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dr_spicy | 2 years ago | on: Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

It supported 18w of USB PD. Is there some further spec?

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: A small town that saved its only grocery store by buying it

I have relatives on an island with a permanent population of about ~200 that cooperatively own their store

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models

Maybe not generally, but it's starting to be a thing https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7055029?hl=en

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

Apparently iRobot is going to Amazon Devices and not Amazon Robotics, but who knows if they'll silently transfer a lot of that knowledge/talent after the acquisition

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Asus Zenfone 9

The pixel 1 had a wedge shape for this reason

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

Amazon has a similar service now, but brands need to onboard so it's not super wide spread yet https://brandservices.amazon.com/transparency

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

They definitely have some fluff pieces talking about cases where it happens, no idea how common it is relative to those others though

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are companies preparing to end Remote?

At Amazon return to office is now up to middlemanagement some entire orgs are officially ok with full remote indefinitely. Outside these orgs some individuals can work from different locations on the same team. It's not quite clear what the average steady state will look like, but with a lot of internal hiring at Amazon, I would imagine things would gradually tend towards being fairly flexible

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Grandpa’s Basement House

I think flying [let's say current nation's] flag, can very a bunch depending on the country, I know in Denmark as well as the US it appears much more common than in other parts of the world. And personally, once I'm used to a flag being flown, I don't really care which

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent

Purely anecdotally, but it seemed like the majority of the students in my college classes, American or not, were probably more interested in the money than passionate

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under proposed EU rules

I tried playing around with PWAs the other day, but certain like [0] seem to really jeopardize the "Progressive" part of PWAs which is one of their major differentiatiors.

[0] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=891339

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Americans are drowning in spam

> in Europe [...] people react almost violently against it.

Are you saying this doesn't exist? Idk about other countries, but at least in Denmark they have this today. While some people quibble about various small issues with the system, I definitely think they're much better off than the US.

dr_spicy | 3 years ago | on: Driving the Jeep Magneto, an electric concept with a manual transmission

The Wrangler being allowed to exist at all, ice or not, means regulations could be a lot better

dr_spicy | 4 years ago | on: We can do better than “same, but electric”

One thing that guy generally complements is interwar construction. Maybe a failing on his part for not recognizing it in KC, a probably a question of what portion of KC is from that time period and what portion is as pictured.