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When I updated my old MBP to Catalina it was pretty ugly as well. There were a couple of points where I thought it was stalled, or it would reboot multiple times back into the same exact screen and it seemed to be failing, but it did eventually succeed. I had to keep myself from messing with it.

Some great thoughts here, but I just wanted to clarify that Chewy.com does warn you via email several days before autoships happen. (I've been using autoship for close to a year now.)

If you're as diligent as you say then it's probably not an issue, but hearing people state this so confidently always reminds me of the Febreze story: https://priceonomics.com/americans-thought-they-smelled-fine...

Process management, not project management.

Everything is easier in ACNH. Even though I’m making much faster progress, it’s not as satisfying.

Alternatively, they could have paid IBM a billion dollars and still gotten an app that didn't work. At least they saved some money?

That article is about a “surface treatment” for solid objects, like Vantablack. OP is talking about screens — I believe they are referring to OLED true black.

I believe OLED technology is what OP is referring to. The pixels can turn off individually in order to create true blacks.

It sounds like she doesn’t necessarily see new colors, she just can distinguish far more colors in things that look monochromatic to the rest of us. It’s not that the rest of us can’t see lime green, but we don’t see it in a pebble or tree bark.

I assumed it was an exaggeration, like 48 hours with a break to sleep, because how could OP even know for sure that it was truly 48 hours without break if the guy was at home?

I'm still suspicious whether it was actually 48 hours straight with no rest because -- no matter how brilliant someone is -- I would be extremely leery of the code written toward the end of that session.

Someone works long hours sometimes and therefore they're probably bipolar? What?

> The reason why many managers fail to see and address this problem is that they are used to looking at communication and assume it's a good thing. Because they see activity. People are attending meetings, talking to each other, the online presence indicators are bright green. Clearly, a lot of work is happening!

Yes, this. And a similar problem occurs when manager-types try to come up with metrics to measure programmer productivity. Their yardsticks for what constitutes meaningful work, as a manager, cannot simply be translated over to makers.

Re: 1), you also have to place the cursor before you can grab it and move it. You used to be able to place it precisely in one step using a long press to get the the magnifying glass, but now that selects the word under your finger instead.

If there’s no cursor yet, you have to 1) tap somewhere to get a cursor to appear, 2) drag it where you want it.

Super annoying to change such a basic, useful functionality.

It's definitely a convenient excuse if you just want to be lazy. I certainly can't imagine how any Nest developer could abuse my private data any worse than Google already does.

God forbid any third party should find out -- with my permission! -- what my thermostat was set to last Monday.

How so? I bought into Nest long before it was bought by Google. Should I have been able to predict all this somehow?

Not only do they now force you to have a Google account and Google Assistant (via Android or Google Home) to take full advantage of your Nest now, but they also pretty much gutted the API in the name of "privacy." Ironic.

I was looking to play with my historical data to try and figure out how my two heating and cooling systems were interacting, but that data is no longer available to non-grandfathered developers. The only way to access my own data from my super-technologically-advanced-device-owned-by-Google is by ordering a dump of CSV files.

I was confused about this too. I think the win here is that the machine is small enough to actually fit in a fast-food restaurant. Plus, they're planning to branch out from pizza.

Can the machine detect three identical plates stuck together? Just curious.

My most hated parts to separate are a flat dot on top of a regular dot. Second runner-up is the 1x1 plate on top of a dot, which is common in the Minecraft sets. I'd pay for a machine just to separate these for me!

I calculated a similar deficit in another comment, although the "x calories in a kg/lb" number is just a guideline.

Any explanation involving water weight, digestive tract contents etc. would be nullified by the time period. It's not a week or two, it's two months.

If they were eating 5,000 calories a day every day before starting the diet (without being a serious athlete), their starting BMI/weight would have been much higher.

Borderline obese is not that high a bar. At 6'3" an "obese" BMI is 240 lbs.

Just for fun, let's use that popular "3,500 calories in a pound" estimate. You'd have to run a 2,750 calorie deficit per day to lose 5.5 pounds consistently, every week for two months. That would be a 24/7 fast, not 16/8. Remember, they said there was no exercise involved either so this is purely calorie deficit. Maybe they forgot to mention a limb amputation.

Yeah, that's about 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs) per week. Might be possible/healthy if you're starting at 500 lbs, but based on the stats we know that's not the case.

I don't necessarily object to the generalization that mothers are more involved and concerned. What I find objectionable is implying that this quality of mothers has ruined childhood. The "dads who think like moms" comment also seems disdainful, like there's something feminine or weak about dads who are more concerned.

It's not an exaggeration. Try reading through the article this person recommended for another interesting perspective on mothers and girls.

> For much of this, we have over-involved, over-concerned mothers to thank (and a bunch of dads that think like moms).

What a hateful, sexist notion to put in the middle of an otherwise articulate comment.

Maybe I’ll try to steer them towards that. We tried roller coaster tycoon but the learning curve is pretty steep.

Roblox games are 95% garbage in my experience. Apparently there are a few good ones, because somehow they are allowed to sell merch in toy stores — but those are certainly not the ones my kids encounter. All I ever see them play is some variation on running around jumping on buttons, while half the screen is covered in ads trying to get them to do IAPs.

I remember reading an article about the MAX fiasco that stated something about how all software engineers working in aeronautics could be assumed to be senior and extremely capable. I wondered how they could be so sure, with companies like IBM kicking out seniors (in both senses of the term) to lower costs, the rise of “code schools,” and the lure of outsourcing. Not surprised to read this at all.

At least in other industries cost-cutting just kills the business instead of killing actual human beings.

Based on her response, do you think it was a joke to her? Can you be absolved of slander or inciting riots if you say you were just kidding?

I listen while cleaning, while exercising (mostly running), and while doing yard work.