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don’t tell me I did not “make” it because it simply would not exist if I hadn’t created it.

So like when I went to a restaurant last week and "made" a cheeseburger with no lettuce and extra onions, because it wouldn't exist if I hadn't created it.

To me, making something can mean you did the physical work of its creation even if there's no particular creative expression, like "I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich."

It can also apply to tasks where you've offloaded a bunch of work that once would've been done by hand, like "I made this bench using a circular saw."

Where things get hairy even with physical objects is processes like CNC or 3D printers. If you download "Articulated dragon.stl" from a website and press the print button, did you make that? Personally, no. But if you designed your own flexy dragon and printed it, then yes. If you set up a relief carving on a CNC machine or do a perfectly fit inlay, are you making that? Operating these still takes quite a bit of knowledge and skill, but different knowledge and skill from hand woodworking. What if the tools improve and become very easy to operate?

I don't think there's a hard line you can draw. But if there is, it's somewhere between "did everything by hand with no assistance from recently invented tools because those are cheating" and "ordered a sandwich and waited for the finished result to show up."

What’s the “all hat no cattle” for pickups?

All truck no load?

Still see this in the ones with tonneau covers as if they intended to put cargo in the bed

But who knows maybe it’s already full of stuff under there

And when they pick up groceries they load everything onto the floor of the back seat because the bed is so high up you’d need a step ladder to use it

But a regular notebook has a limited supply of them

Another solution for this is a notebook with removable pages, you can scribble all you want and if you decide later you don’t need that page in this notebook you can take it out (toss it, store it, or reorganize to a different notebook) and add fresh paper as needed.

It’s also handy to be able to reorder pages if you’re bouncing between purposes, and gives you the option to have a mix of papers if sometimes you want lined and other times dot grid or blank.

I like these https://www.jetpens.com/Lihit-Lab-Pastello-Twist-Ring-Notebo...

It was only 2.5 years between Apple's first device with Lightning (iPhone 5 in September 2012) and their first device with USB-C (12" Macbook in April 2015). It's not like Lightning had a huge track record at that point they just made a decision that they had switched connectors once and didn't want to turn around and do it again. Kind of understandable, but I'm glad to not have Lightning anymore.

Failure to have clear cable capability marking from the start is too bad though, if I needed a high speed USB cable longer than 6" (probably included with a hard drive enclosure or similar) I'm not sure if I own one, and if I do I have no idea which cable it is.

When I had a Pebble Time (dead, waiting on PR2) I basically had notifications turned off. For that matter, I have very few notifications enabled phone too.

It's great as a watch that can tell you if it's going to rain, give you TOTP authenticator codes, and control music playback.

The tiny springs and gears are neat though, in a different sort of way from tiny transistors, can't argue with that one.

Less the part where you can do it one handed, I don't see why they wouldn't be. Even the Time Round 2 has a microphone just no speaker. If not official support somebody else can always make it.

The issues are a bit sad. But I will happily upgrade with the discount to the revised version of time 2.

The what? The only discount mentioned in the article is when they stop replacing cracked glass for free and heavily discount replacements instead.

And the only hardware changes mentioned are making sure they all get assembled correctly.

If it lasts 15 hours of recording and you record on average 5 seconds at a time, that’s about 11000 activations. I think 5 seconds is a pretty conservative estimate, most things I imagine this being useful for would be more looks 2. Easy to see it lasting years in those conditions, but yes you could drain it faster if you used it very heavily.

I have no idea what the solar named brand is, but maybe the department-store-like one is Targus?

You're supposed to call them back on a number you know is really that person/company. This ensures the person you're talking to is actually from your bank and not just calling from a random number and saying "I'm from your bank," or even spoofing a real number of your bank or a family member, because when you call back it will go to the real person and not the impostor.

This is a very useful precaution for banks, and for or calls that come from a family member's real phone number.

But scammers will just open with "I'm in trouble and my phone died" or "I'm in jail calling from a pay phone" and calling back won't do anything to help with that.

Would be great, but at least on iOS the only way to add a PWA to your home screen is via the share menu. Apple would need to support that header pop-up to install the PWA and they won’t unless someone makes them.

For an easier change than HTML or SVG, try running them though pngcrush to make the graph images much smaller. Won't give you the lossless vector quality, but you should be able to keep these image files visually indistinguishable at much lower size.

Equivalent M3 machines no longer for sale from Apple (only up to 96 GB) but can be had on eBay for around $14,000 each

Had a feature idea, what if you could assign names/colors to sections between waypoints? For example, say between waypoints 2-4 in my map is Foothills Parkway, and color it red on the map and the elevation diagram?

Especially on the elevation view would be neat to see it color coded by which parts are which road.

Might help incentivize premium upgrades too because there's a benefit to putting waypoints at actual meaningful locations instead of playing "how can I maximize the route control with 8 points." Or heck that's enough of a cosmetic thing that you could just make the color editing part of the premium plans.

A minor bug report - the verification email said the link was good for 24 hours but when I tried to click it yesterday evening it was already dead.

