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>> Robust Wire / USB Cable

This is one cost-cutting area that drives me nuts. As the PC price wars raged on, keyboards got cheaper and cheaper. Wires got thinner, and shorter. HP/Dell give you something like a 3 foot cable these days. You can't keep your PC on the floor or route around monitors anmymore.

I liked the old days, where you got a 6+ feet long cord on your keyboard.
Some? Given how much blatant propaganda I see in my Facebook feed, from very clearly real people, who very clearly believe the garbage they spew, I would say that the correct answer is most.

There's no shortage of people who will happily repeat the most inane, counterfactual political rhetoric. Don't assume they are paid shills, bots, or foreign spies.
I've been using nightly and developer edition. It's greatly improved. I still don't think it's as good as Safari, but it's at least as good as Chrome. I've gotten nearly 3 hours of battery life back from these improvements.
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I wonder how many of the features advertised here will make it onto the Android 10 release of other OEMs. In Android 9 for example, the ability to select text via OCR in the recent apps screen was limited to only the Pixel devices for some strange reason even though all Android devices had access to that feature prior to the release of Google Assistant via the Google app.

In a similar vein, Digital Wellbeing was officially limited to Pixel devices and Android One devices although it could be sideloaded onto other phones (where it ran perfectly fine) running Android 9+.
No, it uses the app's API to do that. However, the push notification from GCM does come from google and is possibly read though.
Looks more like an ad for https://picovoice.ai/products/cheetah.html
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> Stuff breaks when it is hacked.

Yep, but you have to grade it based on likelyhood. Which costs more, a thing that doesn't work right now or a thing that might not work in the future, maybe. If you can make it work now and be secure, good, otherwise people will, quite rationally, prefer that it work.
Because it works on all apps not just audio books
That's like E-TLS. The enterprise version of TLS.
> People aren't happy about it though, so promising to remove the taxes is a way to win votes at the next election. The incentive becomes a voter bargaining chip rather than an practical long term solution.

Maybe, but that hasn't really been how most other taxes have worked. Cigarettes for instance are heavily taxed, but you don't see a lot of people running on reducing those taxes.

> We need a solution that actually stops a majority of people wanting to fly so much, then removing the taxation isn't a way to win votes, and consequently it remains in place as disincentive to those who do want to fly.

It seems to me that raising the price of travel will stop people wanting to fly so much. I think the problem with flight right now is it got just cheap enough that the upper-middle class can afford to do it quite frequently. And once that happens, it starts to permeate the culture in the way that you are now seeing. If you double the cost, it will start to fade back out again.

Additionally, while leisure travel might be the most visible to a lot of people, there is a tremendous amount of business travel, and that probably makes up the majority of all air traffic. If I had to guess, i'd say 80% of that business travel is unnecessary. For instance, I work at a financial firm, and that firm employs analysts who study companies. Periodically these analysts fly out to go to "investor days" and do things like meet with company management. The marginal utility of them being physically in the same space as these people is probably quite close to zero. If the cost of flights were substantially increased, my guess is that they would stop this practice entirely, or curtail it quite a bit.
You can see an example of population shrinking in Japan, and yet urban centers are getting denser, so I don't think reduction in population is a solution.
Also, it's easy to imagine that there are a lot of "unskilled" betters, i.e. old folks betting for the thrill of it, people betting a few bucks just for kicks, ... With wall street, there might be a few unskilled people, but they are probably a small minority.
Two women qualify for the PDC’s world championship every year (https://www.pdc.tv/news/2019/06/10/womens-qualifiers-dates-c...). (I think they are free to qualify through the normal tournaments, too)

I’m not aware any of them ever won a match (but I also don’t follow this closely)

Also, this article seems to be about the top women playing in the BDO. Like in boxing, darts has multiple organizations organizing a world championship. Most of the really good male players play in the competing PDC. Comparing http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=... (profile of one of the players featured in this article) with http://www.dartsdatabase.co.uk/PlayerDetails.aspx?playerKey=... (best female player I could find) that may not be the case here, but Lisa Ashton at her peak seems to have been a better player than Mikuru Suzuki is today.
It really doesn't need to if the messages are coming from Google, right?
The study is about plant-based diets, not "vegetarian food."

