The cheapest one.

Years ago I was being shown around an industrial parts supplier's warehouse. The guy who owned it was proudly telling me they sold all the parts used in the machines that make frozen pizzas because they had "food grade" parts. When I asked what made some of the tubes "food grade" he said "They're clear." I the made the mistake of asking, "How does that make them food grade?" and he explained that "All rubber hoses break down, and nobody likes to see black bits of rubber in their pizza sauce."

I think glass containers are a great, but until all of the harvesting, processing and packaging equipment is plastic free, I'd be shocked if the liquid inside didn't have microplastics in it, and hos much is probably more dependent on the factory than the container.

"Handmade" items are *already* a thing, but people still mostly choose to buy things made by machines in factories. And most of the goods made by hand today *hide that fact* because the person making it is getting paid slave wages to stay competitive against the cheap machine made products.

I think as more and more movies got made, marketing became more and more important for financial success. The result is that the money that could go to quality (more time in pre-production, more days shooting, etc.) got shifted to more intensive marketing. So Hollywood didn't start acting like audiences were dumb, they started acting like audiences were savvy consumers who cost more to acquire. The result is the actual product has suffered. Marketing is exactly why there are so many superhero movies.. it's cheaper to market the product when you don't have to explain what it is. Everyone knows what a superhero movie is, so the marketing can skip straight to giving you reasons why you would want to see this one.

At this point it's wrong to take the tariffs at face value, because they have nothing to do with policy or incentives. It's all a classic pump and dump scheme: 1) Announce tariffs on a company and drive the stock price down. 2) You and your friends buy up the stock. 3) Announce a "deal" has been made and there will be no tariffs. 4) Sell when the stock rebounds. 5) Move on to the next company.

I work at a major tech company and we have plenty of Rust projects and developers, and totally agree that it's not Duplos, but overall Rust is.. just fine. It's definitely not magic that makes code better and the toolchain is clearly immature. We have as many (and possibly even more) outstanding issues in our Rust code as any other codebase. IMHO, it's a language optimized for the wrong things (ie. stack allocation) at the expense of usability. It's no surprise that Rust performs a little worse than C code, because it was primarily designed to replace C++ which is an easier target to beat. I have no problem with Rust (like I said, it's fine), but people should stop pretending memory safety is the biggest problem in software development. We've had smart ptrs and other solutions for years now.

Between franchises, smartphones, digital distribution and product placement, AI has some tough competition for being responsible for ruining film.

In the next 5 years, a large part of every senior level job will become to document processes and what you know in writing. After a few years of that, junior level jobs will take off again.

Whatever you think of the companies he's involved in, it sure seems like he wants an award for "quickest to burn up all the fossil fuels to power computers".

Headline should say Vision Pro's content drought continues despite new 3D videos.

Rewriting your app in a "super safe" language is a guaranteed way to introduce a large numbers of bugs. But of course at some nebulous point in the future after a ton of effort you may have 1 or 2 fewer than the original code base.

Practically Apple can do whatever they want with their AI cloud systems, no outside developer is going to use them. Who would lock themself into Apple's services when they could easily use other systems that support Android and the web. Plus, Apple's release cycles are extremely slow.. Apple itself won't be launching any meaningful AI features until September 2025! Who would agree to operate on that timeline when competition is fierce. Apple's institutionally misaligned with the world of AI right now, so it'll be interesting to see if they decide to change their approach or just sit on the sidelines and try to swoop in further down the road. Talk of AI emoji and "black box" cloud services are just a bone to throw to Wall Street so they don't look empty handed.

I'm assuming this "secret lab for AI" has been leaked by Apple to try and boost their stock price now that Microsoft has solidly surpassed them as the world's most valuable company due to the prospects of AI.

Apple can certainly put together amazing teams, but they're at best in 5th place in AI (behind Microsoft, Anthropic, Google, Meta and probably others), and a lot of what's driving the excitement of the current gen AI craze is pretty far outside modern Apple's comfort zone.. open source, web-based, publicly available APIs, unclear business models, weird consumer experiences, etc. It honestly feels a little like their car project.. They'll be playing catch up with established players and could easily spend billions on AI every year on with no clear consumer end product in sight.

The serious security threats on iOS are all attacks that use iMessage to run code remotely, which means the attacks can be observed without a physical device. Just remember this the next time Apple tells you they need the App Store for "security", because of course the real attacks don't require apps or user interaction at all. Just specially crafted messages to an app you can't uninstall.

Exactly. But this is like the hell of sitting through a PowerPoint presentation only much easier for the presenter, so of course it'll probably take off.