Posted before looking at the link, this wider format like the new Galaxy Fold is a better format for making use of the folding screen than the older Folds or Fold Ultra, and I see it supports a stylus so that's actually going to be useful. So good for them on features. With as critical as phones have become for 2FA and all that it is still a risk having an extra fragile device, and making cases that are functional and protective is tricky with the foldables. Hard to recommend if you don't have a spare phone sitting around.

I tried the Surface Duo and while the form factor was nice, the software mostly sucked, and the camera was terrible. It was really good at separating apps that want to be full screen between the two screens. Been using a Samsung Fold4 since, and it has been much better usability, but the durability is poor, I got the extended warranty and have had it repaired for folding screen failures about yearly. When they pull the screen they also have replaced the battery so from that standpoint it has been kinda nice to get a refresh? What the Surface Duo and early Folds supported that is standout is a stylus, which makes taking notes fantastic on the large screen. The newer Folds from Samsung and Google have dropped this, so the screen would largely be a waste because rarely is having more than two apps open at once practical, and the square size means media isn't really better than turning a normal phone sideways. Between that and durability I'll probably get a Galaxy Ultra whenever I replace this Fold. If you need to multitask on a phone often it would be worth it, but that is pretty rare.

Agreed, I bounced off of Discovery but SNW is great. Having heard mixed things about Picard I haven't gotten around to that one but maybe sometime.

They played with trans genderism quite literally in at least a few of the "go under cover with the aliens" episodes in TNG too, as I recall. It's barely subtext... it's just... the text.

What does a legitimate reason have to do with civil forfeiture? They just have to not quite believe your reason and then you get to try to convince the judge later.

Oh so they are looking up where they can seize $10000, impound $5000, and then have the civil forfeiture give $2500 to the department budget?

Are you out west? We are in the midwest where charging isn't as prevalent as on the coasts but when we went with an EV we went BEV because I wanted to maximize mechanical simplicity and couldn't be happier. Even scrapped my plans for installing a subpanel and a Level 2 in the garage because Level 1 has proven good enough. But visiting places like CO and MT I can see why you might need a hybrid if you're not staying within the city.

You can box them out, though, like the free charging at my employer can be found in a public facing app but is shows up there that you can't access it without being a member. My understanding is that this functionality is also used for apartments where they want to limit chargers to tenants.

I have a Chevy EV that's pretty cool, they can make modern cars alright, but I do read articles about the administration wanting to rollback fuel economy targets and can't help but think they are definitely doomed on competitiveness if they bite that worm

There's been attempts to 3d print nutrient lattices to culture the cells into the right shape but it is akin to, say, culturing rose cells as algae and then trying to build a bloom out of the slurry and graft it successfully back onto the bush. Lots of steps that can preclude a working organ in there.

No they're talking about electrical charges, not the pH of the water (which is to say, its protonation). They can be related in some ways as a googled up article lays out here: https://atlas-scientific.com/b...

Time will tell if a competing product he's bought stock in gets installed instead but the distaste for this level of surveillance does seem to be bipartisan.

You can have the AI write comments and also write unit tests. That said the devs I work with mostly use it as Super Intellisense and likewise don't trust large pieces of code to anything in Prod. The biggest AI project was an experiment to let the users define the requirements (which they are very bad at) and having the devs intervene as little as possible and see if a usable tool came out the other side. That went about as well as you'd guess, I'd thought with as good as they are at taking meeting minutes that project manager and business analyst days were done but the users are still going to need a translation layer between them and the developers, whether they're AIs or humans.

Oh man, I checked just to see and the shellac flake I used to get at ShellacShack for 28.40 is 38.40 now which is a significant increase but not as high as the shellac primer... if you're using it for hobby stuff and don't need aerosol cans then I'd suggest you make your own from flake in Denatured Alcohol from the hardware store.

The same reason we pushed electricity and telephony into rural areas. The government regulating and directing utility services to at least some degree works better than depending entirely on free market for something that is going to require a large initial outlay.