She clearly hasn’t watched “Across the Spiderverse” then

Normalized here means inflation adjusted. They’re saying RAM hasn’t been this expensive in a very long time

An ungodly amount of pens and dice

You’re talking about project Natick. All reports I saw was that it was actually a resounding success. The only reason I’ve seen for why it was cancelled is because it wasn’t able to be kept at the bleeding edge as they couldn’t upgrade the servers randomly. It doesn’t really compare to launching them into space which gives basically zero benefit but adds an insane amount to the cost.

Plus the ozone layer destruction as they re-enter the atmosphere when decommissioned

Just going to ignore Israel using enough bots to literally influence LLM training and suspected to have heavily botted every election.

Yeah… Mamdani is the issue here. Uhuh sure

Good luck with that. You need to survive the sentry bots first just because you looked at him funny

Oh no, not without very good reason (we have had to video call a doctor friend about a stranger while out in public, that was a weird day).

In general we’re right there with you. We grumble about how it seems that since COVID people have forgotten how to be considerate while out and about.

And drive. Everyone forgot how to drive during COVID and still haven’t re-learned.

There’s plenty of good uses. Phone speaker is real good when wife calls in the middle of an online match to double check something in a ten second call while actually at the store. I can mute my mic and take it with my gaming headphones still on.

But I’m the only one home, and, ya know, at home not public.

Does not have a national network*

*For now

Reading through these comments and I’m just now realizing something; I’ve never gone searching to see data on if cursive actually is faster on average and if so, how much. And does that handwriting improves memory fact apply more to cursive or print writing or equally just because it uses more muscles in general?

I’d imagine it would partially depend on the script chosen, ligature vs looped, Spencerian vs New American vs D’nealian etc for speed but the memory thing I’ve got no guess.

I had the pleasure of helping a buddy tear down some of their products for his senior thesis in college (he was a mechanical engineer who needed someone who even remotely understood the circuit board side).

His and his professor’s take (who was curious to see the insides and so hovered a little more than he normally would) were that the products have some very solid engineering, creative uses of basic principles (like that Bernoulli shroud you mentioned) but largely invent the problems they solve (a bladeless fan isn’t really that important after we started adding cages).

Sure cyclonic seperation was around, but it wasn’t common in the household, they brought it there and it really is great for filters, it just, doesn’t need to be everything they try to make it be.

This was a while ago so I would absolute believe things have changed since then but they noted some of the “cheap” innards you did were actually at stress points so they would break first instead of the more expensive and harder to replace parts. Stand mixers (I know Kitchenaid) do this as well, they use nylon gear that will strip if the paddle gets stuck instead of burning out the much more expensive motor. Again, this was a while ago so I’d absolute believe they’ve started cheaping out on manufacturing too but without actually seeing (well, having my mechanical engineering buddy see) I couldn’t say.

That being said, if their new vacuum with the conical rollers really works as well as they say and others adopt it I will weep with joy. So…Many…Hair tangles (yes I need to vacuum more regularly, but I’m so sick of cutting the hair off)

On the flip side, there’s validity in doing things just for the aesthetics of it and we sacrifice too much to the ever present drive for efficiency.

Cursive isn’t necessarily the banner we should all rally behind for that though handwriting something is still shown as one of the best ways to remember something.

As a fan of fountain pens and handwritten letters it is nice to get one knowing someone put that effort into it.

I dunno where I’m going with any of this. Teachers and schools are underfunded, if kids are fucked it’s our fault don’t blame them, fancy squiggles are fun.

Wakanda, Krakoa, and Transia

You get tech goodies, safe haven, and fantasy goodies. Count me in (we’ll ignore the Cthon risk if Transia was real. I’d take Cthon over Trump right now)

Does Garuda Linux play “Sandstorm” every time you boot it?

Edit: no wait, crap, it’s Darude isn’t it.

To the average person (and this includes politicians, basically anyone not a software engineer developing the tools )who Cory generally writes to try and inform, they are the same.

Should they be? No. But that’s a whole different thing and trying to change that in the general public mind doesn’t change his current point about AI as the public thinks of it right now.

You sent me down the exact kind of weird rabbit hole I love. Genuinely thank you.

It’s maintained by the IANA now (the same people who basically run the modern Internet, saying what domains are allowed and such for those who don’t know). Though Arthur David Olson (the man you mentioned) still contributes his expertise and data.

I mean, I’m surprised at just how short sighted or straight up evil so many people seem to be. At some point you’d think one of them would wake up.

They included Puerto Rico