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I strongly recommend the Downlink app for this! https://downlinkapp.com It downloads false-color images from GOES and Himawari NRT and sets them as desktop images.

Just to show how DEI works at NASA, I share a DEI plan we wrote for a proposal just before the change of administration. This plan was rated highly by the agency. Which parts are "…

Can you expand on this? SL accepts any credit card for purchasing single tickets and I assume you can buy an SL card using cash in for example Seven Eleven? Also, the issue with ba…

I think Trader Joe's is as close as you get to it?

Seem like at least some do: https://www.statista.com/statistics/912207/frozen-pizza-sale... https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/booming-italian-froz... My point is that every c…

And there is absolute crap cured meat in those countries too. The most disgusting pizza I've ever had was a Dr Oetker's frozen pizza with gross salami as topping. Seems like the br…

Average can mean either mean or median.

The importance of collecting race data is because of a history of systematic discrimination based on race. It's not for example Black or Hispanic groups that decided that those cat…

And how many people have died in the strip mining of uranium?

Very true but a side loaded app can do so much more. Possibly even act as a key logger. Definitely provide info about all your whereabouts during protests.

Not at all. I read that story as the suggested apps being on the AppStore and having gone through the normal vetting by Apple. If so, then the government doesn’t have access to any…

Sideloading also allows authoritarian regimes to add apps to your phone. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border...

But that's what you a developer want, not necessarily the users. I'm extremely happy that you can't tell me to use another browser and have to fix your code for Safari instead. I t…

It seems like DPP is part of WPA3, which came out in late 2018 and Apple’s version was first introduced in iOS 11, which was released 2017?

Free market idealists also tend to be very against the natural way for workers to consolidate and leverage negotiation power: trade unions.

Isn’t it even 1. Google, 2. Ad buyers, 3. Developers, 4. Users.

An advocate for gay marriage, abortion, trans-gender rights etc would never have a leadership position at Chic-Fil-A and would be fired in a heartbeat if they came out with such op…

I have this problem when using the src folder tree conventions (poetry new --src new_package).

Any mobile device will ping central servers for notifications, update information, ntp, etc etc. Apple or google or at&t will of course always have your current IP address and be a…

App convergence over different operating systems seems to bigger trend than platform convergence within an ecosystem, and Marzipan seems be Apple's response to that. I would much r…

There are several tool chains but they are either internal on institutional level or commercial. The main numerical library is NAG. Still comersial but cheap compared to the price …

While this estimate is eye opening it has to be compared to the ratio of black men in prison in the US, which is about 7%. One could argue that both high incarceration rates are re…

But aren't business losses tax deductible?

The most extraordinary part of Bloomberg’s story is that they have so many sources. How can they get 17 people to talk about something of this caliber? Especially if Apple and Amaz…