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I’ve never had more respect for Apple than in this announcement.

Imagine one of the largest tech companies going against the market hype.

Ooooof course they are primarily a hardware shop, right?
So maybe they want to downplay software land a little bit, idk.
Actually the opposite. They’re explicitly not allowed to.
I happen to like them, and I’m old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent.
Now give me glasses with this resolution per eye…
To put that into perspective:

"The age-adjusted suicide rate in 2022 was 14.21 per 100,000 individuals."

So 1.4 suicides per 100 is 100x the national average.
Or maybe (gasp!) a blog?
And I think that you're misunderstanding what I meant by a impact on the biosphere.

We wouldn't see all new species. We might see some new genes in a few species, which would have started arriving around 3 million years ago in the genomic record, and would not be explained by the ordinary arrival of new genes through mutations, either because the arrival rate would be too high or the genes arriving would be too different.

So the idea would be to think up genomic experiments and metrics that would be able to detect the arrival of exobiological material 3 million years ago, assuming that the effect would be very attenuated.

Again I think that serious geneticists and xenobiologists would have fun brainstorming ideas here. I just want to be a fly on the wall for that conversation, lol.
There will probably be a bifurcation here:

- Lower-end restaurants adopt cooking robots and make it difficult to see the kitchen from the customer area

- Higher-end restaurants make their humans even more visible and push a hibachi/omakase model where the chef makes the meals in front of you

"Human made" is going to be the premium brand keyword of 2030.
Example, NYT reporting on the tech industry. I wish I was making that up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473275
I can relate very much, from both viewpoints!

I sometimes catch myself discussing “correctness” in PRs because it’s important to know what tradeoffs you’re making, and whether a neater/simpler/better solution exists. So yea, sometimes my suggestions can be misinterpreted as blockers.

I have since learned that giving actionable feedback is the trick to smooth review process, as well as trusting the authors (in a way). Their implementation may not be the way I would have done it, but I have to ask myself “will it still work?” as a basis for pass.

But I digress, I can see what you mean in your original reply, and agree, that weird “arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship” does indeed happen
What? How do roads prevent you from going outside.

Of course I went to the houses of my friends by foot/bike after school. Unsurprisingly there were roads with cars everywhere, which do exist here in Europe. Blaming "road centric infrastructure" is delusional, road centric infrastructure has been the norm for at least 60 years and if that were the cause you would have noticed a degradation then and no degradation after. Clearly not the case.

I find it quite offensive to suggest that "European cities" are somehow this extremely car unfriendly place. We Europeans like cars as well, we like to drive them a lot and like to live in places with good car connections. Places like Germany, where I live, also have very good car infrastructure. Outside of large cities cars are the only way to get around as other modes of transportation are very unreliable and not serviced often. None of this has prevented me from going outside with my friends or biking to school alone.

If I had to guess why kids are playing less outside than they used to, maybe it is because the park we hung out is now inhibited by drug dealers. Or because of the girl who got raped there.
I used to share a lot of screenshots from PS5 to Twitter. It was one of the easiest ways to get pictures off the platform. Now I use the Playstation App on my phone which works OK but is a bit clumsy. The Switch has a really wacky way of getting pictures off it; it runs an HTTP server on an ad hoc WiFi network when you ask it to!

Every week I miss something else that we lost when Twitter got ruined.
That, and the heroes that risked life and limb to start those first oil rigs, many dying, so a poor country could use the wealth to help its own people.
This makes a little more sense than the article's demo, but I still only perceive two flashes, even with the audio. Maybe it's also environmental...
You can't call a company Scorpio Bastardo
"mid" is something I hear from people high school age most commonly.
For hobbists buying dev boards note that an ESP32 comes with WiFi and maybe Bluetooth depending on the model, whereas a vanilla Pi Pico has no radio - you need a Pi Pico W for that, which in my experience is double the cost of an esp32 board.

I agree with the authors points that the RP2040 is a great chip would love to see the Pico W pricing come down as popularity grows.
I thought the irony is that "rare" earth metals are not rare at all?

It's just that no-one wants to mine them at great expense for little profit?

(edit: are not, not are)
Apple is not the reason why Silcon Valley is the way it is, this is emergent and not in any agents control. Let’s not forget Apple has large campuses around the US and in Ireland.
Sorry, by director I meant board. Eg, one empowered to make such a decision, which a disagreeing minority stakeholder might sue over.
Raspberry Pi Use Cases
Something I learned from this story is that a whistleblower Rush fired who could have prevented Rush from ever taking passengers on his fated dive instead ended up having to pay a $10,000 settlement and sign an NDA. The legal system utterly failed to protect society from a dangerously reckless man.
Are you gated on PCB real estate, or cost? 8 megabits of QSPI is under 50 cents. I really don't care that it's external if the entire chipset is under 2 bucks.
Considering I'm not American, no I cannot. (I don't think they have a school "Year" system, though I'm not sure.)

