yellow_postit

I'm partial to their DNA work: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage...

I struggle to read this and not just see a lack of attempt to compromise on all sides. Radicalization continuing in all aspects.

At least this blatant Apple pandering article is better green washing than the “Mother Earth” marketing stunt.

Depressing but not surprising to see them try and shut down the researcher's effort to show the city is lying about the scope and potential damage.

Edge started doing this a few years ago: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/03/17/appears-to-sa...

L5 is a great terminal level (and the equivalent at other companies). you are trusted to walk and chew gum at the same time, can cause meaningful damage (good and bad), and largely “too lowly” to be in the perpetual pissing matches of mid/upper mgmt. sure you won’t control your own destiny in broader projects but it’s a good life you often don’t miss till you’re past it.

Seattle making the Link a chore to take to and from the airport is a perennial disappointment — painfully slow.

There’s a work of fiction “Venomous Lumpsucker” that has a near future take on building a regulatory industry exactly around extinction

I found it to be a fun read

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59593576-venomous-lumpsu...

Last Week Tonight had a deep sea mining operation episode.

https://www.hbo.com/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver/seaso...

How do you propose ensuring critical security updates get deployed then?

Especially if an infected machine can attack others?

Users/IT regularly would never update or deploy patches which has its own consequences. There’s no perfect solution—but rather there to accept the pain.

It’s a lot like herd immunity in vaccines.

usb-c instead of lighting. Not locked down nfc tap to pay. I’m liking the direction the EU is pushing Apple.

I still use the browser dev tools trick with T Mobile's free 1 hour for mobile clients. change laptop user agent to mobile — log in for planes’s wifi — turn off user agent change. I assume the plane is provisioning internet access by mac address.

As his attorney said in the article "I just want the money."

Always be cautious if the url is business insider

Finder remains one of those apps I still can’t make effective use of. Windows File Explorer for all its warts and changes still “just makes sense” to my brain vs how finder lays things out and expects you to browse.

I’ve long since moved to command line or dual pane explorers but it’s something that makes me pause every time I do find myself in Finder for some reason.

Michael Pollan’s : “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” continues to be a useful way for me to look at food X life.

How much the corporation pays for lobbying and if they are, or are not, based in the EU it seems.

It’s a fun little project that’s well written prose. In some of the best hacker traditions it does almost nothing.

I fear you’re right — cookie banners will soon also come with endless AI disclaimers that net net desensitize the end user to any consideration as they seek to skip poorly crafted regulation and get on with their lives.

“… most important technical problem of our time.”

This is the dangers of letting the EAs run too far, they miss the forest for the trees but claim they see the planet.

I’m not sure I’m following the distinction you’re trying to draw. SimCity is a simulation — just a simplistic one with many simplifications and short cuts.

It’s a toy model.

There’s always simplifications made in any model — SimCity’s happened to be made with “fun” in mind.

So another data point of failed corporate governance. When the Board’s wealth is so directly tied to the CEO how can they function as expected?

Or is this just a naive view.

You are making an argument in favor of Warren’s thesis in “The Two Income Trap”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two-Income_Trap

This is such a regressive view — a household that can only function on 2 incomes is more stressful than one that can operate on 1. Not saying earning potential needs to be the same — but claiming 1 is worse than 2 doesn’t hold water and is a pathological case.

In the US it’s a shame we so under/de value child rearing as somehow “less than”

There are multiple startups in this space and Movie Pass threatened this “feature” a couple years ago.

So while a great joke account, the reality may not be far off.

This model card seems at odds with what they claim you can and cannot opt out of [1]

> We use information that is publicly available online and licensed information. We also use information shared on Meta’s Products and services. This information could be things like posts or photos and their captions.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/privacy/genai/?_rdr

And they missed multiple waves of effectively building on their own in house research.

One Sec requires Shortcuts to be configured per-app and is made not to block access but everytime on launch introduce some friction.

On Mac I swear by CleanShot X [1] which has more than justified its price many times over for me.

[1] https://cleanshot.com/

Buying first gen models is always a crapshoot. Often same for last gen if they try to squeeze new capabilities into a platform it wasn’t intended for.

Tesla is particularly terrible but this has been true for every manufacturer.

You want a couple years for them to work out the kinks.