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> So I have to convince thousands (for Windows maybe a million) of people that the thing that irritates me should be removed. No, you can alternatively pay money for a different ti…

A dandelion can either be a weed or part of a salad. It's a matter of context. > You can call it subscription based, you can also call it user lock-in or remote killswitch. If you …

> The ever popular hamburger patty on a hot griddle covered in brown gravy. That's simply a Hamburg steak, which is not Japanese but rather German in origin. The Salisbury steak is…

Don't a lot of older small craft—such as seaplanes—have radial engines?

Groups like that are a dying breed. Many of them simply fell apart as key individuals quit or drifted away from the scene.

Before newer tools automated the process by tracking motion of a target, folks wouldn't have to adjust them frame by frame per se but would instead annotate the subtitle script wit…

Yup. Recently there have been tools that will track selected things for you, but it wasn't too long ago when fansubbers had to manually animate them by annotating keyframes.

Aside from HorribleSubs, these days you can hardly throw a rock without hitting a major streaming service that offers anime. Setting aside whatever free episodes you can get from C…

Since it doesn't come in contact with the eye, that doesn't seem to be likely. It could be training the muscles that adjust the curvature of your lens.

> all the other things that Hart mentions, while important, are not easy to measure Some can be easily measured but would require significantly more regulation/data gathering; for …

> To me it’s amazing how such wondrous technological advances become mundane so quickly, the future is here and nobody is astonished. When they're ubiquitous they lose a lot of won…

> If 100% of that medium is controlled and censored by two companies Except you can sideload on Android.

Berlin is in Germany, and Paris is in France. That makes it an international flight. Orlando is in the US, and San Juan is in the US. That makes it a domestic flight.

> The "contract" between the employee and the employer is that the employee does what the employer asks of them, and in return gets paid for his work. If these employees do not des…

> often German-built Credit to the Swedes for repeatedly schooling the USN with their Gotland -class AIP submarines.

Non-nuclear AIP diesel submarines have regularly defeated USN submarines in wargames. The US went nuclear because the subs are out on patrol for months at a time, all around the wo…

If you go to Settings > Messages, you can filter out messages from unknown senders. However, this only prevents the notifications from showing up; they'll still be in the app under…

> Your experience on the old tech stack is irrelevant. It's cruise control . If you couldn't fry an egg without burning it, forgive me for being a little skeptical when you claim t…

...which in turn is about ads.

> I just looked at a few random Amazon losing and I couldn't figure out who I was supposedly buying from. Then either you weren't trying very hard or you need to put your glasses o…

At least they had the decency to not offer a 64GB option.