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  • Claris FileMaker Pro updated with Shortcuts support, more

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    hucom2000 said:
    Alex_V said:
    dee_dee said:
    People STILL use FileMaker?!  :D
    Filemaker appears to have stood still since the mid 2000s. I don't bother with it anymore.
    Complete nonsense. One of the most innovative products on the market. You obviously didn’t bother to even look at it since the mid 2000s…

    I have a licensed copy. I use it for my legacy databases, but not when I want to build a new one. Airtable is far easier to use. FileMaker is essentially unchanged for maybe ten years, with incremental updates only. They are now emphasising the ability to make apps, if only the software was easier to use. Whenever I worked with it I had to re-learn it all from scratch. Even Photoshop is easier to master. 
    williamlondon

  • Claris FileMaker Pro updated with Shortcuts support, more

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    dee_dee said:
    People STILL use FileMaker?!  :D

    Good point. Filemaker is a powerful database management system and quite versatile, but on the other hand, it was always supposed to be the easy-to-use option, and that crown has been taken away by Airtable most notably. Filemaker appears to have stood still since the mid 2000s. I don't bother with it anymore. If I want to build a quick base I use Airtable, which is free. Filemaker is 20 bucks a month!
    williamlondon

  • Apple plans to dial back mask mandate in U.S. stores

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    iOS_Guy80 said:
    Have visited the Apple store twice in the last month will continue to wear a mask regardless  of the mandate easement.
    Agree with you. 
    DogpersonsconosciutoGeorgeBMacwilliamlondon

  • Foxconn to acquire first US EV factory in deal with Lordstown Motors

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    waveparticle said:
    Decades of social movements in US has destroyed American's ability to operate manufacturing plant. The management are tied by human rights and spend way too much time on social issues of the workers. The people and the movement behind it are trying all they can to export this ideology to China and many other countries. But this is against capitalism which Taiwanese actually become better on execution. 
    Meaningless tosh. Read the history of labour movements. Read also, what happened to US manufacturing since Reagan. The world is bigger than just the US and China; even if that is the full extent of your world. 
    StrangeDaysdewmeviclauyycdarkvader

  • Apple to ask all employees to voluntarily report Covid vaccination status

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    designr said:
    dws-2 said:
    However, it is _less_ likely that a vaccinated person would get sick and spread Covid.
    Is there any data on this?

    What I've read on this is that vaccinated people who get a delta-variant "breakthrough" infection seem to be more likely to be asymptomatically infectious.

    First, dws-2 is right according to CDC. Vaccinated people are less likely to get the virus. If they get it, less likely to get symptoms. If they get symptoms, less likely to require hospitalisation, etc.. And, crucially, they appear to be infectious for shorter time. 

    It depends on what you mean by “more likely.” More likely THAN what?
    More likely to spread the virus as ASYMPTOMATIC carriers, THAN if they were not vaccinated—because the vaccine reduces symptoms. —YES
    More likely to spread the virus, THAN the unvaccinated. —NO

    A good starting point for the lay person (like me):
    designrronnstompy