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Comment Re:Success rate? (Score 1) 35

by bosef1 (#66067476) Attached to: People are Using AI-Powered Services to Find Lost Pets

It surprises me to hear that the ID code does not already incorporate a check digit. One of the reason credit card numbers have check digits is so that when read over the telephone, mistakes can be detected and corrected. If you've gone to the point of having a microchip RF reader and a computer, Damm algorithm is easy to implement. I've used an Excel sheet to generate ID codes for boxes with a Damm checksum appended to the code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Original article (Score 4, Informative) 299

I believe this is the link to the original article, it appears to be open access / no paywall.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...

I need to read it again, but it feels like it reads more like an essay or whitepaper than a scientific article. I am not sure the author actually conducted any testing or comparing tobacco to ultra-processed food. I am also not sure the author offered a concrete definition of ultra-processed food. The author does identify foods that are very high in simple carbohydrates (e.g. candy, M&Ms, Peeps), but I don't think anyone believes that candy is healthy.

I wish the author had provided their working definition of ultra-processed food. The way I understand, even things like home-made bread qualify as ultra-processed food. The problem is that unless you are eating only raw fruits and vegetables; pretty much everything else is processed to some degree, even if it just involves cooking. I want to understand how ultra-processing is being conceived other than "traditional" junk food, or just anything to come out of an "evil" industrial kitchen.

Comment Re:Australia (Score 1) 144

by bosef1 (#65840473) Attached to: Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny?

I'm in the United States. I still write a few paper checks a year, mostly to friends and neighbors. It makes it easy to pay my neighbor for some yardwork they do for me.

I think the killer app that would move me away from paper checks would be a "universal" (at least in the US, but for the entire US) app that would let me authorize transfers funds to other people and businesses. Something maybe like CashApp, but that every person and every business and utility uses. Right now, it feels like every person has a different cash transfer application, and the ones you can use for people are different than the ones you can use for businesses. It sounds like the Australian systems provide that capability.
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iPhones 17 and the Sugar Water Trap 81

Posted by msmash from the state-of-affairs dept.
Analyst Ben Thompson, commenting on Apple's outlook following the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup: Apple, to be fair, isn't selling the same sugar water year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their sugar water is getting better, and I think this year's seasonal concoction is particularly tasty. What is inescapable, however, is that while the company does still make new products -- I definitely plan on getting new AirPod Pro 3s! -- the company has, in the pursuit of easy profits, constrained the space in which it innovates.

That didn't matter for a long time: smartphones were the center of innovation, and Apple was consequently the center of the tech universe. Now, however, Apple is increasingly on the periphery, and I think that, more than anything, is what bums people out: no, Apple may not be a sugar water purveyor, but they are farther than they have been in years from changing the world.

Comment Re:How many display ports do you need (Score 2) 98

I think the above poster is referencing the old Microsoft PC System Design Guides (PC-97, -98, -99 and PC 2001). See this Wikipedia link for more info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

One of the few enduring, useful, legacies of the Design Guides was a standard set of colors for the moldings for PC ports and cable connectors.

Comment Charge the parents too... (Score 5, Insightful) 121

by bosef1 (#64660146) Attached to: 29 Felony Charges Filed Over 'Swat' Calls Made By an 11-Year-Old

They need to do the thing where the parents are also charged for the crimes committed by their children. This case is less clear-cut than the previous ones, because it is far more likely that the parents did not know what their child was doing, but having a legal requirement, that is enforced with criminal consequences, that custodians of minors actually have to exercise custody of them is a good thing and a long time coming.

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