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Looks like we hugged it to death

> ...use one of the million speakers in the car to focus on navigation directions while allowing audio content to continue playing on all the other speakers.

My previous-gen Kia Sedona does this as well (at least when using the built-in maps).

I just started using Tubular. The built-in SponsorBlock integration is really nice

I saw "Bockscar" (the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki) yesterday in Dayton.

It's an interesting feeling to stand by a beautiful, poised, marvelously-engineered mass death machine. It doesn't look scary at all, yet that silhouette must have been as terrifying in its prime as the B-2 is now.

SpaceX only streams on Twitter, for obvious reasons.

Because of this, there are always a few channels that rebroadcast their stream to YouTube, with some scammy crypto pitches added in.

Entirely unrelated, but the sections, toolbars, and controls in that RenderDoc app are so cleanly separated compared to modern dev tools. I wish more apps still looked like this.

> Apple's design has been top-notch

But only from the iPhone X to 14, after which the Dynamic Island took over.

(I'll see myself out)

Loveland Castle outside of Cincinnati has a story like that:

https://lovelandcastle.com/

Ars does A/B testing on its headlines: Authors submit two versions, and for the first few hours visitors will randomly see either one. Whichever one draws more clicks becomes the permanent headline.

Interestingly, the URL remains constant, which is why you'll often see a disparity between it and the headline.

I cut my Apple-repairing teeth on an iBook G3 that would lose its BGA-soldered GPU if it overheated. The "fix" was to use a heat gun, propane torch (my choice), or even burning alcohol to gently reflow the solder:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/repairing-ibook-g3-grap...

I did it at least three times before that laptop died. Fun times.

Is there much about VLC that does change?

This is horrendous. I love it.

See also: JavaScript frameworks

Things like this are why the internet sucks now.

No one ever wanted this kind of content for its own sake. The only reason websites even needed to maintain a high output was for SEO purposes. If AI-based engines have rendered that need obsolete, then everyone can stop churning out useless content that no one's going to read anyway.

> Does it support GUI apps? Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications.

Every stinkin' time.

Are all three men wearing individual top hats, or does one cover all of them?

I use DuckDuckGo, with the occasional reddit !g appended if I'm looking for something experience-based.

For me, searches fall into one of three categories, none of which are a good fit for LLMs:

1. A single business, location, object, or concept (I really just want the Google Maps or Wikipedia page, and I'm too lazy to go straight to the site). For these queries, LLMs are either overkill or outdated.

2. Product reviews, setup instructions, and other real-world blog posts. LLMs want to summarize these, and I don't want that.

3. Really specific knowledge in a limited domain ("2017 Kia Sedona automatic sliding door motor replacement steps," "Can I exit a Queue-Triggered Azure Function without removing it from the queue?"). In these cases, the LLMs are so prone to hallucination that I can't trust them.

> "I think in 10 years maybe most of the design will be done by AI, and it will make designers obsolete. My successor will be a machine and will be much cheaper than my salary."

I'm sure others have happier opinions on this stuff. But for me, statements like this paint a picture of a soulless, homogenous future without a sense of artistry or craftsmanship.

At the end of the day, both a Chevy and a Mercedes perform identical tasks equally well. The reason people pay more for the Mercedes is because of the extra attention that was put into the design and its execution. Outsourcing their primary differentiator to AI models accessible to their the competitors wipes away all of their advantages.

Haven't checked today, but Woot! has been selling perpetual licenses of Office 2019 for $30-$35 the last few weeks.

Observing my behavior the few times I've had a corporate card, the answer is "Ordering off the $8 menu at Denny's instead of the $4 one"

This page has been up and outdated for years. It's for the old Debian-based version.

I don't think they exist.

Same here. I'd forgotten that it wasn't an Edition until I saw this.

I was given a 7800 out of my wife's grandfather's estate last year, along with an assortment of around thirty 2600 and 7800 games.

As a 32-year-old who cut my teeth on a hand-me-down NES, it's been interesting to look back and see just how much more primitive its competition was. Even the games that were released on both platforms (Xevious comes to mind) were much better-looking and easier to play on the NES.

Depending on the model, that's usually swappable with the left CTRL in the UEFI/BIOS settings.

See also: Biff's subplot in "Back to the Future 2"

They have for years, but the browser was historically very stripped down and didn't get get certificate or SSL/TLS algorithm updates, leaving parts of the web inaccessible as time went on. I only ever use it to hit Project Gutenberg for public-domain ebooks (though their redesign a few years ago made that a lot harder)

> ...more money for staff.

Specifically, this staff:

https://www.reliks.com/lord-of-rings-hobbit/staff-of-gandalf...

He could've called it NextNext!

I came here just to look for this comment.