It changes regularly, and by significant amounts. Magnetic north can drift 45km to 55km per year, and in the article it was talking about a major airport in Canada, the Calgary airport, where even slightly out of date maps were off by as much as 7°. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/tracking-changes-earth-magnet...
Will it require repainting? Probably not, but the further north you go, the more noticeable even minor drift or fluctuations will be.
Same, most of my friends aren't on Mastodon, many of the content creators I'm interested in aren't either. And trying to explain Mastodon to random non-technical people is frustrating, they don't want to think about the social service, they just want to use it. Having to think about providers and federation and compatibility is too much effort for posting cat photos. So they stay on Facebook.
For Shatner it seemed like he had a profound life-enhancing experience. For everyone else it looked like they were celebrating after some sort of extreme sport, or a roller coaster. It's hard to judge just by outward appearances, and the adrenalin rush must be intense, but no one else, even Bezos, seemed to really appreciate the enormity of the experience.
The biggest problem I've faced with their app suite is it seems to make my disks spin 24/7, constantly seeking even if there is zero external activity. It wouldn't be such a big problem if I didn't live in a small apartment and have to listen to them seek all night. Other people have reported the issue, but it doesn't seem like they plan on addressing it.
Vehicles made a massive leap forward with the introduction of electronic components - fuel injection, oxygen sensors, throttle control. Not to mention essential safety components like traction control computers and anti-lock braking. There's no way a vehicle without these features would pass any sort of environmental or safety regulation today.
Or, just a thought, design an identifier where compromising one system doesn't immediately compromise all the individual data contained within it. SSN breaches only really hurt because its exposure means instant compromise of identity, whereas a system with some sort of partial key, signature, etc, where the user retains a portion means they have to compromise the database and the user, and if a "central" system (i.e. government, private key issuer, etc) is compromised you can re-issue the user identifier portions.
If anything it might encourage companies to smarten up if there was a law on the books that required companies that get compromised to pay for the re-issuing of the user tokens to every impacted individual.
The _initial_ implementation of client-side scanning has the same initial result, but vastly different futures. Up until now it could be (foolishly or otherwise) assumed that Apple had your personal privacy in mind. Now they have demonstrated a willingness to compromise your local device privacy. Right now it's iCloud only, but I'm sure it's a boolean configuration away somewhere to make it scan everything, regardless of whether it's marked for iCloud upload or not. And I don't think Apple is strong enough to withstand a gagged demand to flip that boolean.
On their cloud services (Apple, Google, MS, etc) they can only get to content that a user has implicitly agreed to share (whether or not they understand the ramifications is another conversation). On your device, there's no more separation.
Plausible deniability or not, it could have real impact if Apple decides to implement the policy of locking your account after tripping the threshold, which you then have to wait or fight to get unlocked. Or now you have police records against you for an investigation that lead nowhere. It's not a zero impact game if I can spam a bunch of grey blobs to people and potentially have a chain of human failures that leads police knock down your door.
Why move it on-device then? They've made no announcement or attempt to encrypt iCloud backups, so they are free to keep scanning on their servers. Moving it on-device has zero value-add for iPhone users, it only serves as a Trojan Horse for any future "scanning" projects that they may adopt, willingly or otherwise.
> Mr Federighi said the "soundbyte" that spread after the announcement was that Apple was scanning iPhones for images.
But that's exactly what's happening? Most people using an iPhone sync photos with iCloud (especially after they introduced the more cost-effective 2TB Apple One plan), images are scanned before they are uploaded to iCloud, ergo Apple will be scanning the iPhone for images.
I'm not sure it's that straightforward, if it's their name on the case and they was totally absent, that would be a huge liability for them and the hospital.
Newbies need to learn, there's only so many cadavers you can cut into before you need experience on living flesh. Experienced surgeons are often observing the procedure, and step in as necessary if there is a complex part, or if the junior isn't doing something correctly.
Beyond just the surgeon there is a good number of incredibly professional secondary staff who are running the whole operating theatre, from imaging, instrument preparation, to labs and vitals. When you speak to a surgeon you're not just getting them, you get their entire team, junior to professional.
CIRA isn't government owned or backed, it's a member-directed not-for-profit organization. The government doesn't have anything beyond a non-voting board seat.
But they are selling both under their store-brand ReliOn. The less effective original formulation for $25, and the analog is the more effective one being sold at $86. Still an absurdly high cost in my opinion, but to get the higher quality analog insulin for like a quarter of the price of the name brands is going to be life saving for a lot of people.
I mean, I legitimately wouldn't be surprised if they took political prisoners if Fastmail showed up to court to fight, or hammer out an agreement. Let alone what they would end up having to submit to while operating within the country. Russia is known to be pretty hostile towards the west.
