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But the cost of shipping that oil is up 25x https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/09/business/oil-gas-diesel-t...

> Last year, the daily cost of hiring an oil supertanker (known as a Very Large Crude Carrier, or VLCC) to sail from the Persian Gulf to China was just $65,000, according to Clarksons, a London-based research firm.

> Now? It costs $1.6 million per day to hire a VLCC for that route, according to Clarksons.

> reintegrating, re-testing, and re-skilling costs money

Although ironically with AI these things are also way cheaper.

The US companies are also claiming the Chinese companies are only where they are at because they're distilling US models. By that logic, if there are no better US models to distill, the Chinese innovation should also stop.

Looking at old PC keyboards, from IBM Model M to old Gateway 2000 keyboards from the 90's etc, it's looks like it's always been Enter.

But terminals and UNIX machines were more likely to use "Return", e.g. looking at a DEC VT100 or Sun SPARCstation keyboard.

edit: looks like most of the 8-bit machines like Commodore, Atari also used Return. So Enter was mostly an IBM thing.

Same reason your main drive in Windows is "C:" - history.

The command-shift shortcuts (function keys as they were called) were added in the 80's as such:

Command-Shift-1: Eject internal floppy

Command-Shift-2: Eject external floppy

Command-Shift-3: Take screenshot

In the System 7 era in the mid-90's, Command-Shift-4 to select an area to take a screenshot of was added.

Back then you could also install FKEY code resources into the system file to add custom ones, there was a small ecosystem of freeware/shareware function keys with useful shortcuts people would install.

What's funny is that CEC is literally based on the SCART data bus, CENELEC EN 50157-1.

One example is here in Japan, PC manufacturers have a legal duty to collect and recycle any PC they sell https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/recycle/main/admin_info/law/02...

So if you have some old PC you need to get rid of, you just call the PC manufacturer and they send a pre-paid shipping label and box to your home and the mailman comes to pick it up at their expense.

Thanks to improvements in the system prompts/harnesses/RL, the LLMs have gotten way better at questioning the premise and telling you to try something else. It's a huge difference from just 6 months ago.

Nowhere near the level of a suitably-bearded human, but they've gotten pretty good at stopping a lot of bad ideas.

> Just build it into the base taxes that everyone pays

You can also put the cost of disposal into the cost of the item at sale. Either through a deposit (like cans/bottles) or just a flat fee/tax.

Then you encourage people to buy less toxic, easier-to-dispose-of alternatives.

There was a period before 24/7 internet access when some of us were bored enough to sit and explore DVD menus because there wasn't anything else to do.

It was a huge upgrade from sitting and exploring TeleText https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

> I also had this idea for a home work out DVD that would give you different "random" workouts based on the timing of when you clicked menu options

I like it, kind of the 2000's version of parallel grooves on vinyl records

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

VLC can do DVD menus as well, either from an ISO or a VIDEO_TS folder.

> If I remember correctly it's also impossible to disable the automatic "next episode" preview in Amazon Prime

It took a lot of work but I was able to do it... once. Then it turned itself back on. Damnit, I'm watching an anime, I want to hear the ending song, it's a banger!

Back in High School me and my friends made a zombie movie over summer vacation, and I had so much fun making overly-complicated DVD menus for it using a pirated copy of DVD Studio Pro.

Full of stylized video transitions, menu selections that were fully graphical (not using the 2-bit overlays, DVD Studio Pro supported Photoshop layers), pointless special features (gotta fill out that list on the back of the box), poorly-translated subtitle tracks, and easter eggs in various menus when you hit a special button combination on your remote.

It was a really fun format to mess around with!

It's an asshole issue, but at the same time the AI that did the work isn't going to have it's feelings hurt.

I only had an ImageWriter II dot matrix printer in my retro setup.

Our printing needs are minimal, maybe 1 or 2 times a year we'll just go and print at 7-11, which has better options than a home printer anyway (A3 size paper, both laser and inkjet photo printing options, sticker paper etc)

Recently my father-in-law passed away and he had 3 inkjet printers and we inherited 2 of them. For the first few weeks there was a flurry of "we can print now" and there was some arts and crafts being done, but since they they've been laying dormant.

By next year, the open models will be as good as the frontier models are this year and we can use them just for the cost of power/hardware

A far ride from when I was in High School and we collected the first few seconds of the first hill of a rollercoaster using a TI-83 connected to a motion sensor shoved in a fanny pack.

The former just implies a bad actor, the latter implies a broken system.

If you're on 26, you should definitely upgrade to 27. So many small bugs and UI issues are fixed. Spotlight finally works again. The Wi-Fi indicator in the menu bar even shows when you're on Ethernet.

If you're on a version before 26, then, eh, you can probably wait.

Yeah in macOS 27 it's finally been really good about prioritizing the Applications folder, including with indexing, apps show up in search now right after you installed them

> User-upgradable parts have not been part of that vision since Jobs returned

Steve Jobs literally got up on stage and proudly showed off the PowerMac G3 with a side door you could hinge down to open up the machine as it was running.

It was once Jony Ive got more power that everything went to pot. The first Macs with soldered-in storage were released after Jobs' death.

NAVITIME

Terminal.app Settings/Profiles has a checkbox "Allow blinking text" you can uncheck

Even Safari is gobbling up RAM these days, I think it's just all the JavaScript code on the web is pure garbage, and what was bad enough before is getting even worse with all the vibeslop coding going on now.

Garbage collected languages and seemingly unlimited virtual memory encourage developers to not even think about memory allocation any more, so memory usage for a tab that's left open just grows and grows.

The same for hardware. Where I used to live, the ticket vending machines had you punch in your 3-digit station code, adult/child, single/return, and boom ticket issued. You had like 6 button pushes and could buy a ticket in seconds.

In this video I made the mistake of using a debit card (still very slow to clear in 2005) which adds the delay https://youtu.be/pQCktMWR94Q?t=7

They replaced them with Windows-based touchscreen vending machines where each screen selection took as long as the whole former selection process took just to load.

It's just populist politics. Instead of solving the real problems, just distract people with a scapegoat.

Nobody is pushing for Baidu or Yandex here

I've been doing this since I started using Kagi since it sounds weird to say "I googled it and..." when I didn't actually use Google. I'm also not saying "I kagiied it" since half the people I talk to don't know what it is and for the rest it still sounds awkward so I've been going with variations for "I searched for it", "I did a web search", "I looked it up"...

While "google" may end up like the "kleenex" of web search, it seems more likely that people stop searching the web at all and just ask AI instead.

There's no good verb for "I asked ChatGPT", is there? "I slopped it"?

edit: maybe I'll bring back "bing it" since nobody would actually assume you're using bing for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrEHTd_3vD0

The term "bathtub curve" came from the fact that typically hard disks had a lot of early deaths in the first year right out of the factory, hence a graph of hard drive death age would have a high side on the left (brand new drives dying) and a high side on the right (old drives dying), and during the average lifetime the drives were reliable, so the curve was shaped like a bathtub (high sides, flat bottom).

This lead to a lot of people doing things like intensive burn-in cycles for a week to test new drives before putting them in their machines.

When there are no longer early deaths (the "left" side of the bathtub), it's just "old things wear out" which doesn't have a special word for it.