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Mac displays are 16:10, you're getting letterboxing for movies no matter what you do, with or without a notch or hole punch.

This is not entirely true, CBP still exists independent of ICE. Immigration enforcement within the interior, especially in the fashion we’ve seen recently, is a relatively new phenomena.

The fact that 9/11 happened does not imply that DHS and ICE as currently structured and operating are necessary. At most it implies _some_ change might have been necessary, but not definitely _this_ change. It certainly doesn't mean we can never look for reform.

DHS was founded in 2003, as was ICE. The country got along for 227 years without these organizations, they aren't some bedrock thing from time immemorial.

Recognizing that the current structure and mode of operation of these organizations is problematic and leading to bad outcomes also doesn't mean flipping to fully open borders with zero law enforcement as some imply every time this is brought up.

NASA is currently the only organization to ever take humans beyond LEO.

Starship has only even achieved LEO once, in an unmanned mission a few weeks ago. Starship has so far cost about $15 Billion, the entire Saturn V launch program (excluding Apollo, to keep things apples-apples here) cost about $35 Billion in today's dollars.

Well, NASA has conducted surface operations on mars 5 times without any involvement from Musk, the CNSA has gone once....

What has Musk actually done to get us closer other than talk about how humanity ought to do it?

Argentina is almost 3 million km^2 with a population density of less than 20/km^2

California is roughly 1/10th the size & 10x the population density, with what is likely the largest meshtastic network in the world and that isn't able to span more than about 1/5th of the state (without even getting into reliability or lack thereof).

The original roadster was a Lotus Elise, all Tesla did was swap in an electric drivetrain.

Tesla has never really shown they can design anything compelling that doesn’t look like a lumpy shoe.

It kills any and all potential career progression, will annoy your coworkers if it’s bad enough they have to carry you (which will make the 40 hours a week you show up at the office less pleasant for you) and will put you at the top of the list to go if and when your company eventually hits a rough spot.

"Greedy" is not a moral statement, it's a description of an optimization strategy focusing on short term improvements without a view to the long term consequences or state of the system.

Bringing it back to math explicitly: you are essentially betting that the singularity is here, today, and that there are absolutely no downsides to breaking the pipeline which trains mathematicians (meaning that in 5-10 years at most there will be zero humans capable of assessing AI math output or independently advancing the state of the art).

This statement assumes local maxima don’t exist and greedy short term optimization always leads to long term benefit.

The Apple polishing cloth isn’t (ed: a typical split filament cleaning) microfiber, it’s some kind of synthetic suede. Feels soft not scratchy.

Even if on street parking were metered consistently and priced appropriately that's too divorced from the developer & their incentives to solve this. Parking after the building is sold is the definition of not the developer's problem, which is part of the reason we have parking regulations to begin with.

A better solution might be to mandate parking minimums (to ensure the property is actually useful / not encroaching on the street) but not allowing "open air" spots to count to the minimum, meaning an open lot gets you nothing, a 2 level garage counts for half the spots, etc. Maybe tack on some credits for proximity to public transit while we're at it.

You’d need to actually support your assertion that higher FPS is objectively better, especially higher FPS via motion interpolation which inherently degrades the image by inserting blurry duplicated frames.

People are “used to” high FPS content: Live TV, scripted TV shot on video (not limited to only soap operas), video games, most YouTube content, etc are all at 30-60FPS. It’d be worth asking yourself why so many people continue to prefer the aesthetic of a lower framerates when the “objectively better” higher FPS has been available and moderately prevalent for quite some time.