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> The idea is to make the device easy to carry around the home with one hand. So their target audience has a large enough home that they need a completely separate device since the…

But you will have a much better idea what to buy, when you have first-hand experience with the weather and are surrounded by locals who are adequately prepared.

I tried layering when I traveled somewhere cold, where the high was just above freezing. I felt foolish whenever I went indoors and had to peel off three or four layers in order to…

Also, old homes don't have the outlets for heat pumps. If you're lucky, it's just a breaker, wire, and outlet. If you're unlucky, it requires an electrical panel upgrade or worse.

Most modern open-world games have waypoint indicators and on-screen minimaps, if not teleportation, because memorizing and navigating and traversing through the video game map is n…

There weren't a lot of taxis outside of major cities. I think widespread GPS allows ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft to exist in suburbs and other places where taxis weren't a t…

It doesn't really matter how much you spend if the leadership is incompetent.

Except the one at Costco, which will still be $1.50 somehow.

And if you know the new owners will screw up your ice cream brand, you can wait a decade and do it all over again, leveraging your new wealth, knowledge, and connections to make it…

Well this was 15 years ago, all companies were trying to jump on the social media bandwagon (Google Plus launched in 2011), and both companies and users had to re-learn what privac…

It's a portable device that can't be used outside the house or near other people?

A lot of tech is overfit to the product manager role in tech companies. One of the side effects of living in a bubble. My Apple Watch is set up by default to assume any 15-minute w…

I found this doozy from someone trying to test out the feature: > After looking over Google’s advice, my key takeaway was that thieves are in much better shape than me, and run bot…

As a visitor, it's probably impossible to know the real cost of living is in different areas, because you're not employed locally, paid local wages, or paying rent and utilities. Y…

Ergo users are never going to be happy. I'd complain about the lack of thumb keys, and then the flatness, and suddenly we're talking about a completely different keyboard.

Does a Mac even recognize the screenshot button? I take lots of screenshots and videos and add them to PRs, which clearly communicate what has changed.

Probably because you need separation from the culture to fully evaluate and appreciate it. If they interviewed someone from Japan, that person would probably complain about how un-…

Google specifically has a track record. You could have made the same argument about social media (Google+) a decade ago.

The pricing was 30% more the last few times I used them.

Higher hoods are worse, not better, for pedestrians.

At least in my area, Waymos are always more expensive than Ubers.

If you did exercise 1 hour a day for 6 days a week, you'd probably be well above the average exercise time for normal adults.

This is written in 2019 but it may as well be from 2026 (data centers).

If we were in a total war, we'd convert every car, glass, microchip, and aircraft factory to a weapons factory, as well as a draft. But the US is convinced it can fight overseas wa…