OrangeMango

I suspect that this is actually a bug in iPadOS.

I've had issues with the USB-C to 3.5mm dongle, including a period of time in which it was completely non-functional. But then a week ago I noticed out of the corner of my eye that my iPad (the new Pro 11) was rebooting itself. And now the dongle works perfectly again.

Give it a shot - if it starts acting goofy again, reboot your iPad and see if that "fixes" it. I'm going to pay attention to it for a while and file a bug report if it looks to be correlated.

Yeah, so my thought when I bought it was to offer to sell it back to Disney for $25k or something. I could most likely get a pro-bono defense while Disney would pay a lot more than that in a lawsuit which I would most likely win. Most likely. I still haven't acted on it yet.

At a rummage sale a few years ago, I bought a book published by Disney in the 1960s or 1970s which had instructions on how to make Mickey Mouse puppets. It also said to "have fun" making them. Selling things for a profit is a lot of fun.

As far as I'm concerned, I now have a perpetual, transferable license to make and sell Mickey Mouse puppets. I even asked a lawyer.

Interesting, that must be why the coax port survived from engineering to production.

Back in the day, almost all cell phones had a miniature coax port on them. They were "hidden" in that you probably had to pry off some nondescript part or open the battery cover up or something.

This is how we tested mobile networks. It works great. The only problem is when someone forgets to make a tight connection or attach a signal attenuator. Since the first thing you always test is emergency calls, once in a while your call ends up on the real mobile network and the fire department shows up in your parking lot. This happened about once or twice a month where I worked. They knew what our business was so they were never mad at us, but we had to pay a fine each time.

> Developers are your biggest cost

This is unlikely to be true. Bad decisions are your biggest cost.

An employee has a "return multiplier" - for every dollar you spend on them, what is the return to the business? Sometimes it is high. If so, the developer is very cheap. Sometimes is it low, or negative. If so, the developer is expensive.

Why would it be high or low? Part of that is developer skill, but mostly it is how well your organization runs itself and makes decisions.

It's a good thing there is a limit to nested replies, because this could go on for a really long time.

I guess the issue I have is that you have mentioned "cheap gamble" and "if things work out". This is not what they are claiming, except in the fine print.

Institutions that last a long time plan for changes in management. Contracts are part of that. I think I understand their vision, but they need to put themselves out there and be willing to be hauled into court to make "permanent" happen. If that's not what they are saying, then I guess I just don't understand.

I think that this is a pretty fair rebuttal, but I'm not sure I personally am convinced. First of all, this entity is inviting the comparison and second, they are saying that $10 is all you need to have something stored in perpetuity.

The term that I think you are looking for is called "deaccessioning" and Wikipedia has what I believe is a good page about it. Sometimes there are conditions, and the museum may have to go to court to be allowed to move forward (and a judge may not allow it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaccessioning_(museum)

People who give money to museum and university endowments typically attach conditions that are very much meant to be litigated if they are ever violated. The recipient expects this. They don't make promises to donors, they sign contracts that force them to use the money the way the donor wants them to.

These terms and conditions are ridiculous if they want to be compared to museums and universities.

The Swift Playgrounds app has meant that a swift compiler has existed on the iPad for years. Will the XCode app mean just Swift, or will it allow for Objective-C and C/C++?

It will be interesting to see how this progresses.

Many smartwatches have the hardware to measure oxygen saturation, though not all have it enabled. For example, all Apple Watches have hardware for it, and rumors (from before Covid was declared a pandemic) suggested that the next OS version would enable it. Depending on your worry level, you might want to wait to see what happens.

Also, this article mentions that people are subconsciously altering their breathing/heart rate when affected. If you already have a smart watch that is tracking your heart rate, you may be able to infer this condition by monitoring heart rate deviations from normal.

And you get the entire month of may to take delivery. If you become an accidental owner of crude oil tomorrow, you still have time to arrange a solution with someone that can take it. Financially, it doesn't sound like a good situation to be in though.

In the aftermath of 9/11, nobody wanted to live in skyscrapers. But that fear soon faded and prices went back up.

It's probably too early to tell if this is a lasting trend.

Sometimes I wonder if we will ever reach the point at which the people that Amazon would never employ combined with the people who would never agree to be employed by Amazon leaves them with fewer people than they need.

Tax Increment Financing. A city designates a geographic zone and all property tax money collected in that zone above a certain baseline amount goes into an account that is separate from the city budget account. The city then spends that money on development as they so choose. Some places allow it and some don't. Some places abuse it and some don't. But in general you can expect TIF money to be given directly to a developer to encourage them to build something within that zone.

One of the big problems is that that extra money is diverted away from the city budget for 20-30 years. The area I live in used to be inside a TIF (it expired). During that time, only about 10% of my property tax money went to the city. We had overcrowded schools getting 10% of the money they normally would have received. The library got 10% of the money it normally would have. Some of that TIF money went to build a basketball stadium. In a final gesture of goodwill (I guess), when the TIF expired they spent the final ~$40 million in the TIF account on an elementary school.

Interesting, thanks. I'll look more into that :)

Isn't this what Groupon started out as?

It's likely to cannibalize sales from their higher-priced phones, but better to sell a cheaper phone than to lose the customer entirely.

I noticed that if you scroll down to the bottom of the press release, they are also accepting orders for the magic iPad keyboard as of today...

Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyRdJr4LSc

FYI, the reason that song means something is because this is the train line that Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to create and has been running daily service almost uninterrupted since the end of the Civil War.

And the Apple Watch already has rudimentary controls for iPhone cameras built in. Without too much effort, it should be possible to have some broadcast-focused control in place, possibly even coordinated/controlled by the broadcaster.

I personally never trust anything that says lifetime guarantee. It just can't happen except in very unusual circumstances.

I do have an anecdote that disproves my theory, however. My grandmother used to be an AT&T telephone operator, before they were broken up. As a retiree, she has "free lifetime AT&T", which they have been honoring even as the new company is not the company she retired from. She literally dials 0 and asks the person to connect her call for her. It costs her nothing.

> Many small mom and pop shops are not coming back.

Yes, many of the ones that shut will not reopen. But new ones will be started. Over time, not all at once.

Part of my day job is maintaining our home-grown data processing system on an old VMS (Itanium) cluster. We've been trying to get rid of it for close to 7 years now but don't seem much closer than when we started.

For things that OpenVMS is good at, it is REALLY good at. Everything else... is pretty antiquated.

Cluster-wide batch queues built-in, a cluster-wide file system, etc.

Samba support is awful, though.

This is awful; it's a way for TurboTax to collect more information about people. They need an address and banking information and conveniently they mention for-profit services to "help" with this.

The actual IRS and Treasury Dept are working to make as many of these informational returns as unnecessary as possible, and actual homeless services in various cities are going to be able to pick up where that leaves off, giving homeless people the FULL amount of their stimulus check.

I found a couple of old iPods in the bottom of a box in my closet a month or two ago. My kids were interested so I dug around until I found one of those 30-pin cables. Plugged it into my Mac; it worked fine. I transferred a bunch of songs they wanted and the kids have been listening to them since. For one of them, Apple even had a software update available for it.

Exactly.

A pandemic scenario was modeled/tested just last year [1]. Some participating states appear to have learned from it, other not so much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Contagion

My wife prefers the SE as well, and I got a couple spares by offering whatever the trade-in value was plus $10 or $20 for great condition phones.

You might be able to still find some and at this point they'll only cost you $50 or less.