That's true now. You're suffering from recency bias. The old machines used to be able to be turned up to dispense super-hot coffee. And most of them were set that way nationwide.

The coffee machines McD's use now have a much more accurate temperature sensing system to ensure the coffee is always dispensed at the appropriate temperature. You can read my other comment above for a little more in-depth explanation.

The coffee machines that McDonald's had at the time had poorly designed temperature sensors and the machines were also set to deliver coffee that was as hot as possible because they wanted to ensure the coffee the customer received was hot.

This led to McDonald's handing out literal super-heated coffee to customers, which did horrific damage to the woman who won the lawsuit. (I've seen the photos, it's horrific.) The lawsuit was totally justified and the injury was real.

On the plus side, a good thing did come out of all of this. McDonald's spent something like $5M and partnered with their coffee machine vendor to redesign the temperature sensing system to be one of the most accurate coffee temperature systems available. That company licensed the technology to all of the other coffee makers and is now widely used in every commercial coffee machine out there, including Starbucks and your favorite local coffee shop.

So it didn't matter if she dropped it on herself. She was served a product that was way outside the bounds of what was considered reasonably hot and got injured. Totally on McDs.

It's pretty clear that Amazon is trying to shut down efforts like the Kodi project and prevent people from accessing "illegal" content and sideloading other "unauthorized" apps. And also so they can get the metrics (viewing data, app use, Alexa purchases) from the regular Amazon software.

All the innocent wide-eyed reporting around the "what security issues?" is disingenuous at best.

Ah well.

A someone who used to work in the industry, people don't hate ads. They hate BAD ads. Which outnumber the good ones by something like 100:1. If not more.

It sucks that he has cancer.

But the King is also 75 years old. It's kind of expected. It's like we wouldn't be surprised if we found out he couldn't pass a mental acuity test. It's sad, but not a tragedy.

Now, if they announced that Princess Kate had cancer, that would be something newsworthy. And then you'd see an outpouring of grief. I'm not wishing that on her, by the way. I'm just using it as an example.

I've moved to a two baby system. It's always good to have redundancy. It's really hard to implement a full 1-2-3 backup system though.

Even with it being full of "the olds," I'm still fairly well-versed in the slang of "the youts" as a side effect of my work, and it was still relatively impenetrable.

The reason those manual typewriters had that was because they all used monospaced fonts, and it was very difficult to tell if a single space was a space at the end of a sentence or just the spacing between some skinny letters (like, having an "l" and an "I" next to each other) looked like a space. So the second space was adding to the instructions for typists to correct for a mechanical deficiency in manual typewriters. Professional typesetting always used proportionally type and a single space between sentences. For proof, you can crack open any book printed pre-1980ish.

You can't honestly say that typing on your manual monospaced typewriter from the 1970s looks better than a book printed using proportional typesetting from the same era.

Now that we're here in the 21st century, we all have access to proportional spaced fonts and all of our communications can look professionally set.

The only exception to this is if you're still doing al of your communications using Courier or any of its monospaced cousins.

Their PAX event has outlived the event that made them create it.

FaceID works for me with a beard, without a beard, with any of three different sets of glasses, one of which is a pair of sunglasses, and with my glasses off.

(Granted ny beard only gets an inch or so long before I take it off again, but still).

I think you need to let it recapture your face.

Because people were literally dying by the thousand. And hospitals were overflowing with patients with NO treatment.

What happened is humanity got really f*cking lucky with the mRNA vaccines. If we hadn't been working on them for 20 years leading up to the pandemic, and if they hadn't been able to create the very first draft in less than 48 hours after we got the DNA from the Chinese, the pandemic would have been much, much, much worse. Odds are we'd _still_ be in some form of lockdown. Prior to the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines, the fastest we'd ever developed a vaccine for a highly virulent disease was 48 months. Four. Years.

Given that COVID initially had a 4.5% mortality rate, if it had infected the entire population, you're talking about 270M people dead. Globally.

That's why they shut everything down. The fact that the mRNA vaccines entered clinical testing 30 days into the outbreak and actually worked is a god damned miracle. We got through this by the skin of our teeth.

The data that COVID could be spread through airborne transmission. Most of the pre-cursor coronaviruses were not as virulent through airborne transmission and typically required direct contact with contaminated bodily fluids (someone coughing on you, you touching that person's mucous, etc.). That's why they didn't think masking would be effective, because it doesn't really help diseases like MERS or SARS. Both of those diseases lose potency when airborne and don't stay alive nearly as long when spread that way.

This is why they advised to wipe down packages and clean counters with disinfectant at the beginning of the pandemic, because that's how they thought it was getting transmitted. I'm pretty COVID-19 can get transmitted that way too, but most of its transmission is airborne.

COVID-19 though, hits different. Its transmission is very effective when airborne and it stays active a lot longer when aerosolized.

Here's a research paper where they compare the different coronaviruses and their transmission rates: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.10...

Enjoy.

Yes. The internet provider should be "subsidizing" those connections from the profits they're making from the easier places to install.

That was the same agreement the Bells agreed to back in the 1900s when they were "mandated" to bring a copper pair to every home in America. We can redo that now.

I finally left Comcast when I a fiber provider rolled into my neighborhood offering the internet service I've always wanted.

10gbps fiber. Bi-directional speed. Low cost. No bandwidth caps.

I'm sorry/not sorry that Comcast's inferior options have finally started to cause them to lose share. I hope to never be a Comcast customer again as long as I don't live in an area where they're the only "fast" option.

Good riddance.

And after we get Unicode, maybe we can get Markdown support too.