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The alarm on / off toggle buttons on the Clock -> Alarm screen also have a tiny hit-zone and if you miss it kindly opens a screen for you to adjust the alarm time. Hit back, try again, miss again...

I just want to turn my alarm off for a lie-in and I have to play button-sniper.

MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD and everything else squeeze into just 15% of Firefox's user base.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware

They're really not going to be able to dedicate resources to something as bijou as AppleScript.

The State Dept advice for personnel going on foreign assignments used to be quite direct, but pragmatic: "if you're a 4/10 in the USA, you're still a 4/10 abroad".

Amazing how MDI is rediscovered every couple of decades.

It becomes popular, then a UX counter-effort declares that it should be the job of the window manager and it dies off for a while.

> Now I read 1-3 years? Where did one year come from?

I believe that lifespan range came from cryptocurrency mining experience, running the GPU at 100% load constantly until components failed.

> No need to connect or use any smart tv feature.

Many 'smart' devices now have their own 5G modems, you don't have a choice of connecting or not.

> But contrails are just the tiniest > tiniest fraction of the sky somewhere

Initially yes, but as a contrail diffuses it acts like a seed for wider cirrus cloud formation.

During COVID lockdown, researchers at Universität Leipzig found that the reduction of air travel correspondingly reduced cirrus formation by 9% in the area studied.

> after a while

'After a while' usually requiring the users to wait with an unresponsive desktop environment, because they opened a file manager whilst NFS was huffing. So they'd manage to switch to a virtual terminal and then out of habit type 'ls', locking that up too.

After a few years of messing around with soft mounts and block sizes and all sorts of NFS config nonsense, I switched to SMB and never looked back

Isn't that just indexed search?

Nothing really exceptional about that, risk-sharing projects were common in aerospace in the 80s onwards. 21% of the 777 ( yes the beloved Triple Seven ) was farmed out to a Japanese consortium which took risk for the design and production of the fuselage.

The Economist's 'World in Brief' might appeal:

https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief

It would have helped if the author had specified the particular instantiation of Cracker Barrel earlier in the article.

From outside the USA it's a name most associated with a brand of American cheddar cheese. A simulacron of cheese seemed intriguing. It took seven paragraphs until he dropped the hint that it's also a shop brand.

> And "Stargate SG-1" was on cable.

Not in 'Rest of World'. It was on Channel 4 in the UK, over-the-air.

We're currently in Michaelmas term in schools in the UK.

It's not solely about size, it's about disruption of laminar flow which causes much more drag than the parasitic drag if the handle alone.

Child locks can be automatically disengaged under high deceleration.

Profit is surplus revenue, which means money that people paid you but which you didn't spend on improving your product, paying your staff better etc.

That's why making profit is sometimes seen as greedy, because it's money that could have been reinvested in the product.

Amazon in its early expansion phase never made a profit, because every cent was reinvested. And they didn't need to pay a cent of tax for that reason.

The types of people digging in PROGRA~1 were pretty likely to understand the difference between executables and DLLs.

Unfortunately the UK Wimpy locator just says "0 Locations found" and won't even let me browse a map to see where there might be one.

I'd be interested to try one again ( we had one in Belfast decades ago ) but they're not making it easy.

In absolute terms they sold plenty of Mini phones, around 12 million per year.

Proportionally though that was only 3% of their sales.

> As we raise our first child, having a quality camera is definitely important to us.

A phone camera isn't really a camera, it's a digitally-airbrushed impression of reality. There just isn't enough light hitting the tiny sensor through the tiny lens.

I have 20 year old 5MP DLSR portrait photos that are still better than what a 120MP phone can produce, because it's the lens that counts.

Inflation calculation doesn't quite work like that. Mobile phones are part of the basket of consumer goods prices that are tracked ( with weightings applied to compensate for increasing complexity and capability ). So they help to define inflation, rather than being the outcome of it.

You'd really need to compare to average salary or purchasing power instead.

It's being chipped away, though.

It started innocuously with mandatory emergency signalling in the instance of a crash, then mandatory reversing cameras, then mandatory lane keeping assistance, auto emergency braking, speed limit indication. Coming soon in Europe is automatic speed limit adherence. Emissions regs have also led to a huge rise in automatic transmissions in Europe.

For very many people the only thing they do to control their car now is turn the wheel and push the accelerator.

SDR++ app enables this on Android

> In railway jargon "brake configuration" refers to "how much are you braking"

I've never heard that terminology in a European rail context, you'll need to provide a citation.

In EU regs, "braking configuration" literally means the mechanical configuration of braking; how much braking force the inertial, hydraulic or pneumatic braking circuits can apply in total.

I was thinking about this today, a lovely morning run on the beach with the Sun rising in a blue sky. Should have been a wonderful shared experience but everyone I met had earbuds in and the most interaction I obtained was a nod.

Why go to the shore with the sounds of the waves lapping gently on the shingle but then block it out with earpods? It irritated me.

The 1Ds3 still renders wonderful images but the UI feels so limited now. ML would transform it.

Regardless of how 'good' a phone camera sensor might be on a spec list, it's looking through a massively aspherical plastic lens that's about 5mm thick and admits a magnitude less light than your Sony camera for any given scene.

I think the best comment on the subject was here in HN years ago; although they're both called cameras, they're really different media. One is like charcoal sketching and the other is like oil painting.

Imagine using ssh-keygen, but it locks the private key in a vendor-managed secure enclave. You can't copy it, export it, rename it or do anything wth it.

Acceleration times say nothing about the character of a car.

Anyone can launch a Model S or Taycan at insane accelerations just by pushing a pedal and letting the computer sort things out.

Trying to do so in a 1970s Camaro or a 1980s Sierra XR4 requires skill and practice whilst listening to the howl of the engine, feeling the texture of the road through the steering and sensing the suspension loading-up. All of that has been lost.

Driving has been reduced to an ordeal to be ensured with as little interaction with the vehicle as possible.