CarPlay support can run in the simulator, obviously you'll need to fake the GPS location too for this to be useful. And you need to get special permission from Apple before you can even use the simulator, they keep CarPlay even more locked down than everything else.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/carplay/using-the-...

Between the three roads on my map I'd have to recommend Cherohala Skyway as my favorite drive. Only done it once, but it's a beautiful fun road with great scenic overlooks. Longer and more relaxing than Tail of the Dragon, and I'd rate it more enjoyable if not as exciting.

That's a car-based opinion though, can't speak to motorcycles.

https://www.visitmonroetn.com/cherohala-skyway

EDIT - a couple questions on pricing:

1) If I do one month on the paid plan to create a route, then cancel the subscription, do I still keep the route I made? Can I share and export, but no edits? Or can I still edit existing waypoints, but not add new ones? Realistically this is something I'd only use once or twice a year so I want to understand how the subscription structure fits with that.

2) How do collaborators work? I'm guessing only the route creator need a paid account, and other people can join it from free ones, but it would be helpful to clarify.

When you're working on the iOS app let me know if you need a beta tester!

Very cool! That solves creating and saving a route with extra navigation waypoints, so the other thing I'd want out of it is a native app with CarPlay where I can get total time/distance remaining, time/distance to next stop, and the option to pick which waypoints count as "stops" (versus just being there to control the route). I see there's a GPX export but I'm sure that won't handle the waypoints how I want it to. Guessing native apps are out of scope though?

If you're ever near the Smokies, here's a loop from Knoxville through Foothills Parkway (west section), Tail of the Dragon, and Cherohala Skyway, with a detour up to Maple Springs Overlook (site of a popular annual hill climb).

https://plotalong.app/maps/b53f3c01-4e3c-4b52-a560-4a3259e08...

Even for driving the major apps are crappy about routes. I was on Foothills Parkway a while ago and wanted to keep Apple Maps running just as a "miles/time remaining" indicator. It can't do anything other than fastest route, with the option to ignore highways.

So unless you set a waypoint halfway between every single entry/exit, it will want to get off the parkway and take US 321 instead.

You can manually set up the route using a bunch of waypoints, but then it tells you the distance/time to next stop (which are arbitrary map points) instead of the distance to the end of the parkway, and you can't save the route so you'd better not touch it or want to look at anything else on the map once you have it set up.

Pebble has a set of black and white emojis to go with their OS's visual language. Lots missing, but the ones they have are nicely readable for watch notification purposes.

Not as detailed as these, and using 90/45 degree angles in keeping with the rest of their graphics.

https://developer.rebble.io/guides/app-resources/system-font...

If we're pulling LotR references, a white plaza with one tree is the Court of the Fountain at the top of Minas Tirith

Looking for sawdust is a far cry from having a leaderboard of who turned the most wood and electricity into dumpsters full of sawdust

Made up how? They'll do a refresh of lower end devices, but not the high core count versions.

It's the same thing as how the Mac Studio got an M4 Max refresh, but they didn't make an M4 Ultra so if you want the 28+ core CPU or 60+ core GPU, that's still using an M3 Ultra.

This time it'll be across all the Pro, Max, and Ultra versions, if you want those they'll stay at the previous generation for the M6 cycle.

Not that weird - Apple has a huge set of chips and hardware and software products. Putting every single thing on a fixed identical update cycle together won't always make sense.

He is acknowledging that it was a problem and apologizing for it happening, but is not personally taking the blame for causing said problem

I don't have the magazine to verify, but wikipedia says

In 2005, Retro Gamer called Snes9x "the best SNES emulator available".[12]

If there was a Retro Gamer magazine writing about SNES emulators, I think it's safe to say some people did consider even the SNES to be retro, 14 years after its US release. My personal experience having used Snes9x around that time, we also considered it retro.

Clearly not everyone though, which is my point in saying what's retro will depend on who you ask.

In 2000 when the PS2 came out was the NES a retro console?

It was 17 years old, or 14 years since wide distribution in the USA.

What counts as "retro" basically comes down to when the person you ask was born.

See also, the iTunes EULA forbids using it to develop nuclear, missile, chemical, or biological weapons

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/term...

g. You may not use or otherwise export or re-export the Licensed Application except as authorized by United States law and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Licensed Application was obtained. In particular, but without limitation, the Licensed Application may not be exported or re-exported (a) into any U.S.-embargoed countries or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's Specially Designated Nationals List or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Persons List or Entity List. By using the Licensed Application, you represent and warrant that you are not located in any such country or on any such list. You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons.

Though it doesn't try to identify if the computer you're running it on is in a weapons lab and forbid playing music... yet

Originally "Lambda School" if BloomTech doesn't ring a bell

I only really use Siri for music control while driving so I haven't tried those (since there's a physical pause/mute button), but I'll have to try that and see if it's the same for me.

Pretty bad if simple one-word commands to system APIs don't work, we had better voice control capability with "Speakable Items" on classic Mac OS.