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  • They are simply pointing out that "racist" and "bigoted" are just as ambiguous in the exact same way as the "evil", "harmful", "good", "negligent", "bad", "unethical" etc he mentions for the other licenses.

    "bigot noun a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group."

    If being a bigot is good/bad/evil/harmful/unethical or not depends entirely on who is calling you one, and what you or society thinks of them. If you think that just because someone is a MAGA/Nazi/Tesla owner that they are bad, congratulations, you are a bigot.

  • I almost bought a Microplane today, but the big "Blade made in 'murica!" stamped on it was very helpful at making me leave it at the store.

  • At least 5 million, depending on how you define rural russia and how skewed the gender & age structures actually are.

    Population of russia is 143 million, 35% of which are between 18 and 44, half of which are men. That comes to 50 million, 20% of who live outside the European Russia, bringing the final count to 5 million.
    And as only 21.5 million people live in the Moscow metropolitan area, so if everything outside that is counted as rural you'd have over 20 million.

    In both cases the issue is logistics, equipment and training, not the lack of bodies to throw in the grinder.

  • Ye. I have all Ikea smart stuff, by default everything is running a local mesh network with physical remotes and that light switch backup.

    You don't even need to connect any of it to the net, buying a hub to get app & google home/alexa/etc control is entirely optional with the exception of a few sensors, like the moisture/water leak one. And even then, the app & hub work on local wifi with no internet anyway.

  • Pictures of clothed children and naked adults.

    Nobody trained them on what things made out of spaghetti look like, but they can generate them because smushing multiple things together is precisely what they do.

  • Because that's not what he did.

    The woman was holding a steak knife and refused to drop it, he shot her with the taser which caused her to fall - as tasers are designed to - but she hit her head and died a week later in the hospital. That's an injury that is always a risk when using tasers against anyone.

    Should they be used against 95 year olds with walkers even if they do refuse to drop the knife and continue menacingly inching towards you, that's an entirely different issue.

  • Or you could just winamp it.

    Oh, right, that's a terrible idea.

  • Hope they keep those maps updated, the assist on our BMW constantly gets the speed limits wrong. There's a section that was changed from 50km/h to 70km/h years ago and it still gets confused because the signs don't match the map it's using, flip flopping between the two multiple times.
    But at least it's just an option, it doesn't restrict or automatically do anything so it's not a huge issue.

  • The pandemic kinda is over and has been for a few years. That doesn't mean the virus is eradicated, just that it isn't spreading rapidly worldwide infecting huge amounts of people.

  • They don't. But nevertheless, the progress they've made in a year is very impressive.

    The question left to be seen is how it'll look in a year or two: hardly any improvement, or a beaten elite four?

  • Libel requires the claims to be published or broadcasted, so it isn't. A predictive text algorithm strung some random words together, and the guy got offended.
    It's like suing because your phone keyboard autosuggested "is a murderer" as the next words after you wrote your name. Btw, I tried it a few times for lulz and managed to get it to write out "bluGill and the kids are going to get it on", so I guess you can sue Google now?

  • I spent a night in the ER, had some tests done, puked on the CT scan machine, got some meds, and the most expensive part of that trip was the taxi home.

  • The Pebble app was removed from the App store, so you have to manually sideload it every 7 days.

    And:

    Here are the things that are harder or impossible for 3rd party smartwatches (ie non Apple Watches) to do on iPhone:

    • There’s no way for a smartwatch to send text messages or iMessages.
    • You can’t reply to notifications or take ‘actions’ like marking something as done.
    • It’s very difficult to enable other iOS apps to work with Pebble. Basically iOS does not have the concept of ‘interprocess communication’(IPC) like on Android. What we did before was publish an SDK that other apps (like Strava) could integrate to make their own BLE connection to Pebble. It was a clunky quasi-solution that other apps didn’t like, because it was hard to test (among other things)
    • If you (accidentally) close our iOS app, then your watch can’t talk to app or internet
    • Impossible for watch to detect if you are using your phone, so your watch will buzz and display a notification even if you are staring at your iPhone
    • You can’t easily side load apps onto an iPhone. That means we have to publish the app on the iPhone appstore. This is a gigantic pain because Apple. Every update comes with the risk that a random app reviewer could make up some BS excuse and block the update.
    • Because of iOS Appstore rules, it would be hard for us to enable 3rd party watchface/app developers to charge for their work (ie we can’t easily make an appstore within our app)
    • Getting a Javascript engine to run in PebbleOS forced us to go through many hoops due to iOS — creating a compiler inside the Pebble iPhone app that in itself needed to be written in (cross-compiled to) JS to work with Apple's restriction on downloadable code can only be JS
    • As a Pebble watch/app developer, using the iOS app as relay to the watch sucks since the "developer mode" terminates every few minutes
      https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones
  • There was/is a companion app called PebbleNav/NavMe that worked okay-ish, as long as you could survive with "Turn left in 100 metres to x street" type instructions with no map view (not really something you can do with 144x168 pixels).

  • Yet they are also the same - E Ink is an e-paper display.
    Electronic paper is a category for any low energy display tech that looks kinda like paper, E Ink is a brand name for a "Microencapsulated electrophoretic display" from E Ink Corporation. Also just known as E-ink because IIRC they have the patent on it so nobody else can actually make them.