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Yes, I noticed this shortly after the update. I forget the specifics, but Apple first party apps definitely have this issue.

There's some interesting history here. Toyota started manufacturing in North America in the 70s-80s largely due to pressure from the US government in the form of tariffs and import…

As a mechanical engineer, I want to offer some perspective on how specific this is for people working exclusively in software. I would never ever even consider working fully remote…

Article is paywalled so I can't read past the first 2 paragraphs, but I still don't understand what the controversy about this is. EUV was developed with significant input and reso…

This exactly. And this is the reason that Venmo or Paypal need to charge fees for commercial transactions, because they're providing a service. What bugs me is that Zelle seems to …

Thanks, but I don't think I know enough about this to speak about it on the pubic record. My experience is based on remembering what random customer service reps said a few years a…

Agreed. I'm being hyperbolic when I say "do not ever use Zelle". I'm sure it's fine for passing money between friends. It's just that my version of the $40 lesson had a few more ze…

It's not just fraud you need to worry about. Here's a horror story for you. A few years back I was moving to a city for graduate school and needed to rent an apartment. A friend of…

I don't really care about Oliver Stone, but as a longtime climate activist (and engineer) I'm glad to see any publicity promoting nuclear. I can't take seriously any proposal for r…

> find more ways to use electricity I’m not sure if you were serious with this comment, but for the sake of other readers I wanted to point out this is a legitimate strategy. Many …

I worked in the solar industry for years and this is a very good summary of the residential install process from the customer side. I’ll also second one of the main points of the a…

I agree overall, but there are a lot of misconceptions about cast iron that can give it a learning curve. The post glossed over this, but it is certainly possible to damage your se…

Those AMD presentations are publicly available though. It looks like hot chips is a tech conference, and those AMD presentations were published as part of HC 28. I’ll follow up wit…

Does anyone have any insight into how much benefit MSFT actually gets from these decisions? I understand that the intent is to 'make line go up', but as a simpler user I can't real…

I didn't understand that either, but I found a good explanation on page 2: "The fair use question is a mixed question of fact and law. Reviewing courts should appropriately defer t…

Good point. I think the what's missing is how electron energy states work in quantum mechanics. The wikipedia paged (linked below) has a pretty good explanation: "A quantum mechani…

I've had a very good experience with Strongbox. I personally haven't used the Nextcloud integration yet so I can't vouch for that specifically, but I've used it with multiple cloud…

This is a pretty good summary of the scope of the allegations: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/12/she-was-so-d... A useful concept to keep in mind as this develops: ht…