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This isn’t some bespoke API/format that they made up to make it harder for you to get your data. Apple did the right thing here and implemented HL7 standards like CDA and FHIR. This is a win for interoperability. There are already a wealth of tools available for dealing with these standards.

I know what you mean. I recently did the same thing for the little bit from Gunsmoke at the beginning of “Is There Anybody Out There?”, e.g. “Is it unsafe to travel at night?” - incidentally spoken by actress Diana Muldaur, who later played Dr. Pulaski in Star Trek TNG.


Now I wonder if Frankie Goes to Hollywood sampled the voice on "Two Tribes" from some 1950's British government film.

"If your grandmother or any other member of the family Should die whilst in the shelter Put them outside, but remember to tag them first For identification purposes"


Almost. Not sampled from the original, but recreated by the same voice actor:

> Actor Patrick Allen, who narrated the associated public information films, recreated this narration … [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive#Cultural_i...


“Stewardess, I speak Jive.” Will to me always be the weirdest later screen appearance. June Cleaver arguing in jive is hard to beat.


It’s not like these drones would uncover much more than can already be seen by satellites. Probably much more valuable letting them be, studying their physical characteristics, flight behavior, and RF use. Also easier to track down the source - they’ve got to land at some point.


Military radar is set up to track big things. Small things close to the ground get lost in the clutter. The only way to track these drones is to follow them with other drones. And they're small enough and cheap enough to be disposable, so they don't need to return to a handler.

It's unwise to underestimate how dangerous these things are. One small explosive drone in the air intake of a B-2 or an F-35 is enough to cripple, perhaps destroy the plane.


They clearly aren’t attacking anything (with explosives or otherwise); there is clearly no immediate danger to personnel or equipment. Rather than irrationally panicking, the wise move is to seize the opportunity to observe, collect data, and learn. There are far more ways to do so than using conventional radar or other drones. If the intent of the operator(s) is actually malicious, it was pretty unwise to essentially show your cards like this.


> Rather than irrationally panicking, the wise move is to seize the opportunity to observe, collect data, and learn

Unwanted incursions into your military bases should prompt fear. That fear, in turn, should drive a response that includes better deterrence, detection and neutralisation.

> Rather than irrationally panicking, the wise move is to seize the opportunity to observe, collect data, and learn

Unless you does this purely passively, you'll also be giving up information on your detection methods.

> If the intent of the operator(s) is actually malicious, it was pretty unwise to essentially show your cards like this

It's telling them to stop.


> Unwanted incursions into your military bases should prompt fear.

No, it shouldn’t. Military should respond based on doctrine, thought, and analysis not fear.


Look at the radar cross section of modern military aircraft. An F35 returns pretty much the same energy as a small commercial drone. These are trackable.


> not like these drones would uncover much more than can already be seen by satellites

Bases are designed to obscure things from radar that may be visible from ground level deep within the base.


This is nonsense.


What is your point? That doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Thousands of years is literally nothing on an evolutionary scale. Modern humans have existed for at least 100,000 years.

Bread became ubiquitous because it didn’t require hunting or gathering, i.e. it supported ever growing communities of stationary humans. Not because some ancient nutritionist decided it was good for you.


My point? If you think a staple food vast numbers of human beings have relied on for literally all of recorded history (not to mention thousands of years prior) is "not particularly healthy", then perhaps your definition of "healthy" is a little too exalted for everyday use.


Again, “literally all of recorded history” is literally meaningless. I also find it bizarre that you would find something as simple as a well balanced diet (i.e. one humans enjoyed for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the agricultural revolution) as an “exalted” definition of healthy.


Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.


This is the joke from Dr Strangelove, right?



More like profiting from making people sick, aka. modern medicine.


Fluoridated water is a communist plot?


I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids


I think the answer should depend on the school itself, i.e. what is the quality of the math department vs. the cs department? In my case I went with math, and it served me well. I don’t think one or the other will ultimately exclude a motivated person from pursuing their (cs related) passion.


Nope. The only red flag I can see here is with the interviewee thinking this might be a red flag.


100 this. Some people seriously need to get out of bubbles they put themselves in


Do one thing well.

While I think these types of devices are neat, it’s not surprising that this isn’t the reality of modern portables.

It’s a (relatively) barely portable, degraded desktop experience.


I agree with this to the point that I want to see iOS reverted. I preferred the days when iOS was extremely limited. The features it had were perfected and stable.

Now we’re seeing dozens of new features and changes every year. iOS is becoming confusing, feels less polished, and is full of bugs. It goes against everything iOS used to be.


Perhaps, like with most complex problems, there isn’t a “one size fits all” solution. I’m all for skepticism but this criticism is just lazy.


It's incredibly lazy to say my criticism was "just lazy" since I didn't post criticism but answered a question about the contents of the article.


No, you made an irrelevant and dismissive remark under the “guise” of an answer. Lazy.


No, the existence and locations of these chargers is not set. They may not even get purchased. The current planned rollout is for 75 locations. The absolute truth to "where these will get placed" is nobody yet knows. Nobody knows where, because nobody knows where the vehicles will get placed.


Nah, too many bugs and snakes


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