I don't have access to the article, so I'm not sure what they define as a plant-based diet, but Harvard defines them as a diet focused mostly on plants, not one that omits meat (vegetarian) and/or animal products completely (Vegan).

I wouldn't argue a diet based around plants is more healthy than one that is not, but I wouldn't generalize and say vegetarian (read: no meat) is more healthy than one that does involve meat.

> How is "marginally more healthy _at_ best" defined?

Just comparing the nutritional values between 4oz of beef vs 4oz of Beyond Meat.
Looks groovy, but my 2 year old LG is stuck at Android 8 with Security updates stopped in January.

I wish android hardware was better supported for the long haul. I would even go as far as saying i would pay yearly for android maintenance than to pitch my phone for a OS update. My phone has plenty of power....at least we have XDA forums.
Thanks. I'm working on addressing that now.

I'm currently at 1,800 words to explain the use of my affiliate links for an upcoming post. Then I will modify my static site generator to auto-insert a 1 line sentence into any post with an affiliate link.

It will be a couple of hours or even a day for all of that to materialize since I need to balance that into a full day's work but I do want to get it out asap, so maybe tonight I'll be going to bed late. :D
Also from the paper

>At present, it is not possible to draw a conclusion whether nicotine itself may act as a complete carcinogen

If you're going to quote it, include the bits that don't agree with you as well. The paper basically says "it may affect the role of other cancer causing agents, but we're not sure yet. We cannot say that nicotine is, in and of itself, a carcinogen"

Also reach back in time 30 minutes and remember that you claimed nicotine is, by itself, a "well known carcinogen", which is false.
Not taking anything away from your point, I think we should also have real negative consequences for the people who commit security breaches.

There is a real social stigma with regard to committing robbery, burglary, breaking and entering, etc. I feel like there isn't so much with online crime. As a community we really pile the blame on the victim for not be prepared and seem to give the perpetrators a pass for taking advantage of the situation.

Also, there is a real tension between anonymity on the Internet and the ability to identify perpetrators. It is a difficult tradeoff.
Update: Banned from Google Ads for Using Apple Card
Thanks to you and the other commenter on these options, would love to replace my current A/C unit with something that seems more intelligently designed.
Android OS features can't be updated from PlayStore, other than the WebView.
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Mobile phones at this point are mature technology (really hard to improve upon).
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The technical answer to the question you asked is "10-20ms, if you're not on an SSD". That's not great, actually, if you're trying to shave tens of milliseconds at a time off startup performance.

For what it's worth, this change happened because people were seeing the stat() call involved in startup profiles, taking sufficient time that it seemed worthwhile to avoid it if possible, as far as I can tell.
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Ah, that's reassuring, I'm rather afraid of anybody who brags about how many LoC their thing is - ideally it is somewhere near the lowest reasonable LoC to get a thing done cleanly and expressively.

Oh, also, Haskell - nice going fridge fellow.
I think at the end of the day, the right conclusion is that an image is exemplary of the process used to create it. If you agree with that, then I hope you'll consider including information about the process along with the image. Without that context, I don't think you can reasonably attribute a "look" to the film itself. Minimally, I think you'd need to know:

A) What's the film format/size?

B) Was it shot and processed normally? (i.e. not pushed, pulled, cross-processed, or developed with a staining developer)

C) Is this image a scan of a negative or a scan of a print?
Nothing unexpected here. Restaurant seems to think they should have major profit share as theirs is main cost and effort to prepare food. Apps guys think there wouldn't be much demand for restaurant food, weren't it for the apps ecosystem.

In my personal experience in India just a couple of decades back restaurants would be frequented by either rich people (obviously) or middle class on a couple of special occasions per year. Nowadays eating outside food even few times per week has become increasingly common. So meal price will be overriding concern with majority of people.