As for why I generalise across "all Western nations": it's because the problem I describe is present in all the countries I listed, and while I have no information about the others, my theoretical model (incentives due to curriculums and exams) says it's probably present everywhere in this education system that's near-universal amongst… sigh… "Western" countries.
Responsive design can be laborious. You need to setup your classes and CSS medias/container rules for different devices. But, fret not! Columns layout makes responsive design easier than ever. Columns element exists in multiple platforms. It is an industry standard at this point. Here's a quick demo that shows how to use columns layout to create responsive designs on our platform.
If OpenAI, or whoever, turns the AI crank once more and we go from GPT-4 to 5, and the jump is the same size as 3 to 4, then I think the answer will be pretty clear: AI content will improve in quality to meet or exceed human content.
A Question on Domain Names in the IndieWeb
On the other hand, some AI generated content can be pretty good, informative, and useful. This is in the hands of its prompt's creator and in the quality of the model. It has to be done with care to ensure quality, avoiding falsities and hallucinations.
The stupid thing about this whole security charade is that this is exactly what any serious actor would do if they actually had sinister motives for entering the country, so the policy is only punishing ordinary people who were no threat in the first place or occasionally by accident catching a dumb criminal who probably would've been caught eventually anyway.
No, iPadOS doesn’t have virtualization support, only macOS does.
If there is, then wouldn't there also be a corollary that allows minority owners to sue for not focusing on <whatever they care about>?
> Why it matters: Worker shortages and inflation continue to bedevil the restaurant industry — even as it enjoys record sales.

Have they tried higher wages?
You only need strong Green party in the country and odds will even out.

As we all know Finland has more fossil fuel than Norway. Peat is basically oil, but little younger. Finnish Green Party has managed to block all use of peat, because while it is totally renewable, it does not grow back fast enough.
In Switzerland it's also forbidden (as of now) to even think using your EV as external battery. The energy companies are fighting tooth and nail against people becoming independent from the(ir) grid.
> you need to accept a model where there's ongoing pay for that work

Before they switched to subscriptions, it still worked like that: 1Password 4, 1Password 5, 1Password 6 - I paid money each time a new version came out. Sometimes I paid the same day of the release and upgraded immediately. Other times, I may have waited a little bit longer and continued with the version that I had.

Nobody's asking for a free lunch.
I can't be the only one suspicious that there seems to be a coordinated set of articles (guardian and NYT) roughly at the same time pushing the same narrative (conveniently about something threatening their business). Gives me "this is extremely dangerous to our democracy" vibes.
TBH, the parent also stated “but closing down the OS…”

So waters were indeed muddied.
I really hope that they'll enable other, less spoken languages. I'm not planning on talking with my phone in English.
(Indeed the term itself dates back to 1350-1400 in middle English:

- https://www.dictionary.com/browse/slop

... but I think the usage is new. Either way my thinking is that it is beneficial for a specific word for the concept of "unwantes AI generated content" to exist, as a thing, so we can discourse about it ...)
I was on the fence about using it for a small commercial project I'm doing, but the lifetime has been put out long enough (2041 at this point), and it's so freaking cheap that I'm going to do a one-time buy of 10 years worth of parts.

Lack of code security and onboard flash weren't dealbreakers for me here, but others will have more stringent requirements. QSPI is so incredibly cheap now.
It's perfectly reasonable for a mainstream newspaper to cover a recent technical term.

It's not yet in published dictionaries, and was only added to Wiktionary in January.
I don’t think they are saying that the internet hasn’t been shit. It is. I think what they are saying is that it is about to get a whole lot shittier thanks to AI.
What if Your Town Doubled as a Private Power Grid?
Around the country, developers are building microgrids — energy-resilient communities that act as their own energy source.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/realestate/microgrid-sola...

> ...

> The couple liked that each house came with a three-kilowatt rooftop solar system, which would reduce their carbon footprint and cut their utility bill by a third. But as they toured the 31-home community, they discovered that they were looking at North Carolina’s first residential “microgrid” development.

> A microgrid is a network of buildings that essentially acts as a miniature power grid. It can operate outside of the larger municipal electrical system by ensuring backup power for the entire development, which can be produced by a solar array system and stored in a battery.

> ...

> At Heron’s Nest, the 62-kilowatt solar system and 255-kilowatt-hour battery are maintained by the local utility, Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation. Homeowners get a monthly energy credit on their utility bills by signing an interconnection agreement with the utility, which controls their hot-water heaters and thermostats when there’s high power demand. If the local power grid is stressed and the utility believes a power outage is necessary, residents here will be able to keep their lights on.
At Heathrow airport I was offered the option of switching my laptop on to show them it worked, plus a full body x-ray, or "the other option" (man waves a pair of gloves insinuating a full body cavity search).

