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Lots of "glide"-style floss is PTFE tape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral-B_Glide . You can buy non-PTFE floss, like https://www.test.de/Zahnseide-Faedeln-ohne-schaedliche-Chemi…

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I'm reminded of how long it took Garmin to add touchscreens to their sports watches, and how controversial it was in the user community. If you want to check your heart-rate while …

I can't say how it compares to other translations, but A. S. Kline's translations of both are available for free online and, I found, easy and fun to read: https://www.poetryintran…

You needn't have responded. Pretty sure the poster you're replying to was just taking the piss.

Your answer is totally reasonable, but I admit I don't have time for that in most cases. 1. Most services are not Passkey-only--most people are using it as a password alternative (…

To be clear, I don't work for Apple. :) And I'm not discounting that there are usage patterns that might lead to persistent bad experiences (like your example with Numbers). But th…

Definitely this. I think the worst aspect of Passkeys is that the noble goals (public key crypto! unphisability!) seem to somewhat unavoidably wipe out one of the--in hindsight--re…

I use iCloud's Passkeys extensively and have never had saved Passkeys "wiped out". I am not disputing that data loss bugs can happen, but three times for one user sounds pretty wei…

Maybe? I dunno. The design of this is pretty clever: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet... . I presume somewhere you can turn this off for real, but the d…

Beats me. I can't find anything definitive on this. Since Apple devices continue to broadcast Find My signals even when powered off (as long as they have a little bit of battery le…

On Apple's devices, you cannot disable that BLE broadcast. The same is true on the Pixel 8: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24123909/google-pixel-8-pr... . That's the whole point…

But that doesn't use the "find my device" netowrk. I think the parent wasn't saying, "I want an app that continually reports its location to my server so I can monitor my phone's l…

Isn't people who don't know enough about Dunning-Kruger confidently spouting off about it...sort of evidence of Dunning-Kruger? I kid of course. Or do I?

Hmm, let me put it this way: I have often run into people who seem to think management is stupid for not accepting their idea, which they then explain--and which I also think is a …

Lots of comments about "I’m no lawyer" and "But is this illegal? Once again, I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know," which makes the conclusion a bit, um, weird: "A lot of this feels yu…

At the risk of seeming like an asshole: I think for every highly competent person who just lacks a bit of social graces and is unfairly punished by a defensive bureaucracy, I have …

Yeah, as the other reply here said, that's what I was referring to with "giving advice." As in, his rep seems (from my distant POV) to be about his acumen as a mentor, not investor…

He's clearly smart. I am not sure I get the "failed in the right way", though. From one point of view, I think it's a great story here that, given how much of a role is played by l…

I always found it a bit weird how Altman leveraged Loopt (which AFAICT did not make his investors money and was basically a failure) into giving advice to aspiring founders, which …

I have not yet read the above linked article, so maybe it already says (or refutes) this, but the long-held rumor was that Wirecard was a useful mechanism for Russians to move arou…

I wouldn't say it's you. Moka pots aren't great, though they are convenient-ish. ;) As https://coffee.stackexchange.com/questions/5197/is-the-moka-... says, preheating the water mi…

Looking forward to someone submitting the vacuum pot/siphon coffee maker. ;)

Seems to me Treasury bills meaningfully outpace inflation, on average: https://www.bauer.uh.edu/rsusmel/other/lrret1.htm . But I was talking about cash accounts, which typically pa…