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One of those comments was in response to an article about Jimmy Savile[0]. Savile is estimated to have raped 589 children, including some as young as 8.

I am "healthily skeptical" about the moral compass of people who use serial child rapists as a springboard to questions about consent on the part of minors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scan...

You can find these comments by simply searching his website. [0] contains one of those quoted by OP, from 2013. Along the way you'll find plenty more.

[0] https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?path=/archives/201...

True, but system integration is a mixed bag when you do. When it is built in originally, you are assured it will work w/ steering wheel controls, etc.

On the flipside, some manufacturers impose limitations on what you can do when driving, which is annoying, so after market might get around some of that?

At my work, we use Teams a fair bit, and I'll go out on the limb to defend it (a limb I'm quite familiar with at this point ;) ). Thinking of it as a Slack alternative is, IMO, the wrong starting point. We barely use it for chat (as we have Slack as well). Instead, we use it as a file share and central information home. Each group within a team has a channel and we use the tabs to track meeting notes, embed external calendars, and more.

And importantly, we use it for file sharing. Each channel is a root point for a team-specific folder. This is helpful because storing common docs there means they are perpetually available to collaborators, as opposed to OneDrive storage, which in my experience has been very hit or miss (sahre links expiring, etc. ). People can trust that team content is there.

There are downsides. It took me a few months to find my 'optimal' usage pattern, I can't have channel-specific sharing, and it takes me a while to explain the above to people on the team. It is far from perfect, but it is better than sharing a bunch of files in email threads or maintaining unofficial google docs in a Microsoft world.

What I find interesting is looking for creative ways to prioritize the game experience even when the 'official spec' didn't support it. They could have given up by accepting that the spec represented the limit of what could be done, but instead pushed to find a better way.

I hadn't put thought into how important that scroll effect is to the game, but if there was a clean wipe between scenes it would have been tremendously distracting. This technique really is essential to the feeling of immersion.

Interesting that so much consumer product is still packaged for retail, even some brands that I imagine sell a vast majority online. retail packaging translates to online-friendly packaging, but the reserve seems likely to be less true.

Not to be pessimistic, but I would guess that the added cost of managing two SKUs for each product is not feasible for many smaller retailers, especially since the cost (putting in a new box) here is born by those further down the supply chain.

All that said, I've seen a lot more Amazon orders ship in plastic bags recently. Even the car seat I bought recently which is ship-ready without another layer. My guess there was that adding the plastic anonymized the purchase a bit, which might ward off thieves?

One other thing in defense of spreadsheets is that they are a tremendous introduction to data manipulation and management for people who don’t think of themselves as being ‘programmers’. Purpose built SaaS apps pre-solve problems, and that can be great, but spreadsheets allow users to become owners and there is a lot of growing that can start from that place.

I'm not sure that boredom is the right word for what is being described here. Leisure is what we used to call it, and the sense of boredom seems (to me) to emerge as one possible reaction to unencumbered leisure time. When I am on a hike, my mind can be free, but I am not bored.

Certainly agree with the idea that phones create a strong environment for bored distraction. I've been slowly deleting apps where I find myself pointlessly refreshing/checking, but I haven't made it to the next level of completely disengaging and simply sitting and mentally exploring other forms of leisure.

Seems like good news to me for both Apple and Ive. I don't think any of the Apple design complaints posted elsewhere in the thread will be addressed, but I hope a new design voice will emerge for the next generation of Apple products.

And Ive seems to have been anxious to expand his work surface for quite some time, especially as seen via Apple Watch. It will be interesting to see what he does for other products in other spaces. I hope green field suits him well.

That is awesome. And in fairness, it does show a clear variant, not vanilla Pong, so I'll fess up to being a bit trolly. Agree on the power of sharing tools rather than products, or products that are also tools.

From the 1970s clip: "or the family can invent their own Pong games"

Love it, but just one note. Its already been invented, and its already called Pong ;)

From user alancontreras in the article's comment section: " 'Merton also wrote, in a letter to Czeslaw Milosz, "I have never seen TV, that is never watched it. Once when I did happen to pass in front of a set I saw the commercial that was on: two little figures were dancing around worshipping a roll of toilet paper, chanting a hymn in its honor. I think this is symbolic enough, isn’t it?”'

It is true. Here [0] is a representative example, the only one I could find with a price. Correct color matters tremendously in film production, and getting accurate representation of that is quite expensive.

[0] https://pro.sony/ue_US/products/broadcastpromonitors/pvm-x55...

Can residential customers buy the business plan to get the higher bandwidth?

At first this struck me as expensive, in the sense that per Gbps, I get a much better price from Comcast. And then I remembered all of the externalities that come along with that price: data caps, potential monitoring, bad customer support and whatever else I'm forgetting.

How much is avoiding those actually worth to me? Probably pretty close to the price difference, actually, and if those things are really important to me I should be willing to walk the walk and pay for them.

I won't, because I don't live in Philadelphia, but I hope to have real viable alternatives where I do live.

