I was an avid Pebble user back in the day, and still think about it and WeatherGraph fondly. It did exactly what it was supposed to do, did it well, and because it wasn't bloated with a bunch of stuff no one asked for it had a ~week battery life.

Looking forward to hopefully more devices coming out.

>We need REAL science, not quasi-political pseudo-science garbage

OK, so try this. I omitted the rest of your ramble because you clearly have no understanding of math. You postulate that the stated pre-industrial average is incorrect because thermometers from that era would be accurate to 1 degree at best, correct? Setting aside the fact that wouldn't be the case - as you could design a fairly wide ranged mercury thermometer if you so chose - we're not dealing with a single day. We're dealing with an average of 365 - the number of days in a year.

One degree of temperature divided into 365 days yields 0.002739xxxx. So 1.48 is well within the calculable range of precision of a single-degree accuracy thermometer when dealing with a yearly average of daily samples.

I'm assuming you haven't actually used Plex, or at least aren't very familiar with it. Plex allows for multiple libraries of content, even multiples of the same 'type'. For example, I have an audio library for Music and another for Audiobooks - so that I can have Audiobooks not even try to match using the scanner and instead just use ID3 tags.

Point being, you can also control your sharing at a library level. Put porn into it's own library and don't grant access to it. Ez. And I do agree with OP's overall point, this feature should have been opt-in, not opt-out.

>To be a little fair, a lot of times, cost overruns and delays are due to the government changing its mind on specs and capabilities after the project is in motion. Or cutting orders so the fixed R&D costs skyrocket when broken down on a per-unit basis.

Neither of these should be an issue for a company the size of any MIC supplier. You have the lawyers write up the fixed price contract contingent on the purchase of X units. If you want to automate the reprice, include a section related to amortizing the fixed development costs over units ordered such that unit price shall be defined as $Price+(1/X $R_D) where X is the number of units purchased.

Having witnessed the outcome of Trump's first term, it's fair to say I'm not a fan and that's putting it mildly **but** I will give the devil his due and recognize that this specific contract was very well negiotiated relative to his peers.

Are you fucking stupid?

Google **never** updated the map data. Taking the street view pictures down that show the collapsed bridge looks like a kid hiding the pieces of the lamp they just broke right as they got caught.

The plaintiff(s) are trying to prove that Google had knowledge that the bridge was down and failed to act on it. And IMO they're doing a good job.

The First Amendment only restricts governmental action. There is no obligation for private companies to honor your rights under the First Amendment.

And that's an awfully low bar to set, but yet Amazon manages to trip across it consistently.

- The app UI is slow as shit on all but the latest Roku devices.
- Finding things your interested in on Amazon Prime Video is an exercise in futility unless you know the name of it.
- Their habit of intermingling paid content with Prime content is not user friendly. At all.
- When they do legitimately create solid content from a well-known writing team (Looking at you Paper Girls), they don't market it and cancel it pretty much immediately before it has a chance to find an audience. Paper Girls could have been Prime's marquee answer to Stranger Things. Instead its a footnote in their failure.

I know of two that have offered to do that, if Reddit will add the ads into the API feed. They currently are not served - yet another feature Reddit failed to develop while creating Snoovitars.

No, that's not accurate. Couple things:
1) Reddit chose not to monetize their API and by extension 3rd party apps until this moment, and to go clear to 11 when they did so. They could have picked a sustainable dollar amount if they were actually interested in monetizing 3rd party app access but instead chose to price at a level that operated effectively as a ban. No app was generating income at a tenth Reddit's demand, and Reddit is at the same time removing their ability to deploy their own ads (income) and receive NSFW content (reduced features). Generally speaking, increasing the price and removing features at the same time does not make a product more successful.

2) Reddit could have created API calls to serve ads, and also to receive back the same sort of advertiser data they get from their in-house "app". They chose not to pursue this route.

3) Reddit has for years been ignoring community commentary that their app is unweildy, unpleasant to use, and lacks sufficient moderation tools. As it started life as Alien Blue, this is especially disappointing as Reddit has invested time, money and effort into making the app worse than when they bought it.

4) I've only heard of two apps "cutting deals", and I've not seen any strong confirmation. I don't see how any sort of deal is sustainable if the terms are "free API access, but you cannot serve ads". And LOL to "discounted".

This is a problem entirely of Reddit's making, they're unwilling to entertain reasonable compromises, and they don't perceive the users of these apps as stakeholders in the platform even though we contribute the content that they monetize.

I also am unwilling to compromise. I have started transitioning over to Lemmy, and I will soon be removing my post history from Reddit. Once RiF dies, I will only use old.Reddit for buying and selling in the few marketplaces that I participate in.

Maybe spez is right, maybe he doesn't need my content. I know one thing though, I don't need his.

I'd be interested to see where you've seen this claim, and if it's from a credible (read: non-Spez) source as it doesn't jive with statements from the developer nor other third party app developers. They all have consistently claimed that Reddit was unwilling to deal on the API cost, or the NSFW access, or the ad restriction.

And so what if he's made millions? Reddit has made millions upon millions as well. Reddit's lack of profitability is a failure of leadership. I can't find 2022 income, but Reddit earned $456.38mm in 2021. They ship a digital product. They haven't developed any features the community has requested and maybe only a handful that the advertisers have.

It should honestly be alarming that Reddit isn't profitable at $456mm income.

This situation, and this comment, brought me out of Slashdot retirement. Congratulations.

The Official Reddit mobile app was a third party app called Alien Blue, and it was quite good and popular. Reddit worked very hard to make it as shitty as it is today.

Most people can't be bothered to look at what their computer is doing before clicking an UAC window, you really expect them to properly opt-out of SSID passkey sharing properly?

Verizon is bound by certain open access rules because of the 700MHz spectrum it bought. Apples and oranges.

AT&T has more latitude in managing its spectrum than Verizon does.

Incorrect. The sub discussion was whether the 2nd was intended to apply to militias specifically.

The Federalist papers are very relevant to that conversation as they are the thoughts of one of the founders.

So, change it. No one has once said that the Second Amendment shouldn't be changed if there's enough support.

The problem is, both you and I know that banning guns is a minority position in this country, which is why the other side always tries to make an end-run around the Constitution - for shame.

I'd love to see a conservative state like Texas pass a law that says you have to apply for a $200 tax stamp before you're allowed to have an abortion... Oh,the humanity!