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Of the, what, six? Movies that nobody asked for, this trailer is the second most exciting.

“We lied and paid a $3M fine.”

Humans have the same issue, we just don’t have that same instinct for whatever reason.

Location is determined by the time-of-flight difference in the sound wave between each ear. So if something hits your left ear first, you know that it’s coming from the left.

You can’t do that when things are above/below.

More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oai7HUqncAA

There’s a sub on Reddit called “mirrorsforsale” that’s all pictures like this.

My favorite was someone who posted a picture of their bathroom scale to show off how much weight they lost,but they didn’t realize the scale was so reflective and they were hanging dong.

Heh forgot about the App Store.

Maybe a bad example, but there is certainly a trend recently of purpose built hardware with “free” services failing to justify the expenses of the necessary backend infrastructure getting turned into useless landfill.

Car Thing, Facebook Portal, and this dumb little treat dispensing dog webcam that I used to have come to mind.

Everyone hates subscriptions, but when it comes to hardware that needs to generate revenue to function, I think a token dollar or so a month is appropriate.

Edit: also thinking about it more, core OS software features that are arbitrarily linked to new hardware (like Apple Intelligence) are definitely designed to sell more phones over just selling more software on existing phones. I think it’s fair to say that there’s a revenue link there.

I’ve been using a Sunbeam flip phone for a year or so. Paid for the phone up front, and pay $3/mo for use of maps, speech recognition, and continued bugfixes.

Even if phones never got new features, dev time still needs to be committed to security updates, and services (like Siri) need to be paid for. The model of getting 100% of your revenue from new phone sales is starting to break. If I could pay $3/mo for Siri or whatever and never have my phone go obsolete, I think that’d be a good deal.

Also, “Work won’t love you back.”

Coworker’s story: Trying to fix a prototype in a hotel room at a European trade show. Soldering iron on hand, but it was a 120V iron and glowed white hot when plugged into a 240V outlet.

So they had one person solder and the other person keep unplugging and replugging the iron from the wall at roughly 25% 50% duty cycle.

Friend’s desktop was so fried from Kazaa and Limewire, that he couldn’t even open a Windows explorer window. Ended up opening Notepad and copying all of his files to a thumbdrive using the file open dialog box before reformatting.

They’re sold at the checkout at Dick’s sporting goods. Pretty sure some woo woo people are picking up on them.

Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.