A couple of other comics with their own distinct personalities but an unmistakable C&H vibe:

Cul de Sac (https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac)

Wallace the Brave (https://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave)

The comic "Frazz" is also often compared to Calvin and Hobbes (as if Frazz the janitor is an adult Calvin), there's a long section on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazz

My pet theory about why the Minis sold poorly is that the 12 Mini was released just a few months after the SE 2; I suspect a lot of the would-be Mini purchasers had just bought an SE 2 instead (not knowing the Mini was just around the corner), and are also not a demographic interested in upgrading their phone every year.

Didn't the SE models sell notoriously bad as well?

There are always a bunch of us who wants a smaller phone, but the sales number indicates that we are the minority.

To some extend I also think it explains the increasingly thin phones. With the increases in screen size, they need to make the phones thinner, otherwise it would feel like a brick in your pocket.

No. Even the 2022—which was intentionally nerfed—sold 15-20 million and ranked in the top ten best-selling phones.

Wasn't eight of the ten best selling phones iPhones? It was even beaten by the iPhone 14 line up, which was only for sale in four out of the twelve months, while the SE was available for all twelve.

You're right that it was good sales figures for a smartphone, but not great for an iPhone.

The SE3 has bad selling because it is exactly the same SE2 with upgrade SOC. People buying SE phone mostly don't care about SOC performance.

I always point out that the minis were a billion dollar product. Most companies would DIE for a billion dollar product.

Apple is like CBS in that regard - shows with viewers that other networks would kill for get canceled at CBS because they expect more. Apple doesn’t get as much ROI on phones that sell in the low ten millions or low single digit percentage of the market. But I do think they could put those phones on a slow refresh cycle and teach e.g. Mini or Plus users to wait for the next release and stack that market together over a few years to be worthwhile to them.

My theory is rather about battery life:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44588733

My pet theory is that having to charge the phone twice a day was a deal breaker. We wanted small, not "impossibly thin" and always dead.

Something quite similar to this is a theme in Greg Egan's Diaspora[1]. Specifically the various "flesher" societies and "bridgers" who facilitate communication between vastly divergent groups.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

Similarly with 9.2, assignment using a walrus operator will also fail if the value is 0 (or anything falsy: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-...)

You can use `if (response := get_user_input()) is not None` if that's important. IME, empty strings and None would be treated the same way.

I would love to have a bit more detail on why this is a non-starter, though I appreciate it’s likely that the answer is too complicated for a layperson to really understand.

It's a not a nonstarter. It's just somehow become that "no evidence for" has become synonymous with that.

> According to the bear's owners, the Cocaine Bear has the authority to officiate legally binding weddings in the mall where it is kept due to Kentucky's marriage laws. This claim is only partly true; the bear does not have the authority to solemnize weddings, but the state of Kentucky cannot invalidate marriages performed by unqualified persons if the parties believe that the person marrying them has the authority to do so. As such, it is a belief in the Cocaine Bear's authority that allows it to officiate legally binding weddings in Kentucky.

*Wiping away a tear* God bless America.

I'd like to see the divorce proceedings of a marriage solemnized by this bear. Almost certainly your prenuptial is not going to be binding because you cannot reasonably believe you were actually married by a bear. Any good lawyer is gonna rip this one apart.

What do you the cardinality of the intersection of the sets of "couples who have prenups" and "couples who get married by a bear" is?

That depends: if you hire Cocaine Lawyer Bear to defend you, the opposing party will likely be unable to find counsel to argue their case.

Even when the party officiating is very clearly not a person?

Project Highrise is very much a spiritual successor to SimTower.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/423580/Project_Highrise/

I had really high hopes for this but IIRC at a certain point all you really wind up doing is juggling/optimizing elevators. Which, ironically, is similar to Skylines 1 where all you wind up doing is juggling/optimizing traffic..

So why not incorporate blocks as a signal for the ranking algorithm? The simple version is every person that blocks $USER causes a -n modifier on all of $USER's content; more complex versions could scale the modifier with the number of people (or the combined "reputation" of the people) blocking $USER or shadowban them once x% of posters block them.

Open to abuse? Potentially, but so are a lot of community voting features, and reliably muting serial trolls would be a useful feature for a lot of social sites.

One problem I immediately see with this is that it's difficult to define what a serial troll (excluding bot accounts) is vs someone a community doesn't like for whatever reason, using a downvoting system at least provides some leeway in discussion that is on the boundary of what is and isn't commonly accepted for a given comment at a given time within a conversation.

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display, and scroll down to "Pointer". You can select the outline and fill colour separately. (At least on Ventura; I don't know which macOS version first introduced this option.)

As an aside, the Accessibility settings in both macOS and iOS are generally worth looking through, whether or not you consider yourself disabled. There's a lot of general quality-of-life settings and some neat features hidden there!

The fact that three-finger drag is hiding in macOS accessibility is a real shame. That and tap to click are indispensable.

oh nice. i just upgraded to monterey (trash can mac) and it's there. now my mouse matches my terminal cursor (red cursor on dark blue bg)

ow, my eyes hurt just from that description.

Amiga Workbench used a similar color scheme.

You sure about that? https://qntm.org/mmacevedo