I don’t have many hard rules I follow about specific standards or parts when I shop for a bike, but I do have one guideline I adhere to:
I only buy bikes with online tech manuals containing exploded diagrams, dimensions, part numbers, and torque specs.
I look through the parts and verify that either the manufacturer has spares available on their web store or that they’re common parts available anywhere. I also look up older models and make sure the manufacturer still has manuals and parts for them too so I have confidence I will still be able to get parts in 5 years or so.
This idea was already tried with the hour record. Between 1972 and 2014 a standard bike was used to match what Eddy Merckx used.
What happened was cyclists lost interest in the hour record because the bike became too dissimilar to the bikes they were riding professionally.
After a new rules for modern bikes were introduced for the hour record, interest was renewed in the discipline.
For something like the Olympics which is a one day road race or individual time trial, I think the current UCI rules for those bikes are fine. Everyone is on roughly competitive bikes. Marketing aside, I don’t think anyone really thinks the top Specialized bike is better than Canyon or Cervelo or Trek or whatever.
Sure, I use Xcode to work on cross platform C and C++ projects.
Meta build systems like cmake can generate projects or build files for various IDEs (like Xcode) or build systems (like ninja) from a single project definition.
IMO, Xcode is a great IDE and I feel like it gives me productivity benefits compared to other editors or IDEs I might use. I think people who don’t like it either haven’t put in the time to master it or else they already have a preconceived notion of how their IDE ought to work based on their experience from other tools. And I think that goes for a lot of IDEs. I don’t love Visual Studio, but I also have only put in to it a fraction of the time I’ve put into Xcode, so I’m not gonna say the problem is VS.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to the new Xcode updates.
“But 'American Idiot' wasn't a true act of revolution. In fact, the album was produced and promoted by a multinational conglomerate with the intent of packaging seemingly transgressive pop-punk acts for my exact demographic.”
This is sort of beside the point of the article, but I was just reading an interview[1] with Billie Joe Armstrong about this album and it doesn’t sound like their process was anywhere as cynical as this take.
On another note, I find Elton John’s Rocket Hour on Apple Music to be refreshing in terms of how earnestly he approaches new music and new artists. If you haven’t heard it, it’s nothing like what you might expect based on the title. It’s not “Elton plays songs from his back catalog and talks about them,” but rather “Elton plays new songs you haven’t heard by artists you haven’t heard of yet, and interviews them as his peers.”
Green Day got a lot of air time in the 90's but the playola effect (the not payola wink-wink that still went on) died out in the early-mid 00's as rock and alt rock stations folded with demographic changes and mp3 trading took off. Also overplayed on the radio: Sublime, Rush, Van Halen, RHCP, and Metallica.
As far as cultural impact over a larger timespan: Iron Butterfly, The Dead, Frank Zappa, Quiet Riot, Ozzy, MJ, Nirvana, Cake, AiC, NIN, Marilyn Manson, Soundgarden, TOOL, Beastie Boys, RATM, Kool Keith (and other aliases), Jay-Z (and Danger Mouse mixes), RZA (and family relations).
The Runaways? Ford and Jett both started their careers there, and while I don't know if Ford ever anchored herself in the literature, Jett covered "I Love Rock&Roll" and had it covered in turn by Parton, which then leads to a fair chunk of that century.
Been a while but I thought it was pretty interesting when I watched it, coming from a black metal and punk background that was too underground when that pop cultural thing happened to notice.
This post seems to be just about the GTK port of WebKit. So they’re comparing Skia vs Cairo on Linux. There’s no mention of Skia vs CoreGraphics for macOS. It doesn’t sound like that is something that is being considered.
I see a similar response rate as the poster you’re replying to, but I am going to keep filing bugs. If Apple fixes a bug I file, that’s not just to Apple’s benefit, it’s to my benefit and to the benefit of people who use my software as well. Even if they only fix 10% of what I file, it’s a better outcome than if I didn’t file any bugs at all.
I also notice that response and fix rates have large variance across components / teams within Apple. Some of them are quite responsive and others are just /dev/null. I do tend to focus my energy on those components where I’ve had success in the past.
Consider this example from the article where it asks you to calculate the limit of ln(1+h)/h as h tends to zero. Set h to be 10^(-17). The Android calculator reliably succeeds and gives the same answer as Mathematica. The iOS calculator reliably fails; at least it knows its limits and refuses to give even an approximate answer.
In Washington state they solved this problem by allocating the sales tax to the location of the customer for online sales. I remember having to implement it as a small business and it was a minor pain, but I assume the legislators mostly had Amazon in mind when they passed the law.
Before that was the case, sales tax only was to be collected if the company had a presence in that state. This was earlier in Amazon's history where they didn't have a warehouse everywhere and so many cases online sellers didn't collect sales tax.
In the event that you buy something from somewhere else and no sales tax is collected, a "use tax" is to be collected... and most people weren't reporting this. For example https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/FAQS/ise-usetax.aspx
This hits states that have sales tax but no income tax hardest (Washington and Texas being the two that come to mind most readily).
Amazon was initially opposed to this previously but as they grew it became apparent that they would have a presence in each state and so were for it... as it adds costs to all the small companies to also properly collect sales tax for wherever they sell.
From the Wiki article:
> A year from the decision, nearly all states that collected sales tax had modified their laws to include interstate commerce taxes; however, in many of these states, the updated laws did not include any threshold limits on when such taxes can be collected. Small to medium businesses may find the cost of auditing their sales for each state to far outweigh the amount of tax actually owed and forgo the process; and similarly, states looking to collect these taxes may find the cost of prosecuting against the smaller business to outweigh the benefit. It is expected that a raft of lawsuits related to these new tax laws from South Dakota will occur from 2019 through 2023.
My comment was in the context of sales within the state, where both the seller and buyer are in the same state (same situation as the article about Apple in CA). Previously, WA was like CA apparently is today, where the sales tax for in state online sales was determined by the location of the seller.
I think this also happens with VAT in the EU. I pay the Finnish 24% VAT even if I order from Amazon.de (Germany has 19% VAT). Although as far as I understand, this does not apply to small online stores.
Our 9 year old has an electric scooter. I didn’t really want to get it for him, because I’m an old school analog bike guy myself, but I have to admit it is convenient. It has around a 15 mile range and keeps up with a comfortable cycling pace, so my wife and I ride our commuter bikes and he cruises along next to us.
He also has a bike and he’s a pretty strong rider for a kid, but it’s still a bit much for him to keep up on longer trips, so the scooter helps there. I expect in a couple of years or so it will break or he will outgrow it, but by then he should have no trouble keeping up on his own bike.
I only buy bikes with online tech manuals containing exploded diagrams, dimensions, part numbers, and torque specs.
I look through the parts and verify that either the manufacturer has spares available on their web store or that they’re common parts available anywhere. I also look up older models and make sure the manufacturer still has manuals and parts for them too so I have confidence I will still be able to get parts in 5 years or so.