Apple seems to provide IOS updates, at least with the iPhones, for about 4-5 years. Assuming the trend holds with the SE, I would probably expect them to at least support it into mid 2020.

I suspect the SE's support is tied to the 6s's, being a small offshoot model released mid-cycle that Apple doesn't care too much about.

So based on that, the 6s was the 2015 phone launch, running iOS 9. Updates in 2016, 2017, 2018, probably 2019, hopefully 2020, probably not 2021.

Last phone they dropped support for was the iPhone 5 in iOS 11. Compatibility list was the same in iOS 12 (with nice performance fixes on older hardware), but 13 is probably the end of the line for the 5s and 6.

Here's a good video on why getting Tidal power to work is hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRiKmgxrh0

I've just skimmed it, but that video appears to be about wave power rather than tidal power?

I have seen people suggest that the "10 year challenge" was created to build an age-related training dataset. While the mannequin challenge was probably just spontaneous, I wonder if we will see an increasing number of viral challenges in the future that center around the creation of structured information.

The problem is that the play store is a monopoly. If neither Amazon nor Samsung can create an app store with even a small fraction of the total useful apps found on the play store, who can? And if you can't find one particular app on the Amazon/Samsung store, why bother at all?

They can create an app store on Android. Nobody is stopping them.

The same can't be said for ios

They can create an Android Store. But many apps depends on Google APIs or applications (Maps, Drive, Contacts, etc) and will require changes.

Huawei could make a UI toolkit similar to iOS, and use the Swift open source project, and encourage developers to port their iOS apps.

This seems like an expensive risky overkill to trust Apple, when JavaScript solutions work on every platform.

Times change. Why build an app and have an app store if you can do it with a PWA?

There is only one 'killer app' on my phone - WhatsApp. I need my phone to access that through a PC and therefore need the app.

Years ago I had a lot more apps, nowadays I am 'meh' and never visit the Play Store. Anecdotal, but, as mentioned, PWA has arrived and that means that an app store is not strictly needed like how it was before HTML5 arrived.

Google App Store is not a monopoly. You can build Android-based OS with your own store. Google spend some resources attracting developers. Huawei can do the same. May be even attract some exclusive software.

To draw some analogies, Japan has some very conservative people in power, but that's more to do with the election systems that give more power to monolithic parties that attract rural voters. When you look at the proportional vote (Japan has FPTP + a non-reproportioning proportional segment), Japanese people are on average much less conservative than their elected government would make it seem.

Twitter seems to be in this weird space where they have enough usability positives over other social media (pretty broadly accessible, doesn't pester you to log in, you can post NSFW content without it getting taken down) that I guess people just force themselves to use it, even if a blog post would be better formatted.

I think it’s the combination of feeling easy to do (both UI & not feeling pressure to write a formal essay) and getting immediate feedback. For most people blogging is mostly solitary in comparison.

Twitter does pester you to log in when scrolling down someone's profile, I think. Maybe it was on mobile.

Here's a pretty good view from above, from reddit:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/aa632...

Here a close up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0u1tE2_RQ and https://streamable.com/2wi38

Note loud NSFW language immediately and throughout the video. :)

That really looks like a scene from a science fiction movie.

I think the battle is lost, but I'm a little bit sad seeing the sky over a city being filmed in vertical video.

Though it makes sense if you're watching it on your phone maximised in its natural orientation.

Probably who records videos just pick up the phone, portrait mode, and start filming. No thoughts about the circumstances of watching it later on.

We should just make phones square.

Or make the sensor square and have it record full-sensor so the image can be rotes in post processing.

No, we should have the phones deliver electric shocks whenever taking video in portrait mode.

Sometime in the future we'll look back and wonder how our televisions and movie screens became vertical. This post will go into the evidence basket.

I lol'd, I'm reading this on a vertical monitor right now. My secondary monitor is vertical due to cramped desk space, so I can have my horizontal monitor still centered when I look straight ahead.

Developers are a bit different in this regard. I used to use a vertical monitor in 2007 because, well, it's pretty great for big chunks of code and web development in general.

As good as it was, I never wanted to watch videos in that way.

Affordable RISC-V systems will only happen if they reach a comparable level of mass production as proprietary systems. What you will more likely see for now is a gradual increase in the number of components on GPUs, HDDs etc which use RISC-V instead of ARM or something else. The ISA is only a part of the cost equation.

Right now I am using MSI afterburner with its detached hardware monitor, which gives you some nice graphs of several aspects of the GPU.

Yeah, I really like that one, it can produce nice dense graphs that display a lot of history at once. It even shows stats about the CPU cores as well.

Similar to Shiny is Bokeh for python, which appears to be trying to replicate the Shiny experience. While you can only get so much control without resorting to JS injections, it's pretty good for [select options -> search -> visualize result] type of problems.