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> The problem with Waymos is there's no human driver, so they'll adjust pick up and drop off in a way that could be dangerous for the passenger. A human driver isn't going let a pa…

New NES were still available in the US through at least Christmas 1992, and in Europe deep into 1995, both selling alongside the SNES since 1991. The final new international games …

The verb "to herald" means to be a sign of something that is imminent. But the noun "herald" literally means "official who tells the news" So this still definitely checks out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_it0G2KcrM

> WebKit was basically a hostile fork of KHTML... WebKit has been a fully proper open source project - with open bug tracker, patch review, commit history, etc - since 2005. Swift …

> This has... interesting implications for natives apps, at least at first glance. Note: The fact that Web Push for Apple's browsers uses APNS and doesn't require any sort of devel…

Since there is no service worker required , if ITP removes the service worker, declarative web push continues to work. I believe this is explicitly called out.

The blog post documents a relatively long engagement process with the web standards process. Starting with publishing an explainer (pretty common for the browser engines), directly…

Why is Swift interop needed for that? C/C++ are first class citizens in Apple's toolchains, and Obj-C++ interop has been a well supported thing for 25+ years.

But, you can still pair most types of extra controllers to it (including a set of Joycons), and the eShop is aware of games the few games that can only be played on a tv and warns …

It is not USB-C powered. It needs 100-240V, 50hz-60hz AC power.

> Nearly all the combined work of humanity has been "lost to time," and society seems pretty okay with that. Pre-digital age, preserving the combined work of humanity was actually …

Yup! Much of Santa Clara Valley has "R1-8" zoning, which means "detached single family homes, 8 per acre." 43,560 / 8 = 5,445 sqft lots. 7,900 sqft is larger than average for many …

Safari on iOS supports extensions, and - while I don't know - I'd be shocked if Chrome on Android didn't?

Our universe is a closed system. We cannot change its overall heat content. We can only move heat around within it. Without tapping into another universe - which we're nowhere clos…

> Are 200-3kb/s sufficient for a realistic attack? Yes.

As both a software developer and a pilot... We're (much?) closer to Fully-Self-Flying planes than FSD cars because the problem space is - perhaps counterintuitively - MUCH smaller …

Modern supercomputers are obscenely parallel machines built to chew through embarrassingly parallelizable tasks.

> XP was supported for 12 years, iOS 12 was officially discontinued after 1 year. Also a pretty false equivalence, though. Windows 7 was a paid upgrade from Windows XP. iOS 13 was …

Except it was trivial to reproduce with the script on non-Apple devices, and people in one of the many Twitter threads surrounding this showed that on their Mac there was MANY tcp …

CEQA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Quali... Ever since it was passed, NIMBYs and other types of individualists have found more and more ways to use its p…

> Did you grow up with Pluto being a planet? Having to learn about it in all levels of schooling as a planet? Seeing images of all the planets and Pluto is included? Yup, grew up w…

> In New York we have more homeless per capita... At least based on latest 2018 numbers I found for both cities, that's not true. NYC 78676 homeless with 8398748 residents. SF 9784…

I don't think it's cool. Look at it this way. A full battery with the highest possible voltage can deliver its highest possible amperage. Once the state of charge has dropped just …