I don't think it's up to Fastmail to fix the nonsense coming out of the Kremlin. The Russian government wants them to basically compromise their service to comply with their spying needs, Fastmail simply opted out. I think they chose a reasonable option.
I actually avoid the used video card market now, the resale price is insanely high and odds are the card was driven as hard as possible for months at a time mining crypto before being swapped out for the latest and greatest.
Amazing! This guide got me into network programming back when I was still on rural dial-up. It helped me through various programming courses in high school and university, and I still occasionally refer to it from time to time. Thanks for your contributions, they really improved my quality of life!
I ended up buying a couple stocks late in the game, fully expecting to lose the money. First, it's not my retirement or long-term cash, more of a hobby. And that hobby quickly turned into sending a message after watching those rich SOBs literally cry about being hurt by the free market, and then try and end/manipulate it to their advantage.
Are you me? We had an (admittedly more complex) monolith application for customer contracts and billing. It wasn't ideal, and was getting long in the tooth (think Perl Catalyst and jQuery), so the powers that be wanted to build a new service. But instead of decomposing the monolith into a few more loosely integrated services, they went way overboard with 20+ microservices, every DB technology imagineable (Oracle RDBMS, Mongo, MariaDB), a full message bus via RabbitMQ, and some crazy AWS orchestration to manage it all.
What could've been an effort to split the existing service into manageable smaller services and rewrite components as needed turned into a multi-year ground-up effort. When I left they were no where near production ready, with significant technical debt and code rot from already years out of date libraries and practices.
Millennial peer, I feel like it's been a treadmill, forever running but no progress. Living in first in Ottawa then Toronto, I watched affordability of housing slip from attainable in 3-5 years after graduating to virtually impossible without being extremely house poor. That's excluding the crazy high cost of living in general, and the feeling like employers are working to crush an ever-increasing amount of time out of employees. Why bring a kid into this prison? So they can work harder and fall even further behind than I am?
It wasn't overnight for me, habits take time to change. Not to mention unravelling my entire life. I think I started de-Googling my life in 2018. Moved away from Google Domains, moved to a custom-domain email address at Fastmail, moving all my subscriptions/accounts/miscellaneous stuff to said new email, when I got a new phone I setup Authy instead of re-adding everything to Google Authenticator, the list goes on.
At this point I still maintain my GMail account for stragglers, which forwards to my new domain. I still use YouTube since most of my favourite creators are still exclusively on there, though I have moved to Vimeo or Patreon whenever possible. I use Chrome at work due to policy, but I use Firefox at home. I don't think it's possible for me to 100% decouple, but I am no longer dependent on them, nor are they getting the bulk of my information. I think I can live with that.
I think this is a situation where having loss of smell is a strong indicator of having COVID, but not having loss of smell doesn't imply testing negative.
I doubt they make much YouTube revenue, they also have 14,856 patrons on Patreon. Probably the only reason that it's worthwhile for them to continue to make such high quality animated videos.
That's a fairly old statistic to pick, not sure if it was intentional or not, but the reality is lithium battery production has grown significantly since 2016 and shows no signs of stopping. The largest manufacturer in China, CATL is estimated to grow its capacity beyond 307GWh by 2028 [2].
"In 2019, LG Chem had the most lithium battery production capacity at over 50 GWh. LG Chem [is] increasing EV battery production capacity to as much as 110GWh by the end of 2020."
The design of a modern grid with battery storage would change as well - no reason to have singular giant storage plants. A mixture of solar, wind, and hydroelectric with distributed storage doesn't need to self-sustain 30GWh of storage, it needs to be able to smooth distribution and handle peaks. It'd be far more honest to look at seasonal average loads versus peaks, plus a buffer.
That would be a welcome improvement in my workspace. A glass cube would grant me a little extra space, a bit more peace and quiet, and protect me from all of my neighbours breathing on me constantly.
Worst thing is that new commercial plates do have "Open for Business" on them. Fun fact, a lot of those black license plates on pickup trucks are commercial-style plates, meaning all the redneck truck-driving coal-rolling Conservative base will be cruising around with "Open for Business" on their trucks once the new plate designs come into effect.
Yeah that sounds a lot like American propaganda about the Canadian healthcare system. All of my family has had their surgeries done in Canada, and while there is a needs-based component the wait times aren't ridiculous.
Publicly funded healthcare may not solve all issues, but it removes the perverse incentive to refuse or reduce care quality because you don't have access to insurance or cash. Free market means shit to me if I'm mid-heart attack, I don't have the time to review pamphlets about why ABC hospital has the best care for the low-low price of $4999!
Similarly until last year I never knew that people actually could visualize things when they closed their eyes. I thought it was more of a metaphor. But alas when I close my eyes it's darkness. Thankfully I have my internal monologue to describe things to me in that darkness.