Slippery_John

Hey, if what you have works for you then by all means keep using it. Less e-waste is always a good thing. If this new machine can save you time, maybe it's worth an upgrade. My last upgrade brought my compile times down more than five minutes, which makes it absolutely worth the cost. It looks like one of these new MBPs might do that again, so I'm going to get one.

Another thing to consider is that it may be marginally easier on you to develop on an ARM machine if you're planning on deploying to ARM servers, though this depends heavily on your workload.

This seems a little bit like Reccatier in that you're going into a dungeon to get things to sell in a shop you manage. I'm very excited for it!

I switched from Android to iPhone a few years ago and certainly don't miss having to sort through a sea of models when looking for something new. I keep all my old devices to use for hobby projects, so I appreciate the longevity of updates that Apple gives.

If you're looking for a great camera, a new iPhone will certainly give that to you. And of course you'll almost certainly get a long tail of os upgrades like you've had with your 6s, so if you keep it for 5+ years the price is more tolerable. A 64gb 12 mini can be had for 800 CAD new. And you can certainly get cheaper if you buy second-hand.

No. Magsafe is a different port. The magsafe cable is magsafe on one end, usb-c on the other. The magsafe end being the bit that pushes power out.

That seems like it would be difficult data to gather. Reduced availability certainly can reduce demand by itself, somebody might give up if the thing isn't available after a while. I, for instance, would love to upgrade if I could get ahold of one of the things. If I still can't walk into a store and get one two months from now then I'll just wait it out another generation.

> FaceID continues not to work with face masks on

Well.... it does if you have an apple watch. I would still rather have a touch id option though.

It's a remarkably poorly insulated 5 bedroom home with a purely global temperature control (i.e. she can't just cool / heat her bedroom). I gave her a bunch of money to do renovations so hopefully that goes down significantly.

People use horse dewormer to treat covid, it's really not surprising that they'd inject shroom juice.

If you want to learn about one case of this, there's a doctor on YouTube that does great narrative style videos of things like this that are very easy to understand with links to sources. He did a great video on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmiowRlk8Xc

An interesting tidbit I learned from that video is that psilocybin isn't known to be active, but your liver breaks it down to psilocin which is.

Absolutely. Everybody I know who has done shrooms in a responsible manner (starting small to test tolerances, having a sober friend as spotter) has usually had a great time and never had a bad trip become a tragedy.

Also, for the love of god, don't inject shroom tea. It only becomes psychoactive if you digest it, and the spores can actually start to grow in your bloodstream which is definitely a bad time.

We use technologically hidden costs to make up for a lot of the difference. For instance, European homes seem to be built to self-regulate temperature much more effectively than American homes are. Americans then make up for the difference with air conditioning. The initial costs may be lower, but there's an ongoing (and often massive) recurring cost that isn't readily apparent. My mom's home in Indiana, for instance, has an electric bill in the range of $600/month during peak of the hot months which is just nuts to me. The place just wasn't built to use passive cooling techniques.

True. Personally I'd be happy with that myself, but that definitionally makes me a non-vegan

Vegan doesn't follow from ethical. While this would technically qualify as vegan, most people also have a pretty strong stance against cannibalism even if voluntary.

Veganism as an ethical principle is very simple - the use of any products created from or by animals is unethical. Since you still have to get your stem cells and fetal serum from somewhere, cultured meat isn't vegan. Even if you managed to get self-renewing stem cells and a different growth medium, you still have that initial gathering of stem cells making it non-vegan.

> The other big players have been moving in that direction

Not so, TikTok actively lets you download videos in a convenient format. I think that helped it grow too, since they embed a watermark and add a splash screen at the end. Certainly that's how I first found out about the platform. That said, this seems to be disabled in some regions (not sure if you can opt in).

> it doesn't have background playback

Good grief. Just cut out the dead weight like those dreadful "originals" and youtube music

I've had the taskbar at the top of the screen for well over ten years. When I want to know the time I look in the top right corner, same as on my mac. Tray icons are also in that same corner, just like on mac. Sure mac dock can't be put up there, but I just use spotlight (as I use the start menu search on windows).

I'm planning on staying on windows 10 until they pry it from my cold, dead hands. I already had reservations before, but breaking my muscle memory like that is the last straw. Though I suppose I'll have to eventually update when software starts only working on it.

A recent Windows update caused frequent BSODs with a fun variety of error codes. This would happen fast enough that I couldn't even roll back the update. So I had to wipe my hard drive and re-install the entire OS from a flash drive. I've never had a macOS update cause such a catastrophic failure.

