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The original Red Delicious wasn’t even bred, but was just a chance seedling found by chance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious

No idea if this is still true of what is currently sold under the name. All apple verities are clones so the they should be (mostly) the same but the verity is old enough to not have anyone protecting the name.

Well, they kind of suck these days, at least compared to how we remember they used to taste.

Who know if they are actually the same, plain genetic drift, or they have been selected to be more shelf stable at the cost of taste.

Well, we'll know to worry/celebrate when they start laying of lawyers.

The software side can probably go many years without new features. Nobody picks Oracle in 2026 for the features.

Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:13PM (#49637931)
I would be more worried about the weird white stuff squeezing out of the lower right of the screen.
Re:Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:05PM (#49515418)
1. NAT and a firewall are 2 different things 2. With IPV6 you can have so many IPS that unwanted users can't guess your IP. This isn't true security but see 1 for that.
pretty sure it is a way of fingerprinting your machine/network
Agreed. I’m on my 4th Garmin and the charging cable last about a year or two at most. That said, for me it has always just been the cable and the watch is self last forever. All 4 of my old Garmin’s still work if I get them out of a drawer and charge them up. Now I just small USBC -> Garmin adapter's that normally get lost before they wear out.

I would love a standards based wireless option here.

Re:OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:05PM (#48809061)
I'm pretty sure the software side of the project is a direct descendent from the WRT54G stack.

LinkSys got sued to release the firmware as it was GPL linked. This dump got modified to make the WRT54G way more powerful than LinkSys ever planned but they got to sell the hardware for years more than would have been expected at the time.

Re:Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:24AM (#48586823)
I love by Dream Machine Pro. Seems to just work and keep everything up to date. I have it running my security cameras as well and it has been pretty much bullet proof.

What needs do you have for a router that the Cloud Gateway is missing or is bad at? A PiHole equivalent is about all I can think I'm missing.

Pretty sure phased array LASERs are not yet a thing.
To bad they used red and green that look exactly the same to me
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:00AM (#46616790)
It seems like releasing more would have probably broken the exact same rules they are claiming AdaFruit broke.
Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:10AM (#46584327)
Ah, most the problem in programming is writing the tests. Once you know what you need the rest is just typing.

I can see an argument where you can get none programers to create the input and output of said tests but if the can do that, they are basically programmers.

This is of course leaving aside that half the stated use cases I hear for AI are that it can 'write the tests for you'. If it is writing the code and the tests it is pointless.

But data science usually isn't an island.

Use whatever you want on your one off personal projects but use something more non-data science friendly if you ever want your model to run directly in a production workflow.

Productionizing R models is quite painful. The normal way is to just rewrite it not in R.

Re:.NET 10 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:58AM (#45900245)
Been awhile since I've worked at one but it is usually grounded in trying to achieve 100% MS usage.

It is rarish to find a partial MS shop. Most of this is how hard MS makes it to use other tools. Even in 2025 they have good interop with external tools hamstrung.

Example: SQL Servers JDBC driver will convert an entire table's of data from ASCII to UTF and a full table scan instead of convertering your UTF bind to ASCII and using the ASCII based index. This doesn't break interop but does make it painful to code and one more reason to just use .Net.

He was 170m away from the location the bomb exploded over, not 170m away from the explosion.

That said, the bomb only exploded at roughly 600m in altitude so still pretty close.

Re:Go is still not good on Friday August 22, 2025 @08:33AM (#44983774)
That isn’t Java, but spring.

That said, if on the JVM, just use Kotlin.

Re:Ubiquiti Launches UniFi OS Server for Self-Hosting on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:20PM (#44748512)
I've been using unfi protect/capture (I self hosted capture for a long time) for years and have never had a forgotten adoption any they almost never go down. I do have everything on UPS now but I never saw the issue before that either.

That said I've only used the wired bullet cams so maybe other models are not so nice.

Really the only downside I've seen is about 5ish years ago, all the bullet cams I bought would die after about .75 -> 3 years. All died with the same issue and I had 100% failure rate with any bought during that time frame. Ubiquiti replaced the ones that died during the warranty period but most died just after that expired.

The ones bought before or after that have been great so the issue was solved but I have a nice stack of dead ones that would work great as fake cameras, especially as their IR leds still light up.

Re:On loyalty to Your Employer on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:06PM (#43785009)
Small companies really magnify the extreems. Good ones are really great but bad ones are extra bad. Sadly, they are also nimble enough to switch between them, at least in one direction.
Re:Removing Jeff Bezos from My Bed on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:05PM (#43132961)
And not true, at least for the newest version. V4 has touch sensors for adjusting the temps on the side of the mattress.

I do own of these and while I hate the price, the subscription, the fact that it didn't work for an hour last night due to the internet being down (first time ever really) but there really isn't a better option. I love the temp control and would use anyone else if they had a valid competitor, but sadly there isn't one (or at least wasn't when I bought mine). The alternative is to not have temp control which is pretty amazing.

They were actually changing the deck in way that survives shuffling, not just looking at the differences.

They were using the offset on the printing as a way to tell orientation of the card. Since auto shufflers never rotate the cards, any rotation they added would persist allowing a way to tell good from bad cards in future hands.

Re: on Monday January 13, 2025 @12:56PM (#42686307)
Yes. Only in the intro isn't paywalled.
Citation?

Is this a normal soda consumption levels in humans or when feeding it to rats at some obscene rate?

I'm not saying it is good for you, but we need facts not blind statements with no context.

Re:Xiaomi has provided official support for Home Assistant on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:49AM (#42432757)
I'll just second to avoid myQ at all costs.

1. They want to charge for some integrations. I could see this if they didn't make local only impossible if you want anything beyond the clicker. Why aren't these just bluetooth and or wifi so my car and open when I pull up and close when I leave? Hell, if they just added an 'open if closed' and 'close if open' it would make it way better for the car to controll. IMO they are purposely making the non myQ options suck and stuck in the 80s just so they can upsell to a monthly subscription.

2. Their security is a joke. After moving to new phone their app would refuse to login yet would still show me notifications for door events. The only way to stop the notifications was to uninstall the app.

My newer garage door is lacking wifi just so I can add my own automation without even bothering with theirs.

I don't believe this is quite correct. The last few trips are actually orbital, just not of the correct elliptical shape to do more than a half orbit as the perigee is less than the radius of earth. If earth was a point mass, it would have orbited.

This means you don't have to do anything to deorbit while proving you could have made a full orbit if you wanted to.

The 48v system voltage and steer by wire make it much cheaper to implement. Not sure how the quadrasteer did it but it wasn’t cheap for GM
Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:50PM (#41493643)
A set of these, while still not ideal, make the transition much easier.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6PDGLWZ

Re:Apple Watch Series 10 on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:19PM (#41493187)
I'm guessing it is `waste` from milling iPhones and Mac. Plenty of that and a marketing win even though this would always get recycled anyway.
But I'm pretty sure the voltage seen by each individual battery is always the same, regardless of the distribution system voltage.

There should be less heating for higher voltages but if most if the heating is in the battery vs the distribution system then the higher voltages will not help much.

Also, if they make all wires smaller to save money and weight then there might not be any change in heating.

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