She looks like someone who doesn’t get her photo taken often and may in fact be uncomfortable with the process, like a lot of people are. I worked for three years at a school for the blind and visually impaired, and people who have visual limitations don’t look directly into the lens.

Okay, here’s the compromise: you close everything down, and we don’t feed you to a hungry business of ferrets.

Oh, I definitely will.

I’m confused, yet aroused.

Plot twist: the song is Fuck the Pain Away.

I would actually say this is very good.

I’ve heard people call it a thriving wage but if this is what it takes to get the wine moms to shift left, let’s go with this terminology.

I don’t know what you’ve been saying but what these guys are talking about isn’t what I consider a serious concern. It’s more of the “oh this is going to be so massive, it will transform everything” warn-bragging they’ve been doing from the jump.

Radiators work because they have something to radiate heat into. Space is famously empty, so a radiator the size of a planet would only work as a heat sink until the total heat in the system was high enough to make everything glow like a heating element, at which point you dump waste energy as visible light.

This is what I’ve been tearing my hair out over any time this comes up. If you put a computer in space it will heat up until it achieves incandescence. Which is bad for the performance.

Like every industry does, and gets away with it if they keep it looking competitive.

That’s just on Hulu in the US.

Man, it really seems to take off in 1980. What could possibly explain that?

Side note: while he seems good in comparison to Darth Raygun, Jimmy “the peanut” Carter was pretty awful on labor issues.

Could you link any of those? I’m inclined to believe you but I’d be interested in reading one of the papers.

I disagree, anyone with sense knew everything Elon claimed about this thing was a lie.

That capex number in the article is a big part of it. $200 billion spent to generate $1-2 billion a month in revenue is wasteful, and people at the top are feeling the pressure to justify that expense.

That’s like half of Ed Zitron’s output, although he puts more detail into identifying the specific placid and compliant reporters.

In fact, it seems to be getting worse along a number of axes.

Andrew Ti has proposed that part of the problem that the VP exemplifies is that the Bay Area is too expensive for regular people to live in, so you have tech millionaires in their little bubbles never getting input from regular people. Specifically from teenagers. If Apple had taken the VP to malls in (say) Minneapolis and Dallas and LA and Newark, the people wearing it would have been roasted by teenagers, and the designers and engineers would know there was still work to do.

Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could’ve given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they’re calling this.

I think Vision Pro was doomed regardless. Go back and watch the iPhone announcement, then the Vision Pro announcement. Every single person in the auditorium when Jobs is presenting the iPhone is thinking of the thousand things they can do with that device. In the Vision Pro announcement, there’s none of that energy. If they released something that left zero question as to its purpose, the price could sit at $3K and they wouldn’t be able to make them fast enough. Instead we got an Oculus that won’t support most games and costs 6 times as much.