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I feel it's partly because the devices are now actually far superior to competitors thanks to M series processors, so owning a MacBook is no longer just a matter of being hip.

This means many Apple buyers are now people who just want a bloody powerful laptop, rather than people drawn to the tasteful design who would be more likely to preach about it. The power buyers don't need to preach, every chart tells you what they would. The Macbook Pro has become the Top Right Messi of the laptop game.

My dad is 64 and he can still use AutoCAD like he's playing piano

A T-shirt that has an ISBN number assigned surely is a great conversation starter. I wonder where can I get my hands on one

Presumably bouncing the pointer between window borders in Zoom meetings. Maybe ADHD as well ;)

Suing big tech for ethical issues seems to be a reliable source of income for governments these days

2014 is also the era when you have links to Vine instead of TikTok.

I miss Vine.

See, that's the thing. I've had T1D for 26 years now and I have stubbornly refused to accept that it's not a smart idea to eat anything I want. I am not going to give up hash browns until I lose a leg.

One thing you would really benefit from that you don't need a doctor for is getting your BG displayed on a smartwatch.

Assuming you have an Android phone and a compatible smartwatch (Galaxy Watch4 in my case): 1. You need to install G-Watch Wear App on your phone and watch 2. You need to replace the official Libre app with a 3rd party app supported by G-Watch like xDrip or Juggluco. There are a few of those, mostly not on the app store and you can even feed their data into eachother, I'm not going to go into detail here. 3. Set your watch face to one of the two available godawful ugly G-Watch Wear App watchfaces and enjoy a live glucose graph on your wrist

Depending on your datasource it updates every minute or every 5 minutes with some smoothing applied - again, lots of fiddling here.

There are some alternatives for iPhone and probably other watch apps for Android as well.

And shine a spotlight on the drowning person

1800-1899 is the eighteen-hundreds, 1800-1809 is the eighteen-noughties. Easy.

In 2024, it's completely rational to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist. Because this time, the Russians are really behind all of it.

Uni would've been way easier if they taught us TDD in the 1st semester instead of the 5th

"Disturbance of the peace" indeed

So the pass must be running at 1500 FPS (flies per second)

I like that a text by Pliny is dated as 2010

Poka-yoke

That is oddly reassuring, otherwise I would be very worried about the fungus getting out of the sea and onto land

It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down...

Can't a malicious entity running this system identify decoy messages by the fact that they are conveniently published at intervals divisible by 5 minutes? ie. 17:07:43 then 18:42:44

I want to ask a simpler question - why don't I have a button to make the message exist again if I have the content?

It's a shame Tom Scott is on a hiatus

"Wife sent you a photo of a nude woman in the shower"

Does that mean DCT(DCT(image)) == image?

That would take a decade to turn a profit on each device. It is a cool idea, though - a glimpse of a world of friendly technology that will never happen

If they had just replaced the crushing with CGI cartoonish squeezing and flattening, it would have been all good

Isn't 15% more battery life a huge improvement on a device already well known for long battery life?

I once went to see an antique palace with my wife, which according to Google reviews was home to a 3-star hotel with a restaurant. Turns out the hotel was long gone, the property turned private, and the new owner didn't notice us and locked the gate when leaving, trapping us and our car inside. We jumped the fence and found the guy and kindly asked him to come back and open the gate.

My mom always used to say "if you want to be happy, get a lobotomy"

By the title I thought this was for humans and I got excited for nothing

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