It’s quite possible (likely, even) for there to be more bugs reported than Apple has capacity to investigate. I assume this is just a filter they use to get the queue down to a more reasonable size and remove bug reports that are especially old (trusting that if they’re still issued they’ll be re-reported). This kind of culling happens all the time with low pri stuff and even sometimes medium pri if there’s a clear workaround.
Which is why I commented — because there was a blind spot to their point.
I interpret “modern EV” as an EV in the 2010+ era (as opposed to the original EVs from the 1880s-1910s, which were not modern) which were made for streets / commuting (as opposed to golf carts / theme park cars, which have been around for many decades). And I don’t think I’m alone when using this framing.
They are both cartoonishly expensive. This kind of watch culture to me is even more unpalatable than country club culture. At least those people are getting quite a lot of service for what they’re paying.
I think if there's ever a day I prefer country club culture to the result of an industrial designer deciding to spend a decade coming up with all the engineering hacks to make something that cool work, I'm just going to walk out into the blizzard.
Glad to know I haven’t picked up any seriously bad habits, but how the heck do you keep the chopsticks aligned without tapping them somewhere?
Most of these seem related to health/sanitary practices/being considerate more than anything. Just avoiding contaminating what others are going to eat with your own utensils is an easy way to describe several of them.
You can just slide them with your fingers, even one handed, and it's not like they need to be perfectly aligned.
But, yeah, I tap them to align them all the time, have seen Japanese people do it day in and day out. I've even done it in some fine dining places in Japan. No one yelled at me, but I am a gaijin, so...
For some things I get this. Restaurants? Yes. But other things? Landscaping? Electricians? Plumbers? I’d much rather speak on the phone with someone who is going to come on my property and do work. I could care less if they have a website because that’s just marketing for them. I source almost 100% of these types of workers via referral from friends/family.
> Yes. But other things? Landscaping? Electricians? Plumbers?
Plumbers and electricians: Maybe not. But lots of other house repairs stuff: Yes.
Things I want to see:
Geographical coverage area: Some are across town and are not willing to come to my property. Others are.
Services rendered: There job title may be very generic, but it often turns out they do only certain types of work.
Minimum fees: Some only do jobs that cost, say, $1000 or more. If my work is small, I shouldn't bother calling them.
> I’d much rather speak on the phone with someone who is going to come on my property and do work
I do so as well, but they rarely pick up the phone. You call them, leave a voicemail, and pray they'll call you back at a time you can pick up. About 50% of them never call back. So every time I need some repairs/work done on the house, I have to get 10 "leads", and call them, leave a voicemail, and a few days later repeat the process because they either didn't call back, or called and said they don't do that type of work.
If I can pre-filter those out based on basic stuff on their website, it'd be great.
I used to work in construction in a previous life and always said I could judge how good a tradesman is simply by their appearance.
The same goes for their website. If they have pride in their work it will show; if they do just about enough to get paid it will also show.
Interesting. I'd personally rather them be great at what their job actually is and not waste time on a website. I think the best tradesmen don't need a website because their work (and their happy customers!) speaks for itself.
I agree. If we knew the mechanism for how life started we'd probably be doing the experiments to prove it. There are theories and experiments that suggest some life-like processes can happen with inorganic compounds, but they require a lot of squinting and a bit of imagination to connect with our own origins. And there's a big difference between experiment and nature. On the one hand, we have people trying to make it happen, while on the other hand, it apparently already happened once, without anyone even needing to be around.
Which is underplaying what "trying" means in this context: we live on a planet with a lot of life - life which by definition was a superior competitor to the much simpler life it supplanted. The world, even enzymes from our skin, are unimaginably hostile to most candidates for simpler primordial lifeforms.
The reason showing abiogenesis is hard is because (1) everything in the biosphere would kill and eat the result and (2) the one thing it had going for it was time - millions of years of random diffusion with nothing else busy executing a grey goo type attack on all the available resources.
Frankly if someone gets abiogenesis to work in a lab environment within a single human lifetime, it wouldn't just be evidence for how it might've happened in Earth's past it would more or less set the parameters for how much life there must be in the universe everywhere because a mere 50 to 100 years to kickstart anything would be insane.
I realize you're just replying in kind to the GP, who wasn't very nice himself. I also think it's not necessary to feed such trolls in a way that insults all the religious folks who do enjoy this site and don't try to push our faith on others.
It's okay. I appreciate the cover, but it's important to let this oppressed, hunted, hated and endangered group have their say.
There is, after all, a war on Christmas, Christians and Christianity.
Christian enclaves are being attacked and Christians are being murdered in the thousands every week, just for being Christian.
Hundreds of decent, god-fearing Christian women are being raped daily by strong, manly Muslim men. Their strong muscles rippling under their tight clothes, stirring up strong, lustful feelings among the faithful Christian men.
It's no wonder that folks are kind of touchy. If you risked being shot, blown up, cuckolded or otherwise made dead or humiliated every time you went to a church, made the sign of the cross or put a "Jesus is my Co-pilot" bumper sticker on your vehicle, you'd be concerned wouldn't you?
And that happens every day because people hate them for their knowledge of the truth. It's all there in the literal word of god that's in the Holy Bible. Anything else is heresy. And we know what to do with heretics, don't we?
Well, there's a little two-step here where pronatalists will insist “it's not political” with one side of their mouth, and then invite Jack Posobeic to be the opening night headline speaker at NatalCon with the other.
Oh, and how do you propose politics is even able to have an impact? Force people to have sex with each other?
It may be an ideology but I don’t think this is a red/blue topic and certainly not a legislative one imo. It is more of a geographical issue and a byproduct of industrialism that isn’t really reversible, you just hope the ride down is more of a slope and not a cliff.
If I knew how to solve the problem, I'd have proposed it. Yet, this is certainly a political issue. As populations decline, the smaller and smaller generations will be asked to support older generations, keep government services afloat, and so on. If nothing is done, at some point, the advanced, post industrial societies will become poor agrarian societies, infrastructure will decay, and governments will collapse. Then, people will begin having large families again because they will have no choice. Farms need hands.
Banning birth control and reversing efforts to enable women's equality in the work force are big ones. But we also see it in policies like the Trump Accounts and various proposals to pay people who have larger families. And you can see it but up against immigration policy too, where people who hate immigrants seek to replace the economic benefits of immigration with policies that promote a larger white population in the next generation.
It isn’t exactly a red/blue issue is what I should have said. I thought given the parent I was replying to that was the implication anyway. You can make anything political, of course.
It’s more that the US is more like a collection of 50 little countries, and it’s supposed to be hard to accomplish much at a federal level. That separation has eroded a bit in the last 50 years but it’s still very much a part of our political ideology.
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