"...is rated for 200,000 folds..."

If you keep the phone for five years (this isn't unreasonable for a nearly $3,000 phone IMHO) that's 110 folds per day. I've got to think that many, if not most smartphone users check their phone at least that many times per day.

These delivery apps make the food ordering/delivery experience worse and more expensive for every participant. Delivery people risk their lives (and those of others) to deliver food for utterly substandard compensation. Restaurants fork over a commission of up to 30% to the app. Customers deal with higher prices because restaurants need to make up the cut the app steals, and pay a delivery charge on top of that.

I live in New York City and the experience may not be the same elsewhere, but before the apps, nearly every restaurant/bodega would deliver. There was almost never a delivery fee, and the delivery people never felt like their ability to eat the next day would depend on how quickly the order got to it's recipient, so they weren't operating their vehicles in an (utterly) insane manner.

Everyone pays more and no one gets any more value than before the apps existed.

Dell should adopt a naming convention like M-B has: a letter (or word) to indicate the class of the machine, and a number to indicate the relative power. Anyone who understands how M-B names their vehicles would know that a C250 and a C300 are in the same class, but a C300 is more powerful. Dell could go back to their original names and make this work. If you know that a Latitude is a different (and pricier) class of machine than a Dell, you'll immediately have an inkling of the relative positions in the lineup of say, a Dell 100 and a Latitude 250.

A cure for TDS? What's wrong with it? Tabular Data Stream (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabular_Data_Stream) has been in use at millions, if not billions of sites for 40 years.

"Riders who prefer not to link a credit card or phone..."

No need to "link" a credit card; just tap any card at the turnstile and you're in. If you're riding enough to hit the fare cap, be sure to use the same card every time; they track usage by credit card number.

...than the delivery apps. Before Seamless and Grubhub and all the others, there was virtually nothing I couldn't get delivered if I wanted it, and delivery was almost always free (I live in New York City; I can't say if this is true elsewhere). Now, we get pretty much the same thing, except:
the restaurant pays a fee
the customer pays a fee
the delivery driver gets paid next to nothing and gets no benefits
the delivery driver endangers those around them in a frantic effort to get in as many deliveries as possible

Municipalities should pass laws preventing the delivery apps from operating within their borders.

Not so much. I don't know if this is still true, but in the earlier days of the delivery apps, the delivery service would add a restaurant's menu to their website without the restaurant's consent. The restaurant wouldn't know about it until they started getting orders from the app. At that point, not filling the orders would turn into a public relations nightmare, so they were kind of stuck. Most restaurant owners I've spoken to about this detest the delivery apps, but the way people order food has changed enough that they have little choice.

...describe something as "biased", what they really mean is "they're telling everyone about all the stupid, evil things we're doing."

...the end of the end for the VGA port. It's probably been easily ten years since I've seen one on a laptop.

"Technology has allowed actors to make ridiculous amounts of money doing work once and then getting a cut of sales forever"

It's called "royalties". What does technology have to do with it? It's a practice that's been around since the most sophisticated piece of accounting technology was the pencil.

Not so much. The only thing that's being infringed up is his right to be a pain in the a$$. If he wished to silence his phone, he would have been welcome to continue to say whatever he wanted.

...the whole Nissan Computer story from 30 years back. A man named Uzi Nissan registered the domain nissan.com for his computer business. He then spent pretty much the rest of his life defending his right to the domain against Nissan Motors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Government and traditional media are not arbiters of truth. The only arbiter of truth is the universe. If a statement can be verified by observing the universe, it's true. Else, it's false.

That's pretty much the end of the story.

The great thing about C as a language to learn programming is that it doesn't protect you from your mistakes. Making a mistake, seeing how it impacts the execution of the code and figuring out how to fix it is a great learning experience.

And Assembly Language. Understanding how a computer works at the level of the instruction set is invaluable.