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I love that the output file format is .pdx (Panic is based in Portland, OR).

Or bike lanes in New York:

https://untappedcities.com/2013/09/25/guerrilla-bike-lanes-a...

I really love the ones that redirect you from the Control Panel to Settings, but then are somehow still missing the old functionality, so it then bounces you back to the Control Panel.

The two big consoles are literally x86 PCs. One even runs Windows; the other one runs a locked down version of FreeBSD. Why should they be allowed to do that but not smartphones? Their business model is a deliberate choice, and if sideloading on a gaming console breaks that, why should I care?

Alma seems more of a corporate thing compared to Rocky being community supported. I have both deployed and they both work fine. Alma seems faster to update, though this is RHEL, not Arch.

Alma also has a shell script that will convert other RHEL based distros to it automagically, which is pretty cool.

Los Angeles county, where the doctor who wrote the piece is based, currently is at 70% capacity for ICU. Which is not as bad as the last peak, when it was 93%, but is not great, and it's trending upward.

https://covidactnow.org/us/california-ca/county/los_angeles_...

As an iPhone user, I hope it's good! Apple could use some actual competition, and Qualcomm does not seem at all interested in providing it (Huawei did, but we saw how that went…).

The "contrived collision tests" are actual, standardized, government monitored collision tests, with verifiable results. Your "actual data of people driving the car" is not from the period when these claims were made. Again, the vast majority of early model Pintos produced that had not already combusted had at that point already been recalled.

The Rutgers report is about the lawsuit, not the safety of the automobile, as mentioned. It's also just an opinion piece. Though it does cite some data!

Can you check the PDF? Upon its publication the Pinto accounted for 1.9% of vehicles on the road, 1.9% of vehicles involved in fatalities, and 4.1% of vehicles involved in fatalities involving rear impact. So maybe the Pinto was actually overall a pretty safe car! Except for exploding upon rear impact. Which is, you know, the defect in question.

1991 was 13 years after the recall during which Ford went out of its way to reinforce the fuel tank to mitigate further criticism. There was a legitimate and well documented problem with the original design of the Pinto, and no article about how it's fun to race them now is going to change that. Here's an NHTSA report: https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/ODIPint...

"In nine staged collision tests of 1971-1976 Pinto 2-door sedans and 3-door runabouts impacted by 1971 Chevrolet Impalas at closing speeds of 30 and 35 miles per hour, two tests resulted in fires. In all of the remaining seven tests, fuel tank damage occurred with fuel leakage rates ranging from 6 to 700 ounces per minute, with an average rate in excess of 240 ounces per minute."

Does having two out of nine low speed collisions result in fire seem normal? Does having nine out of nine low speed collisions result in significant enough damage to the fuel tank to cause gasoline leakage seem normal? I would certainly hope not.

The original Pinto design was flawed and dangerous, unnecessarily killed people, and Ford was rightfully and successfully sued for releasing it.

P.S. That Rutgers PDF in your citation is about the myth of the Ford Pinto legal case, which is that whole thing about how Ford allegedly calculated that it would cost less to settle on wrongful death lawsuits than to fix their cars, not about the safety of the Pinto. The link in the article is broken but you can find it here: http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pint...

It was though? Ford put the fuel tank in the crumple zone between the bumper and axle to maximize interior space. It was found to leak gasoline after a rear impact in every crash test they conducted before recalling it to modify the design.

It was by no means the most dangerous vehicle on sale in its time—that was probably the Volkswagen Beetle—but it was absolutely more likely to catch fire in a collision than pretty much anything else on the road that wasn't a literal fuel delivery truck.

So no, it wasn't necessarily going to kill you in a collision, but if it did, it was a lot more likely to be with fire.

Wayback link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210712193555/http://fxip.as203...

The front iPhone camera uses an infrared array of dots for FaceID, not LIDAR. It's basically a miniaturized version of the Kinect from the Xbox (Apple bought the company that created it).

Amazon's proven a much better steward than Facebook, though. Twitch seems pretty independent other than some Prime perks, Eero doesn't seem to have changed much, I'm pretty sure they forgot that they even bought IMDB and DPReview, etc.

