@siracusa real cameras do have a haptic for half-pressing the shutter: the focus motor.
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@siracusa @marcoarment @caseyliss When John’s kids convince him to trade the surplus Accord for a two-pedal car, I hope he’ll look into the tax credits for used EVs and plugin hybrids. It’s up to $4k and the list of cars that qualify is huge. A $22k Leaf is actually an $18k Leaf. Also, I just bought a 2017 Ford Cmax PHEV with 115k. It’s seven-year-old battery still gives the spec’d all-electric distance at temps above 40 or so. No complaints.
I agree with carefully defining “monopoly” with regard to Apple and the EU. Now be similarly thoughtful about the word “tax” please. “Apple tax” is a nonsensical phrase that should be purged from any thoughtful, honest discourse. Apple can’t levy a tax. Their revenue splits may be ill advised, onerous and destructive. But they’re not a tax. @atpfm @marcoarment @caseyliss and @siracusa
@siracusa and @hotdogsladies, as Carrie Coon connoisseurs, you might enjoy this little game I play in my head: Recall that Coon is in the MCU as Thanos’s minion Proxima Midnight, whose best line is her retort to T’Challa in Infinity War: “We [pause] have blood to spare.”
Now substitute Bertha Russell in her opera gown for Proxima Midnight, and imagine T’Challa is Mrs. Astor.
Totally works. Gilded Age is a variant timeline.
@siracusa Has anyone actually received an iPhone that’s been on a boat? My preordered 15 Pro Max delivered around 10/1 and it definitely came from China by air. I wonder when in the cycle the majority of iPhones are in the countries they’ll be sold in.
@marcoarment @siracusa @caseyliss I was a committed Apple leather case user going back at least three iPhones. A few days of comparison shopping 3rd party leather cases eventually earned me Insta ads for Alcantara cases. The ads worked & my 15 Pro Max is wearing one of these: https://almatechnology.net/collections/iphone-case?sort_by=best-selling&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=&filter.v.option.device=iPhone+15+Pro+Max
This seems like the material Apple should have switched to rather than creating FineWoven. Maybe the sustainability claims aren’t what they seem, but the luxury pedigree is, and the feel is great.
The idea that Full Self Driving v12 is “in beta” and “not released to the public” is brazenly false. He’s driving it on a public road, not a test track. When a Tesla runs me over while I’m biking or walking, I will not be comforted by it being “in beta.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/28/23848882/elon-musk-tesla-fsd-v12-demo-red-light-zuckerberg-house
Elon Musk’s FSD v12 demo includes a near miss at a red light and doxxing Mark Zuckerberg
Elon Musk posted a 45-minute live demonstration of v12 of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature. During the video, Musk has to take control of the vehicle after it nearly runs a red light. He also doxxes Mark Zuckerberg.
It’s not possible to mock Trump or Trump supporters with a photograph that he literally posed for. I honestly hope sharing his mugshot brings you as much joy as it does him.
This week’s reminder of the loathsome state of big-time college sports is West Viginia basketball coach Bob Huggins, who casually dropped homophobic and transphobic slurs (with a side of anti-Catholic sentiment) on live radio in a way that ought to tell anyone he probably talks this way regularly. The consequences? His annual salary (the highest for any state employee in WVA) will be reduced by 25 percent. Somehow, he will have to survive on $3.2 million.
Sources - Bob Huggins to take $1M salary reduction for anti-gay slur - ESPN
West Virginia coach Bob Huggins is expected to return next season after he agreed to a million-dollary pay cut, a three-game regular season suspension and sensitivity training in the wake of using an anti-gay slur in a radio interview.
★ "Lush, luminous, and celebratory, the words and images of this poem turned picture book offer a powerful meditation on intergenerational bonds and community care."—PW, starred review
A third starred review for Junauda Petrus and Kristen Uroda's visionary abolitionist picture book.
