zenbob
Re:The U.S. economy's big problem? People forgot what 'normal' looks like
on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:16PM (#40206880)
Seems like an aging population explains most or all of the post-2000 downturn, no? We're currently at a 20 year high of the 25-54 age group's employment: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
The Minimal Phone pairs an E Ink screen with a QWERTY keyboard and Android
Re:Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?
on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:13PM (#37551073)
As someone who frequently books campgrounds at the county, state, and national level, Recreation.gov provides by far the best user experience for browsing sites on a map and viewing calendar availability that I've encountered. Its fees don't seem noticeably higher than fees I encounter on other government booking systems. Maybe I'm being naive, but it doesn't seem too important to me that Booz Allen is collecting some of its payment as a part of booking fees rather than directly from government contracts. A government website that works this well seems worthy of praise to me!
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Re:Apple Watch Series 7
on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @03:21PM (#28529667)
I replaced my Fitbit Versa with a Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music and have been a huge fan. Many day battery, GPS for runs etc, can play music and podcasts from the watch.
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Re:Recreation.gov
on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:59AM (#21629276)
As someone who used it frequently before and after, it’s not really much better or worse. The primary user impact I’ve noticed is that the ui is more “modern” (ie has more spacing between everything)
PG&E electricity shutoff confirmed for nearly 800k Northern CA customers
Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:05AM (#20305013)
OneNote has this:
"OneNote can search typed text, handwritten notes, and words that appear in inserted images."
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-for-Notes-in...
But it won't help your Linux support issue :(
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Re:Using the iPad Pro as my main computer
on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:28PM (#18851386)
iOS has "Request Desktop Site" as an option in Safari. Is view as desktop something other than that?
Re:Small Colleges Can Save Towns in Middle America (2017)
on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @07:22PM (#18180653)
I wonder if the student loan/debt bubble will hit these towns hard (if it turns out to be a bubble). Spending on higher education seems like its gains are unsustainable.
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Re:China is angered by Apple's iPhone event mentioning Taiwan
on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:52PM (#17991735)
Is there any argument why Taiwan should be treated as anything other than a normal, independent country? I know that China wants to claim sovereignty, but a want is not an argument. I don't mean this as a rhetorical question--I am curious if there is any coherent argument here?
Re:The tech industry's use of persuasive techniques on children
on Monday August 13, 2018 @12:28PM (#17751309)
Perhaps there is disproportionate negative attention placed on the tech industry these days, but it is still reasonable to write an in-depth article like this that only focuses on one specific offending industry.
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Re:AT&T raises most customers' fees by $1.23, adding $800M revenue
on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @08:59PM (#17413224)
$67 million a month * 12 = $804 million. I am assuming it is a monthly increase.