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Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console Valve’s Fremont was real.

Exciting days for pc gaming

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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

wow great interview. @bnewbold.net is a real one - very thoughtful & cares deeply about the problems we're trying to address

this interview does a great job capturing the pressure/anxiety/tradeoffs of designing/developing the protocol, especially the early period

13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.

Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.

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This analogy suggests the iPhone air is priced and positioned incorrectly. Convertibles are fun but do less. They don’t also cost more. Expensive convertibles are…. lame.

So please, don’t take your Miata and make it a … Lexus LC? Sure, the MSRP is higher on the Lexus but the role of the Miata is to halo the mass selling Mazda 3 and CX-5.

Requiem for the Rangefinder: An iPhone Air Review Last week I set out to write a few thousand words on the iPhone Air, but it turns out I only need three: the lesser iPhone. Compared to the Pro and baseline models, it has fewer cameras and a smaller ...

The magic trick is reducing to the essentials. The essence of a phone is the screen, just as I think the essence of a car is the drivetrain. And around it, removing extras like more cameras and speakers. @sandofsky.com compared it to a rangefinder. www.lux.camera/requiem-ipho...

The iPhone air does a remarkable magic trick of having a max class screen with the hand heft of a mini. It has the same screen size as my first Face ID phone, iPhone XS Max. Having carried various flavors of minis and SE’s, they are nice to carry but cramped to use.

Throwing stones cautiously as my previous phones were iPhone pro’s and I have a full-size station wagon for what I believe are functional reasons. ( I have 2 70 lb dogs)

Full size SUV’s exist for folks to spend more money for aspirational functionality. I hear they sell really well.

Most people don’t buy Miata’s. I missed the window in life where it might have been appropriate (I had a golf in my 20’s). Most people buy crossovers, much to the chagrin of car people. They’re flexible for all the things people might do over the lifespan of an expensive asset.

The next iPhone Air has reportedly been delayed But it may get a second camera.

Friends at Apple: the iPhone Air is a lovely Miata. A representation of the essence of a phone. Don’t put backseats in a Miata

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-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.

-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.

-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

Claiming that getting a vote destined to fail as a win is an insult to everyone’s intelligence

Basically the whole damn department is either excepted or exempted (website is currently claiming 97%); even processing of pending disability claims continues unabated during a shutdown

I'm all for VA employees getting paid, but this isn't some Big Win for vets relative to current situation

Republicans are starting to talk about HSAs again so I want everyone to be super clear what a non-solution HSAs are. They work for a very limited range of people. If you have under $100/mo health costs, or tens of thousands of dollars a year, they can work. Have moderate ongoing costs? You're fucked

what did Rob Manfred think was going to happen when he encouraged MLB to embrace gambling as a revenue stream?

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

I lift the silly weights in the gym. I will mess around with my own words and sentences and thoughts out of it. See where it all takes me.

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
- James Baldwin -

There's an interesting thought experiment about how authenticated content and dynamic content can coexist in the DOM, and how browsers and the web ecosystem can facilitate both this new model of publishing and user assurances for e.g. price transparency.

The example from the session discussion of price transparency is really compelling. Price transparency is critical for fair markets. Authenticated price quotes is perhaps an improvement on depending on the long-term feasibility of automated anonymous web crawling?

In addition to authenticating the connection (TLS), you'd now have authentication of content that you can prove originated from the publisher - valuable for archival and transparency goals. An appview for this, if you squint, looks kind of like a CDN, for better or worse?

I finally had a chance to catch up on webbotauth 124
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A crazy, half-baked thought - how much of the publishing web could be distributed through Authenticated Transfer instead, and in doing so shift costs from the publisher to the consumer (readers and crawlers)?

Identity portability in itself is already huge. Schools facilitate relationships between different parties (students, teachers, etc) they don't *own* those relationships and they definitely don't own those identities.

Slow horses‘ latest season had first desk of MI5 take a call on AirPods in her office. Bit of implausible product placement

This (OP) is kind of horseshit you can only spew from a career in managing and not doing either the craft of software or the profession of soldiering.

While we’re in a moral panic about the decline of “real jobs” we’re also busy kicking out the legs of how we develop and nurture skilled labor.

So congrats on replacing those terrible ball players at little league and the minors with robots, I’m sure we’ll find another way to make pro ball players.