The goose brand is less spicy and is WAY sweeter. I had my family in the states send me some of the Huy Fong stuff because I couldn't stand the sweetness of the goose brand.

This. My parents never let me have soda or juice when I was just thirsty. That probably had more to do with saving money than health, but the constant repetition of "if you're thirsty, drink water" has been etched into my soul.

As an American abroad I'm very jealous. I've strongly considered flying back to the states to get vaccinated.

I guess it depends on how you look at it. I got an apple watch that I wear all the time and I occasionally find the data interesting. For instance, I was able to see in absolute terms just how much cutting out coffee improved my sleep (went from averaging ~6 hours 10 min to ~7 hours asleep). I don't look at the data all the time though.

Costs aside, lets not pretend the viaduct was removed just to improve property values. The thing was a ticking time bomb that would have killed dozens or hundreds of people the next time a moderately sized earthquake hit, to say nothing of the cost of cleaning up the damage and replacing it.

Speaking a somebody who lived in the area both before and after the demolition (not a property owner), the whole place is just so much more beautiful. Some commuters may have lost a view, but what they lost pedestrians all over the area gained. Even outside of the waterfront itself, the view from the street level in the adjoining neighborhoods is gorgeous now.

There's plenty of space. I've walked by countless empty lots and abandoned buildings that could easily fit dozens or hundreds of new apartments. I'm sure there's plenty of ridiculous legal challenges to actually building on those spots, but that doesn't mean that there's no land available.

Why would she care so much - she's not living there anymore and isn't renting it so she'll never have to deal with them again.

It's not that simple. Buying $500k of stocks does not mean you gave $500k to a company to use unless the stocks were bought directly from them. More likely it was bought from another investor with cold feet, and at best the company benefited from the increased stock price generated by the demand.

There is simply no way that is going on with Costco.

One thing that I would really like to see is a sort of hybrid between Factorio and a colony type game. Imagine that instead of crash landing by yourself, you crash land with an entire group of people that you have to protect and provide for while you bootstrap yourself up to getting everybody off planet. For those who don't like biters, it can provide another means of making pollution matter. For those who do, it adds another interesting complication.

Along with that, I'd like to see more green energy. Wind power, for instance, could be an early game technology that competes with boilers. Naturally it would need to cost more and / or produce less. Perhaps also geothermal power that must be generated at a particular location.

Of course, more could be done with water. Boats, offshore resources, aquatic biters? Depletion of water resources so you don't have a one tile pond cooling 4 nuclear reactors? Or making the water less useful the more polluted it is.

So many possibilities.

Well it doesn't really matter if a word is borrowed from another language. A loan word is still a word. Ketchup and tycoon are English words, garage is an English word, schadenfreude is an English word. The fact that these are also words in other languages doesn't change that.

That said I can sympathize with wanting to preserve language, but it ultimately can't be controlled without buy-in from the people. On that vein I wonder how effective the French Academy is at combating anglicization.

I've used Simple since they became available on Android. At the time I had an account with Wells Fargo, but it was just a nightmare. I was working minimum wage, more or less paycheck to paycheck. I had been burned several times by those predatory overdraft fees, and they had started to introduce minimum balance fees.

Switching to Simple was a breath of fresh air. I didn't have to worry about any of those fees anymore. I could look at their tiny list of possible fees and know what to expect rather than having to deal with the nightmare of poor information that I had before. They saved me so much money, and helped me get out of the paycheck-to-paycheck spiral.

Like you the budgeting feature have been incredibly powerful for me too. Being able to hide away money without risking an overdraft or declined payment was a game changer.

Now I find myself in a very unfortunate position where I'm not even in the states so I'm not sure how I'm going to manage a switch to somebody else.

> The attachable tablet keyboards can't really be used comfortably on the go - commuting, sofa surfing etc

I disagree. I use mine for just these purposes, and I find the ipad to be significantly more comfortable to use than any of my laptops.

> not some flimsy magnetic lock

I've found it to be pretty sturdy. I've only owned the iPad Pro though, perhaps it has a more sturdy keyboard than other models.

This is not disposable emails, this is plus addressing. Plus addressing is only useful so long as everybody plays nice. Back when I used gmail I noted several services that would either not accept an email with a plus or that would strip it out. A truly disposable email would not allow a simple regex replace to get your permanent address.

Catchall addressing is infinitely more useful to an end user, but comes with the caveat of requiring you to pay for a domain (and almost certainly hosting too) and setting it up. I've actually caught a security breach this way, seemingly before the service in question. Sadly said service concluded after a few weeks that there was not breach, so I just filter out that email now.