> ObjectiveC is a MUCH, MUCH better language, but it's very hard to find work making apps in it these days.

As someone who has worked for the last 12 years as a full time iOS developer... ObjC is inmensely inferior to Swift in so many ways, the bigger one probably being the lack of optionals.

Because of optionals alone, pure Swift codebases deal away (almost entirely if it wasn't for IUOs) with what's the number 1 issue in ObjC, which is `nil` object exceptions.

And even if you disregard the technical advantages, the syntax is so much nicer and easier to read (and this is coming from someone who once thought ObjC was great!).

How is ObjC superior to Swift in any way?

The simplest explanation is that cryptos are just going up.

So the question I would ask is not if the hamster has outperformed WB, but if the hamster has outperformed buy & hold crypto investors.

My bet is it hasn't, but I'm too lazy to check.

OnePlus basically built their brand on phones with versions of Android very close to Google's with no fancy or unneeded add-ons and the ability to easily unlock/root the device.

If they're now adding this kind of bloatware, it represents a significant departure for the brand.
Now that they've raised the prices of their phones to match Samsung/Apple, consumers who previously fit into the OnePlus niche may look elsewhere.

It's too bad, the mobile market sorely needs more competitors challenging the status quo and it looks like OnePlus may no longer be challenging much of anything.

This.

You'd have to be insane or just want to burn cash to go with most of these delivery apps. Doubling the cost is not worth time saved. Add to that a significant percentage of orders with wrong or missing items, is this really an attractive proposition?

The YouTuber "Yes Theory" decided to travel there and show a hint of island life in Tuvalu. Definitely worth seeing, though of course it can't show every facet of life there based on an outsider's three day stay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The entire HTTPS infrastructure depends on a certificate web of trust which is well beyond the average person's ability to audit and manage. It's all but certain that the NSA and other governments and potentially non-government organizations have ingratiated themselves into this web, performing what Bruce Schneier calls a "compelled certification attack."

I would say he's more of a discipline chief, or technical fellow, in the terms used by some companies. Sure, there is some management but I think he's managing less and less of anything that can be tied to a schedule or budget, so much as he guides the principles, advises the practitioners, acts as a gatekeeper on technical grounds, and maybe a little evangelizing.

It's possible the copy originally belonged to Milton's father who was well educated and living in London at the time. Also possible Milton bought it for himself as a used copy from another collector.

It's pretty much the opposite actually.

Facebook's current like system created giant echo chambers where no outside perspectives could get in.

Large mobs screaming at the minority with overwhelming likes for consensus views, burying anything contrary.

Facebook basically created a poisonous culture through likes and now it looks like they're trying to find a way out of their mess.

I agree, the name "raku" doesn't sound too catchy in the English world. In Japanese, "raku" is like "fun, fortunate." Too bad "roku" already means something in tech world, because "roku" means 6 (as in Perl 6).

Veritasium did an excellent summary of how to understand and interpret what you're seeing in the image. Before the image was actually posted, he drew what all the models were anticipating, and you can see a lot of the features he spoke about in the actual image.

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When I saw the movie Interstellar, their image of a black hole seemed really hokey, but there's a reason for the way they drew it and it seems like parts of their conceptualization holds up fairly well.

This should be no surprise-- any device with a lithium-ion based battery sealed inside it will have to suffer the downsides that all common lithium-ion batteries have to suffer. Excess heat quickly damages their ability to recharge. But also normal heat, over the course of two to five years, gradually damages their capacity to recharge.

Drone battery? Better hope they produce the same form factor in three years.

Sport camera or camera gimbal? If it has the battery sealed in, the whole thing will be junk before you finally get around to using it on that big action vacation.

Thousand dollar smartphone with a case made of glass and unicorn farts? Better sign up for an appointment at the Einstein Bar to get the next magical upgrade, er, next generation smartphone.

Towns and cities have had awnings over merchant areas for centuries. It may not be this exact material, but there have been weather canopies over the bazaar and shotengai and market in pretty much every country, to either shade folks or keep them warm and dry. Many shopping malls in the USA from Michigan to Arizona used to be more open and followed the merchant street model around 40 years ago, but slowly became roofed in and fused into a single structural arcology model with shoppers dependent on air conditioning.

Lithium batteries are sensitive to large changes in temperature.