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As a 6'4"+ gentleman who often flies Southwest, I honestly welcome the ability to know whether I'm going to fit into a seat in advance rather than experience the anxiety of spending hours at the airport waiting to get on the plane without any idea how uncomfortable the flight is going to be, then urgently scoping out the bulkhead and exit rows for an opening as soon as I step out of the jetway. (Yes, I pay for Early Bird. No, I don't pay for A1-15.)

I have no idea why non-tall people would care where they sit, but man, for tall people, it's nice knowing how things are going to be.

In GBoard for Android, there can be numbers on the top of the keyboard. (This is also available in iPadOS but not iOS.)

Most symbols (%@*'"!? etc.) are available on the keyboard itself with a long-press. (This is also true of the iPadOS "Flick Keyboard", but not iOS.)

There's a comma on the keyboard (why is it so hard to get a comma on literally every iOS keyboard?! This also is available on iPadOS. Yes, I use commas.)

Swype word detection is more accurate, even with the strictest privacy settings.

At the end of the day, with GBoard for Android, I never, ever needed to change modes on the keyboard or do a long swipe to type numbers, punctuation or symbols. Don't need to do it on iPadOS either. iOS, it's a total nightmare.

Maybe Tim Cook never types on an iPhone. I'm baffled as to why this is an issue. They made the iPadOS keyboard modern in 2018, the iOS keyboard remains mired in 2008.

The iPhone 15 Pro hardware is remarkable. The keyboard, though, oof, ow.

SwiftKey is very helpful with replacing the terrible, terrible iOS keyboard.

The iOS keyboard was without question the hardest part of the transition from Android to the iPhone for me. (GBoard for iOS is a pale imitation of GBoard for Android.) I still think it's weird that I have so much trouble with the iOS keyboard, because I've used an iPad for years, and the iPadOS "Flick Keyboard" has always been just fine since it was introduced 5 or so years ago.

It's especially annoying when the interviewer keeps forgetting the last word.

What I really want to know is if you have experience with

With us, you'll get great benefits, like

People love that we have

"It's an established fact," says economist who has been studying issue for only 15 years, and suddenly encounters radically contradictory data across cohorts.

(All of the above is in the article.)

Hey, Gen Z. Gen X here. I personally think this whole "young adulthood is the happiest time of your life" is some sort of bizarre Boomer artifact, and certainly wasn't in play in the late '80s or '90s. I was told that repeatedly when I was a teenager, but it certainly wasn't the case for me or most of the people I knew when I was a young man, 35 years ago. We were all totally blindsided by how bad the high school experience was, and for many of us, the college experience was bad as well.

The good news is that as we became independent from our families and the institutions that we were committed to, and found paths in our work and family life to be productive, the majority of us became totally normal, functional people. Would I say "happy"? Sometimes but certainly not always - for almost all of us. Life has its way, with health and work and family issues that larger social or economic issues will never have any influence over, regardless of the era you grow up in.

But this article says that people are least happy at 50. So, I'm 50. Am I happy? Not, like, happy happy. But am I OK? Yeah, sure, I've figured things out, have my own family, it's all turned out OK.

Am I happier than any point in young adulthood in the late '80s and early '90s? Absolutely.

This whole "best years of your life" as a teen or young adult thing is... nonsense. It has nothing to do with the possibilities of the human experience. For some people? Sure, let them have their fun. But I don't want to sound like Dan Savage, but, for everyone, it can get better. Chart your own path, work it out for yourself.

Can someone explain the reference to the "second power button present on a remarkably large portion of laptops sold in the Windows Vista era"?

Lost no weight on Ozempic/Wegovy. Lost clinical, substantial weight on Mounjaro/Zepbound and then stalled.

It's not just GLP-1. There's more work to be had here.

Spam and binaries. Moderated groups moved very slowly as every message needed to be approved. Unmoderated groups became cesspools of spam and flamewars. Binaries groups carried so much data that supporting them was both expensive and legally risky.

