Organic chemistry: the study of carbon compounds.

Biology: the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

The personal safety issue isn't about tracking a vehicle you own. Apple put the speaker alert there to prevent other people from tracking you without your knowledge. Think about scenarios such as bad divorce, ex-from-hell, or any other form of stalker slipping an AirTag into your purse, backpack, or car.

I write technical material with a fair amount of math, and none of the other options can hold a candle to LaTeX so that's the clear winner for me. However, Overleaf is not an option where I work due to off-site storage of the content.

Yes, it matters. Large populations of unvaccinated people put vaccinated folks at risk in the long run via two mechanisms. The first is that they are a breeding pool for the disease, providing it with more opportunities to mutate into vaccine resistant or more lethal or communicable strains. (If you haven't ever seen this video, it's an eye-opener.) The second is that they are a reservoir of the disease which will periodically spill over as vaccine efficacy declines after a couple of years, or as vaccination rates decline in vaccinated areas when people in those regions become less aware of the risk (as happened with measles in the US in recent years).

Discussion of the importance of small sample size reminds me of an old statistician joke about a high school science project.

"...but neither Verizon nor T-Mobile will support the eSIM right now."

That summary sounds like the problem is with Verizon, not with Apple.

Actually, the constant updating is a major reason why scientists don't want to use Wikipedia as a primary reference source. It's unstable. A Wikipedia article that you cite can be altered, migrated, or deleted. Refereed journal articles are therefore a much more reliable choice for citations.

Ruby is 20+ years old. I wouldn't call that a fad language. Heck, I'm old enough to remember when people said the same thing about C and Perl relative to FORTRAN, PL/I, and COBOL.

Are you kidding? Everybody old enough to remember knows that the real purpose of BASIC was to teach Dartmouth students how to count by tens!

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” — Charles Bukowski

I don't know about you, but the only contacts I have on my phone are people I call. I'm highly confident that the carrier has already given the FBI the phone logs, so the address book on the phone would yield no new info.

You could also ask which is better, vi or emacs.

The number of tech employees there is small compared to Silicon Valley, Research Triangle, or the Northeast Corridor. Each additional employee in Minn. is therefore a larger proportional addition.

When you start with a small denominator, small changes in the numerator show as large proportions or high growth rates. This is why politicians like to point to trough-to-peak numbers when talking about their own records and peak-to-trough when talking about their political opponents. It's why some little rinky-dink county in New Mexico has the highest recorded per-capita death rate from traffic accidents—there was one fatal car crash there at a time when the county population was half a dozen people. It's why a high-school science project reported a 66.7% mortality rate when supplements were added to frog's diets—only one of the frogs lived.

The problem with the Zune wasn't solely that it was brown. It was brown and it squirted!