No you didn’t miss anything. Everyone is freaking out about “processed” and “chemicals” and ignoring the obvious answer: high calories and low nutrition.
The processed and chemicals may be a proxy for high calories low nutrition, but generally they are used to create hyper palatable foods that are low nutrition. In general, it's quite hard and expensive to produce high palatable foods using real ingredients; food engineering changes that and makes it easy for cheap food to mess with our senses. As far as I can tell, this is the generally accepted argument for the problems with UPFs - they make people want to eat more cheap crap food.
Can’t speak for OP - but yes, my wife drains hers almost twice a day due to 6+ hours of phone calls plus normal casual usage.
Probably could be more diligent with planning and charging while using near a desk, but that adds mental overhead for very little gain. Her time and mental capacity is best spent towards focusing on her extremely high stress job. The entire point of apple ecosystem is to not have to think about it.
I rarely use the 80% feature of my iwatch since I have no idea which day out of 30 or so I actually end up needing that last 20%. Not worth the extra battery towards end of life since I will very likely be trading in and upgrading by the time it’d ever be useful to me. Even a single day of not having a dead watch offsets the cost for me.
As someone who at points has had high phone call work, I found it much better to use a VOIP line with a wireless desk phone. The ergonomics are better than a cell phone, the 40-hour talk time doesn't run down my phone battery, voicemails don't clog up my cell phone, I can programatically forward the number to my cell number, etc.
Biggest downside I've found is around recording calls. I'm sure there are ways to do that with VOIP, but I've found it easiest to just use my cell when I have the occasional call I need to record.
Yeah, my job doesn't include phone calls at all, so it seems really alien to me now. Even so, the idea of voicemails still seems quaint and antiquated: they're incredibly inefficient for the listener. If I had a job that involved phone calls, I'd still rather just hang up when I don't get an answer, and instead send a detailed email.
In regards to the mental overhead of charging at a desk, I have found that a charging stand helps me not think about it, compared to plugging in a cable. It becomes the default place to put the phone when seated. A non-Magsafe solution might be better since there aren't cables that can be accidentally yanked.
Wow. I wonder if a non-smart phone would do better? Too bad batteries aren't removable anymore. I recall some "battery cases" that could go 48-72 hours in exchange for more bulk.
It's not exactly a mystery of the universe. I noticed in my teens that hot water from the tap sounds different from cold water. Perhaps because air has been boiled out of it ?
Yeah saw that 7y old video quite a while ago and fully recognized the effect, so not sure what "researchers discovered" today...
> Using machine learning, they analyzed how people perceive thermal properties via auditory cues.
Why not do a blind test and ask participants which one they thought sounded hot and cold?
Actually further down in the article it seems they trained ML to differentiate hot vs cold. I can imagine applications where that could be useful, but not sure why it's needed for proving human's ability
Some cultures (not the US apparently) consider wishing an early birthday bad luck so I'd expect them never to celebrate on Feb 28. I know this is a thing in Central Europe, not sure how common it is. It was a big culture clash in a company I know when they moved HQ from Germany to the US because the Germans would get offended by Americans wishing them happy birthday when their birthdays were on the weekend or a bank holiday.
I struggled with volume control on my computer, it’s always too coarse. I found out that you can hold Option+Shift when pressing the volume button on Mac to do more fine grained adjustments.
Classically ‘he’ was used to be more universal. It was always understood to include women as well. But that language is frowned upon. When I read ‘they’ I think plural people not singular like ‘he.’
I think there's always been a good case for "they" rather than "he" in those contexts, e.g. "the player" being referred to as "they."
When speaking about "the player," you're not just speaking about one player, but anywhere from tens to tens of millions of players. That's a "they." And as they're all acting individually and independently within tens to tens of millions of individual game sessions, it makes sense to treat that "they" singularly.
So from that perspective, it's not really a desexed reference, but a reference to a multitude of people. But even if you're talking about the person hearing a Catholic confession, and it would always be safe to refer to each instantiated member of the class as "he," "they" still makes sense. They are a bunch of priests.
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