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They're great for doing phone stuff without pulling your phone out of your pocket and unlocking it. I can check if a notification is important, get GPS directions, snooze alarms, get OTP/2FA codes, or check the weather. None of it it is critical but it's collectively a quality of life improvement.

I wonder if their real intent is to gather training data on which parts of papers are considered important by readers, and which topics are related to each other.

This is probably an extension of their hostility to mp3s. They wanted to force people away from downloaded or ripped content and toward their own store.

What are the standards for plastic-free? I suspect almost every piece of clothing with zippers is using nylon thread and backing, as well as plastic materials tags.

And the F-15's design slogan was "Not a pound for air to ground". Guess what it's being used for now?

I was stuck behind a big RV recently who was driving part way over the center line most of the time. I eventually realized he was trying to avoid clipping all the low branches along the edge of the road.

Search engines refer people to those old threads. Users who care enough and are tech savvy enough to delete their post histories are more likely to have made higher quality comments in the past answering tech support questions, reviewing products, etc. Those are the old threads that appear in search results and potentially draw in new users.

One thing it's still useful for is getting user reviews that actually tell you if a product is junk or has recently been replaced with an inferior version. Store sites and review pages make it too easy for companies to get negative reviews hidden.

The solution to social media companies behaving badly once they have users locked in may not be to lock yourself into another unprofitable company's closed ecosystem that's temporarily free.

I can get a much better idea how my ML models will behave at scale if I prototype on my 16GB MBP than if I only had whatever ram is leftover from 8GB after Chrome and everything use up most of it. It's no match for server GPUs but I can run multiple Jupyter notebooks with decent size datasets loaded and not have to think about it.

The new Macbook keyboards have such low travel that they feel like a step in that direction. I like the laptop overall but I make a lot more typos than I did on my old one.

I've made this same prediction before. In 2001 it was driven by people owing AMT from option exercises in addition to day trading. We got tax paperwork from our brokers though - I'm not sure how many crypto traders will even realize they owe taxes.

The crypto market is less dependent on the US but it may also be priced at the margins and unable to absorb a big selloff.

Go to Burning Man or find the crowd that does.

This is a trend I can get behind, recruiting by advertising that you pay well instead of telling people they should get a sense of pride and accomplishment by working on hard problems after surviving your interview process. Unfortunately I didn't see any numbers in the article.

They still are when you factor in benefits. Family health insurance costs more than single.