+1 to literally everything you just said except the last part.

I do want a foldable phone so I can have enough screen real estate to blow up the font size and still have usable apps. But that would require supporting different accessibility text size settings on the different screens to be useful.

But I also critically want a home button. In every way, gestures are inferior to a physical home button. It's harder to swipe to kill an app, harder to switch apps, etc. And add a case around the phone, and usability goes downhill even more.

That said, the return of Touch ID goes a long way towards making iPhone usable again, so that's definitely a big plus for this design. (Face ID sucks. It can't be used while wearing Vision Pro. It can't be used while wearing a mask. It can't be used easily without having it in front of your face, which means you can't start unlocking until it is out of your pocket, which wastes precious time. It just randomly fails for no obvious reason at a much higher rate than Touch ID did. In every way, it is an inferior experience. So when I say this is a big plus for me, I mean a BIG plus, assuming this new tiny Touch ID sensor actually works. I'll be eagerly watching the reviews.)

But more critically than that, I want a phone I can operate with one hand. I physically am incapable of meaningfully operating the current phones without using both hands. They are too tall and too wide, and my thumb isn't that long.

So what I really want is an iPhone Duo Mini. Make the outer display be the size of an iPhone 5s. Add four action buttons on the side or top that we can configure individually. For me, one would be a home button, one would be a "take a photo right now" button (hold to start video recording), one would be a Siri button, and the fourth would be a normal power button. And add back the ringer switch.

Also, bring back the physical mute switch. The on-screen silence features are enough of a hassle that I just leave my phone on silent mode continuously, which isn't great, but I don't want to waste my one action button on it, and also you can't look at a button and see whether the feature is enabled, so it just wouldn't work very well with a button even if I did.

But most critically, it should be all of these things without sacrificing performance, camera quality, or other features. Every time Apple has made a small phone, they've made it trash. They've given it a low-end camera, saddled it with an outdated CPU, and tried to make it a cheap phone. So nobody buys them, and they say, "See, we told you nobody wanted this." Except we did. We just didn't want a low-end small phone, and we didn't want a huge phone that's small only because the newer ones have become even more ridiculously large.

That said, this does look like a step in the right general direction, with the exception of the missing action button.

Now every hundred thousand years we are going to have slashdot filled with posts saying "the leap second is stupid! It causes accidents and increased stress!" while a wave of others insist we need the leap second or our children will be standing waiting for the bus in the dark.

If ai kills all these stupid fucking crypto currencies, I'm on ai's side.
Finally a positive use case.

Not everyone is purely driven by ideology.

Being a member of the military of a country does not constitute being a member of a communist party/regime unless you're high up in a military junta. So no, that law does not apply. And regardless, him being ineligible does not make his daughter ineligible, which means it is still not a material omission in the context of *her* immigration — only his. *She* was a kid.

No, there is not compelling evidence, or else it would have been presented by now. Years later, still no actual evidence has materialized — only a bunch of conspiracy theory nutters making unsubstantiated claims. But I'm sure you "did your own research" to come up with those "facts".

You're assuming it was a lie. He was known to be on active duty from 1977 to 1978. It's unclear whether he was on active duty after that period. That was before she was even *born*. And even if he was actively in the military in some capacity, that doesn't mean he wasn't also a teacher. Most militaries have those.

She was a kid. Even if he had been a high-level government official who ordered troops to butcher small children, she wouldn't have known anything about it.

And again, you and everyone else making those claims offer zero proof. Zero evidence. Just more baseless claims from the party of compulsive liars. If the claims were true, surely *someone* would have provided some sort of actual evidence by now.

And again, even if there were documented proof, that still wouldn't be adequate to vacate *her* claim to citizenship — only her father's. They didn't lie about who *she* was. She was a kid.

That may be how it works in some fascist hellholes, but that's not how it works in the United States. What I described are the legal requirements for denaturalization.

Even if those claims are true — and given that similar allegations were made years ago and DHS concluded that they were without merit, so that's a pretty big stretch — the misrepresentation would have been by her father, not her. She was not a member of the Somali military. So why do you think that would make a material difference in whether she, as a legal adult if the claims are to be believed, would be granted citizenship?

Answer: It wouldn't. The claims are not credible, and even if they were, they would not rise to the legal threshold required to remove someone's citizenship.

As methods for by suicide-by-wealth go, it's classier than drugs, and more accessible than a carbon-fiber submarine. I predict we'll see some pretty spectacular Youtube videos of people making themselves (and their car) two-dimensional.

Fuck him and the horse he rode on. Fuck his business. Fuck his technology. Fuck his company. Fuck his employees. Fuck his investors. Fuck his government ties. Fuck him defending this shit. Fuck everyone who wants this. Fuck the government for buying into it. Fuck the laws that allow this if they do.

I wonder how the performance of 2 networked 512GB Mac Studios would compare to the performance of a (hypothetical) single Mac Studio with 1TB of RAM?

My intuition says that the network linking the two machines would be a bottleneck, but I don't know if that's a minor performance problem or a major one.