I took my kid to the most recent one in the Bay Area, which was fun. And crowded. And a bit expensive. Too bad it wasn’t working out, but glad we got a chance to go once.

One thing I'm confused on from this article is which car brands might be more or less egregious in this dimension. For example, I drive a VW, and my car is Car-Net capable, though I have not enabled the service. Is Car-Net (or some similar service) collecting data despite my not having enabled it? Clearly the car has the ability to transmit data since Car-Net is an option.

Secondarily, is data transmitted during tune ups?

I think it is even simpler than this in that most people don't realize they are being tracked in this way. It is easy to seem hypocritical when you are simply ignorant of a potentially parallel case.

I got to work as a Production Assistant for Bob Vila back in the mid-90s for a shoot he did in my local town. It was after he left This Old House.

Really enjoyed the day, he was quite friendly, as was his crew. Always have a soft spot for him and that kind of show.

You know, inflation...

I'm all for these, but I do find it somewhat ironic that we've 'productized' the junk yard, making it just safe enough for us to be comfortable with our kids roaming 'free'. If it is a step towards liberation of youth I'll take it, but it is still a half measure.

I agree that this is good, and my older child has similarly little exposure to commercials as other commenters.

I found this quote, however, a bit shocking: "The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television"

That is over four hours each day watching TV. And in my opinion, the quality of most of the programming on Netflix, Prime, etc. is not substantially higher than commercials. Like broadcast TV, many are just long-form commercials in and of themselves.

I don't fully understand why architecture is so bitterly divided between its factions. I am the son of an architect (loyal to his faction) and I like a lot of that stuff and a lot of other styles, including much made of concrete. It seems like something built into the culture at an early stage. Some of the Bauhaus practitioners saw their work as an expression of a Socialist agenda and Classicists are taught that only the traditional styles of design and building are acceptable.

There is (or ought to be) a common enemy to all factions, which is cheap disposable architecture. Long-term structure that are also climate change adaptable seems a decent common purpose, for example.

Somehow, however, the capital A Architect class seems to exist above the buildings designed for and by people who do not care about aesthetics, so the cheap and disposable seem to slip under the radar. Perhaps because Lennar Builders and their ilk don't care what academics think of them?

Both PS4 and Xbox One came out just as 4K was starting to get into market (prob a bit ahead of where 8K will be when PS5 launches), and it was frustrating that we had to wait 4ish years to get 4k support. Committing to 8K early means the same box will serve the early adopters as well as everybody else without a mid-cycle upgrade.

I generally think there will be limited urgency to upgrade to 8K any time soon (benefits over 4K seem incremental and we're not close to done w/ that transition yet) in the home, but love that Sony is making a strong stake for technical leadership.

This article would be so much better if the author did not keep pausing to editorialize and interpret the opinions and perspective of her subjects. Trust the reader to draw their own conclusions. This style of writing insults our intelligence. All the worse because the approach and topic are quite good.

I realize intimately how hard it is to get by in SF and other big cities, so I won’t criticize the renters here, but I have no such hesitation about criticizing the founding team and investors. Turning apartments into tenements could never have turned out well. How does this business scale outside of the core nimby tech cities? And even in those cities, the decentralization of the market is both good and hard to take down. One hopes those responsible are compelled to do so, but one also fears it will just be the renters left twisting.

Yes, but there is probably a lot of value in the network you build would would make those remote jobs easier to get.

W3W seems to me like it adds more confusion to finding places than it adds clarity. The word choices involve tenses and plurals, which makes them seem quite east to get wrong from memory. This is exhibited in two of the carousels on their homepage:

* actors.asking.print * manage.mercy.items

Both plural nouns could easily be confused for the singular form, and when I was typing the above, I in fact mixed it up on items.

I think the advantage of lat/long and plus codes is that they are more obscure. They don't make the odd promise of being memorable.

With W3W codes, are we supposed to remember more than one of these? I know the addresses of my parents and a few friends, but rely on mechanical storage for all others. I understand the advantage of having a more universal way of identifying precise locations, but don't see cute password-like names as a helpful solution to that.

Let computers do what computers do well. which is store and quickly serve up inscrutable bits of information.

This article's title strikes me as condescending and annoying. There are 'reasons' to travel by train for a lot of people. My cousin has a deep fear of flying and hasn't done so in several decades. So he travels by train. As this writer learns, it can also be an enjoyable way to see the country.

That said, I did once survive a 24 hour delay on Amtrak between Chicago and Oakland. It was the middle of winter and track was splitting, so the train would move a few miles and then wait a few hours for the crew to replace the broken rail.

Classical music in film and tv more commonly signals erudition, not simply villainy. When there is a class conflict involved In film, the higher class characters are more commonly the villains, and an appreciation for classical music signals their remoteness.

Philadelphia uses Hanks’ appreciation for opera to signal his class status, not villainy. Silence of the Lambs uses music and food same way.

Making the direct hop to villainy is too simplistic, and pointing fingers at Clockwork Orange is absurd. That film’s synthesized classical music is used to draw a parallel between the commodification of violence and the commodification of culture more broadly.