(insurance payout - current value of wrecked car) and keep the car.

There’s not much preventing people from doing this today. Maybe truck drivers wouldn’t fall for it, but the average American driver is absolutely vulnerable to a single-cone attack.

If it was a two-ship, could have been only the lead had their transponder on. Keeps the ATC traffic alert systems a little happier.

I’m over here with a 60Mbps connection, and I do fine. Faster would be nice a few times a week for huge downloads, but those are rare in my workflow.

Curious how you got value out of 300Mb, let alone Gb? I feel like I’m missing out and don’t know it.

Many people on HN are in a good position to understand just how good Apple products are, so they invest in them (both by buying products and building workflows on them, and by investing in shares).

Once invested, bullshit accusations against the company harm you individually, because the company has to spend time and money proving that some dude in France set up a meter wrong. Those engineering resources could have gone into making the product better.

Prediction: French lab made some kind of mistake, which will be quietly announced in a month with almost no fanfare.

My iPhone 14 charges fast enough. Any file transfers go over airdrop, which is fast enough. The port is smaller than USB-C. I can clean it by rummaging around in it with a toothpick and not worrying about breaking stuff.

USB-C is an unambiguous downgrade for me, and I wish they had just welded an adapter into the port for EU customers.

This is a mobile processor being compared to flagship desktop processors.

Apple’s lead is almost unfathomable.

I hope Apple provides a giant plastic brick with the name and phone number of a French regulator laser-etched in it.

Got it, thanks!

Can you add some color the bit about it not being trivially dockerized? Might be doing this soonish for work, would love extra info.

No, but if they did people would still buy them because the 2GB version would outperform an 8GB Chromebook in daily tasks.

Apple isn’t going to ship something that doesn’t beat the pants off a Chromebook.

I wonder if it’s a thing where no one ever actually wrote “cable theft is a 6mo max sentence”, but rather a serious of things that seem reasonable on their own:

- Cable theft is fraud - Fraud is a Class Z crime - Class Z crimes have this sentencing range

I guess I can see how that happens.

I’ve developed a more nuanced view on Scrum since working as a contractor for a medium sized software company, but adjacent to their normal dev teams.

I used to have the view that Scrum is a useless batch of meetings, that sucks the life and productivity out of the dev process.

Now, after seeing it from an adjacent (but not subjugated under it) perspective, I think it is a life-sucking batch of meetings that are good for one thing: taking developers who can’t or don’t want to see the overall business/architecture picture and getting useful work out of them.

Most of us here are not in that category. I’d wager a majority of HN readers can’t help but to seek out understanding of the business, where this piece fits, what it interacts with. For us, specifying everything upfront is useless. Estimating stuff is irritating because we need the flexibility to make smart decisions during dev. Retro meetings are lies because we can’t say “stop with all this and let me work”.

But if you’re trying to make a process than can take junior devs (not junior in tenure, but junior in the qualities above) and produce an output that scales almost-kinda linearly with dev count, it sort of works.

I’d argue that you’re way better off hiring 6 devs that can go from business problem -> technical solution in their head, without all the ceremony, instead of 40 devs who can’t and 6 PMs to wrangle them.

But I can also see how a company ends up there - go through a tough hiring year, or even just make a few poor hiring decisions, and now you have people on the team who need handholding and supervision. That’s what scrum is; it feels like micromanagement because it is. It forces junior-performing devs into a productive state - maybe 5% of what you’d get out of a senior-performing dev without scrum, but it’s something non-negative.

The main thing I find copilot good for is things that are easy to validate, but tedious (not hard!) to write. Stuff like colors for different statuses, or error messages.

I actually love it for writing error messages. Keeps me in flow better not having to switch to writing Human English every five lines when something fails validation.

I have an Apple laptop that is a few years old. It does not have shit battery life. Probably 90% of new.

Did you research this statement before making it?

Feature flags sound great, but a company I’ve been consulting for has been using them to their own detriment. Seems like many bugs are due to a (production!) user not having the right combinations of flags enabled.

There ends up being code to deal with what happens when various combinations of flags are on/off, and that code doesn’t get tested much.

And teams spend a lot of time just removing flags.

This isn’t a safety-critical app - I really think they’d do better dropping the flags, and just deploying what they want when it’s ready.

Hawaii might be nice because an ELT is going to be heard by every passing airliner (line of sight, which is super far on the ocean). If you’ve got an ELT, PLB, and a flare gun or two, I’d guess someone will get you before you die.

Note that this is with the benefit of a past where the Germans didn’t get the bomb, and we know they probably wouldn’t before the end of the war. That was no guarantee to these men.

In a past where the Germans (or even Soviets, possibly) get the bomb first, you could well have seen these scientists thinking “if only I had worked on that program”.

You’re not engaging in good faith.

Because the screen was on the device when it was calibrated.

Ya know… how crazy would it be to set up a charity-ish thing for buying kids replacement screens for phones?

Just the part and tools, mind you. Not labor. They do the labor themselves. It’s really not that hard. (Even in the so-called unrepairable phones! I did an iPhone 12 battery last year. iFixit has those guides down to a science).

Might work miracles at showing teens they can fix problems (even those that even their parents are scared of!), that repairing stuff isn’t that scary, and that $40ish can go quite a long way.

Okay, so if I give you all the data from my car, and say it has 10.3 gallons of gas, you’re telling me you can predict how many miles it will go to within a percent?

No, you can’t. Because I might go uphill or downhill. It might rain. It might be hot or cold.

The car is doing something tricky (aka lying) as discussed above.

Likely this has more to do with their professional liability insurance than any government regulation, directly.