In 2012 the phone's eMMC was slower than a good SD card.

Wait, it's 2026 and that's still true.

Did you know that some SD cards have bad random read speeds? It's crazy, but it's true.

If it's like the last presidency, and it's worse in all other things so why not this too, the tax breaks for the poor will wind down but those for the rich will last forever.

Then again, the Democrats didn't fix that shit, we desperately need ranked choice voting in this shithole

This seems to be quite complicated. I have experience labeling maps with QGIS, ArcGIS online, and UMN mapserver, and it's kind of a PITA in all cases. It took me quite a bit of thrashing around with QGIS to come up with a map labeling style which actually checked every box, and never really got there with the others. That is, roughly:

All labels both legible and not obscuring anything
Full names of all visible streets shown
No label is closer to a street it isn't labeling than one which it is
Labels repeat only at useful distances along a street

Sidebar: QGIS is super duper cool, I have come up with a pretty nice map which has got parcels and whatnot when you zoom in, all from public data. As you get closer, more features and data appear. The latest US Census TIGER dataset is a very good practical starting point for this country, but there are lots of other sources.

IME they just don't have street view for those "roads". There's the rub, somehow the street view scanning process where they drive right past those doesn't reveal that they aren't actually there. I mean where you can clearly see a fence across a place they think there's a road, they really ought to be able to fix that. But since most other companies aren't even doing as much verification as google is doing, it's hard to get super mad. The other maps all have the same misfeature.

Sure, I've had the same experience first hand. But if you just google it :) you can see that people have the same complaint about Apple Maps, and every other map system as well including OSM.

Yeah yeah all that stuff is true, except that if you're trying to make a difference in your heating costs using a heat pump and solar, you're going to need battery, because you need heating most when the sun isn't shining.

What integrity? What values? Apple only values money. That's why they constantly fuck over customers for it.

And as we have seen, that amounts to a hill of shit when they go up against a government determined to squeeze them, for good or ill reasons.

I cannot stress enough that the goal of Apple computer is to "ensure
that the long-term interests of shareholders are being served". Anything else you might think is relevant simply is not. They did it to serve the shareholders. There will almost certainly be no negative consequences for the shareholders of bending the knee for more profit, as Trump would still have been shitting up America with or without Tim Apple's consent, and would probably have shit on Apple too if they hadn't bent over for him.

TL;DR: Believing corporations give a fuck about anything other than money is the cuckiest of cuck shit

It's also gross! I haven't checked to see if the situation's changed there since but when I was on Isla Bastimentos the diesel power plant was both disgusting to smell and irritating to hear.

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That depends on the street density, but it was very practical even in 2012. Maps generally use up a few hundred MB to a few GB. I've been using this feature as long as Google Maps has had it.

That's the question, isn't it? Intel has made grandiose promises about three processes recently, and failed to make good on those promises for two of them.

That's why we wanted TSMC to build a fab here, and they did. If China invades Taiwan, then yes there will be significant disruption to markets, but at least it will still be possible to make top quality chips. Meanwhile TSMC's Taiwanese equipment will be destroyed and/or disabled so it cannot be used by China. By the time they reverse engineer what's left, it won't be current any more.

Yes, competition to AMD is needed, but competition isn't what Intel does, is it? Their dominance was based on crime and deliberately compromising the security of chips with OoO execution, not superior technology.

But is that a mistake? Odds are severely against ever being held accountable for that because most Democrats want to collect bribes, too. Meanwhile it got him tariff exemptions that helped Apple, while the tariffs harmed the competitors. (Kind of reminds one of America and WWII... It's the American way!)

You think being told to make a hard turn off the side of a bridge, or being sent to a completely wrong destination is good?

Holy fucking shit, the RDF is real. The CEO of Apple himself says it was a failure, which we already knew because he told people to use the competing solutions, and you disagree with him because you have to believe in the myth of Apple's competence. It's truly mind boggling.

Perhaps it's strictly true that "many" OSes use them, but the only popular OSes which ever did use them after boot were DOS and Windows 3.x. All the real PC OSes (plus Windows 9x, except in 16 bit compatibility mode) ignore the BIOS after they boot. The memory mapped for it may not be released, but it's also not accessed.