fainpul

About that artist's impression with the blue spiral: wouldn't any planet or other object do one of these things:

- approach and hit directly, without spiraling

- approach, make a close fly-by and fly off into deep space again

- be in a steady, eliptical orbit

My knowledge is basically that of a Kerbal.

"delightful"

The user wants to "disable data collection". The manufacturer offers only a kill switch for all connectivity, with all the unwanted effects (which they helpfully list).

I've seen this pattern before. It's a lame cop-out. "Of course you can do that, but you'll have to accept all these negative consequences. There's nothing we can do about it. You brought this onto yourself."

The birth rate in Switzerland (just as in many highly developed countries) is already way below 2.1 children per woman, which would be required to sustain the population. Any population growth comes from immigrants. Xenophobic people are scared by that.

Because you can conceiled carry a smartphone? Please explain.

Even after Google puts this crap in place, you can still uplodad your own apps to your own Android devices, using ADB. Doing the same for iOS, using Xcode, costs you USD 100 or more (depending on country) per year.

I'm in no way defending Google here, just pointing out you're going from bad to worse and think it's a good thing.

My personal perspective: 2 out of 3 MacBook Pro, I worked with, had expanding batteries after about 5 years. Replacement was a big hassle and the new no-name batteries are nowhere near as good as the original ones.

I sure wish it was as easy as a battery replacement on a Framework laptop (with an original part).

I know the Neo has easier battery replacement (not glued in), but still it has an iFixit rating of 6/10 whereas the Framework 12 has a 10/10.

> We have people who can still do maths well after the introduction of the calculator.

I assume by "do maths" you mean doing simple calculations, like adding a bunch of small numbers, in one's head. That's because in many situations it's more convenient to do so, than using a calculator. So the skill is preserved / practiced, because a calculator is too cumbersome to use. The skills of most people settle at the equilibrium where it takes the same effort to take out the calculator and focus on typing, as it would to strain the brain doing it without a calculator.

> We have people who can still spell after the introduction of spell check.

When using spell check to fix your document, you automatically learn to spell. Your skills improve by using the tool. A better analogy to AI would be an email client with a "Fix all and send"-button, where you never look at the output of the spell checker.

My observation is that there's a certain group of programmers who "don't get graphical CAD" (their words) and prefer code based CAD. Now with LLMs, many of them like to spin up their own solution of "text to CAD", "image to CAD" or just another "code based CAD" and then do a "Show HN", praising it as the bee's knees.

When I look at their examples, the objects are usually non-functional, lacking precision and control, and could much more easily be done in a graphical CAD application.

I think some people just don't want to learn graphical CAD and hence are unable to see where their own solution is lacking important features.

It doesn't feel like more ideas are explored, it feels like more variants of the same old things are produced. Ideas have always been hard and AI doesn't help with that.