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Comment Re:Apple could make a start (Score 1) 91

Do you use the iOS focus modes? I think that's exactly what you want.

I have a "Personal" focus mode that activates on a schedule. It suppresses notifications from my work-related apps and has a customized home screen that doesn't include them. If your mail/calendar clients support it, it has settings that allow you to filter specific inboxes or calendars when the focus mode is active.

Comment Re:The recent surge in record-breaking temperature (Score 1) 91

It's awfully hard to take any call to arms for the common man very seriously when they inevitably come from some suit that's flying around the world on private jets to meet up with other guys in suits to nod and tell us all to cut back on our consumption as they eat the finest fresh foods flown in overnight from around the world.

Numerically, I'd bet you anything that the vast majority of people advocating for reduced consumption come from the (and I say this lovingly) granola-munching, hemp-wearing environmentalists than from the private-jet-flying, power-wielding suits. If your primary concern is the source of the 'call to arms', do you find their case persuasive?

Comment Re:Huge miscalculation (Score 1) 151

If he had gone to court in Sweden, he would have likely got 6 to 12 months, in a Swedish jail which is not the worst place on Earth to be, and then they would have sent him off to his home country Australia.

There's a US-Sweden extradition treaty. It's not obvious to me that the Swedes would have rejected the request (provided they got assurances along the lines of what the UK is now requesting). He could've avoided wasting 5 years of his life confined to an embassy, but I don't see how he could've avoided extradition.

Comment Re:How can he be prosecuted by the U.S.? (Score 2) 151

The UK and US have an extradition treaty. IANAL but the general guideline, as I understand it, is that if the UK agrees that what Assange is accused of is a crime under UK law, the UK may send him to the US to be prosecuted for that crime.

In the extreme case: If you were to take out a contract for a hitman to kill someone on US soil, you better believe someone's going to try to extradite you whether or not you happened to be in the US at the time you took out the contract.

Comment Too Simplistic - Boeing *was* Led by an Engineer (Score 5, Informative) 81

Dennis Muilenburg has a bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering and a master's in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He held both management and engineering positions at Boeing before becoming president and CEO from 2015-2019.

Dennis Muilenburg also oversaw the 737 MAX/MCAS fiasco.

Comment Re:Typical Republican political theater (Score 2) 151

This is what happens when foreigners with no real knowledge of my country and why things are the way they are stand on their high horse and try to dictate to Americans how inferior we are and if only we obeyed you, everything would be so much better....

I'm an American and agree with the gist of the post to which you're replying. The EC is an outdated mechanism created to perpetuate the institution of slavery and we'd better off if the president was the person who most Americans voted for. The bicameral legislature does enough to give smaller states representation.

Drop the ad hominem attacks. They're generally dickish and weaken your point by tying it to a bunch of irrelevant alleged characteristics of the poster.

Comment Re:What an idiot (Score 1) 140

And then, anything the mods let be becomes officially approved by the company's official moderators

Section 230(c)(2) would protect them from liability for the content they leave up.

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of... any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.

Comment Re: No (Score 1) 237

The link above describes how to migrate over contacts, photos, videos, calendar events, messages, apps, music, "and more" by just plugging the phones into each other.

The only thing that seems to be missing there is iCloud files, which apparently can be migrated over with a service provided by Apple.

I'd say your rhetorical question is slightly malformed. There isn't an approved iOS "app" to do it, because one isn't needed.

Comment Re:Wait, Airpods have cell service? (Score 2) 164

And I'm pretty sure airpods do not have GPS location of their own, so what location does the connected device transmit?

The connected device, most likely an iPhone, transmits its own location. This of course leads to a level of uncertainty because your AirPods/AirTag could've been pinged by a neighbor's iPhone, someone walking by your house, etc.

What seems so boneheaded about this is that when you locate a device that's been tracked in this way the app shows a circle around the item indicating that margin of error. I have an AirTag sitting at home right now that seems to have been recently pinged and the error circle covers about half a dozen homes on my street.

Comment Re:Err... (Score 1) 292

I wasn't sufficiently precise in my language, fair.

Would you support actually having Russian criminal penalties enforced against me for making the above statement re: the Ukraine war?

I certainly wouldn't. Not just because I don't want to go to the gulag, but for many of the same reasons I think it's an overreach to prosecute a website's owners because people in your state are choosing to visit it.

Comment Re:Err... (Score 4, Interesting) 292

The conflict in Ukraine is a war of Russian aggression, not a "special military operation".

Would you now support Russia filing an INTERPOL red notice or requesting my extradition because I've put something on the internet that is illegal in their jurisdiction?

Comment Re:Excel is generally terrible (Score 1) 187

What is Excel actually useful for?

It's useful when people who don't know Mongo, Postgres, GO, Java/TypeScript, Rust, PHP, or C# (ie, the vast majority of white-collar workers) need to be able to make on-the-fly adjustments to the tool, do their own simple visualizations, or independently manipulate the data in ways that weren't originally considered. And, if they get stuck, they can Google "How to $thing Excel" and get an answer without logging a ticket.

I have no doubt you could create a tool using a real database that allows for all of that, but I don't see how you'd do so without introducing the majority of the same drawbacks that come with Excel.

(To be clear: managing a complex supply chain of parts is not in my opinion a case where the needs I mention above outweigh the downsides.)

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