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as far as we know, this is paradise within our galaxy.

I hope the technological leaps help us ultimately to become better stewards of the planet.

That’s a pathetic moral band-aid.

All technology can be used for good or used for evil depending on who is using it and how. From fire to internal combustion engines to nuclear energy.

Admiral Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru test.

Siemens?

That is a very cynical take which completely ignores his contributions through the decades.

In many cases he helped build the bandwagons you're implying he simply jumped onto.

> I am surprised Micrsooft didnt use the opportunity to create a micrsoft specific Linux distro

The last one didn’t do so hot, they named it “Xenix”

Did you try Linux Surface?

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

> not learning from the LLM how to understand his lawyers arguments better

The leverage came in the form of reducing costs. When you ask your lawyer to explain, they happily bill you for that time.

> the media is largely dominated by institutional players

and also tech journalism as a whole is pretty abysmal to begin with

I wouldn't count Toyota out. Their mega battery plant in North Carolina is coming online this year, and the biggest drag on their current EV/PHEV lineup is the batteries. New EV/PHEV models are on the way, and frankly if they just update what they have with better batteries they will be absolutely phenomenal because they are currently great to drive and run extremely well despite lackluster battery range.

It's just like putting on glasses but for your ears!

I had the same experience as you did - what a difference.

I think you’re the only one.

I wouldn’t mind as much if the volume wasn’t 5 times louder in reverse than drive.

some of the newer WiFi setups have an IoT subnet that works like a guest network.

Worth using if your gear has it.

> I don’t foresee it ever being there.

I understand where you’re coming from - have you considered how advances in AI Video generation might pair with a premium headset?

The output from Sora (OpenAI) looks pretty compelling already. I also recently read that Apple is already using AI image generation to create stereoscopic images from any plain old 2D image.

Combine all this together and it’s not impossible to envision (pun intended?) a halfway decent on demand interactive experience.

Kind of amazing to think a holodeck-like experience is in the not too distant future.

Exactly - nothing is for free. They explicitly state that PCC data gets destroyed after a response is returned.

Are the anonymized queries (minus user data context) worth anything?

It’s gotta be some kind of subscription/per query charge model to pay for the servers, electricity, and bandwidth.

> The list of argument is called "args" (short and descriptive)

You’re proving the original point - it should be named “arguments” because that is what it is.

Saving … 5 bytes? by naming it “args” instead is exactly OP’s point.

You may be surprised to learn that when asked, teens would actually prefer that everyone give up social media.

The key word is “everyone” and it’s a collective action problem.

Excellent article in The Atlantic titled “End the Phone Based Childhood Now” which covers this extensively.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-...

The study cited in this excellent - but paywalled - article is here: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/2023-131/

and how’s the data privacy?

isn’t this the old: free as in speech, not as in beer

the new formats are actually zip archives believe it or not

Test drive a RAV4 Prime.

All it needs is more battery capacity, which apparently they are indeed investing in.

> Apple is going full frontal attack and saying the DMA creates security risks

Because it does create security risks.

App code in 3rd party app stores is not going to be reviewed, which means anyone is free to craft a rootkit embedded in an app and release it to a 3rd party app store.

Enjoy!

> The USA is not under threat from anyone.

That is demonstrably false.

In fact, should Texas ever actually secede from the Union they would very quickly find out exactly how much our enemies dislike us.

Hard to believe someone actually typed that sentence.

the album Folk Singer by Muddy Waters was an ear opener for me. (1964!)

I had always thought Clapton Unplugged was really nicely mastered and then after I heard Folk Singer, I realized they were trying to replicate it almost in its entirety.

But no lossless audio support yet!

Different colors and lossless audio, there’s the home run

You can run Linux on it: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

I suspect they can still cram more pixels into this thing but it would have inflated the purchase price pretty noticeably.

Apple likes to iterate with their hardware, so I have no doubt they can get to where they need to be pretty easily if people buy and enjoy the current iteration.

there could be life in our solar system or at the bottom of our own oceans

I had it write a regex for me the other day. It was super convenient!

I just didn’t feel like looking up the language specific regex syntax I needed and poring over the verbose examples for an hour.

Worked perfectly.

Alexander Winton sounds like a fascinating person! It’s a shame he doesn’t seem to have written an autobiography.

Aside from this Saturday Evening Post contribution, and the biography “Famous but forgotten: The story of Alexander Winton, automotive pioneer and industrialist”, there doesn’t seem to be much else to read about the man.

Anybody find anything else?