As the utility of USENET as a discussion platform diminished due to spam and moderation difficulties, and the binaries groups became an expensive liability, ISPs stopped providing USENET access included with user subscriptions.

That takes us to where we are now. Mastodon is probably the closest successor architecturally, but I'm not sure there's a good example of a platform that has ever seriously solved the problems of moderation in a decentralized environment.

I think price per lens would have been fine, yes. That's ultimately what I care about. But I also think that cost-per-quantity-lens-pack, which you list but deprioritized, is more understandable. Sorting by cost per lens but presenting the cost per pack (30, 90, etc.) is likely the sweet spot.

FYI, the organization by "monthly" price, which assumes like contacts for two eyes worn daily, was initially quite confusing for me. I wear a contact in only one eye and I don't wear it in that eye every day, so the monthly price is totally irrelevant to me - I purchase contacts on a per-unit basis. You do list that, but it's smaller and deprioritized.

I look at my printer like I look at my checkbook. Most of the time, completely irrelevant. Two or three situations a year, it is massively convenient to have - and it doesn't cost me anything. I wouldn't buy a printer until you hit a pain point where you're confident you need a printer, though.

Egg McMuffin and coffee for breakfast and then a Big Mac, medium fries and iced tea (or diet Coke or water) for both lunch and dinner is... 2130 calories. Not the pinnacle of the healthiest diet for sure. Over 30 days for a mid-sized dude, you might gain... one pound.

I own an early full-size PHEV that has no noisemaker. It is a surprisingly large sedan that, even today, people are surprised to discover gliding silently on the road behind them.

I cannot tell you how many times, while being fully alert and creeping at low and safe speeds that people walking in the middle of the road or in a garage have suddenly become shocked - SHOCKED - that there had been a full-size sedan rolling silently behind them.

My other option is honking, which will startle them - perhaps, to their death.

Was the tax code a mistake? No. Was it a mistake to replace pensions with 401(k) accounts? Absolutely.

A pension fund has one primary benefit: it distributes funds from those in the pension fund who contributed but died early to those who live a longer life, ensuring that all pensioners receive a steady income through end of life.

A 401(k) is just an investment account with strict rules (and in many cases, poor investment choices and high fees). In a middle class life at the average American salary (which is less than $60k!), is it even possible to invest enough to support a steady income that allows you to live to be 100? I think the answer is no, even if you follow the conventional rules of saving 10% of income and re-allocating into lower-risk investments as you age.

The loss of the defined-benefit pension is a tremendous blow to Gen X and beyond, and we are going to feel that impact very very hard in American society in around 20 years.

YouTube generated $31.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2023.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/#:~:t....

That's... a lot! Plenty of historical precedent for fully advertising-supported media with high expenses, from OTA network television and radio to free weekly newspapers... or inexpensive subscriptions to daily newspapers subsidized by advertising. Advertising has been paying the bills for electronic media for a century now.

I think he's referring to OLED, in which each LED can organically emit light without the glow of a backlight. But in terms of most productivity monitors today, your current one was likely a great value and works just fine.

A Dell U4021QW 40" 5K2K ultrawide I recently bought gently-used, which replaced the very similar (but lower-resolution) U3818DW I had bought gently-used in 2017.

Why? Two main reasons:

* My M1 Mac, which I can't imagine replacing just yet, only supports one external monitor, but has no problem driving a 40" 5K2K behemoth. I might as well have one of those.

* The built-in Thunderbolt KVM features of the U4021QW and the other Dell ultrawides in this series are just fantastic. M1 Macbook connected by Thunderbolt, Windows desktop connected by DisplayPort, Linux NUC connected by HDMI, all sharing a webcam and other peripherals, works flawlessly with great cable management.

The new 120hz U4025QW looks great, but is still rather pricy. Hopefully in 5 years I'll upgrade to a hypothetical OLED 120hz version of this monitor.

