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Just buy a generic Find My tracker on Amazon for about $5.

Recycled polyester is crap, just like virgin polyester. It's just a way for brands to make it seem like they're hip and sustainable, when you're basically wearing crude oil on your body.

I'm pleasantly surprised Apple allows third-party manufacturers to make trackers that work with Find My. I've bought a bunch for as low as $2 per tracker. The only missing feature, like you mentioned, is missing UWB.

It makes no sense to leave your AirTag attached outside. I hide mine in the most difficult to find pocket in my luggage.

I've always preferred clear cases, and I notice when I get the white iPhone it definitely stays cooler (especially when used as navigation in the car).

Why is that? White is the best color because it absorbs the least heat when exposed in the sun.

You're likely paying a lot for your phone plan. Unlimited plans these days are in the $25-35 range.

Apple has been selling multiple generations for many years now. So 16e looks like the cheapest iPhone for this upcoming year.

There was only one such feature that caught my eye.

The new front camera sensor is now square. If you have more people in your selfie, the software will detect this and pick a wider aspect ratio for the cropped shot.

Not sure if Android has already been doing this, but this seems like a clever way to use the new hardware.

38:27 in the Apple Event video (https://www.apple.com/apple-events/).

Reminds me of this tweet that calls out the problem of the popular position "science is real"

"Science isn’t real - that’s terrible epistemology. It’s a process or method to generate and verify hypotheses and provisional knowledge, using replicable experiments and measurements. We don’t really know the real - we just have some current non-falsified theories and explanations that fit data decently, till we get better ones. The “science is real” crowd generally haven’t done much science and take it on faith."

[1] https://x.com/rao_hacker_one/status/1811295722760982939

What are OpenAI's enormous fixed costs if not the staff?

There is a way to do this in Figma. While an element is selected, hold Alt and hover your cursor over any other element, and it will show the gap distance.

I noticed that in the past year my Alexa speakers have gotten really great at handling long tail fact-finding questions (about history, health, etc.). I use it a few times a week to learn something, when I don't feel like picking up a device.

I actually trust it much more than ChatGPT since it never hallucinates and it cites its source.

This isn't a revolt against AI. SF attracts anarchist mobs and they'll vandalize buses, trains, police cars, bikes, whatever is around.

That Lexus is an EV.

Dang, was it common knowledge that Apple is testing its autonomous driving tech on public roads? I had no idea!

Many states already charge EVs and PHEVs a higher annual registration fee than ICE vehicles. I understand replacing the gas taxes, but very weird since it completely works against federal and state EV/PHEV incentives.

I bought a new car and I couldn't figure out if my license plate has the digit '0' or the letter 'O', so I added both versions to my FasTrak to check which license plate would get charged. It took 4 days after crossing the toll to finally see the charge on my account.

FasTrak has actually been surprisingly nice for me.

I love the ability to add cars by license plate to an account, and being able to specify exactly when coverage starts and ends down to minute precision. Renting a car? You can add the plate to your account for just the period you're renting so you don't pay the rental company fees.

I remember seeing a few years ago a startup that made a panel heater that was really a computer that would mine Bitcoin or something.

The local news is one reason I like to stream the local station on TuneIn rather than NPR's various apps. Where else do I hear local news from in this day and age?

I don't think many managers and executives enjoy their jobs because of the power they have in the organization. I think they enjoy their jobs by being proficient at their work and getting rewarded for it, like the rest of us.

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, David Kahneman writes about "peak-end rule" - people tend to rate experiences by their peak level of emotion during the experience, and by the way experiences end.

My takeaway is if you want people to remember an experience positively, what matters is a high peak of pleasure, and to have a good end.

These are places where clever metaphors can help.

There is another element beyond explaining clearly, and that is that people tend to remember and relate to tangible examples better than abstractions. Metaphors are great memory devices even for people who are not dumb or uneducated.

Busses don't get cleaned often, lack modern creature comforts like leather surfaces and music, have distractingly bad noise/vibration/harshness, etc.

I think an interesting question is whether kids raised on this content "barely above the spam threshold" have different cognitive functions and/or appreciation of content later in life. Maybe these kids raised on mass-produced low-quality content will care less about aesthetic integrity or NPR-type content as adults?

Correct. I don't see this as different than content farms that generate low-quality webpages to monetize with ads.

I think the real issue is that online advertising platforms are allowing this to happen and charging advertisers for it (even though these views/clicks are often not valid – whether they're people who click a fake 'Download' by mistake or kids under 13).

I still use Mavericks for personal stuff. Ditched iOS for MIUI (more polished than iOS these days).

I really miss Samsung's 'double-click home button to use camera' on the Galaxy S6 and S7. Probably the most convenient implementation of a camera shortcut I've seen.

There are four sticking points in this article that I felt could use farther clarification

- why AI could not be used to innovate on manufacturing, and what that leads to

- the education and intellectual pursuits of humans and how it compares with what AI can do

- that there wouldn’t be competing AIs that would make this transformation much slower (especially if some competing AI fall into the wrong hands)

- that governments would let this transformation take place without retaliation or trying to capture this power