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Yes, I remember when they used the signal out the back through the plasma during reentry. It was astoundingly good!

This sounds quite short sighted to me. You can’t imagine needing links being sent in everyday workflow at the office, yet I can’t imagine not using links in emails.

How would people interact with vendors and salespeople that send links to product specs, troubleshooting articles, etc?

Beefman, could you tell us more about how you know this?

It's actually pleasant to interact with the flight attendants. They have nice things to share, like snacks, drinks, and food.

Is that cheating? Seems difficult enough for me, still.

Literally literally.

I see a juggler handling five balls. I succeed at three balls. I fail at four balls. Have I proven that it's impossible to juggle five balls at once?

I'm curious if a class action lawsuit for Kia and Hyundai customers would make more sense.

I also wonder if auto insurance companies might refuse to insure Kia and Hyundai vehicles until this is fixed.

Overall, that movie painted him in a good light. "Strong leader bucks the system and makes a product that we all love" was the message I got from it.

My point is that the recent mass layoffs have negatively affected Musk's reputation and has not had an impact on Zuckerberg's. I think your illustration of his rep having a negative aspect as far back as the movie is in line with that.

With Musk's purchase of Twitter we've seen a lot more attention on alternative platforms such as Mastodon and Bluesky (?). I don't see anything like that with Facebook, other than the old struggles of any aging hangout spot. Also, note the difference in reaction to paying for verification on Twitter Vs. Instagram. People get mocked on Twitter for having the "blue checkmark". It's just silly.

Mobile browsers were a painful experience before that. Mobile keyboards were a painful experience before that.

I think Blackberry was the only one that did both OK enough to take seriously. I know people loved the Sidekick, but I never used it and don't recall if people used a web browser on it, or just text messaging.

The first iPhone was more impressive than a Blackberry.

I legitimately think it's trendy to hate on Elon. Both Elon and Zuckerberg seem to have come to the conclusion that there was a lot of dead weight on their staff. One is hated on, the other is not.

I'm still using Twitter and only seeing improvements to the platform, plus promise of upcoming improvements.

Community Notes is a big deal. Company badges are helpful. The "Show more" gate is now properly hiding SPAM instead of "wrong think". The "For you" algorithm has actually improved, too.

I thought I had a vague sense of why they stopped doing AMAs, but for the life of me I can't remember why now. Those were great.

Highly amusing.

About developers?

The end of the article speculates that the sheet system was dropped since the tiles appear scrambled. I'm wondering if the artists still used the sheet system, but a memory optimizer tool re-ordered the tiles to help free up a little more space on the ROM.

Back in the earlier days of Android phones, it was fun to burn custom ROMs to try community-developed interfaces. This community was always upset when phone manufacturer's made it more and more difficult to do this. However, I think I'm understanding that this "signed, approved boot chain from power on to end user application" for all digital devices" is necessary for security purposes and would hopefully make it impossible to burn a custom ROM onto a phone.

What are we gonna do w/o plastics? So much of our economy and lifestyles make heavy uses of these materials.

I'm not a fan of plastic items ending up in lakes, rivers, and oceans, but perhaps we're lucky that more of the world didn't take up plastic recycling the way that we'd hoped for.

Interesting. I was thinking the header which contains a link to the footer could be sticky. That way, it wouldn't matter how large the footer became.

That question is addressed in the article as well: "The biggest headache when coming across these menus on the web is the complete disregard for accessibility."

And by "accessibility" I'm quite certain the author means "usability for people with impairments that don't allow them to use a mouse and keyboard or touch screen".

You're misrepresenting the recommendation. You did not include the instructions "link directly to [the footer navigation options] from your header" or "Be sure to also include some form of "Top of the page" link for quick access back to the initial scroll view."

High ranking member of political party 1 does something illegal.

Huge stink and nationwide conversation ensues.

High ranking member of political party 2 does the same damn thing.

Crickets.

You can even reverse the order of the events or parties. It happens a lot. Such laws, unfortunately, simply become political tools.

I know Facebook/Meta is huge and well established, but a 40 year bond seems like an eternity in the tech world. Is Meta that entrenched that people are this confident that they'll still be around in 40 years? Perhaps there's a lot more to their staying power and value than some web pages, apps, and VR hardware, but I'm not very aware of it.

I did note in an article a couple weeks ago that they participate in groups that commission undersea Internet cables. Those sorts of infrastructure investments seem to have more staying power to me than the other offerings.

I think I'm trying to state: "Aren't the bulk of Meta's offerings too susceptible to trends to garner the trust required for a 40 year bond?"

Me, many years ago setting up electronic payment. -OK, it's asking me for my bank account and routing number. These must be pretty secret. -Oh wow, they're both printed on my checks. Uh...this system works?

I love this sort of reporting. It's enlightening to learn about the infrastructure that makes our way of life possible. I love learning how these projects are funded and who's funding them, who is implementing the projects, how they are implemented, what some of the concerns are, and the related political drama surrounding these projects.

I feel similarly about oil, energy, and food production and delivery.

So much goes on without most people even giving it a second thought.

The plant construction is well under way and the freeway nearby has already had a lot of recent work on it. I haven't read the article yet, but I've been in that area several times per year for the last 3.5 years.

Your post includes some good commentary identifying issues with the educational system, specifically about fostering a healthy, effective learning environment as well as commentary about mis-allocating resources. However, it also includes lots of specific blaming and accusations which, to me, distracted from the helpful elements.

I'm curious if you think the best path forward would be to keep pushing for the federal government to do better with education, or if it would be better to empower more local entities to improve. This could be state, county, or city governments, or even private school systems.

I'm not sure our Department of Education is effective, and I think some children actually are being left behind, despite the "no child left behind" effort.

That's completely new information to me. Thanks!

I know some people are making the point that taste is subjective, but I'd like to argue that, at least in some aspects, certain designs are solvable. There may be an interesting period of variety while we solve something, but eventually, we can get there. I was taken aback while watching Something's Gotta Give recently. The movie is from 2003 and spends a lot of time in a nice house. Well, the kitchen looked perfect to me, 20 years later. If I could have an ideal kitchen, it would be that one. If you want back 30, 40, and 50 years and showed me an expensive kitchen, they would not appear "solved" in the same way.

I realize this may be just my personal taste, but I doubt that. Feedback would be welcome.

You can see the kitchen here: https://youtu.be/K0fcPiUjh64

Amusingly simple, practical solution. What's the wake time difference from power off vs sleep for a modern Mac Book? I don't have one. Oh, I suppose the power off time would be longer than simply shutting the lid, too.

Can you configure it to power off when the lid shuts?