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rwcon Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

Of course. Have been since M1 Max. My MacBook Pro M1 Max powers two external displays.

rwcon Off-duty pilot allegedly tried to shut off engines on Alaska Airlines flight

*In the US

rwcon Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths

Where are you getting that quote? The article seems to contradict that:

"Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases — three without a helmet — between 2019 and 2021."

rwcon We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels

Don't forget growing teeth:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/08/05/a-drug-that-makes-t...

rwcon Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro

Two possibilities, both can be true: 1. It's recognition that in a match up of "Pro v. Pro" products, Apple Vision Pro trounces Quest Pro and it's not feasible to make that gap up at this point; and

2. If Apple is going to mainstream the AR/VR market, it's not bad to position as the de facto low-cost alternative (see also Android/iPhone).

rwcon Scientists warned about climate change in 1965

That's awfully dismissive. Not exactly a leap for people to argue:

Climate change was always a lie. As the planet warms, the premium for a safe and healthy planet increases, and innovations in clean energy technology continue progress.

rwcon Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

It's widely speculated that the Apple AR product will run iPad apps, and that stage manager was shipped last year as a multitasking environment well suited to AR.

rwcon Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

"Rent seeking" does not mean "seeking to charge rental fees" but that seems to be how it's being used by GP and others here.

rwcon Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots: study

Everybody's so worried about AI they forgot about the parrots!

rwcon NordVPN library and client code open-sourced

This is not a snarky response, but is it possible the answer is simply "who cares?"

I see NordVPN ads all over youtube, podcasts, and TV. Those overwhelmingly non-technical customers certainly don't care about the code quality, documentation, or constants defined far from where they're used.

It seems to me this is about marketing the product to be perceived as transparent and secure, which is certainly what those customers care about.

rwcon Meta plans to lay off 10k employees

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100251

Or, if you prefer:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-07/meta-is-s...

rwcon Startups that use Silicon Valley Bank are freaking out over payroll

SVB is gone. Forever.

rwcon OODA Loop

Can you share the YouTube video?

rwcon Screw motivation, what you need is discipline

That's exactly the point: activation energy is the hardest to summon, and once you have it's "easy" to finish the rest of the habit (e.g. floss all your other teeth).

If "floss one tooth" is still too much, go smaller: "take my floss out of the drawer and put it on the counter."

rwcon Apple HomePod 2nd Generation

"With its built-in sensor, HomePod can detect and tell you the temperature and humidity of the room.8 And you can set it in automations so the blinds close if the temperature hits 80 degrees."

rwcon Notion AI – waiting list signup

"If you do the latter, how much productivity have you gained from rewriting a generated post compared to writing your own draft?"

In my experience, AI providing the activation energy to get a first draft is highly valuable.

rwcon Apple Watch Ultra

As a cyclist and Apple Watch user, out of curiosity what is your Garmin doing better?

rwcon The first car ad shows what changed, what hasn’t

Safety! That's the biggest change.

https://news.aviation-safety.net/2017/12/30/preliminary-asn-...

rwcon Theranos former president found guilty on all fraud counts

There was an entire trial that intended to get at the heart of that question.

rwcon Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023

As I understand it, blackouts primarily exist to ensure local ticket sales for full stadiums.

"In most cases, the blackout results when a sports league prohibits an event from being televised locally if the event did not sell out all its tickets."

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/sports-blackouts#:~:tex....)

rwcon iPadOS 16

That is indeed how it works, in addition to the fact that it must be manually enabled in control center.

rwcon Dark pattern: how YouTube makes sure you don’t always “skip ad”

Alternate theory: A large-scale, ongoing A/B test on what gets the perfect balance between watching ads and keeping total view time high.

rwcon CNN+ streaming service is shutting down a month after launching

That’s exactly what happened:

“The decision puts an abrupt end to an ambitious and aggressive venture that people familiar with the matter say rankled David Zaslav, the new CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, from the start. Zaslav was annoyed by the decision of Jason Kilar, the former CEO of WarnerMedia when it was owned by AT&T, to launch CNN+ just weeks before Discovery was set to take over operations. But he was unable to communicate with WarnerMedia management, owing to legal boundaries surrounding the merger process.”

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn-plus-shut-down-warner-b...

rwcon Impressions from a first-time Mac user

You can "Maximize" the app (to put it in Windows parlance) by Option+Click the green button (you can observe during the hover state for the green button the change from "full screen" to "maximize" by pressing Option).

rwcon Impressions from a first-time Mac user

Not that it's right or wrong, but the behavior dates back to the very first implementations of Mac OS and Windows. Mac OS has always been an application switching interface, and Windows has been a window switching interface. Takes getting used to the paradigm shift.

rwcon Dual 75“ 4K TV Floor Computing

Love it in theory, but the strain of moving your head to see the full dimensions of the screens would get old. Eyes are good at darting around a smaller screen up close, don’t know that the entire head and neck would appreciate that day in and day out.

rwcon Cardboard: a scrollable tiling window manager

This is the ideal multitasking model for the iPad

rwcon Ask HN: How do carriers throttle streaming to 480p resolution?

Yes, the challenge is some of those sites don’t allow streaming on a VPN.

rwcon Woman discovers AirTag on her vehicle after receiving iPhone alert

The practical difference being battery life of an iPhone versus an AirTag.