Barbing

They should hire you :D

Thanks. Wonder if the gaps (and speed) increase satisfaction and/or even save transmission of a couple communicable diseases here and there.

Per “can’t” - The admins use a math example in the guidelines that’s kind of funny https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Succinct summary.

Ooh, “Your Apple Watch is fully charged.” notification on iPhone, that’s nice too. (Can sometimes just charge while showering/etc. and not think about it though.)

> things go smoothly only because the team has a routine built on experience. If you throw a wrench in that and have someone waste time fiddling with m&Ms

Isn’t there variance in how long a venue’s contractual obligations will take to fulfill? One weekend someone needs you to spend X hours coordinating on sound and lighting, the next weekend it’s .5X hours? (Correct me if I’m wrong here if someone knows.) If they get the M&Ms right and they triaged appropriately, seems like a little indicator they scheduled enough people to work long enough to make it through the whole rider.

No cop out here with “oh just tell them you’re ignoring it”, treating the whole doc as a serious thing to get through or they can find another venue that will.

Edit: apparently to even deal with Van Halen you’d have to deal with not three 18-wheelers of gear, max, but three times as many! So you’d need way more hours I bet. Also an alternative that might rub some less the wrong way: some redditor (or liar) claims they’d put something really dumb mistake in their riders and good venues would essentially bring it up first thing.

>MagSafe chargers for Mac do have indicator lights

Since we lost the on-MacBook charging lights (RIP).*

Apple Watch: set watch on charger or tap watch screen to check status. Same for iPhone. Tap AirPods case to see charging light as well.

*Guess I’ve survived without this, but it was a bummer my first Mac without it.

What’s the latest on the roomful of people who read nearly-impossible-to-read addresses? Was dwindling last I heard—mad respect to them. You see some of those envelopes, complete chickenscratch or water damage, and somehow they get them to their destination.

> [increasing speeds would save] about 670,000 hours a year.

Are they the bottleneck? How many fewer/additional injuries would result from increasing escalator speeds? (Do people get good thinking done during their climbs and descents?)

Anyway, using the escalator would mean not jogging up/down the stairs as is my instinct.

Had to check that you weren’t joking (and you weren’t), wow.

It’s not even bad. Maybe it would wear on me, but people have made plenty of fonts just like that.

More smaller font examples, just like in the OP, would help evaluate.

Essentially mirroring the original post, but using the fonts of their own [re]design.

That is very interesting and I have to think some more about it. Thank you.

Clarifying ambiguous comment (sorry):

Google and Microsoft are in the disjointed camp. Apple is not. AWS, I do not know.

I’m rolling the dice myself. No ADP here. If I were a political activist (US) I’d definitely need it.

I guess if I lose my phone on a trip, I wanna be able to walk into an Apple store and restore it from their cloud copy that the feds have backed up & pored over by LLMs too. (not sure that’s done in realtime for 100% of the population, but tokens will be cheap enough eventually - they have their pre-LLM solution too)

I think I keep Signal data mostly out of the cloud though, declining to use their latest features. Hidden notifications too. Is it only personal family updates, yes, but the principle makes me feel good.

Wow, which model? I really enjoyed this piece and went and read their piece on Siri recap/Siri rewind. Following this blog.

> they dont have automatic detection

I thought they at least used something complex to attempt to prevent non-EU users using third-party app stores. I also recall a legitimate EU user is not allowed to travel abroad too long before losing access to those stores.

So just Elon & Google, mainly?

Does that help explain why learning a word for something can help understand the concept of it?

I hear much of what happens there is from PMs who want promotions, which makes me wonder if a goal (like interorg alignment) could be met by freezing their promotions until they Google Meet together & hash it out.

I’m reducing into silliness I’m sure, I don’t have any breadth or depth of knowledge here.

Edit: wonder why Apple is ostensibly different. MS seems similar, and don’t know enough about AWS—maybe I’ve seen complaints about them being disjointed, but not as much as Google & Microsoft.

I wonder how many prompts you can send asking it to think step-by-step before they cut you off. Trying to get the reasoning traces into the body of the response, essentially. Or maybe that’s been effectively nerfed somehow. Or is not very useful.

I guess it’s assuming the fact ChatGPT is a household name will bring it near permanent relevancy? I’m skeptical.

And sorry to the parent commenter if I’m making a bad assumption.

Incredible!!! Wow, is this apparent extraordinary cost discrepancy anybody’s fault, or is that just how it has to be?

Blew my mind when I learned that about Caltrain. I thought tickets felt a little expensive, then I learned what it really should cost.

You know subsidy per train passenger mile?

West Oakland to Embarcadero is great: 7min BART, or 45-60(+) at rush hour on the bridge. No better timesave that I know of with BART.

Yes, this is why “death penalty for everything“ wouldn’t suddenly eliminate crime.

I’ve heard in some places it’s hard to keep light bulbs in stairwells.

California’s tried cracking down on catalytic converter theft with significant measures. (I think a legitimate scrapyard would have to do a bunch of paperwork to buy a cat.) Anyone know the outcomes?

Yikes, that’s too bad. Have had two incredibly easy chargeback experiences (lifetime).

Can’t speak to fraudulent bank charges, by the way, only on the credit card side.

Neat! Had to loginwall curation today?

Does it re-curate for everybody every time? Would be interesting if it were a little more like the Wayback machine (if somebody already curated, just show that set of curated comments), with a prompt like archive.today (“this thread curated X hours/N comments ago—re-curate?“)

*govt bailouts