Favorites May 23rd 2024
The iPad event was a while back now, but I was really impressed by that little shadow, just absolutely amazing.
That's an immense difference, and also a clear argument for finding ways to bring in more performance based pay.
Interestingly, on this particular street, they didn't even narrow the street. It's just about adding trees/shade. If you have space for trees, you should plant and maintain trees, they’re great, but they take decades.
Gurman has a great track record with Apple rumors recently, although he also reported a month ago that they're in discussion with Google as well. WWDC is going to be very interesting.
Check out the thread for a bit more detail on exactly how they shot it.
Longer Reads
• A badge of an early apple employee showed up on ebay, amazing investigation showed that it was a forgery. (src)
• Long article investigating how close the Roman Empire was to having an Industrial Revolution. (src)(cached)
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Top Tech Youtuber MKBHD is also a world-class Ultimate Frisbee player. (src)
– Musk fired the whole Supercharger team, and there was speculation that it might have been some sort of hardball negotiaton tactic regarding the NACS charging standard. But no, he just fucked up, now they're being rehired. (src)
– Don't waste your life decanting groceries, you have better things to do. (src)
– I don't think Commission on Presidential Debates was the tradition, having debates is the tradition. the CPD is not even that old. (src)(cached)
– Uber uses push notifications for ads, but you need notifications for the app to work, here's an explanation for how to find the hidden setting to turn off ad notifications. (src)
– The OpenAI / Scarlett Johansson situation doesn't look great for OpenAI. But it doesn't quite seem right to say that it's also an example of the 'don't build the torment nexus' situation. But Her is not dystopian, the takeaway isn't that building AI was a mistake. The AI 'leaves' at the end, but it's not meant to be cautionary. (src)
– Ideological makeup of young US voters, not nearly as liberal as you might think, even among college educated. (src)(cached)
– Old SNL skit still relevant today, very silly though (src)
– Somehow I never learned that Taft actually lost the weight (src)(cached)
– Russia, China, Iran and the DPRK are working together more than the Axis did prewar. (src)(cached)
– BYD is clearly catching up to Tesla quickly, it would be nice if Tesla didn't seem to be spending so much time on BS. (src)(cached)
– Stock Market all time highs look to people depending who is president (src)(cached)
– US unsheltered homelessness is super bad because of just a few states (src)(cached)
– A bunch of specific reasons France can build high speed rail for far less than the US (src)(cached)
– Were you looking to find out about what happened to the Disney World Galactic Skycruiser, how did they spend like 5 years building it and then it shut down in 18 months. Well, here's a 4 hour video about that. (src)