>Apple has required an Apple ID on their iPhones and iPads for years during setup.

No they haven't. The setup process encourages using an Apple ID, but it has never been required.

There was even one release of Windows 10 Home where you couldn't create a local account, unless you tricked it by not connecting to a network. Not sure if this is still the case with current builds or if they came to their senses.

And good luck if you did create one and you also happen to use Office 365, because now you have two Microsoft accounts, possibly with the same email address, that use the same login page, and that's not confusing at all.

>Portrait Mode blurred backgrounds in FaceTime videos

>Live Text for copying and pasting, looking up, or translating text within photos

>An interactive 3D globe of Earth in the Maps app

>More detailed maps in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London in the Maps app

>Text-to-speech in more languages, including Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish

>On-device keyboard dictation that performs all processing completely offline

>Unlimited keyboard dictation (previously limited to 60 seconds per instance)

Most of them make sense; the M1 has the Neural Engine and ISP, and Intel Macs don't.

Not sure what's stopping them from enabling additional text-to-speech languages or rendering a globe, though.

It's Lua. They support Lua and C.

https://play.date/dev/

This "Toyota Relax" warranty appears to only apply in the UK, where average mileage is significantly lower than in the US.

Somewhere between ~8k and ~9k, according to a random BBC article I found:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-28546589

It seems insane that Tesla continues to shun LIDAR. Is it just pride at this point? Apple sells an $800 tablet with it built in, so while obviously the Tesla unit would have to be a lot larger and more powerful, I can’t see the cost argument making sense when the cheapest car they sell costs 50x as much (and the most expensive will be 250x).

If I have an idea of what I’m looking for, I just use search. It was useless until a few years ago but has gotten dramatically better recently.

The scroll-load-scroll-load cycle does suck, though.

Same here. I was paying $45 for 40mbps through TWC, which was an introductory promotion, after which it would be $55, I think? Then they merged with Spectrum and the cheapest option became $65 for 100mbps (they also charged me $65 for the 40mbps service before I had to call to upgrade it). Then it went to $70. I was very close to just cancelling it and tethering to my (also exorbitantly expensive) cellphone plan when the pandemic hit and I realized that wasn't feasible.

It's $75 now, by the way.

It's the sibilance that always gives it away for me. Even the 128kbps mp3 sounded fine for most of these, but when it fails, it really fails.

Some "left leaning folks"? Are you legitimately attempting to politicize theft?

Compared to what? I think it won over its direct competitors of Salt / Puppet / Chef, though there's more than that now. It's not ubiquitous, but it's pretty common, and useful, even if the syntax is truly inscrutable.

I feel like it's pretty well used for persistent installations that just need regular config updates, and we have better tools for VMs that get spun up independently for every reconfiguration.

It's still very common in a lot of niche industries. Though apparently it's also still supported, since they just embed the entire Trident engine in Edge. So really this is just yet another way for Microsoft to try to force Edge on users?

Well, yeah. There are two parts to this, the lossless compression and the "HiFi" sample rate (it goes up to 24-bit 192kHz). I was just pointing out that you don't get the high sample rate even over analog.

I haven't seen anywhere whether AirPods can do 192kHz AAC over Bluetooth, which in my opinion would be more interesting. I assume not if all of the DSP stuff is done at 48kHz.

The AirPods Max digitize wired input with a 48kHz sample rate for processing, so even using the ($29!) cable won't deliver any sort of benefit from this.

Rufus is just straight-up better, though? It's smaller, faster, more configurable, doesn't require installation, doesn't opt you in to analytics (wtf are they even analyzing?), and doesn't advertise the developer's other projects.

Even ignoring those last two, which just seem gross, running an entire web browser to accomplish the same thing as a 1MB native application is like using an anvil as a hammer. Yeah, it'll work, but why?

Huh. Thanks; I stand corrected. The last time I messed with iOS development was years ago, and you could sign and deploy whatever you wanted locally. I forget if it required a developer account then, but definitely not a paid one.

I'm not an iOS dev, so correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these specifically App Store entitlements? So if you try to submit an app using an API covered by one without having been granted permission to it, that request will fail, but if you're just building and running on your own hardware you can use any private API you feel like?