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Truly unbelievable and sad how quickly a dechristianized society adopted this practices with no issues.

Still, the $999 price started with the iPhone X (2017), they have been keeping it for 6 years. I know because I'm finally upgrading my old iPhone X for the iPhone 15 Pro, and it surprised me that it would be "cheaper" this time (inflation-adjusted).

It feels like it’s the same person doing the presentation just face swapping for each section.

At least 2

Yeah, one of the problems with being too abstract is that it's open to many interpretations, most of them incorrect. Also, a few pages or paragraphs won't stick; I need examples. I'm not a computer; installing new ideas in my brain isn't like installing apps. My brain prefers storytelling to better grasp ideas and make them its own.

> It will increase costs, but the alternative is we poison ourselves, so it is sort of needed

I hate to be that guy, but it's easy to say costs increase is a lesser problem when you are not in the lower end of the economic spectrum. What would happen to people who barely survive today? Corporations won't decrease their profit, gained by using cheap plastic, for the greater good.

Good analogy, I also noticed it in other scenarios, for example when I want it to tell me if I’m wrong in an assumption, or when I want to know its opinion on some approach I’m thinking to take. It is too nice, almost like it doesn’t want to impose its thoughts or hurting my feelings lol.

Even in KFC, that was a nice finding for me, after a long walk through Toledo a few years ago.

That’s cool! Now I want to build it myself.

Even respecting the settings. Every time Windows gets an update it asks me if I want to change my Edge settings, the first couple of times I didn’t pay attention and it changed my default search engine and started showing the useless news thumbnails that I explicitly took the time to hide.

I’ll need to reconsider Chrome or Firefox, which is a shame since I really liked some Edge’s features.

This site[0] helped me improve my mental model. You can scroll through the solar system at scale (the moon being one pixel). It takes a while!!

Then you notice a small button at the right bottom corner, that button allows you to auto-scroll at the speed of light, wow, now that’s slow!

[0]https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

You just unlocked a nice memory for me! I remember many years ago going to a website like that (probably the one mentioned in the blogpost) and feeling a lot of satisfaction every time I was able to “hack” the exercise. Thank you!

If you are curious about how Christianity in particular would need to react you could read CS Lewis’ essay “Religion and Rocketry”.

We Christians would need to answer these questions:

1. Are there animals anywhere else besides earth?

2. If yes, do any of these animals have what we call ‘rational souls’? That is, are they spiritual beings?

3. If there are such spiritual beings, are any or all of them, like us, fallen?

4. If any of them have fallen, have they been denied Redemption by the Incarnation and Passion of Christ? Christ could have come to those worlds also.

5. Finally, if all of the first four questions could be answered yes, is it certain that this is the only possible mode of Redemption?

https://www.cslewis.com/religion-and-rocketry/

6 years old and it still performs pretty well, I’m really sensitive to slow tech but I don’t have major complains with my iPhone X in 2023. This is the longest I’ve ever owned a phone definitely buying the 15.

> 90s have been the worse period by far in the ex-soviet union

Only if you ignore the gulag period.

I don’t get why is this being discussed, isn’t it easy to go check old conversations and try to replicate them today?

Something similar happens when you use Spanish accent letters (á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ) with fonts that don’t include them.

It’s amazing to me that many people seem to not notice or care that random letters don’t match the font style and they keep using those fonts for Spanish.

There’s a direct link on the article. It’s not available in my country though. Or at least that’s the error message I got.

Update:

“We're starting our rollout in the US and will expand to additional countries in the coming weeks”

I can smell coffee, not sure how common that is, I have never asked anyone. :D

> It quickly and silently updates

What about the “What’s new tab” that opens right when you want to have some work done?

Or the notifications you get at the bottom-right corner suggesting to install extensions when you just want to see inside a file.

I mean, many people don’t care that much, it’s just a little annoyance to me, as little to not spent 5 mins to find a solution.

Yeah, I don’t get it, I used to be an android user since the first Galaxy S up until the Galaxy S7, I’m really sensitive to slow devices, so as soon as my androids got a little slow (usually after a big update) I switched to the new shiny one. Then I got tired of buying flashy and expensive phones that lasted 2.5 years so I give the iPhone X a try. It’s 2023 and I still use the same phone I still get updates and what’s more important to me those updates haven’t slowed my phone a bit. It still feels the same. I’m not coming back as long as Apple keeps my old phones fast.

RAM sells a small truck in Mexico called RAM 700 and it’s getting popular for work purposes (specially in urban areas). I have no idea why it’s not being sold in the US market.

https://www.motor1.com/news/447996/2021-ram-700-debut/

ChatGPT is great with well known tools and libraries. I’ve been able to build HTML/JS apps in minutes. Then I tried building a MAUI app, it started pretty good, but then when I tried to add charts it failed (it’s important to mention this was my first MAUI app), I tried different approaches, in the end I went back to HTML/JS.

That led me to a realization, this could mean that people will likely discard less known libraries or technologies more easily than before. Popular technologies will become even more popular since we’ll be 10x more productive with them compared to less known ones since we won’t have LLMs super powers for those.

This Spanish has similarities with the one used in some areas of Chihuahua Mexico (south of New Mexico) specially at the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. It makes sense since many original Hispanic New Mexican families have consanguinity with old Chihuahua families.

1984 was only limited by Orwell’s imagination on what was possible with future technology.

I ignored it by not using the “Search” bar, I simply just never used it. Until recently, when they started showing a colorful drawing on my taskbar that changed depending the current holiday. It was so annoying and distracting, thankfully I had the option to hide the search bar I also hided the useless widget bar.

Microsoft feels like two totally different companies. One company can produce amazing concepts and products. But then, the other company comes and adds nasty “features” on top to ruin everything.

Wow, thanks for this. I’m loving the haptic feedback. I’m not sure if this is just a placebo effect, but typing feels more precise. Is there anything in “Slide to type” that makes typing less precise?

Grandma already falls for scams. Will I know I’m speaking with an AI?

I did check that table, the data is great, but the readability not so much (especially on mobile) the meaning of some column names was not clear (tooltip didn't work on mobile).

That's why I was looking for a chart (in the graphical sense), it amazed me that I didn't find one.