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One of the things that made Dark Sky so great was its simplicity and focus. Apple Weather has added many of DS’s features over the past few years, but it’s so much more busy and dense with information. This is a problem that Carrot Weather and many of the other apps mentioned in the comments here also have. There was something very special about that app, and I really do miss it (also Apollo, Google Reader, Gaia GPS, and all the other apps that were canceled or turned into bloated monstrosities before their time).

If skilled workers can't come here, then the businesses who need them will just open up satellite shops there. Not an opinion on H-1B, just an observation.

> Isn't it obvious? Because the ChatGPT output wouldn't be reviewed!

Reviewed by a human. It's trivial to take the output from one LLM and have another LLM review it.

Also, often mediocrity is enough, especially if it is cheap.

Why are you assuming that a human would be more efficient and better for the environment than an electrically powered robot? It is very inefficient (approx 25%) to use food as an energy source, and humans are always burning energy. They can't turn off at night or when they are idle. I think it is very likely that the robot would be better for the environment than the person.

26.2 is looking a lot less glassy. If you want to avoid the glass, I’d wait for its full release.

Your reference for #1, The Center Square, is a conservative rag and not a neutral source. Also, the source cited in its article, is from the Reason Foundation, a libertarian advocacy organization. Can you provide an actual source that is not some political advocacy organization? This is no better than if someone used an article from Mother Jones to support the assertion of how awesome CalPERS is. Do better.

I wrote starting in the 1950s. It was certainly true for other generations like gen X (me) and also for older millennials.

I suspect that helicopter parenting is a much larger contributor than physical isolation. We have had sparse suburbs in the US since at least the 1950s, and generations of kids grew up in that environment and did just fine.

What makes Python a great language for data science, is that so many people are familiar with it, and that it is an easy language to read. If you use a more obscure language like Clojure, Common Lisp, Julia, etc., many people will not be familiar with the language and unable to read or review your code. Peer review is fundamental to the scientific endeavor. If you only optimize on what is the best language for the task, there are clearly better languages than Python. If you optimize on what is best for science then I think it is hard not to argue that Python (and R) are the best choices. In science, just getting things done is not enough. Other people need to be able to read and understand what you are doing.

BTW AI is not helping and in fact is leading to a generation of scientists who know how to write prompts, but do not understand the code those prompts generate or have the ability to peer review it.

This is great news! I know the new Pebble has a small team and is focused on being a long term sustainable enterprise. This should help with that goal quite a bit.

I received my Pebble 2 Duo about a month ago, and it is awesome. Nice job and thank you! I feel 10 years younger :)

All I can say is I am very happy with my brand new Pebble. Thank you Eric and your team for providing new hardware. This is awesome! Thank you Rebble, for maintaining the legacy software.

Are they still open source? If so, why does it matter who updated them?

This whole topic is about politics and I am leery of steering even more in that direction, but based on recent polls, I’m not sure that the passengers currently do support the hijackers.

He was a grandmaster at age 13. In 2003.

I lived on an island in the middle of the Panama Canal for a few years, one of the hottest and most humid places imaginable. We had no AC. Everyone used a top sheet instead of a comforter or blanket, and had a ceiling fan going at night. It worked surprisingly well.

I would have gone with 0

Yes, the headline is a little dishonest. It's a 486 year-old story not 3,000 years.

If Warren Delano (the author of PyMol) were still with us, I think he would be amazed at where we are now with AlphaFold, and all the rest. At least what he hoped for, that software like this would be open source and peer-reviewable, has mostly held true.

I think it actually was an Apple innovation, at least for {hobbyist, home, personal} computers. I did some digging and wasn't able to find anything before the Apple II+ in 1979. Please do prove me wrong, though!

> Dentists do ultrasonic scaling, which a ultrasonic water spray and are not dropping like flies.

Dentists wear masks, and the human mouth doesn't tend to contain Salmonella

To me, it seems like you wrote a lot but never actually answered the question of the person you are responding to. A reminder: the question was does the blade aerosolize fluids. Based on the video (as soon as 10 seconds in) it sure looks like the answer is yes, to a much greater degree than a normal knife.

It’s $499 with the wireless charger. I see that the charger isn’t required. You can take the battery out of the knife and charge it by USB. I would correct my comment, but it is no longer possible for me to edit it.

A good quality well sharpened knife already works incredibly well, doesn't cost $500, doesn't need to be recharged, and isn't going to be e-waste in 5 years (when the battery fails).

It's a cool idea, and I hope it is commercially successful, but not for me.

Mike Pall is still active occasionally, but there has been little development since 2017 and nobody else seems to have picked up the ball (but someone out there prove me wrong!).

After Mike Pall left (10 year ago, wow!), for all intents and purposes, development ground to a halt.

https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT...

I assume he's off somewhere with _why, questing for chunky bacon.

Biden signed the bill.

> need to migrate everything from their walled garden (at great cost)

It's not just about migrating the phone, if you own an Apple Watch, AirPods, one of their laptops, their online services, etc. all that stuff works best within the Apple ecosystem. If you move they don't work as well (if at all) and you may need to replace them. If you are deeply bought in to Apple products, it really isn't that easy to move.

Even if you use exactly the same ingredients, there is the temperature of the butter and how good a job you do of creaming it. Then there are factors like how do you mix the ingredients, and for how long. These all affect the final product. Then there is the oven, and if the temperature is accurate, if it does a good job holding temperature, etc. That's a lot of variables for something as simple as a tollhouse cookie!

I wish they would offer the 17 pro in some lighter colors (like the new sage green for the regular 17). Not everyone wants bold, and the color selection for pro is always so limited. They don't even have white with this generation, just silver.

It seems highly unlikely to me that it will be banned by congress in the next few years, if ever. So, what we really should be asking is how do we live in a world of pervasive surveillance, where everything we do and say is being recorded, saved, analyzed, and potentially used to manipulate us.

As I write this, sitting in Peet's Coffee in downtown Los Altos, I count three different cameras recording me, and I'm using their public wifi which I assuming is also being used to track me. That's the world we have now.