I remember when I was taught about that American myth Paul Bunyan the giant lumberjack who created the grand canyon by dragging his axe or made the Minnesota lakes with his footsteps. Even 8 year old me was like uh why aren’t there more lakes or craters next to the grand canyon then if he was walking next to it.

Won't someone please think of the poor celebrities?!

I have doubts that permanent daylight saving can stick. The US tried and failed at it once before. When people realize it’s still pitch dark at the time their kids are walking to school in the winter they tend to change their minds about daylight saving being as good as they thought it would be.

Work and school can start whenever we want them to start. That's not a problem that requires changing the clock.

I’m convinced that the introduction of Daylight Saving has made the majority of the world ignorant to the fact that you get longer days in the summer because of the Earth’s rotation around the sun and not because of moving the clock.

So instead of just doing the sensible thing like staying on standard time all year and ending the clock changing madness, everyone goes to die on the hill of daylight saving time.

>“But CPAP also seems to have negative effects on the cardiovascular system. We need to investigate whether we should use more conservative airway pressures or other less-utilized treatments like oral appliances to treat patients with obstructive sleep apnea.”

Yes, it's been exhausting going from doctor to doctor to find one that doesn't just default to the brute force treatment method of CPAP and is actually willing to get inside that nose and throat and suggest alternative treatments based on individual physiology.

>In other words, Microsoft didn't remove anything from Windows 11. It started over.

The national anthem of the apologist junior product manager when their new thing can't achieve basic feature parity with the old thing.

If Windows 11 requires Windows+Q to start type searching rather than just hitting the Windows key by itself like in Windows 10 that's a big fail.

TLDR: A trip to Europe typically involves a lot of walking.

My understanding is that they can negotiate that Steam take a lower cut of sales if they don't make use of Steam's DRM or other platform features.

Steam is convenient but monopolies aren't good either. In a perfect world all the platforms would provide proper API's so the community could make nicely integrated open source launchers that consolidate all of our games like GOG Galaxy tried to be. Given how finicky GOG is, that unfortunately seems to not be a world we're in yet or maybe ever will be.

Decimal comma vs point is decided on a country-by-country basis. It's not necessarily tied to the metric system.

I mean that's just a company that doesn't know how to manage hotel desking. If you require 30% of employees to be in the office at any given time, you provide enough desks for 50%.

If you require 50% in some tight rotation, then yes you're not saving much with overflow and should just give everyone a dedicated desk.

>“It really surprises me that Google has decided that they’d rather prevent Canadians from accessing news than actually paying journalists for the work they do,”

No, I don't think that surprised anyone.

>Googlers are permitted to work from home a few days each week, so many desks sit empty when only a fraction of staffers are doing their jobs from the company's offices.

Honestly hotel desking is a pretty normal thing for most hybrid work-from-home models.

You can't both work from home and demand permanent office space in an office that you hardly visit.

>“It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment,”

When Republicans steer so far to the right, they end up turning left and making a pro-choice argument.

AI is good at getting the back-of-the-textbook answers, but like in most any other industry, the real world of tech doesn't give you textbook problems.

Free-access orthodoxy will continue as startups come to disrupt the big players who must produce infinite growth until they too suffer the same fate of shareholder demands and investor-backed startups who replace them. The cycle of capitalism in big tech continues.

Is that not how Twitter works?

He both described what it contained and that it contained information on experiments that were actually carried out.

From the article: >The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features or issues such as how fast their app runs or how an image might load, according to data scientist George Hayward.

>“How to run thoughtful negative tests,” which included examples of such experiments being carried out.

Why couldn't we have done this for emergency siren noises on broadcast radio? That was so aggravating and certainly more dangerous than hearing the EAS tone.

They're not fake, they're just Non Fungible T-shirts.

I'm impressed despite all the lawsuits from Nintendo, actual shutdowns, road accidents, and hatred from the Tokyo locals, this company still finds a way.

Honest question, but how is the power dynamic in favor of the coach? The athlete makes the money and is the employer, the coach is hired staff.

Do people really think comedians don't make up shit? How eventful would your life have to be, and how good of a memory would you need to have, to be armed with decades of stand-up material?

This reminds of how people thought Curb Your Enthusiasm was a documentary about Larry David's real life.

> It’s just not enough to say there’s inflation and 100 drivers said gas prices shot up,

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure actual data on inflation and gas prices exists.