Not a woman, but if you asked R2 he'd tell you 3PO is non-binary.

I can see it now talking to the therapist:

"Ok, how about this craigslist listing for a free dresser. Do you think we can close that one? Do you still need it?"

"Well, but I might want a dresser like that one so I want to keep the picture."

"Ok..."

The iPad needs a "MacOS" app that loads up the full native desktop compute experience.

On the iOS side the iPad needs to support multiple user profiles by default and not just when set up under MDM. It's insane that this is a fully baked and shipping feature that's so frequently requested but is simply withheld.

Apple are being assholes about these obvious features because the convergence and device sharing cut into sales of multiple devices. How is buying 5 different devices supposed to be "green" when you could just run everything on a single device?

Indeed, but it exists and has for 15 years. So, it's not really accurate to say this new service is the first ever.

Acela has been around since 2000. Acela trains are the fastest in the Americas, reaching 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) (qualifying as high-speed rail), but only over 49.9 miles (80.3 km) of the 457-mile (735 km) route. (source: wikipedia)

That was 12 years ago. A 12 year out of date critique of a web technology that has had ongoing language updates and two entire rewrites in that interval should be viewed with some suspicion. Also, are you really just citing the title of the article and none of the content?

I'm not even defending PHP here, just questioning lazy kneejerk, "but it sucked once, so now I hate it forever" thinking.

Nah, I didn't. I'll be charitable and say perhaps you misunderstand the situation. You can replace peak time generation capacity with a battery charged up with quiet time capacity.

I'd love it if I could do the same thing with internet capacity that we provision in my day job.

Power usage has a daily pattern something like this:

https://db-excel.com/wp-conten...

The battery lets you take some usage from a period of low usage ( like approximately 5am on that image ) to charge up your battery array and then discharge it back into the grid at the highest usage point ( like 6pm on that image ).

A whole lot of engineering is worrying about the worst case of your metrics, so taking some usage from your best case and using it to make your worst case better is a great improvement.

This year's renewal of home insurance cam with all kinds of new stipulations.

One was satellite photos from Google Earth with areas of my roof circled where they suspected some damage. I was able to have a conversation with my agent and the underwriter and tell them when we last replaced the roof, and assured them that we had been on the roof recently (Christmas lights) and got them to back off. It sounded like they were using some machine analysis looking for odd stain patterns.

My take is that the industry as a whole is trying to improve the quality of their assessments and risk exposure.

The "Alternative Marketplaces" that are already in Apple's approval queue to launch imminently in the EU are filled with emulators.

The problem here is that the open app ecosystem available to the EU creates a massive disparity between the capabilities of the platform there vs everywhere else in the world. The headlines about emulators coming to EU iPhones have been going for a few weeks now. If you can run emulators in Europe but not in the US, users simply are not going to stand for it.

I was going to say the Apple is about to have their Lunch eaten, but in the context of gradeschool cafeteria analogies, it's really more like they are the bully and they finally got their nose punched in by the little scrawny kid.. only that kid was the EU and maybe not so scrawny. Keep it up!

I can just imagine a system where you get a "one minute charging speed boost!" when you choose to watch a video ad...

Blasphemy to ignore the last crusade, arguably a better movie than raiders. Odd though they billed it as "3" without releasing a second. Also comforting in this day and age they didn't pump the cash cow with some years later nostalgia fests that would probably tie in a mish mash of popular topics like aliens or time travel.

They're rolling it out on Mars first. Solve the tough problems first!

Never read Children of the Sky? Didn't feel quite the same, and left it open at the end to continue, but it does exist

They're self driving until they get stuck. I've taken 35-40 trips and gotten stuck once where they actually came online to get the car moving (there was someone talking). After friend got stuck on a low viz corner in my neighborhood, I noticed more cars with drivers showing up the next few days, guessing to get more data on it.

I think the real test is how long it takes to get operational in a new city. Like after LA & Austin, how long will it take the next 20 cities (outside of building the cars, logistics and facilities etc). How well do they need to understand the roads via detailed mapping to launch a new area?