As much as those 'consumer surveys' claim that customers are looking for great quality and new experiences in food. Most folks would rather have average food at low price after an exhausting day. I think apps will have upper hand on this issue. As with all the knowledge of customer preferences for price/taste/cuisine etc they can very well create centralized kitchens producing most demanded items. At that point restaurants will again be in similar place as they were few decades back: filled by well-off patrons or by middle class on rare occasions.
> But alas, iMessage pressure is real in my friend's group.

Man, in my extended family SMS text group, this comes up once every couple weeks. One of us will note they aren't getting a random message, or someone will send a video and the quality will be crap, and the iPhone users will all mention how if we all had iPhones, this wouldn't be a problem.

Cue a few of is getting kind of triggered because it's only Apple's co-opting of SMS on their phones that those people think that's really an Android problem and not some slick marketing on Apple's end to get their users to tell other people how their SMS texting is so much better. Not that we couldn't all just switch to some third party app (or hangouts even), and then we'd all have a comparable experience, but that's entirely lost on most of them, and not worth griping about after the first or second time or you come across as that weird relative that can't just do the easy thing[1]).

I can't wait for RCS messaging. I'm honestly wondering it Apple will support it, or try to segment the text messaging market even more.

1: As if buying a $750 phone is the "easy thing".

Edit: Changed $1000 to $750, since that's the lowest cost I could find for a 1 year old phone, and I don't think buying multiple year old hardware is something you can expect out of someone else, even if it might be my preferred strategy).
Not everybody is going to the exact same spot downtown, and there's also some actual reverse commuting, so there will be some overlap between the to-work and from-work trips, especially where there's the most congestion (I e. Downtown).
The change is unnecessary. You can just rebuild.

If you’ve built once using the standard go module functionality then you will be able to rebuild as long as you don’t pull in more dependencies. Naturally you can move the cache around.
Mozilla killed a private Reading List feature and replaced it with Pocket. They carefully denied getting paid for the integration before eventually revealing that they got paid for new subscriptions. They promised to open source Pocket when they acquired it and still haven't.

What Mozilla calls "the best of Pocket's content" is ads and articles that border on clickbait. Some people don't like marketing doublespeak.
compatibility with iOS file sharing
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Indeed. £10k for the price for 1 Bitcoin is the new normal.
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Maybe the FBI told him to say that in exchange for reduced charges or demonstrate cooperation.
Maybe he thought that analysts wouldn't go for the most obvious thing because he was a hacker.
It's not just green bubbles. Tapbacks are awkward and pictures and videos don't send as reliably.

With my "green bubble" friends, we usually use Telegram or Signal or Keybase instead.

I'd love to see a standardized IM/Text protocol instead of 1000 fragmented platforms. I've got on the order of 10 chat apps on my phone right now, all used in different contexts.
Lots of mention of disintermediation here. What about the relationship between the customer and the company? There are many ways a company with many employees provides value over the initial "discovery". What if schedules need to be adjusted? What if the service provider is sick? What if the service provider breaks something or worse? The business is offering a service not service provider. Take this another way. What about a smaller version of this business? "Bobs dog walking" grows to more customers than Bob can walk in a day. Bob adds employees. Is Bob just a match maker now?
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>which IMO may make it worse than smoking.

This stuff isn't subjective. No one with any amount of credibility attached to their name is making that claim, so what's your basis for it?
Seven psychological phenomena in design, beautifully explained
There's CNN Lite as well. https://lite.cnn.com/en
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So Android couldn't open a .heic file from an iOS user?
> The MPEG group claims that twice as much information can be stored in a HEIF image as in a JPEG image of the same size, resulting in a better quality image. HEIF also supports animation, and is capable of storing more information than an animated GIF at a small fraction of the size.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_F...
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iOS navigation gestures are suspiciously similar to the gestures on the Palm Pre.
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