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Especially because in most ways it actually isn't better in the app. Even on an iPhone 17 it is usually quite slow and hangs frequently. Offline reading SHOULD be a clear advantage…

I don't believe so, unless the object had such a powerful telescope it could image Hubble itself in high definition and literally see where it was pointing, which would require an …

I would counter that the "modern" Penn Station (at least prior to the recent projects) is worse at that "fast and safely" objective. It's much harder to navigate a maze of tunnels …

Lots of other stations built in the same style in the same period remain well-preserved and functional- Grand Central in the same city, opened 3 years later, being a prime example.…

This one feels especially relevant with the recent development about ChatGPT unintentionally cloning its user's voice: https://qntm.org/perso

There's a difference between concluding that scientific research is wrong and concluding that it is fraudulent . The latter is a claim about the character of the scientist involved…

Maybe not 95%, but quite a lot of truck owners when surveyed essentially never use them for towing or hauling https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-wei...

Streets may not have gotten wider in a given city/town since then, but there's been a lot of population growth and development in that time in the sunbelt where urban planning has …

SF proper is more like New York in that respect, it's much more dense and walkable than the average US city. The other bay area cities not so much.

That may be true, but it's worth noting that the length of a "generation" of stars varies wildly depending on the type of star. Stars like our Sun might only live 10 billion years …

Previous company I worked at had a policy that you needed to include a photo of yourself with the current date written with any PW reset request, but of course that doesn't work as…

Downtown Brooklyn has a lot more new luxury highrise buildings with fiber wired in from day 1, as compared to pre-war brownstones in other neighborhoods where even _if_ Verizon has…

When someone has a long history of making false claims, it doesn't mean their current claim is automatically wrong but it does mean their argument for it doesn't count as strong ev…

If you had really good shock absorbers you could intercept at an orthogonal trajectory and have the impact knock you into the desired trajectory... not practical but fun to think a…

"Asteroid-sized" in this case isn't all that big- 100m long is a similar size to the ISS, though it probably masses a lot more.

My coworker's theory was someone was waiting for the holiday's end to deploy something risky. And I'm in that boat of depending on Slack for alerting... in fact my team was also wa…

One other factor I was taught (as an American) that I don't see mentioned here was the Russian Revolution. The nominally-democratic provisional government allowed the pro-entry cam…

I don't know about Microsoft, but at IBM for example engineers with a 4-year eng/CS degree start at band 6, but the bands below 6 do exist, just not for that role. I'm guessing it'…

I think the usual approach is to proxy the other domain (or subdomain) to a path on your user-facing domain. E.g. if mysite.com is making requests to api.mysite.com, you would prox…

Sweden has far and away the highest death rate of the Nordics, over 11 times that of Norway. I really don't think the data supports your point. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mor…

It was already the case for several weeks in NY that school-age kids could pickup free packaged meals from any school, the change in this announcement is expanding that to include …

At least the Kindle and Kindle app can read books from other sources, they don't force you to buy from Amazon.

I too hate the idea of paid toilets in public buildings like train stations in Europe, but dense, non-car-focused cities in the US like NYC or San Francisco also have public restro…

Perhaps you meant Atlanta was the one that burned to the ground and got a do-over?

Ion thrusters have tiny acceleration, which is why they're best on deep space missions (slow and steady wins the race). I wouldn't think they'd be practical for this type of thing,…