stbenjam

> "Don't consume chemical sweeteners" is a pretty good rule of thumb.

I assume you mean non-caloric sweeteners, since all sweeteners are chemicals including table sugar (sucrose).

While suspected, few have any proven negative impacts. AceK and aspartame are probably the most well studied and the evidence is equivocal. It's probably in the end net neutral.

Some even have benefits, including most sugar alcohols being good for oral health. Erythritol has antioxidant effects in animal models as well.

Do you get a laxative effect or other gastro symptoms? Sorbitol is the reason prune juice is an effective laxative.

Xylitol is usually such a small amount that it doesn't have that effect although some people are more sensitive.

I liked my first Galaxy but within a month the phone developed purple vertical lines down the screen. Nowhere local could repair it. Samsung told me to mail it to somewhere in Texas and I’d get it back in 6-8 weeks. When I asked if they offered any faster replacement service even for a fee, they told me no and suggested should’ve bought the insurance from my carrier.

Never bought a Samsung again.

Yes, I have and it's better but only marginally. I like my Tesla, of the EV's available, it was the winner. The sales model coupled with the route planning with RELIABLE charging stops sealed the deal, and other legacy car manufacturers are just so clueless when it comes to both.

But look, FSD is smoke and mirrors. v12 is marginally better, yes, but it still acts horribly. It can't merge well. It's jerky. Last night it tried to drive in a breakdown lane. It often misses on-ramps for highways around here.

Man, the auto wipers don't even work. That makes me the angriest - what would they pay for a rain sensor? Jeez.

Vision only may work with better cameras but seriously Elon put Ali Express $0.20 cameras in this thing.

Hehe, apple mail supports marquee very recently... Outlook even more so! 2020!

https://www.caniemail.com/search/?s=marquee

That doesn’t seem like what’s happening from first appearances. Looks like it’ll remain separate for now which means no RH influence to fix the licensing boondoggle.

Humans make the same mistakes when writing up reports too. I'm curious which is more reliable.

For example, I've done interviews for various media outlets and often enough they report I said the opposite of what I said, similar to the reasons you mentioned above.

I find the limits at ny libraries to be exceptionally high. Why does anyone need 25 digital books checked out at a time? That’d probably help with waitlists too.

I love Libby, I want to see it survive.

I was thinking it’s one of the better examples because even if they’re really dumb and brains the size of peas they have personalities and there is something (even if it’s not much) going on up there.

Basically it feels like something to be a chicken, there’s a subjective chicken conscious experience.

It makes humans deeply uncomfortable to face the fact that the animals we eat and use might be more like us than we want to imagine. It’s clear to me watching my parents chickens play that there’s lights on in there. It might not be like my experience but they are conscious. I can’t and won’t eat animals.

I know right? I love the caption on one of those photos about “relatively neat” cable runs.

Thanks, that's crystal clear that they were indeed doing this. Wow.

I agree there's safer languages than C, but nobody reads the 50,000 lines changed when you update the vendoring in a random golang project. It would be easy to introduce something there that nobody notices too.

> Debian testing already has a version called '5.6.1+really5.4.5-1' that is really an older version 5.4, repackaged with a newer version to convince apt that it is in fact an upgrade.

I'm surprised .deb doesn't have a better approach. RPM has epoch for this purpose http://novosial.org/rpm/epoch/index.html

> Onavo [...] would collect the “Time you spend using apps, mobile and Wi-Fi data you use per app, the websites you visit, and your country, device and network type.”

That's the former type of collection I was talking about. There's no evidence I can find that they installed a root CA certificate and were MITM'ing connections. That's a major accusation and one that is not accurate as far as I can tell.

Apple banned the app because it was inspecting underlying traffic not installing a fake root certificate: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/

> This is why Facebook engineers proposed using Onavo, which when activated had the advantage of reading all of the device’s network traffic before it got encrypted and sent over the internet.

This doesn't make sense, they wouldn't see the traffic before it was encrypted. They would see it encrypted, but using the MITM certificate instead of Snapchat's. Given the inaccuracies in the article, it makes me wonder what else they got wrong.

Using a VPN client to monitor how much, when, and where traffic is going is bad, but MITM'ing a user's connection is much, much worse. I'm really skeptical that's what happened, especially given TC's inability to articulate accurately what Facebook did.

The TC article leaves that a little unclear: were they actually looking at the plaintext or just gathering metrics about snapchat usage? The latter wouldn't require decrypting the session.

If Onavo did install a certificate and MITM the connections and send private user data to Meta... that's beyond the pale. That's far more worthy of a cover story than Bloomberg's debunked secretive tiny chips story from a few years ago. It's equally as bad if not worse.

Hopefully the technical details will come out.

Yes

They could make the cables longer but there's definitely a cost aspect given they're liquid cooled.

Front center (like the LEAF) or passenger side makes most sense to me (for street parking), but it's just a free-for-all right now.

Dongles are great but supercharger cables are relatively short, we're going to see Fords blocking multiple chargers in various ways so they can connect. There's usually only one pull-in spot.

Absolutely love virt-manager. I try gnome-boxes every so often and it just doesn’t compare. I guess its interface is easier for beginners.

I’m sure it’s to exclude the MAX but I like it so I can find specific planes I want to fly. The old narrow/wide body filter wasn’t granular enough.

> But how on earth did anyone approve storing confidential customer documents in an email account?

Given the competence shown here, I doubt anyone approved anything. Most likely saving sent mail was a feature of whatever mail server they're using and it was a byproduct of the dumb decision to use an actual account for a "noreply" address.

Until you need to do a road trip. I hated it. Non-Tesla charging networks are perpetually broken and few and far between in more rural areas. Going from MA to NH or VT was always nervewracking as they became just barely in reach in winter. I know it will get better (especially once everyone is on NACS), but it’s pretty tough out there now.

That is cool but the number of trains is so depressing.

It’s a fallback for dead zones (as the article explains). I wouldn’t expect this to become its own standalone provider anytime soon.

There's a reason retailers have buyers who are experts in their domains and try to buy the best products optimizing for quality/reliability/price. I much prefer to buy things from stores like Target and Lowes now, because I can't rely on any reviews on Amazon anymore. The reviews are all fake.

What car is doing something with in-car conversations other than looking for a wake word? This is mostly FUD.

This would probably work in a lot of European countries or places with high levels of government trust. I could see the German post office for example offering something like this and getting wide acceptance.

You’ll have a lot of distrustful Americans commenting how terrible this idea is and the government can’t be trusted. They’d rather get it from a corporation and be subjected to unlimited surveillance capitalism and manipulation.