sunflowerfly

I found that I have little need to print in color. When printing photos I use a high end service like Mpix and the local big box store when quality is not important. At home my 10 year old Brother laser printer just works. I replaced the toner cartridge once or twice.

Our local Walmart has given up weighing items post scan. It helps a lot.

In the UK many of the small grocery stores limit shopping to what fits on the scale at one time. While highly annoying, it mostly fits the shopping habits. That would not work at all in the US.

While probably true, I would love to see the traditional car dealership business model go away. The only reason anymore to have a dealer is a place to test drive, and you do not need a huge lot full of cars for that.

I Read that as needing 4x calories during the heat wave due to higher body temps and thus higher metabolism.

All of the tech people I followed moved to Mastodon.

They disabled in software, and disabled the hardware on many vehicles taken in for unrelated service.

It felt like they went through a lull in the steady drip of new content. It was probably a lull in things I was interested in.

A big problem is young people do not vote. About half the voters are 50 and over.

Congress needs to address the textbook oligopoly.

One of the biggest factors is the US government pays the salaries for doctors in their residency programs. They indirectly set, and therefore limit, the number of seats available in US programs by the amount of funding they provide.

There are many other failures as well. For example, most programs requiring a bachelor degree to start. This artificially raises the cost. There are a few programs now that intake high-school graduates and add a year or so to cover the basic courses that they need, such as anatomy and physiology, but effectively cut off about 3 years of higher education.

I am curious what the post above was alluding to.

Apple Maps is hard to use in rural areas. It is just a pretty green page with the faintest lines. Labels are maddening to read. Google maps also needs label improvements, but generally has enough contrast to see the lines.

Likely the cable but not the phone itself. The pro cameras can create images and video that have large files. Even without the EU law, Apple needed a faster way to pull these files than todays lightning connector can provide.

My guess was someone in education. They have pay scales based on experience and education designed to keep salaries low. Getting a doctorate or PhD would move you to the far right column.

Therefore, a post on X is apparently a “post”.

But why single out Cuba? China is friends with Russia, even likely supplying them with weapons, and is also a “communist”. (Single party) state. Yet we can travel and do business there but not Cuba? It makes little sense.

Because of our reliance on cars. If most people could walk or take public transportation home we could lower the drinking age.

I have seen a few young kids in school uniforms on the tube in London. Most, but not all, seem to have a chaperone. Two or three young kids traveling together is not unusual. We only noticed it because it is becoming unusual to see kids walking to school even here in rural America. They all get dropped off until they are old enough to drive (14/15 here). It probably does not help that community schools are getting replaced with massive schools on the outskirts (where large parcels of land are still available) of town.

And examples of a sugar tax working as intended exist today. The beverage choices available at a convenience store in London are drastically different than what is available at my local store here in the states. The majority of space is given to lightly flavored waters. Some of the difference is potentially a difference in preference, but even the US style sodas contain far less sugar (and in my opinion taste better).

But if that was your goal, why not simply role Twitter into the X app shell? Why destroy the brand?

This is perfect for a company like ESPN. They have enough sports writers working for them that they could instantly create the place sports talk happens.

The public stockholders, yes, but there are currently private investors.

This is more about the city than the house. To build a walkable city requires a certain density. Great public transportation requires density. Density is not possible with US style sprawl.

As evidence, look at what people are willing to pay for a tiny apartment in London.

But the canyon effect of cities built entirely of skyscrapers is also not nice.

Great cities also have trees and grass everywhere.

And mixed use is needed. Being able to walk a block to get eggs from the corner store or grab a pint at the pub is amazing. That also is not possible with US style single use zoning.

We have also tried “towers in the park” style developments. Those are too spread out to walk or bike.

There is probably a way to get density for public transport and walkability, a few taller buildings but not too many to cause canyons, and street level businesses, but the easy answer is to stay with what has worked all over the world and simply build mid-rise buildings.

Also, US style sprawl is expensive. The upkeep to pave the roads every 5-10 years, maintain sidewalks, and the longer utilities, is usually far more than what the homeowners pay in taxes. Cities either raise taxes, let older neighborhoods crumble (common), or subsidize suburban areas with tax revenue from the dense areas (common). US urban sprawl is not sustainable.

Note that the CCS in Europe is different than the CCS in the US. We were already on our own unique standard.

If you include PHEV, Tesla is second behind BYD. Even if you look at EV only, the margin is not insurmountably large. When the big automakers (Ford, GM) truly change over they will dwarf Tesla.

https://www.ev-volumes.com

I hit Apollo yesterday out of muscle memory and clicked on one of my favorite subs. The posts were simply terrible. If that was the daily experience I would not ever read that sub.

A point that has gotten lost in the discussion; The CEO is saying the "average" user would only cost $1 a month and therefore the pricing is fair. But users of apps like Apollo are not average, they are super users (and include a high percentage of mods). The Apollo app developer says he would have to pay $2.50 a month per user.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

If he was able to pass through $1 a month to users and given a reasonable time to do so, Apollo would likely still be alive. Or better yet, require a $10-12 a year subscription on each Reddit user account, paid directly to Reddit, to use 3rd party apps.

One differentiator is the amount of memory available. Apple's shared pool of memory means the GPU has potentially up to 96gb of ram at its disposal, where discrete GPU's are often limited to 8, 12, 16, etc. They mentioned in the keynote that the M2 can handle many tasks discrete GPUs cannot simply because they run out of ram.

They have also built two real time operating sytems, one for their car project and one for the Vision Pro. I was curious how much code they shared?

And that community voluntarily performs most of the moderation for free. I believe they would have to start paying moderators if the cost to use the platform rises substantially. It would no longer feel like a community and instead feel like working for free for a big corporation. Twitter was barely profitable when Musk bought it partially because of the cost of thousands of moderators.

Yes, having to find an instance to join. That hurdle alone stops a large percent of casual users.