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Sounds like someone needs to make an app that just prints out a calendar page or newspaper front page every morning to keep things flowing...

In 1974, soda prices spiked with a sugar shortage.

- They never came back down.

- Diet soda and seltzer prices spiked too.

> umpers

To "b" or not to "b". Apparently the latter.

Higher brightness and nano-texture make this a must-have for ForeFlight. Too bad it'll probably require a new yoke mount.

> models can’t phone home

Models with tool access (and internet-connected tools like curl) can, though… is this really a useful distinction?

Density is insanely highly correlated with the perception of premium quality. No one’s increasing the volume of premium devices beyond what’s needed to hold components.

https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/codex/topics/thumbscrew.htm... seems to have a real sourced photo?

> People want to turn on a box and play a game.

This is why I've never gotten any of the more recent consoles (since the N64 or so)... many of my friends have them, and every time we try to turn them on to play a game they start updating and rebooting and updating... I can play games on my computer, which I have other incentives to keep up to date, so the maintenance time is amortized; just double click and it works.

> the less tech adjacent a company is, the worse their privacy record

How does this apply to the topic of this thread? Samsung is, if anything, much more tech-savvy (tech-adjacent?) than Meta. Meta just does some high-level software and runs a few servers to host it. Samsung, across the company, builds every level of the hardware and software stack from silicon to services.

I haven't watched the video (not my preferred medium), but I assume the point is that while the Dune (fictional) movie erases Islam, the Dune (fictional) book very much does not.

> What do you think is the quickest way to watch YouTube?

Shout "six seven" and look over the shoulder of the twelve-year-old who magically appears?

The one that uses a semi-permanent magnet for that mechanism? It's the only use I'm aware of a switchable permanent magnet (alnico and rare earth half-cylinders wrapped in a coil; pulsing the coil switches the alnico to be either parallel or anti-parallel with the neodymium, turning the whole assembly on or off) in a commercial product; I bought it just for that.

> What many people would want it just a complete block on select YouTube channels

This exists, doesn't it? "Block channel" (or rather, "Don't recommend channel") is probably the feature I use most... I must have thousands of thousands of channels on that list.

The alternative is "Not Interested", but at least on AppleTV you're forced to then choose either "I've already watched the video" or "I don't like the video", and I have literally no idea what to do with those choices. If I've already watched the video then the reason I'm saying I'm not interested is because I didn't like it, so both are true, but I can't select both; and if I just don't like the clickbait thumbnail or title I haven't watched it and I don't know if I like the video itself, so neither is true, but I can't select neither...

Every time I think about YouTube's interface it becomes more obvious it's made by people (?) who's brains just don't work like mine...

How do you anonymize and segment the cache to make this not leak PII? This seems prone to analysis showing that users who tend to take left branches in the user lookup trie (low alphabetic user names) also tend to render trees more than desert (so re-order the switch targets to optimize cache), suggesting that “Aaron” might live in Appalachia, not Arizona.

> With Ethernet when a node wants to transmit it just does so

Depends on the Ethernet variant. Older versions have collision detection as you describe. More recent versions are point-to-point full-duplex and thus collision free, with the outlier of 10base-T1S, which uses a virtual token ring for collision avoidance.

It'll still come in useful, conceptually, if you work with 10base-T1S (multi-drop automotive Ethernet) -- a 2019 standard -- which uses a virtual token ring to implement collision avoidance.

This seems like a reasonably high probability sequence of tokens, especially if the temperature is set to allow the first few to be generated. What’s the surprise?

> When I click an item on Amazon and it says "arrives by Tuesday" then 95/100 times it does.

This depends heavily on where you live. I recall it used to be true, but in the three places I've spent significant time since the pandemic, all three have been less than 50% on time -- and less than 75% even giving an extra day. Because there's apparently no consequences for the last-mile delivery contractors to claim a package is delivered and not actually take it out of the truck until the next week, your local contractor determines your experience.

> BTW, "China ends up in either nominal or practical control of almost all of [Russia]" strikes me as so unlikely as to not be worth thinking about.

Who does, then? There doesn't seem to be any internal power in position to gracefully take power when Putin inevitably proves mortal; whatever the power scramble looks like, it's going to take external funding (and thus external obligations) to secure it, which leaves whoever's providing that funding in effective control. And even if the US and/or Europe decide to try to buy one horse, China clearly is willing and able to buy a whole lot of them; just statistically they probably end up with it, no?

Yes, ethnic cleansing and forced deportation are a very good way to make sure that later votes vote in your direction.

(Paywalled.)

I think this is why it's so important to figure out a path to returning Königsberg to western control before the war runs its course. If we assume that Russia is basically disassembled and parted out, it's looking increasingly certain that China ends up in either nominal or practical control of almost all of those parts. For the most part this seems inevitable at this point, but there still seems to be a path to keep Königsberg as a western region; and an optimistic can imagine keeping St. Petersburg as well, but I don't see a path for forward action on that before Russia's collapse, and I don't really see how the west can act faster than China once the collapse begins.

Not every inevitability can be mitigated. We're each and every one going to die. The sun will die. The universe will wind down. Embrace it, don't pretend you can avoid it.

> Adopt git 3.0 if you can with sha256.

Who is "you" in the context of a distributed version control system? I think this is not just the plural you, but the unbounded you -- it's all people who not just interact with your project now, but who you hope may interact with it in the future. The question is what the cost is of committing a near-infinite population to this migration, not the cost of doing a single `brew update` on your personal machine, no?

Pretty good baseball player.

His son was even better.

Wait, I guess this is someone else?

Hubble wasn’t damaged, the mirror was mis-shaped (by design) to be near-sighted, needing a corrective lens.

But if you were looking at nearer objects…

> Cabin crew got the cockpit door open

Isn't this supposed to be nearly impossible these days? Or is the setup different for aircraft not flying to US airspace?

Because even beyond-frontier LLMs are bad at software.

s/process/precess/

> I know precisely zero people who have EVs and do not charge them at home. The cost differential is enormous and completely changes the economics of cost per mile.

I know multiple people who have EVs and don't have a home charger, so do 90%+ of their charging at work. You're there 8+ hours a day anyway, and many workplaces provide free charging, so it ends up even cheaper than charging at home.