So, you can see what (mostly) everyone would choose there.

The only bonus was that security man managed to walk me around the 2-hour long security line.
> but significant crime

The crime that has been *falling* throughout the entire western world after peaking in the mid 1990's ?
Spam is content that is delivered to people who did not request it. Slop is content which pretends to be what you want, but turns out to be of low quality.
Zume failed big time. I wonder if anyone will ever get it to work. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-failed-428-m-robot-pizza...
Are you referring to the idea of "everything is securities fraud"?
If only it supported Telegram and other messengers.
> From a business perspective it's not _stupid_. It sucks for us customers, but it's "smart" from a business point of view.

Well, I'm not a business. I appreciate smart consumer choices and I applaud any company that doesn't have to be forced into doing the right thing.

> I still prefer paying extra, rather than Apple switching to a Ad-based business model like Google (and potentially OpenAI in the future)

Oh you sweet summer child. You think Apple doesn't also have an ad-based business model on top of that?

I switched to Linux after MacOS Mojave, and I do not miss any of this brouhaha one bit. It's almost rich hearing people talk about how few ads MacOS has, when it's constantly begging you to try or pay for Apple software services. Even Android isn't as ad-ridden as MacOS, the only victory Apple can claim is relative to Windows (which is a grim reflection of MacOS's eventual service-dominated fate).

You should try out Linux, though. It's a culture shock, trying to get work done with no inbuilt advertisement whatsoever. I could never go back to Mac or Windows and be this productive.
It's probably inevitable that things with a large labor component either become more automated/industrialized or become more of a luxury good (or mostly fade away entirely).
Agreed! And yes, JSON and http would simplify a lot of things.

I was considering writing my own email client for a while, but instead I pivoted to my own budgeting app for now. Will get to the email client if I ever have time, lol
pricing is the exercise of determining value, even in a non monetary economy (think barter or contribution) you still need to price the value of materials and time. obviously money creates secondary effects which are not related to value due to arbitrages and other effects, but I do not believe you can have finite resources without determining value, which is what I meant by pricing.
I wonder how's it working in Norway, what will the locals have to say about getting huge holes in their backyards...
Another aspect of things, is you can put an FAQ up, saying that suddenly they wanted cash.

People get the "it was free now it costs" thing.
This happens across journalism and topics, certainly not limited to this one.

I'm not sure exactly how they all have the same ideas at the same time, I suspect that journos are highly interlinked and when a spicy tip or publication drops, they all get excited about it.
the word "spam" similarly existed before the advent of unsolicited commercial email. the meanings of words change all the time.
They are not nearly unanimous.

> I have also a HDPE bottle of 98% sulfuric acid over a decade old without single hint of issue.

And they're talking about almost pure acid, which is not nearly what's going on in at atmosphere that's mostly CO2. Venus is probably not even as strong as drain cleaner.
Norway has been relatively wealthy since 1870...
Putting the workforce concerns aside, this is pretty exciting. I think the two easiest parts of the problem to tackle are the prep part and the delivery part. The part in the middle will be the hardest. I expect that the first really successful robot staffed restaurant will be a pizza restaurant. Pretty much all of the parts are already mechanized in the industrial production of frozen pizzas, and the challenge would be to downscale it to a restaurant sized machine that could do the cooking as well.
Shadow Workspace: Iterating on Code in the Background
> The Screenshots feature in Firefox has gotten a big update! It now supports taking screenshots of file types like SVG, XML, and more as well as various about: pages within Firefox. We've also made the screenshot tool more accessible to everyone by implementing new keyboard shortcuts and adding theme compatibility and High Contrast Mode (HCM) support. And finally, performance for capturing large screenshots has been improved.

I have no problem with this feature, but am curious if it brings any new functionality beyond existing screenshot tools.
Please. Someone with a "mathematical destiny" is unlikely to be held back by these obstacles, especially if they have internet access. Probably there are a few such cases, but I very much doubt I'm one of them.
> It's a hybrid language combining Forth and Lisp, so naturally it's called Forsp

Shame. Missed a golden opportunity to call it "Lithp" :)
Powering Angular with Rust (WASM)
Restaurants are a very thin margin business, and prices at restaurants are pretty high already.
> My phone is an IP phone. It doesn't do SMS. Did you mean "mobile phone"?

UK landlines are transitioning to VoIP. SMS messages sent to UK landlines are read out by a text-to-speech system (well, my parents' does).
With the current trajectory, you'll still have to fold the laundry yourself - but your phone, the washer, the dryer, the laundry basket, the detergent bottle and the actual laundry itself will all give you personalized and very emphatic reminders when it's time to do so.
Only outside the USA.
Who claims it’s a revolutionary new feature?
> Curious how long it will take me to do so.

