I recently bought an iPhone due to peer pressure after using pixel for years. I think the ux is better on android, every common function takes more gestures on iPhone. Typing this comment reminds me of how annoying it is to edit text with an iPhone. I think there was maybe a time when iPhone ux was better but maybe not. Still I feel better from the perspective of pure vanity when I pull the iPhone out, or those blue texts show up. It sucks.

What kind of peer pressure did you experience to get an iphone? This doesn't seem to exist in my circles.

For example when you're on a group chat and somebody sends a video and the quality gets degraded and so somebody makes funny of the guy who shared the video but the guy is like "somebody on the group chat has android". and then my pixel was literally being held together by tape and one of the guys is like, dude, why are you such a contrarian, just get an iphone, and true detective was good!

but true detective is not good, it's good bad.

I don’t know a single person in real life who uses iMessage.

Do you live in the US?

Yeah, intuitively I doubt that these will work the way they’re supposed to because well you’re trying to reinvent the joint. It’s true that the tools are different but I think there has been a steep decline in general joint know-how, so being able to innovate joints would require catching back up to where we used to be to decide if it’s worth it. Tbf if anyone could do it it would probably be Germany.

None of these joints is novel in the slightest. Still, is it awesome to have them so well documented. Additionally, the CNC makes them much much easier to use!

Really. Show me one single source other than this page that uses a meander key lengthening joint.

a) I like the language use. The title is punchy, and it makes you check it out just because you want to know what it means. Medieval hazards sticks with you.

b) there’s not a lot of money in being a commie journalist so this is probably some volunteer.

c) I live in Kentucky and had not heard about this.

d) re Kentucky, this place is wet

Lead for mechanical pencils is highly conductive, seemingly pure graphite but I think they can have different hardness ratings too, I wonder what the difference is.

The difference is pencil clay. More clay makes a harder, lighter marking lead. https://shop.kremerpigments.com/us/shop/pigments/40960-penci...

I meant as opposed to wooden pencils

Fantasy solution, will never happen.

You might be surprised, if you're young enough, to hear that this is exactly how it worked for a very long time.

At my first corporate job, and my second one as well, all email was sent and received directly from/to each persons individual workstation. There was no concept of centralized email server.

(Let alone outsourcing it to some other company, that would have been completely unthinkable.)

lots of things used to be a thing

I guess we've gotta hope China solves the problems that we can't

Partially, yes, but you have to mix in the whole idea of treating your house or houses as your retirement plan, which is a screwy, self-perpetuating economic system. It takes a lot of capital to construct an apartment building, and greed seems the only way capital is directed towards housing in the US.

a) agree b) Reads like chatgpt wrote it. Something about needing some stilted conjunction every other sentence. c) If the lab leak theory for covid is true, that'd be a good government example. The whole anthrax thing was weird as hell too.

edit - actually I guess it's fuzzy. Where's the line between prolonging a problem and inventing a problem