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People just need to quit using the term "PC" to refer to desktop or laptop hardware that happens to be running Windows. Laptops running MacOS are "personal computers," as are deskt…

They mean the web app.

At least in the major Indo-European languages, I think Gemini 2.5 Pro is _much_ better at translation than Google Translate.

That's certainly true of Duo in experience.

One can understand scepticism, but Duo isn't going anywhere. If you need a FaceTime replacement, just use Duo and put all the rest of that mess out of your mind.

Duo is solid, extremely simple, and not going anywhere. But, yeah, it's been a mess.

Duo is pretty easy for the old folks on i-devices, in my experience. It's pretty much Google's FaceTime, and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I think it's actually a bit nicer th…

There is quite a lot of regional variation in the States. I imagine Germans would prefer New Yorkers to West Coast Americans. Multiple times, while on a train coming into the city …

Many years ago I lived in a sort of dormitory in Tokyo. The Americans and Japanese residents understood each other's personal space preferences just fine, but it was amusing to not…

The Japanese say something like "nice weather, eh?" (ii otenki desu ne? - to which one replies "sure is! - "so desu ne!") -- which is mostly just a semantically little-analyzed pra…

"In the animal world bare teeth are considered to be a threat. Hence I think there is some instinctive fear of bare teeth built into our social perception system." Except a human s…

There are many cities in the USA, outside of the Bay Area, in which $132k would be a reasonable salary for that job. Just west of the Mississippi: Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, S…

> 11K per month could pay for many developers if you hire people outside of Sillicon Valley ... There are many cities in the USA where $11k/month is not at all outrageous: Seattle,…

> If we can’t get an agenda accomplished then perhaps it’s too overarching to be agreeable to or considered fundamental by most of Americans. Republican Senators don't seem to care…

I think people conflate a high degree of modern GUI proficiency with general technical literacy. I'm not sure kids who grew up with an iPad appliance are really more generally tech…

Not that many people who use Linux are clamoring for it, but it's interesting that GitHub does not provide an official desktop app for Linux -- even though it's a frickin Electron …

People from the USA often use "the Americas" in place of the sense of "America" that refers to both North America and South America.

There are multiple, separate issues in the question. As a matter of actual geological fact, North America and South America are separate continents (they have their own cratonic co…

An Anatolian livestock guardian dog is a vastly superior natural guard dog, compared to a GSD. They can not be bribed with food, and they spend every second of their waking day loo…

> (UK based) Often what's "country" in the UK (outside of Scotland) would be considered exurban in the USA. You might possibly feel different about security at a truly remote home …

Take a bunch of useful services away from poor people. No Gmail for you, poor person! Nice.

Not being able to sideload apps really is feckin' idiotic, though. One ought to be able to install whatever they please on a handset they've purchased -- especially when they've sp…

If memory serves, the radiation environment of the Martian surface is not too much worse than LEO. If so, radiation would probably not be that much an issue.

IIRC, surface temps on Venus are hot enough to melt lead, but not hot enough to melt whatever sort of alloys were likely used. It does have ongoing volcanism, though.

The dump doesn't seem to have happened yet, though. DOGE has stabilized at about $.07, down from ~$.08.