Maybe it will click in three years or so when trademark abandonment kicks in and some other company can start using the Twitter name/bird.
You're suspicious that multiple journalists are covering current events? This must get exhausting.
Wouldn't you want to reduce the number of charge/discharge cycles on your EV battery? Using it for household needs outside of an emergency seems wasteful.
Yup. Lead is less common in Earth's crust than:

- lithium

- cobalt

- neodymium

- lanthanum

- ytrium

- scandium

- cerium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

We simply had far more uses for lead till very recently.
The Light Phone III
At least part of the issue is that much of this slop is 'good enough' for many people. As bad as many of those terrible recipe sites and video game walkthroughs and news articles might be, they're clearly good enough for the majority of the population, and enough so they don't see paying for content as worth the price.

The other part is that practically speaking, there's enough good free content in most fields that paying doesn't get you anything better. It's not surfaced well enough by the algorithms, but it does exist, and it makes it so in most areas, there's very little reason to pay for anything.
As someone who's more affected by the US behavior than the Chinese behavior, and very critical of it, what you're doing is whataboutism.
The same idea is explored in more details in his later book 'Fall; or Dodge in Hell' where AI generated individualized content radicalizes parts of the population and convinces them to believe blatantly false facts. It's a decently large B plot in the novel that ties into some of the larger themes.
I'm wondering how my electricity they will save just from moving from Intel to Apple Silicon in their data centers.
The weather in Norway sucks big time. In some parts of the country it is really bad, especially if you live near the sea. Summer isn’t guaranteed either. That’s a pretty big price to pay for an otherwise great country with really chill people.
>switching my laptop on to show them it worked

That seems... fine? They're not asking you unlock your laptop, just to turn it on, presumably to prove it's actually a laptop and not a bomb in a laptop's case.
And this is where branding and reputation comes into play.

For all their problems, I trust numerous media brands to not give me slop: The New York Times, The Financial Times, Monocle, Matt Levine, Linus Tech Tips, The Verge, hundreds of YouTubers and Twitter users, even Hacker News. Let media companies and creators who want to set fire to their good names get on with it, because it'll hopefully mean anyone doing a good, consistent job will rise.
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. But also, good enough is good enough.

We're getting into "videophile" territories here.
But you don't need a lookup table. The square itself would literally have that printed on it. No percentages.
X is actively hostile to potential users/reader - I see no reason to look at any x domain related content.
Sure. But their reputation is pretty much "police force for hire" rather than anything to do with competence.
> where very few people want to live

just as a sole data point: been there a few times, and my personal ideal weather _is_ cool/gray/wet with ideal outside temperature of 15C. I can withstand the cold, but find it hard to tolerate heat (as in >20C).

Purely from a weather perspective, I'd move there. What holds me back is that I also need dense urban surroundings nearby with all the buzz it brings (cyberpunk style) - norway is lacking that, including Oslo. _Too_ quiet/beautiful/peaceful for my liking.
The Light Phone 3 is a little less light – but a lot more useful
And when I have to access a 2FA protected account, like my bank or email, I do what?
One use case is related to the Nintendo Switch, as mentioned in another post.

E.g. see https://github.com/Ansem-SoD/Picofly.
Offering free equity in my startup
Just launched my startup: A decentralized democracy where the users get to govern & control everything, not the CEO or a board of directors.

So far 500+ users have already signed up and the feedback has been very positive.

The goal is to continue growing. We have a specific marketing strategy in mind. We just need to find a few more people who would like to join the team.

More details can be found on my website: https://www.fairtalk.net

Also happy to answer any questions and/or receive any feedback.
I wonder (as an outsider) why would GPT-4o give more accurate responses? The training data is the same, right... so maybe somebody can point this out like for a kid, thank you.
The endless drivel of recipe websites is another one, burying the actual recipe under an absolute mountain of slop.
> I’ve always found that a weird characterization. It’s sent in the signaling channel, but why is that “leftover”? The channel is still established for the SMS, and it’s not like that channel bandwidth would go unused otherwise.

In modern standards, it is indeed not a “leftover” (although RCS exists which is another can of worms), but originally it was transmitted in a best-effort manner using what is essentially a "hack" on SS7 (unlike phone calls which is guaranteed reception - or at least not going through).
Have you tried not bringing a phone?

I'd be really interested in their response when you tell them you don't have one on you.
Lockheed Martin SR-72
I completely agree that it's inconvenient as a developer tool, a debug probe is much, much nicer.

I just think that despite all testing and care bugs are still possible, and the ROM bootloader is a backup that's always there. Plop a tiny switch on the PCB, and even if I screw up an OTA update customers will still be able to flash with no special tools (if the device has a USB port, that is).

I also use it as a recovery state for panics, makes the device impossible to brick by a panic loop.
I believe running it locally will be the only solution to not share your deepest secrets with companies that certainly don't deserve it.