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Whoever set up the device is to blame. An iPad can do everything your phone can do so its security is taken seriously. Just write down the password if you can't remember it. Or make it your dog's name. If you can't find the password anywhere then how can you expect Apple to tell the difference between you and some criminal?

Kind of an unpopular opinion, but we should create a formal certification system for developers. Not something like a license to code, but something more like a professional organization where to get in you have to do all the BS that you get in interviews. This is how it works for lawyers, doctors, accountants and other professionals. Imagine doctors going on job interviews and being asked trivia questions from high school biology like draw the Krebs Cycle on a whiteboard. It's ridiculous. If we could get the BS out of the way, job interviews could be more about finding out what an individual can bring to the organization. Everyone would be happier.

You don't need a Facebook account though, you can migrate to a Meta account which can be optionally linked to Facebook and Instagram only if you choose.

Except of course, you don't need to go to the coffee shop at all.

It's actually very interesting. A lot of the things that people have been impressed by about Apple Vision pro was already possible with the Quest 3 (much of it with the Quest 2 as well). There are a lot of things wrong with Reality Labs as an organization (I used to work there) but I do think they're chasing something real.

I'd like to see a federal law mandating that any future law or regulation that restricts what children are allowed access to makes the parents solely liable if the children gain access. There should be a standard way to declare pages are age restricted, and the browser on the child's phone or computer should check it. But if the child bypasses that somehow, that's on the parents.

You can absolutely use the word average to refer to the median when you are speaking in a non-academic context.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average

The Quest is fully cordless whereas the Vision Pro has a cord that goes to a battery pack that you wear on your waist. Though neither device requires you to be tethered to a computer.

Venmo and Cash App basically commoditize bank accounts. Banks don't like that. And since Zelle is run by the banks, they get to put their own branding all over it, make it available as the official supported way to send money from their mobile apps, and create a third network thereby reducing the network effects of the first two. Also, Zelle is more popular than Cash App and about on par with Venmo so it clearly wasn't too late to catch up.

This one actually did start as a blog post.

The LLM pretty clearly got the gist of the joke.

The original comment started > Every middle aged former skateboarder turned bartender...

In "proper" written English that should have been "middle-aged former-skateboarder-turned-bartender". But at the end of the comment the author claims to have lost their hyphens (i.e. their ability to use the - symbol). Probably because they were having trouble deciding what parts of that should be hyphenated and just made a joke about it instead.

Sniffies. Don't open it at work.

When you have a subscription to music, it's not about your collection as much as it is about discovery. You hear about a new artist and you want to sample their stuff. You don't have to hunt it down - you know where to find and listen to their entire discography in exactly two clicks (not counting having to type in the name of the band). If you decide you like it, nothing is stopping you from buying an album for your collection if that's your thing. Also, instead of your budget of one $10-$15 purchase per month, you can do this process multiple times a day.

Without knowing how many marbles are in the bag, if you say that not all the marbles in the bag are black, then I'm going to ask you to show me a non-black marble to prove it. Alternatively, I can prove that all the marbles are black by showing you n marbles that are black where n is the number of marbles in the bag. Here you go, zero black marbles!

The linked Bloomberg article actually says that buses served Jacob Riis Park (not Jones Beach) at its opening, and that it is in fact true that the Southern State Parkway has lower clearances along the route to Jones Beach than other similar roads around the region from that time.

I live next to a large road in NYC and for me the cars that are loud intentionally are by far the biggest problem when it comes to noise, followed by sirens and horns. The things that are designed to be noticed are the most noticeable.

Though even if you are allowed to make infinite bets, most people have finite money to bet with.

Very young children obviously require a great deal of care, but somewhat older children might get dropped off by the school bus at 3 PM and then occupy themselves for a few hours at home with an adult present.

Roman numerals for years are not so much harder to read than those for single digit numbers because they don't change very often. MMXXIII and MMXXIV are about as easy to understand as III and IV - you've already had three years to learn that we're doing MMXX prefixes now.

Both Cyberpunk and (especially) No Man's Sky have improved significantly from how they were at launch. It might be worth looking into their current iterations if you were interested before but disappointed.

The safety models of cities is just different from that of suburbs. If you live in a walkable urban area, there's safety in numbers. It's not uncommon to see children walking down the block to their corner store or going to school or whatever. If a random adult approaches a child, there are plenty of people around to see it, and if they call out for help it's very likely that someone will intervene. In the suburbs, it's a bit different. The safety model depends more on things being "normal" - people are suspicious of anything out of the ordinary. In a community where everyone drives their kids to wherever they need to go, seeing children walking down the street might be unusual enough to get someone to call the police. because they'd want other parents to do the same if their own children somehow escaped and started wandering the neighborhood. It all depends on the norms of the particular community.

The people on the revenue making teams aren't usually the ones who are let go.

Your typical non-billionaire hypocrite doesn't have the means to take over an influential platform and run it in a way that showcases his hypocrisy.

The social circles thing already exists in the form of group chats. Facebook saw this coming too, which is why they own the platforms that are most popular for this type of social networking.

There is a lot of knowledge encoded into the model, but there's a difference between knowing what a sunset is because you read about it on the internet vs having seen one.

This is actually not correct any more. 2019's housing stability and tenant protection act changed it so that the preferential rent must continue as long as the tenant keeps the apartment, subject to the same percentage increases as the legal rent.

When you have six figure employee numbers, the internal tools have more users than many startups do. You start to find that off the shelf tools don't work any more and you need to have people customizing them. Then you start seeing things that are specific to the company - people walking too far to get to conference rooms, and someone staffs up a tool to optimize meeting room allocations. You end up with tons of people working on things that are invisible to end users just to keep the machine running.

Or, you build a well architected piece of software that replicates your organization structure if the people (director+) who are in charge of the org structure do their jobs well.

38% of the MTA's operating budget comes from train and bus fares. As much as it would be nice if it were free, the money needs to come from somewhere.

The current system isn't even 100 years old. In 1920 a large percentage of people were farmers and women generally didn't have jobs. Things can and do change.