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It's not a direct substitute at all. It's not intended to be. And--it's on the vendors for making crap software and not keeping up.

No, the users need to be able to check for conformance. What we also need is for vendors to supply test platforms. Amazon, to its small credit, does this, which is good, because the subset of html/css they support is limited and poorly documented. Heck, I'd be happy if Apple, Kobo, and everyone else just kept good documentation and up to date!

Though these days I have to spend more time worrying about EAA and ADA compliance than anything else.

'transitioned'

If you get a document from someone and they say "I have no idea if this has any value and I couldn't be arsed to check," it's not unreasonable to presume that it probably has no value.

I will do yeast-raised waffles but usually don't bother with pancakes. I usually don't have buttermilk so I mix yogurt and milk. I just eyeball it, about 1/4-1/3 yogurt makes a good consistency. While food science is fun, there's no way I'm doing that much work on a Saturday morning.

There's no environmental cost for ebooks? Are they produced by magic?

I have a fair number of autographed books, but I work in publishing so a lot of them are signed by friends and people I've worked with. Which means there's no way I'd willingly part with them. I'm less interested in 'collecting' as such so much any more. And my cookbooks all show visible signs of use.

Yeah, my dad couldn't understand why I kept my first car for ten years. He kept bugging me to trade it in. Even then, I couldn't afford to. But cars do last longer, on average now. Admittedly, the two I had were both Hondas, and they don't die.

My dad was of the new-car-every-three years generation. I had two cars for a combined 27 years. And the second one I bought used, with 48K miles already on it. For most of the time I had those cars, fixing them was far less expensive than buying a new car (we had a budget of about $1200/yr for that, most years that was enough). For the amount we actually needed a car (which is now none) the cost of a new car would have been insane.

A monk asked Zhao Zhou, "Does even the AI have Buddha-nature?" Zhao Zhou kicked the monk in the nuts.

"he was on a 72-day shipping streak."

This guy seriously needs to find a hobby.

Whatever you can ship, I can ship better. I can ship anything better than you.

The search seems a bit weird. A search for salmon includes almonds in the results, and a search for spinach includes Tahitian taro.

That was my impression also. Anyone working with complex xml documents is going to want xslt/xpath 2 and 3 and probably xquery as well. This isn't going to offer any improvement over that.

This is definitely sending some mixed messages. BSD is stable, but the software he tries to install keeps crashing. BSD is really fast, but everything takes longer to do. Just reading this, I have no idea if I can use this for anything or not! (And I say that knowing the Mac I'm typing on right now has BSD ancestry in its kernel.)

"But to date, the settings on these tools are somewhat oblique to end users."

At least we can say this wasn't written by AI. Only a human with a spellchecker would have made this error.

And have been convinced there is no alternative. And if you suggest investing in public transit or building mixed-use neighborhoods that don't require car access they'll pop their suburbanite heads.

"Most people default to automating tasks they dislike rather than tasks most valuable to the company,"

Well, no shit, but also: suggests those tasks have questionable value? And also: this is why I learned to write code in the first place.

1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.'2 And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.'

3 And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.'4 And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.'5 And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens?'6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying:7 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.'

10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying: 'Thus saith Pharaoh: I will not give you straw.11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.13 And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore?'

Price goes up, people are facing other inflationary pressures, worries about job security, etc. New phone is totally optional, easily punted. When was the last time phones had a really good new feature? (says guy with 2020 iphone SE that still works just fine)

Tech CEOs are psychotic. Most CEOs are psychotic, disconnected from most of the actual work going under them. This is just a new drug for them to huff.

When we get a Word doc from an author it is sent to the typesetter for reformatting. A standard set of style codes is applied and other corrections made so it can be directly imported into the design template. This the version the copyeditor works on. Also: once proofs are set this version is basically trash. In ye olde dayes, when this was all done on paper, the edited ms would eventually go back to the author, but sometimes they didn't want it. Now when the book is done the production manuscript files get deleted.

For ebook production, you could definitely do worse than follow Standard Ebooks' method. That will get you a decent standards-compliant file with basic accessibility features accounted for.

If you live in a house long enough, you will have to deal with things. There will at some point, be a new roof, a new furnace. New windows. Some of it will be optional, some will not. If you are renting, part of your rent is going to the landlord to cover these things. And you are dependent on them doing it. One way or another you are the one paying. If you own, at least you have the choice of doing it the way you like.

Probably the biggest factor of considering the rent/buy question is how long to do you expect to be there. We paid off our mortgage after 16 years, so now it's 'free', except for ongoing maintenance and taxes. And we're looking at some nontrivial reno in the future: the kitchen is quite beat, and someday we'll need to deal with the asbestos siding (one of four layers on the house!). But it least it's our choice.

How is 'person only looking at ad because they're getting paid to do that' a better model? Advertisers presumably want ads to go to people who might be interested in what is being advertised. But if other people are willing to take the bullet, and it means less crap for me to have to look at, sure why not.

>Digital ad fraud is projected to cost brands $172B by 2028.

There's another obvious solution to that.

Your local library keeps papyrus scrolls on open stacks? I mean, sure, yes, there are libraries that haves such things (the university I work for does), but generally they will be kept in special boxes and you need to ask nicely to get to see them. And don't get me started about the crapitude of your average new book these days. Personally, I prefer print books too, but lasting forever is not really why.

We've always used this in our ebooks for abbreviation and glossary lists. The problem I've always had is that you need to use a bit of css to make two lined-up columns. I've done it with floats. Now, some ebook readers will support grid and flex-box, which give better results, but the Kindle still does not. Kindle is sort of the IE6 of the ebook world.

I would not have believed that they had 'engineering' or 'operations'.

too bad they can't send all the billionaires.

Yes. One of the tools they created was a special high-speed optical shutter. Those microsecond exposures that make the explosion look like an expanding bubble wouldn't have been possible with a mechanical shutter. EG&G was involved in building equipment for the testing program for many years.