In metric countries, it tends to be in multiples of ten (180, 190, 200, etc). In imperial, it tends to be in multiples of 25 (350, 375, 400, etc) rather than strictly 5. And that’s largely because, as you’ve noted, that’s the smallest meaningful resolution; the difference between 210 and 212 in either system is essentially random noise. Even a very good oven is going to fluctuate in temperature more than that.

Want to know something crazier, though? Before cheap and accurate thermometers, bakers obviously couldn’t use degrees in recipes. Instead they used “slow oven,” "moderate oven, and “fast oven” or “cool oven,” “medium oven,” and “hot oven”–clarified with “very” intensifiers as needed–to describe cooking temps for food.

Ooh, active hostility toward people who might consider switching. Another bold strategy.

MacOS doesn’t.

Anymore.

Windows doesn’t.

Anymore.

The only one that does is Linux, the one that no one in the grand scheme of things wants to use.

So you think making it harder to use is the right path for greater adoption? Bold strategy.

No one […] should want

The moment you’ve written those words, you’ve already lost. Because they obviously do want it, and operating systems have supported it for decades, which means it’s perfectly reasonable for people to expect it to continue.

“Grim” says ye.

“He he hee ha haw ha haaa haaaa heh haa ha ha ha hee haa haaaa haaaaw…!” says I.

I’ve tried that. For me, it’s also about the app ecosystem and the way multitasking is implemented. But also, perching a Bluetooth keyboard on my lap while the tablet was up on top of something else just separated things in a way I couldn’t reconcile in my mind.

How do you write anything long-form on a tablet? You seem to live a different life than me, if you find laptops redundant.

Or that Framework goes out of business.

Even if they do, they use mostly off-the-shelf components, and the designs for the stuff that isn’t are open-sourced. You can still repair them even if Framework doesn’t exist.

The tech debt always gets paid one way or another. Either preemptively, as part of ongoing maintenance; or after a data breach in the subsequent lawsuit and settlement; or in the slow, inexorable trickle of increased infrastructure costs and lost business from slow dependencies and ineffectual bandaid solutions.

It’s just newsworthy when it happens to companies.

and developers

Windows developers largely use Windows Server or Enterprise, neither of which have telemetry, spying, ads, or AI, depending on group policy.

I’m a little confused by the inclusion of .NET. Most Windows developers actively use that.

I wonder if they see the constant, gigantic updates to the framework distributable and think that’s a bad thing somehow.

It’s just like the Nvidia > OpenAI > Oracle triangle, but all on a single balance sheet. Hey, that’s efficiency!

The way we estimate on my team is to break tasks down into related subtasks that will take one day or less, then add up all the subtasks. It’s worked pretty well.

Not to mention, 14 days is three weeks, not two. Unless they’re hiring someone to work your weekends for you.

I was with you at the beginning, but—

This pie alone contains 400% daily value saturated fat, which is terrible for long-term health.

A single serving only contains 40%. Not great, but not as terrible as you’re making it out to be. (And unlike a lot of packaged food, the size of a serving here is pretty reasonable.) Very few foods are good for long-term health when eaten alone, and singling out this particular one because it doesn’t fit with your specific use case weakens your argument.

They are lying about the ingredients. That’s true, and it should be noted because false advertising is terrible for consumers. Not because it’s bad for a one-meal-a-day fad diet, but because it’s bad in general for anyone who buys a product based on what is on the label.

Ban on pregnant women: Twisted, disgusting, and sadly probably doable for a fascist hellstate like MAGA is trying for.

Forced sterilization of all foreign visitors: So ludicrously stupid as to be laughable. This person (derogatory) has a truly unhinged seven-point plan which is not only completely impossible, it’s in a bonkers order:

1. Nullification (red states stop issuing birth certificates to Undesirables)

2. Pack the court (hilariously showing that the right has no new ideas)

3. Ban on pregnant women entering the US

4. Ban on women entering the US

5. Forced sterilization of tourists (the women you’re not allowing in? You want to sterilize no one?)

6. The union is dissolved (why would you sterilize random people before you just went full Confederacy? Surely you could be even more cruel if you divested yourself of the pesky Constitution and its annoying Bill of Rights first!)

7. This is where it gets really unhinged: then he wants to amend the constitution. For a country that no longer exists, to stop women who are incapable of reproduction from illegally entering the US in case they’re illegally pregnant because the packed court you hand-picked can’t be trusted not to validate the birth certificates that states aren’t issuing.

Even if you take this as a list of options instead of an ordered plan, the fact that a constitutional amendment is considered the last option just boggles the mind. These are an unserious people; toddlers making pouty-faced pronouncements and whining about people touching them.

I’m of two minds about this. On one hand, I could drive a car that makes a TIE fighter sound, or the time machine DeLorean from Back to the Future.

On the other hand, someone could have their car make the Dumb and Dumber “most annoying sound in the world,” or just one long continuous wet fart, or pro-fascist propaganda. Or worse, something completely silent and incredibly dangerous.

Maybe if you could download special sound packs, like you can for GPSes. I bet Lucasfilm and Universal would go for that.

Blocking browsers is exactly the opposite of what I want. I want a phone that’s only a browser. For me, using a browser on a mobile device is enough friction that it discourages me from using it for the stuff I intentionally uninstalled, like social media.

Give me a phone with a phone app, SMS/RCS app, RSS app, and camera app and nothing else, and I’d be perfectly content.

It’s probably on the plastic wrap inside. I don’t know why they do this, but I’ve seen it happen more and more often. I like having it on the plastic, but I don’t love the fact that they take it off the box.