None of which is legally an adequate reason to remove someone's citizenship two decades or more later. Filing the wrong form would be considered a minor clerical error. It should have been rejected at the time, and she should have had to file the correct form at the time, but once citizenship is granted, that's moot.

There is a general presumption in the law that citizenship cannot be revoked unless all of the following criteria are true:

• That person misrepresented or concealed something
• The misrepresentation or concealment was willful
• The misrepresentation or concealment was material to the decision to grant citizenship

None of those apply, much less all of them. Omar did not misrepresent anything; her father did. The misrepresentation was probably not willful. See also the comments above about birth records in Somalia. And being born a year earlier is not material to the decision to grant citizenship. It is only material to whether that specific form would have been accepted or a different form would have been needed.

So absent some significant evidence that something else was omitted as a side effect of using the wrong form (which is incredibly unlikely), this would be a clerical error, subject to possible civil penalties against the father, were he still alive, and that's about it.

This isn't just a little bit short of the threshold required for removing citizenship. This is so far from reaching the threshold that even the most conservative immigration judge in the country would laugh in their faces for even making the attempt, and probably hit them with contempt charges for wasting the court's time.

Geez people.... Regardless of who is President, the issue here is worth taking a good look at. $2 billion is a LOT of money to burn through each year! And this is a program that arguably went FAR beyond what people expected it to do (ensuring libraries and schools had an afford Internet connection). Handing out free hotspots to people? Yeah ... I'd rather not fund THAT with my tax money. Just use free public wifi like the rest of us do.

Really, I think most of the hate comes from the way the self-checkout kiosks were handled and deployed. The systems themselves aren't so awful.

Hindsight is 20-20 and all that... but I think they should have only deployed them for the "12 items or less" type of express checkout. That would have helped acceptance and adoption. The people only trying to buy a few items are the ones prioritizing getting in and out quickly, even if it takes doing something differently than before.

Self-checkout gets exponentially frustrating when you have a lot of groceries like fresh foods where you can't just scan them. You've got to look them up on the touchscreen. That and purchases like alcohol where a human still has to check your ID before the process can complete.

Customers start feeling like they're doing a job that cashiers get hired for, so why aren't they getting a discount for it?

Yup. I think the biggest thing will be seeing how this plays out with freezing the new Pycrete in the field. They had pretty controlled (understandably) in the lab. I'm pretty sure it will work though.

I think, for construction in the antarctic, the whole process can be performed onsite,

It was interesting days, for myself, I started out using punchcards on an IBM360, fixing a program that if there was any error anywhere, the computer would dump everything to the printer. We knew it was happening because "The printer's singing again!" as the dot matrix printer sounded different.

Can't say I miss that all that much.

The real fun started later, when I started working with personal computers. I really got into it at that point. It was an exciting digital cowboy experience.

Now the second thing you mention. The theme of a couple oligarchs controlling everything while the rest of us have nothing, based on the theme of a person's worth and principles being inversely proportional to their wealth is a common enough one, but it is a meme. I deal regularly with both wealthy and non-wealthy. Some of the wealthiest people are some of the nicest, and some of the least wealthy are some of the worst. And vice versa. There's plenty of examples of good and bad in each social-economic groups.

There are people who hate me for no other reason than I have been successful and have a certain level of money. But enough of that.

The problem with the concept of everyone but a few being destitute is this. The wealthy have to get their money from somewhere. Oligarchies fail eventually.

People without money do not buy things or pay taxes. And if the economic strategy gets tilted too far to certain groups, they revolt, or sometimes just stop participating.

And some of this might be happening in a different manner these days, perhaps unforeseen by most. Young men are opting out of the game. After many years of men being derided as the cause of all problems, and the "strong and independent woman" yet still always a victim narrative, where a male can lose his career over a false accusation, and a never-ending shaming process, a large percentage of young men have checked out. No relationships no marriage, no children. 60 some percent, no relationship, and no sexual activity. And that number is increasing

This is causing problems on several levels. Lack of children. Finding out that IVF is not some magic thing guaranteeing a nice healthy baby because the failure rate is not often discussed. Women used to doing 70 percent of the spending doesn't work out now that they have to do their spending from their salary alone. Men finding out that they can live comfortably on a third of what they needed when dealing with a wife and children.

There are more issues. I won't belabor everyone.

There is a lot of money not being spent. And really, that 60 percent of unattached males is going to be a huge problem.

Now to give my bona fides, I've worked years in the effort to get women involved in STEM careers. I'm definitely not what I'm going to be called after people read this post. I've had an ongoing interest in female/male interactions from way back. I'm a researcher by profession, and a bit of a polymath, so researchers are gonna research

Point in all this is that perhaps the pendulum has swung too far, and perhaps the revolt will simply be passive avoidance.

Deep thoughts, I actually did some machine language programming. Don't recommend it, but since It is an olde school thing, I was fine to lose my skills.

It can be a little scary, but is there a point where AI programming will be pretty good, perhaps being rusty won't mean anything.

As I noted, there is an SDR program out now that is not the equivalent of standard offerings - but better. It is AetherSDR, and It is pretty darn nice - written in Claude. A human reviews it for any egregious mistakes, but can you come up with a good reason that this complex program arguably better, should not exist?