There is literally zero harm in telling people to add an event to their calendar. Setting aside the argument that relying on a flood of news to tell you about an election is a poor way to manage your life, there is a non-zero number of people who want to be involved but are either new to the process or not in the… Read more

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the Narrator doesn’t exist either. Neither does Han Solo, Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, Tony Stark, or any other fictional character that people are nonetheless inspired by. If you can’t learn lessons from stories, you might have a lot harder time with reality than someone… Read more

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Good point and that’s handy. At the same time, that seems sort of expected? Maybe it’s neat that they added a voice command so you could ask, but obviously Home has to know what song it’s playing in order to play it. The Shazam-style listening feature, on the other hand, is much more useful when you’re hearing a song… Read more

These are all features of different apps or Android in general. Not the Google Assistant. We’re talking about two different things. Read more

For my personal experience, I’d have to disagree about basic searches. I was shocked to discover that I could ask it where to find iron ingots in Skyrim and get a decent answer. Search commands are about as useful as Google search cards, which are pretty useful! It’s not perfect for everything, but I’ve used it for a… Read more

While this is true, it seems to be very finicky. For example, I just asked “how long to the nearest pharmacy?” Google told me traffic information wasn’t available right now (not sure why), then said I should get “there” within four minutes. It did not tell me what the nearest pharmacy was. Technically, I guess that… Read more

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I keep crossing my fingers, but apparently that’s not a good way to influence public policy. Read more

Patrick I want you to know there are about a dozen booths at every con I go to that you’re going to put out of business with this. These are a huge novelty item. Take a $1 glass, slap a geeky logo on it, and sell it for $10-20. Read more

Hey everyone! Since we’ve updated the post, most of the comments here are old and might have some outdated information. Reply here or create some new threads to weigh in, and be sure to check the dates before following old instructions! Read more

We go into it a bit more in this post, but the short version is, yes. You’re technically correct that paying off debt with a higher interest rate will save you more money over the long run. However, human psychology rarely coincides neatly with math. Paying off a small balance on one credit card will be more… Read more

Looks like we broke it. Our bad. Read more

But where’s the fun in that? Read more

That would work better if I didn’t have a TV, computer, and phone that all get their time from the internet. Read more

Personally, I have a pointed tip and it works fine, but I think it has a lot to do with how fine the tip is. The one that came with my cheap-o soldering station was very large and blunt. I bought a second iron that had a much finer tip and that worked great. I’m sure a chisel tip would be even easier, but I have… Read more

I only solder once every few months when I have a project that calls for it. I think I’m exactly who this is meant for. There’s a lot of little things you need to remember to do right and I usually recall about 80% of them. Having this thing to remind me what I’m screwing up is perfect. Read more

We hate those, too. If it helps, our general rule is to always put the name of the product first in a headline. We very rarely break this rule (and it’s usually if a product name really screws up that pattern), so if the first word in an article about an app sounds like a regular word, it’s pretty safe to read it as a… Read more

You’re welcome, citizen. Read more

Updated, thanks. Read more