really cool! I've been interested in mass timber as a building material for a couple of years now, it has a lot of potential as a replacement for steel and concrete, with the benefits of being carbon-negative and completely renewable. The world's tallest "plyscraper" is currently (as of 2022) the Ascent MKE building in Milwaukee Wisconsin at 284 feet tall and 25 stories[1]
Why not just get a 3.5mm to lightning adaptor? They have knock-off/generic versions at gas stations that cost like 5 dollars and it beats lugging around a whole extra device just to use your headphones
i end up using an adapter (because samsung also arm-twisted me into doing that), but they are typically terrible quality/break, catch on to things, i need to always remember to pack one, and still keep forgetting/losing them. Our overlords at Apple (Samsung promptly followed) decided that we must all switch to airpods, but instead just made it a huge pain for people. Also strange for Samsung whose phones are gigantic, it's not like they don't have enough room.
i was referring more to the topic starter phone - 95.1 × 49.6 × 18.7 mm vs Galaxy S23 146.3 x 70.9 x 7.6. It does seem quite thicker than Galaxy actually. Maybe that's Samsung's excuse. I don't have much experience with (or much interest in) Apple phones, they seem to inspire Samsung to follow the same trends.
Not op, but for me, those things have been finicky and randomly disconnect, and when they do, it's more of a problem because you're removing the whole audio device instead of just the output plug (so like the audio might pause instead of just having some static).
Also, because I use my headphones on other devices with audio jacks, I lose those adapters all the time. Don't really like having a tail on my phone all the time. Vastly prefer having aux on my phones/tablets.
Another alternative is a small 3.5 mm to Bluetooth device. It allows for any 3.5mm output to use Bluetooth and best of all: already paired and battery is on the module not the headphones themselves.
Depends on how "old." Just as pretty much every car finally had an auxiliary input (even the cheapest rental car), Apple deleted the headphone jack from its best-selling music player.
And now we've regressed to no aux inputs, no audio outputs, and nothing but shitty Bluetooth. But the '90s Pioneer head unit in my car has an input, as does my stock 2009 Ranger.
A. I didn't know I didn't have my iPad until I was on the plane. I carry it on all trips. And this shouldn't be an issue anyway.
B. They suck. My girlfriend has a Belkin one in her car that produces so much hiss that it is perceivable as, I'd say, 60% of the volume of the music we're listening to. And when the music fades out, it has some absurd AGC that pumps the hiss up to program level.
C. You can't power the device if the Lightning port is occupied by a dongle.
It's disgusting that consumers tolerate this BS and then make excuses for it.
You can tell a lot about a company's priorities by how they make most of their money, and if you do that you see that Google is an Advertising/surveillance company disguised as a tech company, while Microsoft is a professional/enterprise services company disguised as a tech company.
Obviously this isn't perfect because both Google and Microsoft are giant diversified companies with lots of revenue streams, but I think you can roughly understand the way they will behave by looking at them through this lens.
This is why Google sinks resources into Android, but retires projects like their domain registrar: because android is an excellent advertising/surveillance platform: they can not only serve ads using Android, they can collect surveillance info on users to sell better ads.
Conversely, Microsoft invests resources where they do because they want to make the Windows/Office useful for professionals at work. They are sinking billions into OpenAI so that they can develop their Office Copilot to make their Office/Windows platform more appealing to C-Suites writing emails and memos in Outlook and Word
Penicillin has gotta be on that list. Just randomly happened to culture on a Petri dish left out on vacation, happened to be the worlds first antibiotic
I can't imagine what it must have been like for people to hear about yet another "miracle drug" that cures most diseases – and then gradually realize that this one actually works.
Ha, true! I forgot that used to not be a thing, and people were trying everything from crushed beetles to insanely hot chili peppers to crazy dangerous poisons, and still nothing really worked.
It wasn't. "Stuff that kills bacteria" has been known for a long time, including times when nobody knew what bacteria were. Not every dirty wound was fatal, there's mixes of plants, applied to wounds, that do a good job.
Penicillin was the first highly effective AND mass producible antibiotic, though.
While true, actually applying it in practice took a long time. Imagine the shock and horror when male doctors were told by midwives that washing hands and keeping things clean reduced infant mortality.
Why does the public need to know now if that is the case?
I think it's likely the news articles are making it sound more definitive than the Navy was thinking, or maybe the person leaking it to the press was trying to make themselves seem more important or make the Navy seem more omniscient.
It does sound like the Navy reviewed their data they had already collected and discovered the implosion and informed people on site that they likely had a termination event.
Of all the "evil" things one could do with gargantuan wads of cash, having it sit in a bank account is just about the most innocuous thing I can think of to do with it. It seems like a wise, cautious move actually, and it seems like it'd be bad to punish businesses for being cautious with their money
Their money is being used to make investments and they're getting paid interest for it. If their deposit was above the amount insured by the FDIC then they knew it could all be lost if the bank collapsed.
I wouldn't call lending more than 250k to a bank "cautious" (that's what you do when you "deposit" your money in a bank), they could have bought Treasury bonds instead.
But maybe they were smart and had guessed that in this third world financial system, if your bank is too big to fail, depositors get bailed out by the government anyway.
It kinda depends on scale doesn't it? For an individual 250k in cash seems like a lot (although can easily happen just before or just after a large purchase.)
For even a "small" business though it's quite small. We're small (<50 employees) but payroll is around 1.5m per month. We keep about 2m as "working capital". This is cash that is literally flowing all the time.
In this context 250k is tiny, and wouldn't cover our day to day balance.
I guess you'll have to wait for The Narrow Bank to become operational. In the meantime the best you can do is lend your money to an institution that is too big to fail.
> Taking away profit motive from them e.g. by subsidizing operation would only increase cost of care, because the incentive to run lean/efficiently goes away
If I had the choice between system A with excellent community health outcomes, but didn't turn a profit, was heavily subsidized, and ran with operational bloat, versus system B which ran lean/efficiently but produced poor health outcomes I would choose A every single time and I imagine most people would
Currently in the US we have neither. We have a bloated/inefficient system that also produces poor community health outcomes. But at least a few private equity firms might turn a profit, so at least there's that??
That’s just a limit in their risk system not a judgement of any real scale. Better to read it as “infinity” because the point of the setting was to remove any real limit.
[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/delivering-mission/apply/w...