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Comment Re: Spoiled Brat (Score 1) 176

Also he bought the wrong bike, without a pedal force sensor, if he feels like it's out of control every time he takes a corner. The better ones feel like you are fully in control at all times.

Ebikes save many car rides, by making it much easier, faster and more comfortable to use a bike.

Comment Re: The EU Will drive the standard (Score 1) 271

The MacBook pros can luckily charge from all usb-c ports.
I see absolutely no benefit in the magsafe port, and would not know why it would be better in any way. Could you explain? To me it feels like a bulky non standard port. Luckily the included charger is just usb-c on the other end anyway, so I can just connect a proper standard usb-c cable to it and charge my laptop, phone or tablet with the same cable, bringing the experience back to the level it was before. Feels like a small step back to me in an otherwise great laptop.

Comment Re: What a great way... (Score 1) 271

It's just the connector and charging standard, not limiting any future communication standards over that connector. And it's a really nice connector too, designed to be in use for many years. Usb-a has held up for 27 years, and even now it has been upgraded to support 10Gbit/s. USB-c is only 8 years old, and already supports quite some bandwidth even in its current specification
Also manufacturers are allowed to add another connector. Just like apple did with their ridiculous new magsafe port on newer laptops. So, no, this shouldn't harm innovation too much. Eventually we will need a new connector, meaning a change in law once it gains some ground.

Oh and grounded plugs for chargers aren't mandatory here.

Comment Re:That's not what "renewable" means (Score 1) 86

It's a way to do something useful with the things we cannot (yet) recycle. There's a big trash burning power plant nearby here. It also provides heating and hot water to households using the excess heat they generate, including our house. Rather efficient. But renewable energy? No. Unless everything they burn comes from a renewable source..

Comment Re: When you have no idea how the computer does it (Score 5, Insightful) 291

We do not know how the brain of a doctor or surgeon works. And yet we trust their decisions and actions.
Besides, finding something that works without knowing how it works is a valid result in itself. The result, if the authors did not make a mistake, shows that somehow information is present in x-rays that we did not know was there. Plus a method to retrieve some of that information. It might inspire others to find out why this works, or perhaps to discover something else about x-rays of humans that we do not yet know.
The authors do provide a possible mechanism that could explain why their method works, as can be read in the linked news article. That is unrelated to skeletal structure.

Also no one is suggesting that this has any direct practical purpose in medicine of any kind whatsoever. Scientific results can be useful and valid without any kind of practical application.

Comment not so buggy? (Score 1) 80

Posting from a pixel 3a here, and have been running android 12 without problems since October. Does not seem buggy at all. Same with pixel phones from others I know. Could this be from all the customizations Samsung and other manufacturers make in the OS not playing nice with android 12?

That the wifi/mobile data buttons have changed to something called 'internet', which opens a separate screen with wifi/mobile data buttons, that is rather annoying. Other than that it works fine.

Comment Re: just pick one (Score 2) 89

People taking trips to other timezones shows they are adjusting fine. A trip to the UK or to Finland from the Netherlands takes almost no time to adjust, and that's an hour difference, and people very willingly do so.

The minor inconvenience DST causes is well worth the benefits, for many people. With DST, at June 21, here the sun rises at 5:11 and sets at 21:58. The sun rising at 4:11 and setting at 20:58 would just mean everyone sees a full hour less daylight.
And keeping summer time would mean at December 21, the sun would rise at 9:40 instead of 8:40.

Luckily, Jean Claude Juncker is gone and this is no longer a topic of discussion.

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