The article is about how antisemites fraudulently attributed Franklin's name to their writings, not about Ben Franklin literally becoming an antisemite.

The actual title and tagline of the piece, "How Ben Franklin became an antisemite - The American founding father’s legacy has been misused by antisemites for nearly 90 years," makes this clear in a way the link title does not.

I'm rooting for you to get rich so you can buy The Verge and change that ridiculously terrible condensed font they use for the lead headlines.

I don't understand how Nilay Patel goes a single day without being introduced to someone who says "Oh yeah, I love The Verge! But, I want to be forthright here... that font."

I've got a 2012 Toyota with regenerative brakes that's had its rotors turned twice (by independent shops) after they've become rusty/noisy around every 5 years or so. But it still has all the original rotors and pads! The mechanics wouldn't replace them since there wasn't enough wear. It's almost bizarre at this point. Maybe in 2027?

Well, uh, HDHomeRun's gear has been providing easy to use, affordable DVRs for ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV for quite some time. Compact little boxes, apps available for most Smart TVs (and devices), picks up 80 (!) channels at my place, good stuff.

https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/

I love having one of these in my attic where I get the absolute best broadcast TV signal, and it just sends the recordings down to my Debian server. (You can get them with internal hard drives like a normal person might use.) Cost me $200 back during the miserable pandemic days in 2020, $35/year for listings services.

I am deeply skeptical that Roxi or anyone else is going to pull this off better than HDHomeRun has without some sort of unified local storage standard or (ugh) sending broadcast TV up to a cloud service in real time over your Internet connection. "No additional hardware" here can't possibly actually mean "no additional hardware". (ATSC 3.0 does not provide its own return path for interactivity.)

Ozempic face is just "people who have lost weight" face. You can lose weight using calorie counting and exercise and making the best of your macros, and you'll still end up with "Ozempic face". Like, Drew Carey and Al Roker lost a ton of weight before Ozempic, good for them, they ended up with "dudes who just plain lost weight" face. Just a thing that happens. We all change as we age and work through things.

Jeez, guys, why did you have to bring Bonnie Tyler into this?

"It's come to my attention that x has only committed 8 times in the past ~2 years. I'm not aware of other substantial work that they've accomplished. Should I be slowing things down? I love this company and feel like my accomplishments speak for themselves, but I don't want to risk burnout if I'm working so far beyond the level that is actually expected. My understanding is that this concern is shared by my peers."

This headline implies that advertising was primarily to blame for killing Schlitz when the post itself admits that the beer itself had radically changed formulas in favor of a cheaper brew and had lost favor before the ads in question ran.

I would assume because the guidelines for the communications platform being used do not require the use of their actual face for their profile pic, and they have selected a picture or character they like.

I was genuinely hoping this article was going to be about training humans to be perfectly vigilant from stories written by Cory Doctorow.

The word "are" is used, both generally and in the headline, to indicate the present tense. Similarly, the gerund "drinking" is a present participle. The article isn't titled "Why Do Older Americans Drink So Much?" and if it were, leading and focusing on a story from many years ago would not seem nearly as odd. Similarly, I'm quite sure they could find plenty of anecdotes about older Americans who currently drink too much that would better match the headline as written. As it stands, it's incongruous and misleading in a strange or perhaps lazy way.

It's revealed at the end of this article (published today, March 30, 2024) that the subject of the article died in a memory care facility in... 2017.

His son, in a blog post easily Googled using the names in the article, indicates that his father had been in a facility to treat his Alzheimer's (and, we assume, as the article states, free from alcohol) since 2011 - and had likely not had a sip of alcohol since that time, over 12 years ago.

(The article itself indicates that the son has been free from alcohol since hearing about his father's initial hospitalization 13 years ago.)

Alcohol abuse is a real thing, but this is some seriously bad reporting that does not seem to have much to do with the specific state of things in 2024.