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A large proportion of degrees awarded today are not useful for any practical application. But having a degree of some kind still serves as a signaling mechanism, demonstrating lots…

Heads-up for BookOrbit users: Last week they released a change that put the header Strict-Transport-Security into all responses (yes, even non-HTTPS ones!). This broke not just Boo…

If you want pedantic ridiculousness, well, notice that I never said that the e-ink emits light. It does, however reflect light back from the device's frontlight. The device taken a…

Another cool thing is you can use custom fonts and dictionaries. To be fair, it is now possible to load your favorite fonts onto baseline Kindle.

Ability to use things like BookOrbit (or alternatives) to manage your books and sync your progress/stats I discovered BookOrbit about two months ago. I think that it, together with…

I jailbroke my Kindle and moved to KOReader last year, primarily to get away from the Amazon jail. Just the bare KOReader UX was pretty utilitarian. It lacked polish for sure. I'll…

Because most of the page is dark, with light only coming from the text, the total light emitted is much less. That makes it less annoying to my wife, when I'm reading before going …

Americans, too. My understanding is that there are a couple of hundred Americans being detained in China now. Some of these people are expatriates who gave up their PRC citizenship…

In the past I've felt the same way in China. At a macro level there may be a lot more restrictions there. But when it comes to day-to-day life, it seemed like people had much fewer…

In the bigger picture, people were starting to catch on to the fact that Google's search product was becoming increasingly useless. Around here we'd come to that conclusion at leas…

I'm not at all an industry pundit. But I suspect there's a reason we're not seeing leading models from Google recently. Judging from my own frustrating attempts to use Gemini for v…

I'm pretty sure you're misunderstanding the definition of "targeted". It has nothing to do with the total capacity of the system, it's about the ability differentiate a specific ta…

My Instinct 3 Solar shows 34 days remaining in the battery. I charged it sometime last week, so we're talking about upper 30s at least. That's with running activity tracking includ…

> Garmin watches that have mapping support have an introduction price of >600 Euro. Even at that price point, zooming or panning maps is excruciatingly slow I just got a Garmin Ins…

I want to support the "what about debouncing" argument mentioned elsewhere; the author shouldn't just ignore this. But I also hate the "you had one job" meme and want to argue agai…

I haven't played this, but just reading the description... > Learn to hack from TRASH WORLD NEWS, the underground computer magazine. It seems like a missed opportunity not to name-…

There are no cars - or roads - where the lights can be seen. I'm aware that there's widespread support for the idea that there's some odd atmospheric effect with refraction or some…

The scarcity comes from there only being a finite number of the devices. But I was really speaking more broadly, about healthcare in general. There are only so many doctors, so man…

We went there a few years ago, while we were in Fort Davis, to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing! But at the same time, we also saw a Space X launch, …

Scarcity demands some means of rationing out the product. Setting higher prices is one means of doing this, so only those with some means of paying can get it. Another approach is …

One of my pet peeves is what seems to be an overwhelming desire in writers to always put an adjective in front of every noun. You can never just let it be a "notebook", it has to b…

I was just making the change from LP to BW yesterday, completely by coincidence. My first reaction is that the out-of-box experience is poor. The first step was easy. The account c…

If you like this, then try playing Red Dead Redemption 2 . While just a tiny part of the game, you improve your relationship with the rest of the gang by doing chores like splittin…

I mostly agree with your criticism of my post. I was being generous trying to avoid being inflammatory here, since I know there are readers that strongly support socialist ideas (i…