Razengan

Isn't AI making that possible?

If you read old computing magazines from the 1980s or watch any of the TV shows about computers from that era (a fun rabbit hole on YouTube if you're ever bored), the prevailing optimism was that everyone and their cat would have a computer in their kitchen, and just write the programs to do whatever they want.

But the fragmentation of operating systems and programming languages didn't really let that take off. HyperCard and Visual Basic came close, but they were killed off because of course.

It's only since a year ago that the original promise of computers has started to be realized.

> strain of the current workload on courts

Maybe courts could be replaced by AI too once it's good enough?

With the right to escalate to human judges of course.

and without turning it into current phone helplines or support chatbots, god please.

We've watched Terminator and The Matrix. We're ready

Lawyers and politicians are the first things that ought to be replaced by AI, honestly.

After a while, every company has enough customers dependent enough on them that they don't need to do anything anymore.

Throughout history, whenever a disruption happened in an industry, it did not come from any of the then-current leaders.

And it didn't come from someone following on the same path from behind and suddenly overtaking them.

It came from an entirely new direction.

Yeah and there were other 3rd party "hacks" for it, but I mean Windows or macOS never made it an official API, so it never caught on, even though Apple's own "Dynamic Wallpapers" use some kind of motion (they're videos but only during screen-savers or time-based)

> on which you're doing work, moving wallpaper is usually a net negative for usability while you're actively working

No, you don't know me, or other people.

I want every fucking thing moving at all fucking times. It's okay.

Btw for other people who love some motion in their occupation:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1516350/Textreme_2/

https://ash-k.itch.io/textreme-2

That's up to personal preference. Just like with static wallpapers, some people like single subtle colors, some people like noisy multicolored wallpapers.

There's already subtle parallax in iOS etc.

Animated wallpapers could be subtle, like raindrops, or animate only when interacted with, when you're bored or waiting for the AI to finish a run etc. :)

Somewhat in the similar vein: Irving Finkel reads the Pharaoh's private mail (from the -14th century) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZq_ZQDhJA

Man, wish we had dynamic wallpapers like this, and we could have had it decades ago.

Why do companies like Apple & Microsoft sterilize themselves so?

Someone else's experience with Opus 5.5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821657

> I had it try to prepare a code review for me. Not only did it refuse, it refused to even tell me what the prompt (written by another Claude!) was. Why?

> When I had another model read the session (all of the "stupider" models handled it just fine) it explained that it had the word "reasoning" in it

> That's the entirety of Anthropic's billions of dollars of research: any prompt with the word "reasoning" is trying to hack Claude to figure out how it reasons!

> A model like that should never have gotten out of QA, let alone been released.

Anthropic's models seem crippled and hamstrung to begin with

They sure make it seem like AI is the first time they've seen it happen

Where each word has the right shape

So yeah fuck the people who pant over hOw shit's said instead of what's said

There's always gonna be a moron somewhere who can't handle something, no matter how carefully you choose your words.

I wonder how many disruptive technologies all the people panting about AI have lived through..

Because the GP was in the dark gray (and probably invisible to some users) when I saw their comment, even though they didn't say anything worth downvoting

When you're gonna go down anyway might as well go down with a middle finger up

Yeah, a bit annoying, hence "most of"

And removing the indicator lights from most of their chargers! unlike the twinkling stars of other companies that blind you while you're trying to sleep.

Honestly only dumbasses wouldn't appreciate these small things that accumulate to a big difference, just instinctively downvoting from bumache just because it's Apple

I remember the moronic Samesung ads that made fun of the iPhone 4 or 5 for moving the headphone jack to the bottom of the phone.. not realizing that it made it easier for people it put in their pockets while letting a headphone or charging cable go straight up.

The only constants in the universe are the speed of light and the fact that all government sites suck, no matter which country

At 4:08:

  Writers disagree on what effect word processing will have on the quality of our written language.

  Some writers are concerned that computer assistance may promote dry bland writing.

And we have also saved some.

I had to catch a stray cat recently and take it to the vet for an infection. It's healthy and spry now but ever since then it's been deathly afraid of me.

That would have to be around the 1970s, when people became concerned that word processors would make people poor writers:

https://youtu.be/Jt0OoXluC8g?t=248 at 4:08

> Years down the line, you'll find that a bunch of the people who worked on these cases have cush jobs

Aren't they supposed to be replaced by AI by then?

There won't even be human bodyguards; just Zuck, Musk, Bezos and Rasputin in their Thunderdomes sheltered by swarms of T-800s going StarCraft 3 on our ass

Microsoft Cope

Guess what, after updating to watchOS 27, Siri "couldn't set a timer on this device because the Clock app isn't installed" ...

Man effing hell Apple

There's a fate worse than "destruction": Becoming IBM

H..how is this legal.. in 2026

Or when it rains, do the farmers keep farming?

Watching the trailer for Megaton Rainfall on repeat and vibing out to the sick OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecKu1_O54U