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zenbobon The U.S. economy's big problem? People forgot what 'normal' looks like (2023)

Seems like an aging population explains most or all of the post-2000 downturn, no? We're currently at a 20 year high of the 25-54 age group's employment: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

zenbobon Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?

As someone who frequently books campgrounds at the county, state, and national level, Recreation.gov provides by far the best user experience for browsing sites on a map and viewing calendar availability that I've encountered. Its fees don't seem noticeably higher than fees I encounter on other government booking systems. Maybe I'm being naive, but it doesn't seem too important to me that Booz Allen is collecting some of its payment as a part of booking fees rather than directly from government contracts. A government website that works this well seems worthy of praise to me!

zenbobon Apple Watch Series 7

I replaced my Fitbit Versa with a Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music and have been a huge fan. Many day battery, GPS for runs etc, can play music and podcasts from the watch.

zenbobon Recreation.gov

As someone who used it frequently before and after, it’s not really much better or worse. The primary user impact I’ve noticed is that the ui is more “modern” (ie has more spacing between everything)

zenbobon Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

OneNote has this: "OneNote can search typed text, handwritten notes, and words that appear in inserted images." https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-for-Notes-in...

But it won't help your Linux support issue :(

zenbobon Using the iPad Pro as my main computer

iOS has "Request Desktop Site" as an option in Safari. Is view as desktop something other than that?

zenbobon Small Colleges Can Save Towns in Middle America (2017)

I wonder if the student loan/debt bubble will hit these towns hard (if it turns out to be a bubble). Spending on higher education seems like its gains are unsustainable.

zenbobon China is angered by Apple's iPhone event mentioning Taiwan

Is there any argument why Taiwan should be treated as anything other than a normal, independent country? I know that China wants to claim sovereignty, but a want is not an argument. I don't mean this as a rhetorical question--I am curious if there is any coherent argument here?

zenbobon The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children

Perhaps there is disproportionate negative attention placed on the tech industry these days, but it is still reasonable to write an in-depth article like this that only focuses on one specific offending industry.

zenbobon AT&T raises most customers' fees by $1.23, adding $800M revenue

$67 million a month * 12 = $804 million. I am assuming it is a monthly increase.

zenbobon Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand

Am I the only one who thought pre-Microsoft skype was a poorly-functioning product?

zenbobon Call of Duty WW2 has made a significant step forward in face rendering

An activision Dev/manager gave a talk in my graphics class earlier this year. He said Activision had contracts wth the CIA/etc because Activision's facial motion capture/analysis equipment is better than anything the gov has.

zenbobon Ask HN: How much do you make at a remote job?

I make $15/hr as a software developer intern remotely for a startup. Not the best pay, but it's great to have this freedom as a lowly intern.