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I want to believe this, and as there is no evidence one way or the other, it sounds good enough that it makes me hopeful for future products.

My question is, what did Ive do that was truly great? I honestly don't know and his name is mostly brought up with respect to designs that didn't pan out. What did he do that everyone seems to respect him as an uber-designer?

I do think, for a while at least, apple's design was eye catching and cool. But for a long long time now it's been stagnant and copycatted all over the industry. So much so, that it doesn't really stand out any more. That's all fine, but it makes me wonder what Ive has been doing for the last 5-10 years, because not much has changed.

FWIW, we have a local market/co-op type thing where you can bring your containers to be filled with laundry detergent, various liquid soaps, and similar products. I wish this type of thing was more popular.

> I think it's reasonable for a doctor to prescribe a horse

And that's where you and I disagree. This therapy animal business seems to be exploding in popularity, and maybe there's something to it, though it seems too popular too quick to be properly vetted. But even if animals are the ultimate therapy, this idea that any and all animals should now be accepted as therapy is over the top.

> cause fewer allergy problems

I have a very hard time believing that. Do you have a source? It's all anecdotal, but the few people I know with dog allergies, seem to be very mild cases. While horse allergies seem to be fairly common and much more severe.

Consider the source.

Are you suggesting the only recourse you have now is to get a new phone when your battery dies? Come on.

> Yes, no one wants those, they cost a lot of money and are at best temporary. But they are practical.

I don't understand this, and would love if someone could point me to a resource on it. How is it practical to essentially "kick the can" on storage/disposal?

As I understand it, the plan o more or less bury the stuff and hope we figure it out in the future. I read this as "just let some future generation deal with a catastrophic failure". That sounds awfully similar to how we've dealt with the climate/environment in general.

I could be wrong, but I believe the statistics show you're much more likely to be killed in that car than on a bike.

I can appreciate that it works, but that solution is objectively worse for me. There's no convenience, it's more work, more error prone, and still a "cloud" storage solution with all its inherent issues.

I can punt on the cloud problems, but I'll pay for the convenience of a password manager in this case.

No one should care. Seriously. There is no super secret work time that will make you a super-programmer.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't share passwords with iCloud Keychain, correct?

My workflow involves sharing certain accounts with family members and 1Password supports that. For now, that's the killer feature for me.

I love to hate on it, because it is impossible to "program it to show what I want". I want keys I can feel. I want to not silently trigger whatever goddamn touchbar "button" because one of my fingers grazes over it. I want to be able to hit the appropriate "button" by touch.

"And as for physical keys, with Karabiner, there is no need for those keys as they are too far away from home row anyway."

Or you know, we could just have the physical keys.

So maybe slow your roll on how all of the haters just didn't "invest the time". Sometimes stuff doesn't work for people and it's not a learning curve issue.

I can appreciate that it may work for some folks. Maybe you should appreciate that it doesn't work for others.

I know what it looks like. You can have your opinion on it, but the primary reason this vehicle is making noise is for how it looks. That's style.

And the available-right-now Nissan Leaf has 147 HP and 236 lb-ft of torque AND gets 150 miles on a full charge. Price guesstimates put these cars in a similar range.

I'm glad more of these cars are getting made, but this Honda is all about style. There's nothing new "under the hood".

It doesn't work for cycling. A couple of reasons why...

People pulling out of side streets have to either merge into the first lane of traffic, or cross that lane and merge into the second (generally). If you have cyclists coming against the flow of traffic at sometimes 20mph, that driver now has to cross 2 lanes of traffic, and always at least one.

Car drivers rarely give cyclists space (in the US) as it is when traveling the same direction. How unnerving would that experience be when what was a 10/15/20 mph difference in passing speed effectively doubles (and then some)?

Check out this app. I believe it is the utility you're after...

https://manytricks.com/witch/

>My parents and other retired people I know feel they've earnt their retirement, when they really haven't.

Hasn't anyone who can afford to retire earned their retirement? What do you mean by "they really haven't"?

No. And if you think it through, you'll come up with several reasons very quickly.

* It costs money to check a bag. It costs nothing to carry it on.

* There is a non zero chance of a checked bag getting lost or damaged. The chances of that happening to a carry on are essentially 0.

* 15 minutes to get your checked bag may be the average. Sometimes the carosel has already started by the time I get there, but other times, I've waited nearly an hour (looking at you Salt Lake City).

So what your saying is that the cost + added risk + added time is worth it to you vs queueing at the gate to fight for overhead. I suggest you pay the $15 upgrade to get in the front of the queue instead of the $25 bag fee and just carry on.

> there's not really any intentional malfeasance

I would argue that the people at the top making these decisions are not ignorant about what is going on.

Well that's not very... convenient.

> I’m a new parent

I found to have a good amount of free time during that first year or so. The weird sleep schedule provides it, I think. If you're like me, you'll find your schedule filling with more and more kid activities as they get older. Then it gets harder to fit all the things in, and you have to make some interesting choices.

Perhaps. No one has any evidence of this in this case though, so it sounds like you're just taking a side.

On the other hand Spotify did squash this guy's app. That's a thing that happened. So it's not like the APIs aren't there.

So now we're taking Spotify's word that Apple is keeping them off the app store, while ignoring the fact that said app is possible and they themselves have kept an app off the app store.

Sounds like PR bullshit all around.

> Apple blocked Spotify from working with Apple Watch

I'm not sure this is 100% true. From browsing the spotify support forums many moons ago, some guy had built a spotify playing app for the apple watch, but spotify squashed it. Given that some random dev could do this, it doesn't seem like apple prevented anything.

My hunch is that this isn't intended to just let iOS apps run on the desktop, but to allow developers to slap different UIs on their logic.

It likely is more of a win for desktop devs as they'll presumably have an easier way to get their apps to iOS, or perhaps for game devs to have fewer requirements to port games.

Bring this down to el camino style (or ute if you prefer) and I'm game. I've long been after a "city" truck. This thing is still too big for me. However, give me a car frame with a bed so I can make runs to the hardware store and/or haul trash and yard waste and I'm in.

It's not a publisher in the normal sense, but if you are looking for news from all sides, I have to recommend, well, allsides.com

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

I've found that just browsing through their opposing headlines is a nice balance.

> maybe we should help make it as a better platform for publishers

Or maybe that's their mission and they should do that? I'm not sure why any of us as writer or readers should or could do this.

> So one will get more from being persistent for years at marathon running than they would at the 100 yard dash

Need a source on this.

> So you can still be pretty good at marathon in your 50s, while you would be useless at the 100 yard dash or hitting home runs.

But not relative to your peers, which is what everyone compares to unless you're top 3 overall in any given race.

I have a gut feeling, the next fitness trend will be running faster vs running farther.

I'm completely on boar with preventing employers from providing it as a benefit, but I think you may be overestimated how much the wealthy class will give a shit. They can foot the bill for their care.