That’s.. Not really what I was saying. A rectangular slab cell phone generally works better held portrait. It lets you use the bottom segment of the screen as a keyboard, and have a pretty traditional squarish viewport for your application. You can comfortably hold most phones in one hand and access much of the screen…

As a long time advocate for turning the damn thing sideways, I’ve come to accept that portrait mode video will persevere in certain scenerios, such as live streaming mobile devices. It’s a more natural use of the technology, even if the presentation isn’t as natural seeming as landscape.

The same amount of labor (heat it some and rub some oil on it - between every meal in the beginning, eventually only after thorough cleanings) will get you the same behavior from cast iron, plus it doesn’t die - ever. Forget it in the sink? Scrub it up, give it extra oil. House burns down? Dig it out, scrub it up and…

Nope, unless you’re butchering your own meat on the board.

Nope, unless you’re butchering your own meat on the board.

Being able to poke a few buttons in a simple toddler app hardly qualifies as anything but training the basic process of interacting with a device (on par with teaching seniors to play solitair to develop mousing skills) and I’ve spent countless hours educating 50 year old luddites on how to operate your no learning…

because they’re not going to develop the skills they need to be successful in other aspects of computer use.

Ah, the programmer angle is one I overlooked.

Don’t be that guy.

I just wrote a big long ramble about the necessity of exposing kids to the electronics that will surround them in adulthood .... But even for me a personal tablet at one is insane. 3-4 perhaps, and of course highly moderated usage. At 1, while capable of learning how to poke the right general buttons pretty quickly,…

No rudeness intended but I’m personally curious about your knowledge of and comfort operating a smartphone, considering your claim that they have no learning curve. They’re approachable and intuitive, but the learning curve just keeps climbing as far as you’d like to chase it, and it certainly gets steeper the more…

Wow, really? So each neighbor is expected to just own the strip of road in front of their house too, ownership changing on the road every few hundred feet?

What did you upgrade from? I’m wondering how much is just having a higher quality router, how much is this “fast lane” tech. Logically speaking, it shouldn’t have much of an impact itself - 5Ghz is exceptionally short range and your neighbors should be minimal sources of interference in the regions that they’re hyping…

What did you upgrade from? I’m wondering how much is just having a higher quality router, how much is this “fast…

$14 is the property tax for the road itself, owned by the HOA on behalf of the neighbors. It’s right up there in the article FFS.

Bullshit. This was private property, not a public street. Private property in any jurisdiction will wind up taxed, this isn’t some uniquely San Fran thing.

Disingenuous to totally ignore the relevant point to that comment - Boeing and Lockheed are direct competitors to SpaceX in the launch business, even if they also have other sections of their respective businesses that don’t compete with SpaceX because SpaceX isn’t within that industry.

Years ago (before USB power packs where even a thing) I spent $10 on a clearance Black & Decker NiMH battery pack with a USB and 120v inverter driven outlet on it from Walmart. It was old enough then that the stock batteries were dead. It went in my junk bin and I never did harness the parts for anything useful…

Years ago (before USB power packs where even a thing) I spent $10 on a clearance Black & Decker NiMH battery pack…

Lithium ion batteries explode if they’re overcharged - so it should be self evident that no successful consumer product will overcharge it’s batteries.

Lithium ion batteries explode if they’re overcharged - so it should be self evident that no successful consumer…

What electric oven are you talking about? You realize they come in both forms, right?

What electric oven are you talking about? You realize they come in both forms, right?

I’ve had good luck keeping mine in full time, as long as I remain aware of it’s presence and how to use it. Some dishes I want more heat on the top, so it gets the rack above the food. Other times I want it’s help on crisping edges, so it goes directly under the food. Other times I’m only after the regulation of my…

I’ve had good luck keeping mine in full time, as long as I remain aware of it’s presence and how to use it. Some…

I wonder sometimes if switching to Lithium at these low prices is just a bit too disruptive to the old guard. Shake up the price points and capabilities too much from what they’ve got, scare them off the idea.

I wonder sometimes if switching to Lithium at these low prices is just a bit too disruptive to the old guard. Shake…