8ytecoder

I’ve heard a wide variety of excuses including privacy as the reason Siri sucks. Truth is, if you can’t get your assistant to add 5 minutes to a running timer, it’s a product failure. It has nothing to do with privacy or AI or LLM or MCP. It’s just a bad product. Either the product managers don’t know how their users use it or they do but the engineers can’t easily change the code to add functionality or the leaders don’t care enough to prioritize basic features.

This finally works in iOS 27. Something Alexa has been able to do for what 5 years? Probably longer.

I’m replying to a comment about the iPad.

Isn’t there a safety hazard with battery swelling and such if it’s always connected to power? May be I have outdated information I unmounted the iPad after reading about it.

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I honestly can’t understand why not wasting meat is such a bad thing?

Costco sells really good hotdogs with a large coke for $1.50.

The usual argument is that as prices rise, demand will shrink and supply will rise to take advantage of the increased price.

Skills do matter. It’s just a different type of skill. Merit doesn’t matter - but even that’s a bit arguable - if the merit is decided based on what someone is creating value for their shareholders and value is entirely defined by stock price, it seems to be working well too.

(Not that I agree this is right)

What you’re describing here results in extreme consolidation. The one or two e-commerce giants that figure it out will rule. No startup can ever sell anything online easily. Why would a customer trust a new or upcoming brand or buy anything online?

> "NEVER FUCKING GUESS!"

You link your accounts in simplefin which uses MX (similar to plaid) to pull the data. Except simplefin is really simple to setup.

https://actualbudget.org/docs/advanced/bank-sync/simplefin

There’s also this: https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/. Very reasonably priced and it works great. Actual Budget uses it.

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We were building a payments system in the early 2000s and got a diktat to not use Oracle. The amount of things we had to build to satisfy the availability and durability requirements were so huge it consumed the first few years of work. We didn’t get to the business side of things until much later. Funny thing is we ended up giving up on MySQL and went back to oracle after all that work. The whole thing was scraped after a couple of years.

To get to the level of scale that oracle can handle we had to build sharding and cluster replication from scratch. It still didn’t get to even 1/10th of a single oracle node. Obviously we made a lot of poor architecture decisions as well - in hindsight, of course.

Same with the EV6. Charged at a Rivian station from 20-80% in 15 minutes.

China already did, in 2010, against Japan. Japan has been preparing alternatives for a decade and a half now.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/12/04/lessons-from-japan...

Metal is technically more elastic than an elastic band. With a Young’s modulus of 69 GPa for aluminum versus just 2 GPa for ABS, metal has the "memory" to snap back from significant pressure. Plastic, true to its name, is far more likely to hit its limit and stay permanently deformed. (That’s why metal bars are used to provide “flexibility” to buildings. Concrete provides the strength)

Texas, technically, generates more TWh than California. I think a data center boom followed by a bust would help a lot more than what California can do. Unlike in cars, CAs market size or regulations can’t help/hinder other fuel sources as much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renewab...

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3D Touch was a useless gimmick for most users because it wasn’t discoverable. The move cursor feature didn’t disappear btw. It’s now in the space bar.

Wegovy tablets are $299 now.

Distribution agreement is generally different from a sale. Distributors act as agents of the manufacturer. It’s not yet counted as a sale. Most warranties are limited to first owner and do not transfer. How do you think this squares with that? Does it mean I don’t get warranty on the dishwasher I got from Costco? It’s also the same principle of a distributor acting as an agent that enables the manufacturer to have a contract with you.

Funny you would pick this analogy. I feel like we’re back in the mainframe era. A lot of software can’t operate without an internet connection. Even if in practice they execute some of the code on your device, a lot of the data and the heavyweight processing is already happening on the server. Even basic services designed from the ground up to be distributed and local first - like email (“downloading”) - are used in this fashion - like gmail. Maps apps added offline support years after they launched and still cripple the search. Even git has GitHub sitting in the middle and most people don’t or can’t use git any other way. SaaS, Electron, …etc. have brought us back to the mainframe era.

US: 335M / 5,000M ton / 15 ton

Indonesia: 275M / 650M ton / 2.3 ton

Pakistan: 240M / 225M ton / 1 ton

Nigeria: 220M / 110M ton / 0.5 ton

Brazil: 215M / 475M ton / 2.2 ton

I can go on and on about the countries that are emitting less than the US. People and animals live in areas that are liveable. So countries near the equator and fertile countries will always be more populous. So how else do you propose we compare countries? Which are themselves mostly arbitrary lines as far as the earth is concerned - so why chunk by countries? It has to be per person right?

I think it’s more like the “crash” that never happened with Uber/gig and crypto. I can’t tell if it’s just luck with one craze seamlessly enabling another in some cosmic coincidence or smart people being able to absorb the excess capital and capacity to pivot gracefully.

It’s basically similar to biking on rolling hills with each subsequent hill being a lot taller than the previous one. You come down the hill hard, but just before you crash to the ground, another hill comes up, and you let the momentum carry you through, and you also get a gush of wind in your back.

That’s what’s been happening since 2012 - it’s a great 13-year run now. I’ve stopped betting against it.

Think Morse code, where frequently used letters have shorter codes than less frequent ones. This ensures zero loss of information.

The attack vector is a 3pt app being compromised - maliciously or otherwise - that logs/collects the messages - i.e, the apps themselves can be a threat vector. To be blunt and honest, I’m not sure I disagree. The notification framework seems like an okay compromise to me. I have used it with my Garmin bike computer and I’m more than happy with the level of integration.

That’s got to be Tesla. Nvidia’s PE is still half that of Tesla.

Kobo Libra color. If I’m being very honest, the screen isn’t as good as the oasis but it’s a compromise I’ve accepted for vastly superior hackability. I telnet into my kobo and installed tailscale then pointed the api to my calibre web instance, I have a much better experience overall because the books are drm-free(d) and calibre web handles sync with kobo really well.

And it has physical buttons. I was clinging to my oasis for the buttons.