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“Tired of the Happiness.”
Not just ANY calculator. But something that will literally save your life when the electrics on the plane are blown and you need to get to that little airport via dead reckoning.
3·5 months agoGuarantee someone’s going to generate a bubbly podcast of Mein Kampf or Project 2025.
Ed is getting good at lobbing these darts at hype bubbles.
The thing that this writeup ignores is that the object isn’t to show short-term revenue, but to put all competitors out of business, be the last one standing, and create a monopoly. Either that or get bought out so the investors can move on to the next thing. But at $150B valuation, only MSFT or Nvidia can afford to buy them outright.
Google, Meta, and Amazon burned through cash for years, but they eventually outran all competition and then monetized the users who had nowhere else to go.
That’s what you might call, a career-limiting decision.
Back in college, a local doughnut shop would open at 3am to start making the run for the day. If you were stoned or pulling an all-nighter, it was worth the 15m walk. They would sell you fresh, warm doughnuts out the back.
Nowadays, a lot of places do the fresh doughnut thing. But it’s not the same, getting it at 3am.
I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.
Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.
Security theater: Shoes and belts off.
Security circus: Pilot Captain Bobby Tables.
The trick with cast iron and pancakes is to pre-heat with oil or butter, then treat the first one as a ‘test victim.’ For the rest, you turn down the heat and they come out even.
You can hide the first one under a pancake stack or just hand it off to a growing teenager.
I don’t get the interaction. If it’s always listening, why do you need to tap it? And how did it know she was having falafel. She didn’t tap anything, or did that come before?
Also, $99? Unless there’s a fat subscription attached to the other side, if it’s sending anything to the cloud, at that price they’re speedrunning their way into bankruptcy.
At least the Rabbit charged $200 to buy themselves some runway before starting to lose serious money.
AWS bread and butter is EC2, S3, and Lambda.
The reason AWS is focusing so much on Gen-AI is because they’re in the shovel-and-pick business during the gold rush. This guy’s beef should be with the over-excited gold speculators, not the general store purveyors of denim and panning equipment.
Most roundabouts around here have stop signs at the entry points. They do nothing to alleviate the traffic flow.
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How do the lime slices end up in the pitcher? The picture and the instructions don’t match.
The worst breakfast I ever had was at a Courtyard Marriott that was under renovation. Since then, I made a policy to find the best local breakfast diner any place I went, even if the hotel breakfast was included.
Haven’t regretted it once.
My wife insists she’s staying there for the news and legal people she follows and she has a point. A lot of government, business, and schools continue to use it as an easy way to broadcast information.
Threads pulled off some celebrities, Bsky some policy and legal wonks, and Mastodon the tech geeks. If these services all start federating together and offering unified text and hashtag search, then where you land won’t matter.
Until then, it’ll be hard to get people to switch away, even with all the bad press.
England’s Private Eye magazine has been going for decades. They sell subscriptions to the paper magazine, put on events, and sell a small amount of print advertising. They’ve completely gone against going digital and by all accounts are profitable.
The future of journalism may well be going back to the origin of small publications.
You mean other than porn?
https://pyodide.org/
https://pyscript.com/
https://github.com/brython-dev/brython