Eric_WVGG

Beats said:

I wonder why? Is it more accurate or?

Normal weather apps will give you pretty-good predictions over 5-7 days.

Dark Sky gives you very, almost frighteningly accurate predictions over about an hour. I use it during rainstorms to determine where there will be, like, a ten minute gap in rainfall to bicycle home. It's amazing.

Take a closer look at that screenshot for Cape Canaveral, FL. That graph shows moderate rain for about twenty minutes, then a light drizzle, then no precipitation. Whenever that screenshot was taken, you can bet that's exactly how the next hour panned out.

sweet typo, "morphine" == "morphing"

lkrupp said:

I guess one question to discuss is what makes Lightening better than USB-C. Does Lightening do something or provide something USB-C cannot?

Lightning is a very, very interesting connector.

The pins are not directly analogous to USB, as is commonly presumed. They're actually adaptive. You could have a cord that is lightning on one end and, say, VGA on the other; the device would inform the iOS device that "this is a connection where pin 1 does this, pin 2 does that, etc."

I think there was some talk about this making lightning ideal for obscure medical devices and analog video, but in practice it seems to pretty much be used just for USB. Even lightning -> HDMI without a dongle — which is totally possible — hasn't officially materialized because the HDMI foundation has a rod up its ass.

It's a shame that Apple didn't just open the standard before USB-C was invented; USB-C will never be as durable as Lightning.

That is a really excellent idea…

I'm not so sure about Apple re-enforcing SMS as a multi-factor standard, though. SIM-jacking is real, the security standards of AT&T Verizon and Tmobile are laughable. 

lkrupp said:

You simply cannot use the words Google and security in the same sentence. it's anathema and it's a shame you don't understand that.

How am I to inteprete the fact that google has a relatively low security breach statistics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches )

How good is Google's know-how in security sector?

How much can we benefit from their knowledge and tools?

I think he's maybe conflating "security" with "privacy."

Google has one of the best records of FAANG companies for security tech, I think that's undeniable. But I wouldn't exactly trust them, either.