The alarm clock has always been an exception to each and every rule regarding sounds.

Another way it's an exception is that it is allowed to play sounds at times other apps are not - like if you have sleep mode on, or have turned on the mute switch!

And, so do you still have your VP?

Of course I still have my VP, I use it daily for work and other things. It's been awesome, and was especially good on a recent international flight.

I still find it incredibly useful to have a normalized large working environment wherever I am, I've had to travel a lot recently (some work, some vacation) and no matter where I go I have a full computing setup easily on hand.

I cannot express how much more vastly useful the AVP is day to day than any Quest unit. Quest is for play, AVP is for work.

More seriously, I wonder what sort of protocol they're using. I guess they could just use standard protocols, but with a freaking huge ACK window, but it seems more likely they'd use extensive FEC to reduce effective bit errors to extremely low rates, since NAKing and retransmitting corrupted packets would be incredibly slow. Or maybe that's okay. As long as they're only transmitting stored data which can be retransmitted a half hour later if needed, it might be fine to use simple error detection with retries. Dunno. This would be a fascinating problem to solve.

This ain't gonna work for FPS games... ping times of 25 minutes!

So Wikipedia editors not entertaining your alternative science is totally like censorship by a fascist dictator.

I agree that hate speech laws can go overboard, though you're looking at a bunch of outlier incidents.

Sounds messed up but all we have is the student's account and nothing from the University.

From your link:
Police officers unlawfully interfered with a man’s right to freedom of expression by turning up at his place of work to speak to him about allegedly “transphobic” tweets, the high court has ruled.

So your example is literally the courts saying the police were out of bounds.

Yeah, the hate speech laws can go too far. But HOLY SHIT IT'S WAY WORSE IN RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm waiting for your followup post where you use a story about someone's gunshot wound to complain about your splinter.

there's no one starving for power and Germany isn't the only country with a reliable power grid that's increasingly green.

Yes, Germany's "reliable" green power grid is so "reliable" that multiple heavy industries are shutting down.

They are among the first to fall. But not the last.

It's a well known measure.

No, it WAS a well known measure.

The entire G7 for example, appears to have largely forgotten this simple and obvious truth.

A nice gesture, especially considering it will utterly wreck several first world economies, but utterly useless in the face of China and India increase coal use alone.

China realized long any the only thing that truly advances a civilization is abundant power.

All details it would be nice if the article had!

They imply it was more nationalism than product quality but really offer no proof.

But only a hamster that you don't like.

How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

Anyone reading this, please please do not finance a car's worth of money on some new gadget you're not even sure if you have a use for.

I agree with this sentiment generally, but two corrections specifically:

1) what kind of car are you getting for $3500 these days?

2) Apple does offer 0% financing for the Vision Pro same as for other devices, the term is one year for the VP specifically which means a payment around $360 or so a month over a year.

If you are going to get one that is a great deal to be able to make use of your own money for a year that would have been immediately spent otherwise.

Also Apple offers a generous 14 day no questions return policy so you can back out if you realize the device is not for you.

So don't be afraid to use credit, but use it wisely and as you say, consider if what you are buying makes sense for you.

I think it's such a key part of the overall article it really should have been brought into the summary as well - the reason for the drop is not necessarily anything Samsung has done, but because there is a trend of Chinese people preferring to buy Chinese made products - so the top spot has been taken by Huawei.

Glad to see I didn't blow my cover ;)

First, the point was not that the room murder plausible, just that it was way more plausible than the truck murder.

Second, I never said shoot from across the room. Sneak in while he's sleeping. Though I agree pistol blow-back is an issue here, though maybe you have a second pistol with a silencer (not actually that effective) to stage a second shot while he's sleeping.

Meh, load up a class of whisky with sleeping pills, hold the gun to the side of his head, and say drink or die, most people will drink when faced with the prospect of immediate death.

Then you just hand around until you're sure he's dead.

Again, insanely risky, but kinda plausible unlike the truck in broad daylight.

It's /., if I'm going to give the pro-answer that's going to cost $$$$.

Some random Apple employee that told this Apple Hater is wrong - if they even exist.

Apple Vision Pro returns are at 1%.

Also if you have been following the rumors for a while, you will be scratching your head at production supposedly being cut down to 400k units from 800k... when long ago it was projected that the supply of 4k displays used by the AVP was only around 400-500k...

Which leads you to wonder if purchase and supply have just been a constant and it's the rumors t hat are all over the place. As usual.