Consoles are not a big market enough to move a company like Intel. Consoles are a niche in computing. Gaming computing is niche compared to business computing (both in value and in number of users)
Even in small towns in the US, it's fairly rare for restaurants to have such limited hours. It's more commonly seen with high end restaurants in cities.
I certainly understand why, I'm not mad about it, just a disappointed. I really liked the food.
I think it’s a myth that people consumed less information just a few decades ago. Remember that newspapers used to have at least two daily editions (morning and afternoon). And of course radio has had continuous news flashes for a century.
This is similar to the myth that people communicated less before the messaging apps: they were glued to their phone for hours, sent telegrams and even sent very short letters (delivered same day!) to just say "thanks for the lunch that was very nice" (I found some in my grand-parents’s papers)
Our (social) communication appetite has always been quite insatiable.
Yes, there has been nice geniuses (ie. people with extreme talent), Mozart was for example a good person. Da Vinci (if a little sycophantic when young) was not unhinged at all nor abusive and was appreciated.
But since romantism we have built this image of the genius as necessarily abusive.
I’m sure abusive genius are very visible (by definition?) and that abusive people tend to monopolize more ressources too. (Like these tenured professors that use their students to advance their own career)
I think you guys shouldn't be comparing “geniuses” because i don't think thats the forcing function here (ie IQ and ability).
The forcing function is having so much responsibility and stress from running so many companies. You have no extra bandwidth for anything. All your time is spent.
So maybe look at comparable people with insane schedules/workloads/very high pressure situations.
Fair. With Elon it feels like there's an obsessiveness that drives him to take on so much responsibility. And as you say, that can affect what he says publicly.
True -- also I wouldn't say Elon is a genius. I feel thats a term for people who solve deep intractable physics/math problems. Elon's admirable attributes are that he is an insane capital allocator, has a very acute engineering mind (rare for leadership), curious mind, sees the future paths, dedicated focus and is an unabashed salesman of his products and philosophy (maybe this one isn't as admirable but its critical to his success).
You should be able to use Google Takeout to get all of your YouTube data, including your watch history.
This article is a nice example of someone using it:
> When I downloaded all my YouTube data, I’ve noticed an interesting file included. That file was named watch-history and it contained a list of all the videos I’ve ever watched.
This can give a false sense of what Google (Alphabet) actually knows about you. That above is Google playing the game of 'ok, here is what we know of your activities on youtube when logged in!'
But Google and the rest of the "advertising" (euphemism for surveillance) industry track and create "profiles" based on a basket of data points, from ip/MAC address to the rest of their bag of tricks.
Internally at Google a toy tool to peek into your own personal advertisement profile was released and taken down within a week or two because it was creepy knowledgeable about you.
Yes I've done this in USA. pretty neat. I have it on my todo list to parse over it and find all the music videos I've watched 3 or more times to archive them.
It is available and it can be surprisingly large. I've somehow accumulated multiple GB of data from YT alone. Which feels a bit absurd - there's bound to be lots of waste there.
Microsoft did it too with Windows and Words (supposedly after a very messy trademark dispute around excel? If I remember well?). This avoids trademark dispute on names (as you can’t trademark generic name alone) and is an effective way for very recognizable brands to extend their branding without adding too much confusion
I have been using CSS since, well, they were invented back in 1995 but not continuously (when I need them). And I can never remember how to properly center things or how to do a lot of supposedly simple things. The specs has a lot of confusing naming (the naming have some logic, but nevertheless a confusing) and of course a lot of interrelated effects.
We used to have css editors that helped.
But I’m glad LLMs can now write CSS for me, and it nearly works perfect every time (I sometimes have to dig and fix things, and to push it to use the latest specs not old obsolete tricks)
My guess is that it’s easier to build with (WebKit is old, after all) and maybe Apple’s pace on certain features is perceived as slow?
A new WebKit browser on Windows might also seem risky for a startup, they probably want a known and safe build path.
Alternatively people who say “I’m not political” are benefiting from the status quo and political direction of things (long term, not necessarily short term). They frame inaction as apolitical.
It is apolitical for any reasonable definition of the term "political". That doesn't mean you don't benefit, or that it's a responsible choice, or anything else. It just means you aren't engaging in political activity - attempting to convince those around you, to gain influence, etc.
