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Also windows that go down to the floor has been considered bad architecture for decades. Wall-to-wall windows are great. Floor-to-ceiling windows are stunning when you walk into an…

Tangentially related anecdote: I used to break tons of stuff all the time (my whole family growing up did), and I just assumed that all things just have finite lifespans, until I s…

More often than not these are usually cheap Chinese devices that are expecting a USB-C to USB-A (power-only) cable, because they're actually USB-A devices, with USB-A circuitry, mo…

Eh it's partially true - the browsers on phones needed to get better as well. Zuckerberg famously made the Facebook apps basically just a responsive webpage under the belief that m…

Executive level non-competes are probably the most damaging for the overall economy though. If there's a market-dominating company, and execs are allowed to leave said company, sta…

I wonder if Firefox is a better user agent string for bots or AI? Or perhaps some big IT departments are switching the employee base from Chrome to Firefox because it now has bette…

There's a strong argument to be made that the banning of non-competes is the main reason California is the software capital of the world.

In Japan, if you get on a 1 hour train just before midnight, the printed ticket will say something like "23:05" for the embarkment time, and "24:05" for the disarmament. Same date …

Yeah Steve Jobs was deeply frustrated with Obama when he got to meet him. Jobs hated unions, and felt like the Obama administration was not business friendly enough. He also felt t…

> with short selling in public markets being possible, an accurate price will be established very quickly It'll be virtually impossible to short sell the stock within the first mon…

In San Diego we're voting on a new property tax that only applies to nonprimary residences. The landed gentry want you to believe that they can't be touched unless you're willing t…

Apple ultimately developed their own map application specifically because Google was unwilling to remove the Google logo from the Google Maps app, no matter the price. It'll absolu…

> Something nobody's talking about Nobody is talking about this because it's not a thing. People here will shit on LLMs all day for being confidently incorrect, then upvote aggress…

This is true for amateurs encoding video files to be pirated, but for the mega corps, sending more bits costs more money. Many years ago, I had a couple drinks with a guy from Netf…

Honestly, it used to be worse. I remember when 16:9 TVs were new, people would often stretch the aspect ratio of 4:3 content because they "don't like the black bars."

300k hours = 8 hrs per day, every day, for 102 years.

Worcestershire sauce is also considered a descendent of the fish sauces from ancient Rome.

Early twenties family formation bring the norm was more of a postwar thing. The guys that came back from the war really did have to grow up fast (seeing your best friends getting b…

Homicidal?

It's telling that you completely forgot HomePod. Arguably their most AI-centric product line to date, and also their largest flop in recent history.

I played with a few alternative keyboard layouts in high school, and I can say from personal experience that it's surprisingly easy to adapt to a one handed mirror layout. You just…

Don't the Beats earbuds have literally the exact the same chipsets and speaker drivers as airpods, but play way nicer with Androids? I know that used to be the case a few years ago…

Yes, these sorts of compensation features have become common on higher end headphones. One example: > The crossfeed feature is great for classic tracks with hard-panned mixes. It t…

Tim Cook'd

Do you smoke weed? It's well known that THC use causes dreamless sleep.