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I didn't mean it as an analogy. I meant it as it visually looks the same to me. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250326-why-the-quaint-...

Hyper-detailed but somehow off, intense colors, not entirely realistic as a complete scene but a combination of realistic scenes.

Acknowledge, Admit, Recognize and Accept are synonyms in the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus that comes with Mac OS. None of them imply you can't care about it.

A parallel I like to draw is Thomas Kinkade and HDR photography. This style has always been popular, even pre-AI.

The woman in charge was probably happy she got that much engagement in the first place. Low effort, low reward, but look, we're having fun in the office. I wouldn't read too much into it or be sad about it.

Were the bonus prizes good? Anything worth putting a ton of effort into?

People don't care and will continue not to care. I don't say that lamenting or with resignation. It's just a fact that we will need to accept.

Think of all the poor typography around you. If you have a critical eye and care you can spot all sorts of bad choices: That's a preview of the future. AI-generated disposable art (posters, billboards, menus etc) that is orthogonal to the actual thing being sold will continue being the norm.

Snow Leopard wasn't significantly any better or worse than other Mac OS versions of the time. It was just around for longer, after Leopard which was also around for longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Timeline_of_Mac_opera...

More dot releases fixed stuff and people grew used to its quirks (which there were many).

Note that the lull also lined up with the intense focus and high development pace Apple had on iOS in the early years. Ironically making the commentariat of the time ask if Apple had given up on the Mac.

Is this about the Apple TV+ show?

Is this with the good Anthropic models? With extended thinking? And a way for it to validate the changes? My experience is the complete opposite.

The ramen one looks extremely AI. It's mostly the atrocious copywriting, and wonky responsiveness, but even overlooking those things you can tell.

On the Tarot one, the 3D card in the bottom is both very elaborate and also pointless. No human would've put effort into making that. Not bad per se! But AI.

I saw a post on X.com that shows the Samsung's internal screen has the same size and aspect ratio of the iPad mini gens 1~5. Going to be such a slam dunk when Apple releases theirs.

I don't get it. Because they haven't cut a new arbitrary version number, we're denying it got done (in their perspective) and being used in a massive product already?

If you're being pedantic, no it's not "done," but nothing ever is.

> The bigger problem is this: you want me to be a cog wheel, but I want to be an artist.

Well, that's the ball game then. This isn't the industry to be an artist in, especially post-AI.

AirTag alternative

10000 buttons and not a single engaging Call To Action

The mental effort in estimating what model would be better is so not worth it.

I just want to switch to Claude Code, tell it to turn a .csv into a BigQuery table then cmd+tab to something else while it runs. Thinking "oh this is probably an easy task, I can /model to Sonnet to save $0.0004" is silly.

Kimi K3 already left behind in the dust. They can't keep getting away with it!!!

I guarantee there's misconfigured chemical analysis equipment out there exposed to the internet.

I don't think the grandparent was implying the AI would be controlling robot arms to mix things directly (or at least I didn't interpret as such), but it could very well sit in the network until it notices two dangerous compounds in the same machine, and trigger a breakage that causes a harmful mixture. Break a vial containing a virus, then break two more that cause an emergency evac and maybe that's enough to get something out there.

Remember Stuxnet? Hack one of these, wait until the right compounds are physically loaded, then execute https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/products/chemistry-and-bi...

That's the fun part. They do know how to airgap things. The models are outsmarting already pretty smart people!

Alarmism doesn't help anyone.

Dell is good. Buy the good (not cheap) Dells and you get the good quality with the features that actually matter.

> This situation has.. no precedent as far as I can tell..

You got a lot of replies already, but there's so much precedent. Plugging a Logitech mouse installs a network capable, autolaunch capable, pop up app for at least the past 10 years. LG's thing seems grodier, but this has been common Windows-ism for a while.

How many of those are there? How many compared to the 15 million (mostly) first-and-only-time buyers?

Netbooks are almost unique in tech history in how flash-in-the-pan they were. Crypto somehow had more staying power.

Compromise a little bit on the size (but not much, considering bezels!) and $~400 gets you a 100x better computer https://www.ebay.com/itm/145639218896

Netbooks didn’t need Microsoft’s help in dying. Nobody bought more than one of them, the experience was that bad.

> Piping a single file through cat spawns an entire process whose only job is to copy bytes to a program that already knew how to read them.

Chrome probably spawned two processes when I cmd+clicked this into a new tab. It really doesn't matter.

> I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms.

This is a step in that direction. The entire industry has been consolidating around Apple's look. Take a look at the old Google, Samsung and Microsoft versions of Woman dancer for a trip https://emojipedia.org/woman-dancing#designs

It's nice they're sharing the 3D model files, and I like they're getting closer to the standard Apple look. But designing them in 3D isn't super novel. It's the Apple approach since iOS 10.2 https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-2-emoji-changelog/

We see the president signing things into law on TV all the time: It's a signature. Nobody's sealing things other than Maker's Mark bourbon bottles anymore.