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300k hours = 8 hrs per day, every day, for 102 years.

Worcestershire sauce is also considered a descendent of the fish sauces from ancient Rome.

Early twenties family formation bring the norm was more of a postwar thing. The guys that came back from the war really did have to grow up fast (seeing your best friends getting blown up at 18 will do that), and they essentially had zero desire to have racous twenties filled with dating around and traveling and soul searching. They'd had enough chaos already, and were all extremely eager to settle down into a peaceful family life immediately upon their return home. The age of family formation has slowly crept back upward since then, and historically, in normal peaceful times it's usually been late twenties.

Homicidal?

It's telling that you completely forgot HomePod.

Arguably their most AI-centric product line to date, and also their largest flop in recent history.

I played with a few alternative keyboard layouts in high school, and I can say from personal experience that it's surprisingly easy to adapt to a one handed mirror layout. You just hold a designated modifier key with your thumb then the whole keyboard flips. Took just a couple days to get to like 80% of my normal typing speed.

Don't the Beats earbuds have literally the exact the same chipsets and speaker drivers as airpods, but play way nicer with Androids?

I know that used to be the case a few years ago at least, but I'm not sure if it's still true.

Yes, these sorts of compensation features have become common on higher end headphones.

One example:

> The crossfeed feature is great for classic tracks with hard-panned mixes. It takes instruments concentrated on one channel and balances them out, creating a much more natural listening experience — like hearing the track on a full stereo system.

https://us.sennheiser-hearing.com/products/hdb-630

Tim Cook'd

Do you smoke weed? It's well known that THC use causes dreamless sleep.

Wow, this video literally answers all the speculation and discussion in this thread.

Remember Quibi? It was a streaming platform of TV shows, where they were filmed in portrait mode instead of landscape, and the episodes were 5 minutes instead of 30.

Their pitch was basically: "Nobody has time to sit down and watch a whole TV show anymore, that's why the short form content like Instagram and TikTok is doing so well - we're going to make TV shows to compete with those platforms that you can watch while you're waiting in line for a coffee!"

They got like billions of dollars in runway because the idea resonated so deeply with the boardrooms full of executives that they were pitching to, but the idea was completely dead on arrival. Normal (non-career-obsessed) people actually have a TON of free time. They chain-smoke entire seasons of shitty reality TV in one sitting. They plop down on the weekend and watch sports for hours on end, not on a phone, but on an actual TV in their living room.

I definitely agree that a ton of these AI use cases seem hyper-tailored to the executives running these companies and the investors that are backing them, and may not resonate at all with the broader population nor lead to widespread adoption.

But to be accepted by people, it has to be better than humans in the specific ways that humans are good at things. And less bad than humans in the ways that they're bad at things.

When automated solutions fail in strange alien ways, it understandably freaks people out. Nobody wants to worry about if a car will suddenly serve into oncoming traffic because of a sensor malfunction. Comparing incidents-per-miles-driven might make sense from a utilitarian perspective, just isn't good enough for humans to accept replacement tech psychologically, so we do have to chase those 9s until they can handle all the edge cases at least as well as humans.

There's a new theory that we might actually gain a greater understanding of the human mind by studying the AI systems we create, because we can basically get a perfect X-ray of their neural nets at any particular state.

When we look at the "apple zone" part of an AI model that lights up, we see it in way higher resolution than our best scans of the human brain, and this might tell us something about how apples are perceived by both systems, or how language is represented neurally, or any number of other things.

> the QA of car battery manufacturing is causing electric fleets of cars in parking lots to burn

I've seen a lot of grumbling on this site about why the U.S. doesn't have access to cheap EVs like China, but it's almost entirely because the cheap EVs that China is pumping out aren't even close to being up to the U.S.'s stringent safety standards.

Eventually they will be safe enough, and they will also be more expensive.

I work for a medical device manufacturer, and software absolutely can be designed to be just as reliable as physical systems, but the development and testing process looks completely different than a developing a mobile app. Things slow WAY down: if you want to change one line of code, it'll take literally weeks before it makes it to a production environment because of all the testing, documentation, justification, and human approvals. I imagine flight safety systems are subject to a similar level of rigor.

Somewhat supporting your point, the towers were literally bombed in '93 with the intent of toppling them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...

I imagine this terrorist attack inspired some of the art on your list.

It actually was beginning to work. Corners of the internet where people discuss clothing and fashion trends were starting to buzz about JC Penny randomly starting to have trendier higher quality stuff for reasonable prices, etc.

I think they would've needed a another year or two of runway though to turn the ship around and court an entirely new (non-overlapping) customer base, and the investors simply weren't willing to give them that much time.

Easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your wallet.

What's more devastating is that the CX and C1 actually had pause buttons, then they took them away around 2021/2022. It kills me that they have a dedicated button for Alexa and another for Sling (whatever that is) but none for pause.

You can disable most of the WebOS trashiness by Googling and digging through the settings. Once you get all the ads fully disabled, the OS is extremely clean and snappy.

And FYI Sony's OLED panels are made by LG. The Sonys are a bit better because of the software, but they're almost always more expensive, but if you can score a good deal they're definitely the way to go.

They may not differ much in terms of calories or nutrients, but there absolutely is a difference - the ultra processed cake has preservatives and additives that are way harder on your gut microbiome, which affects your body's ability to process other food.

"Neoliberalism" became a dirty word for lots of reasons (mainly because it caused a ton of people in developed nations to lose their jobs, as manufacturing capacity shifted to developing nations and developed nations leaned into the information economy), but there was a time when the word wasn't tainted and the pro-market Democrats of the Clinton era absolutely self-identified as Neoliberals.

They liked competition and markets, delivered strong economic growth, and brought the deficit down, but they fucked up by not funneling some of those efficiency gains into education and training, and toward building a robust social safety net to help the economically displaced.

Finally caved and bought a Mac this year. Never used one before in my life - I've used Windows / Linux / Chrome OS as my primary computing environments at various times over the years.

It's just okay. Windows 11 is worse.

Yeah I think in America it's a pretty distinctly East Coast thing. I grew up in Southern California and had to travel a lot for work, and it was super obvious when I traveled to the East Coast and went out drinking with coworkers that I didn't have those banter/shit-talking muscles trained, because nobody in my circles social circles ever really treated each other that way.

They never directed any of it at me because they were emotionally intelligent people, but even so, I did find it kind of annoying and off-putting - it was just a legitimate cultural difference.

It's usually because there's some non-local stuff on your sidebar that it's trying to load - either a pinned item or a recently opened / frequently opened thing that's on network storage.

It's stupid but Windows has choked on that situation for many years.

Yeah having a single full time job but not being part of the executive class is a decent definition. It's much more wide than the UK's usage for sure.

I'd go absolutely apeshit over a 4:3 dome curved screen.

He's said even the pro plan is losing money:

https://x.com/sama/status/1876104315296968813

Altman has said numerous times that none of the subscriptions make money currently, and that they've been internally exploring ads in the form of product recommendations for a while now.