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Wohlf··on Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources
>Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s
Wohlf··on Activist arrested by London police after downloading docs found on Google search
So do normal people, like reporting "suspicious activity" and SWATing.
Wohlf··on The smart home is flailing as a concept
Building codes are primarily for health and safety, secondarily to prevent getting screwed by contractors. Making rules on batteries makes sense but smart home interoperability less so.
Wohlf··on Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today
This is not true in the majority of the Americas, especially the West Coast.
Wohlf··on Oatly loses trademark battle against British farm over oat milk
A good rule of thumb is low fat = high sugar and vice versa.
Wohlf··on In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
This formulas is for battles, not wars/campaigns.
Wohlf··on Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of reporters, news outlets
The US Constitution doesn't apply to Twitter operations in India.
Wohlf··on NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
It has the same meaning in the US.
Wohlf··on Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing
Land has been the primary driver of wealth for all of human history, very few modern countries are different.
Wohlf··on Why Is It OK to Be Mean to the Ugly?
Why is it okay to be mean to anyone?
Wohlf··on Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse
Gathering more data than you have capacity to process/store.
Wohlf··on US Navy set off a 40k-pound explosive to test its new supercarrier
Lots on the microscopic level, doubtful any fish or birds since they'd be scared away by the disturbances or not there in the first place. The ocean is massive and the Navy take efforts to minimize their impact on the environment, they wouldn't have done this over a reef.
Wohlf··on NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.
Latino/Hispanic is not considered a race by the US government, it's an ethnic group. Latino covers all people of Latin descent including native Spaniards and Portuguese.
Wohlf··on 43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training
Odd jobs, unofficial employment, family, welfare. South Africa is also well known for high crime levels.
Wohlf··on America has a drinking problem
Is it really that hard to imagine some people just don't have much of a desire to drink? I go pretty long stretches without drinking.
Wohlf··on The website obesity crisis (2015)
The key is density. I live near a large coastal city and have 500Mbps-1Gbps fiber internet, my family lives in a very small town in the Midwest and can get a 50Mbps-300Mbps cable internet, but people who live in deep rural areas have limited options.
Wohlf··on Some Night-Shift Workers May Have a 300% Higher Risk of Car Crashes
You have much greater odds of killing yourself or a pedestrian within a mile of your home because you weren't paying attention than being hit by a tired driver.
Wohlf··on White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
You say 'did you look at a map' but have you looked at a topographical map? I don't see much room that isn't either protected forests or the Appalachian mountains, in some cases it's both.
Wohlf··on It's your device, you should be able to repair it
You can't buy a new car like an '88 Camry anymore, the government will not allow it to be sold due to safety and environmental regulation.
Wohlf··on Vertical turbines are more efficient in large-scale wind farms: study
Interesting, so it's not the rotation direction of any individual turbine that matters but how the wake of turbines affect others around it.
Wohlf··on TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M
I'm not knowledgeable enough in monetary economics, but isn't this only half true? The money people are buying crypto with is going to whomever they purchased it from.
Wohlf··on The number of cities with municipal broadband has jumped over 4x in two years
>At least your monopoly responds to threats by providing the service they monopolize.

True but the grass isn't really greener, Germany lags behind the US in average broadband speeds, mean and median for both directions.

Wohlf··on Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned after hack
Because military law is fundamentally separate from US law, most civil rights are suspended for members of the uniformed services during their service period. Off the top of my head the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th (to an extent) amendments do not apply to those under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Servicemembers can be compelled to what would be considered unreasonable search and seizure by their commanding officer, it doesn't even require a judge.
Wohlf··on European Union allowing the use of deepfakes
It depends on the text of the regulation, it may be written in a way that bans all uses not explicitly allowed, which I believe is common for EU regulations.
Wohlf··on Apple Fitness+ introduces new workouts, trainers, and Time to Walk guest
A little positive peer pressure can be a good thing, a gentle reminder from my girlfriend that I wanted to eat better before I eat some junk food can really help with willpower.
Wohlf··on Renting Is Terrible. Owning Is Worse
Strange, I have never seen an apartment that includes electricity.
Wohlf··on Man fined for sharing a Facebook link ruled as defamation in Singapore
Nutritional science is particularly bad. Trans fats were considered the healthy alternative to saturated fats, salt has been made a boogeyman on shaky gorunds, eggs have flipped between being considered healthy and unhealthy a few times, and the food pyramid/low fat movement pushed carb heavy diets that contributed to the obesity epidemic.
Wohlf··on Surface Laptop 4
That I can't answer. My guess is it's to meet some sort of contract they have together, like Microsoft sells laptops with AMD processors and gets a better deal on Xbox components. The AMD SKUs seem to top out at 16GB of RAM and smaller SSDs, which signals to me MS doesn't expect to sell as many.
Wohlf··on Writing notes by hand might not be better than typing (2019)
Either way, both groups have to remember the information at test time, and memory is fallible. Notes may or may not help someone remember the information, and it may be different from person to person or even situation to situation.
Wohlf··on Surface Laptop 4
>Why do they still bother installing Intel?

Because despite getting clobbered on desktop, Intel is still competitive in laptops and produces more than AMD can.

>Then the Ryzen one is old as well. Why not a new gen?

Because there's not enough supply.

>Why not trying ARM like Apple did?

Because people use Microsoft for backwards compatibility. They tried it before with Windows RT, and it was a flop.

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