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abrowne commented on Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA" foodsafetynews.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/maxwell

mprovost · 4 years ago

The EU probably requires calculating energy in kilojoules (which are 4x calories) and then converting back to calories which results in different rounding.

abrowne · 4 years ago

I believe the US allows .5 to round down to 0, while I've seen EU labels list e.g. .5 g of fat, so I wouldn't be surprised if they require it.

abrowne commented on Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, then she vanished independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/ducaale

throw0101a · 4 years ago

> me: "I thought she was a real person, like Orville Redenbacher. I didn't know she was made up like Betty Crocker."

Ettore Boiardi, aka Chef Boyardee, was a real person as well:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Boiardi

abrowne · 4 years ago

I would not have guessed that! I like that he last lived in Parma, Ohio.

abrowne commented on GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi twitter.com/drbarnard/sta... · Posted by u/ilamont

version_five · 4 years ago

Like many people may have, my first though was why would you buy a smart oven. He explains in a follow up that it was the only one offered by his home builder. And this is an important and overlooked point.

A lot of garbage that no reasonable person would ever buy ends up being weaseled in to new home sales because of deals the companies cut with the builders, knowing nobody buys a house based on whether they could have a user-scamming smart appliance as the default. This kind of thing is insidious- I have no idea what the solution is.

Though as a afterthought, it reminds me a bit of the microsoft antitrust stuff from 20+ years ago where they bundled IE as part of destroying Netscape (im sure there is more subtlety than that, that's the gist of what I remember)

abrowne · 4 years ago

I got new boilers (furnaces for radiator heating) installed recently, and halfway through one of the crew asked where they should install the boxes that connect the thermostats to the internet. Luckily they were completely separate, so I said I never agreed with that and they left them boxed up, because they had never thought to mention it. (They listened to my explanation that I would not have something that literally starts a fire in my house connected to the internet without at least being able to control the software it runs, but I think they were just being polite.)

abrowne commented on Is the Russian Air Force incapable of complex air operations? rusi.org/explore-our-rese... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

KarlKemp · 4 years ago

The optimistic takes are stronger than „temporarily stuck“. It’s basically „in a position where nothing can move forward or backward“. The road is blocked, the vehicles are out of fuel, with many wrecks in between. Food is running out and, soon, the crews will have to abandon their vehicles. It becomes a 40-mile long mass of scrap metal.

abrowne · 4 years ago

And not sideways, off the road, because of the mud.

abrowne commented on Sabre ends distribution agreement with Aeroflot cnbc.com/2022/03/03/airli... · Posted by u/pseudolus

kofejnik · 4 years ago

Moscow will be relatively Ok, regardless; and you dollars will buy a lot more help with the new exchange rate

abrowne · 4 years ago

If they can still transfer them!

abrowne commented on How illiterate people use their mobile phones (2012) researchgate.net/publicat... · Posted by u/kvee

AussieWog93 · 4 years ago

Have you ever tried learning Vietnamese as a second language? Shit's hard!

abrowne · 4 years ago

But not because of the script.

abrowne commented on Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (2006) cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/person... · Posted by u/tiagobraw

secabeen · 4 years ago

> " please go buy a RAM upgrade from your local Apple dealer"

Not possible any more!!!

abrowne · 4 years ago

Sure it is. It just comes with a new Mac.

abrowne commented on Framework Raises $18M Series A frame.work/blog/framework... · Posted by u/654wak654

Jaepa · 4 years ago

Modular phones are especially hard. There is both an power optimization & physical size constraints. Neither of which square with modular replacements.

abrowne · 4 years ago

I'd take one that's repairable and only minimally modular.

abrowne commented on Framework Raises $18M Series A frame.work/blog/framework... · Posted by u/654wak654

galbar · 4 years ago

what about fairphone?

abrowne · 4 years ago

I'd buy a Fairphone if they sold in the US!

abrowne commented on Framework Raises $18M Series A frame.work/blog/framework... · Posted by u/654wak654

abrowne · 4 years ago

> this funding unlocks categories even more ambitious than our first one.

Any guesses?

I'd love to buy a Framework phone — if they can guarantee Android updates.