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"No physical toy, especially if it’s branding itself as a companion with a personality and soul, should include a killswitch that deactivates its core, best features if you stop pa…

Can't wait to get my next employer's name tattooed on my forehead.

Wondering what's going on with Canada. I checked out their site yesterday out of curiosity and most products were listed as out of stock.

Also the Data General One (poor screen aside).

Location: Toronto, Canada Willing to relocate: Not at present Skills: I'm a novelist. Published. Good writing, weird writing. If you need a fiction writer who doesn't write using G…

I think it was a one-two punch: 1. Snoopy becoming Flanderized, as in the "Happiness is a warm puppy" stuff from the 1960s. 2. Introduction of Woodstock the bird. That meant Snoopy…

Interestingly, Peanuts started with a focus on Shermy and Violet as the 'straight men' and young(er) Charlie Brown as the comic upstart. Snoopy shows up fairly soon, but he doesn't…

Recent and related: Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013477 - Nov 2025 (96 comments)

VITURE's Immersive 3D already offers this for several platforms (for VITURE glasses).

Fireflies.ai co-founder and CTO writes a LinkedIn post about how their 'AI that joins meetings and takes notes' was him and the CEO joining the meetings and taking notes manually.

I remember my Compaq TC1000 well, a pen tablet convertible running Windows very sluggishly with a Transmeta Crusoe processor. Nice promise, execution not so much unfortunately.

You're too late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulgari_Connection Here's an exercise - why do you think this approach failed?

I also like how people can submit their own presets for each soundscape with comments, so you can see what worked for others. My only wish is for a smooth fade-out when leaving a s…

Android, too. I've contributed to the Web site, but not the Android app (as yet).

I'm a longtime fan of Web-based myNoise: https://mynoise.net/

And who's going to be able to afford to see them, when all the jobs are gone?

Reminds me of the 'interactive' video from the 1960s Fahrenheit 451 movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOs8U50T3l0 For the 'you're right!' bit see: https://youtu.be/ZOs8U50T3l0…

My Google feed (the one that shows up on some Android phones) is 90% articles that could be answered in the headline: "This one ingredient improves the taste of your potato salad."…