timcederman

Not meaning to be obtuse, but to what end, and how is this related to the linked post?

Venous blood isn't blue.

Has been true for as long as I've had a cell phone (coming up to 30 years).

Expats are absolutely double taxed, just less so (and to be clear - majority cases not at all) when a DTA is in effect.

Funny you're showing up as downvoted, but this is absolutely right. Apple is testing their search abilities with URL autocomplete and it's surprisingly good. It's gotten much better in the last 6 months in particular.

I'm answering the musing from the person I replied to:

It is hard to me to understand how much this revisionist tendency is just a recent invention and to what extent it has been present throughout the history.

It's not new. Books have been getting revised for decades now for newer sensibilities. (e.g. even the Hardy Boys was revised more than 60 years ago to sanitise it - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/re...)

There was recent controversy about Roald Dahl's books getting revised (and he said himself 'change one word [in my books] and deal with my crocodile'), yet he also made revisions in his own lifetime for the same reason (https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/02/21/woke-w...)

Or boot it into Target Disk Mode using another machine.

Has Apple ever put out a "Pro" version of a product before the "normal" version?

HomePod is another one.

I highly recommend following Ken Shirriff on Twitter, some great threads on the work he does to keep machines running at the Computer History Museum. https://twitter.com/kenshirriff

Do you not feel Apple has been successful with the Watch and AirPods? Their wearables revenue dwarfs the revnue of most top tech companies.

I contacted support about a missing TV show and they apologised and gave 5 free rentals.

I was reading the comment, thinking "this sounds like someone I know", and then saw the username - hi Tom! :)

It's always fun to ask people how much they think the annual budget for the NYPD might be, and learn they're off by several orders of magnitude.

Maybe it's explained in Doom Guy, but why does the author use "ATS" as the TLA for "Adaptive Tile Refresh"? I can't find any references other than this article.

I get that for whatever reason folks like yourself don't want to believe it, but trust me, masks work. Just ask anyone who works in asbestos abatement or BSL-2+ facilities.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm

Consistent use of a face mask or respirator in indoor public settings was associated with lower odds of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result (adjusted odds ratio = 0.44). Use of respirators with higher filtration capacity was associated with the most protection, compared with no mask use.

I'll take a reduced risk, even if it's not perfect. Would you prefer to get covid one time, or five times? It's like arguing "why bother wearing a seatbelt, when it doesn't prevent injuries in accidents?"

Also, are you suggesting masking does not help with preventing influenza infection?

Exactly. Look at New Zealand's low excess death rate by allowing almost the entire population to get vaccinated before infection.

Are you suggesting N95 masks provide no protection against airborne viruses?

fyi - there's an option in Gmail to change it back to text instead of icons.

The mute button on the bottom left? https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple...

To use SFO as one example: "Destinations either 15 miles beyond the limits of the City and County of San Francisco or 15 miles beyond the boundaries of San Francisco International Airport are charged at 150% of the metered rate."

Also if you need an SUV or larger vehicle for more passengers, it's much easier to just use Uber.

No, they haven't. All crises have been caused by Republicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling#Leg...

You were being asked about Surface vs Macbook Air - why're you bringing MacBook Pro into it? There's no extra upfront cost for Apple. It is mind boggling how good a computer you can get for USD$800 from Apple compared to anything else on the market.

Yet

And a significant chunk have decided to start skipping "usual established jabs" for their kids. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01/12/childhood-v...

Live Oak Bank limits business account withdrawals to $250k/day.

Sure, but why leave the extra space there after retyping it? Still possible though.

There's a lot of references to calculations made but no actual data in this article. The Prius Prime gets just over 4 miles per kwh on battery alone. The same car averages 54 mpg when in hybrid mode. The article references $3.40/gallon for gas. Average price of electricity in MA is 23.66c/kwh. So for the price of a gallon of gas, you can get 14.37kwh, or 57.48 miles, so still beating out gas (54 miles) even on an extremely efficient vehicle.

My muscle memory from 1995-1997 to test network connectivity is to ping yahoo.com.