Not the sky-is-falling one - this one from The Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbluth.

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Opening line:

Huge news: God spoke! And the first thing God said was, “Use other people’s money to pay for your home remodel, Colorado pastor Eli Regalado!”

The "invisible hand" doesn't fail, it just gets chopped off by government intervention. Apple doesn't run the app market as a charity, but the current model is not to charge for apps, instead treat the app as the demo and charge for upgrades. Apple wants a cut of that action. Developers are absolutely free to go back to the old model of having separate demo apps and paid apps where apple gets their cut up front and the consumer pays nothing more. Developers are also free to look at the massive profits from owning an app store and starting their own smart phone company. What they aren't free to do is demand someone else push their app for free.

They would offer stock to mods and users.

Looks like they are jelly of Alexa's driving features and care more about upselling their AI in cars than selling consumer AI speakers.

I fully expect Google to sunset all their home automation eventually. It is what they do best.

Yep, never trust Google with your time or data.

It's another reason why most mainstream languages suck. You can't install a new version of Python without it breaking half your code. Constantly changing versions of widely used libraries because "worse is better" and the developers couldn't be bothered to get the thing right the first time. Oddly enough, there are languages that try to avoid this. Common Lisp hasn't changed since the 1980's. Clojure avoid breaking changes like the plague. There are also languages outside the Lisp family that make stability a priority. My recommendation is that people who value their code avoid non-stable languages. It may be easier for lazy language developers who deliver half-assed features, but it makes life hell for people using the language.

Bard will argue with you if you tell it is wrong about some things.

We still don't have a general purpose sewing robot. 90% of clothing is finished by hand.

... in 1996.

I remember thinking at the time all we needed was a standard format for real estate listing HTML pages.
Google could index them, and the Multiple Listing Service would go away.

Instead, we eventually got Zillow - real estate listings, gameified.

The article explains this:

* You have to shoot spatial video holding the iPhone horizontally to get the two cameras side-by-side
* The spatial video is limited to 1K 30fps because of the limitations of the wide angle camera

It's a crappy system for sure. Cities have to figure out why it's a losing game and stop doing it. Maybe a Federal law against local bribery of businesses would work.

It's also an indirect argument why MLB needs salary caps (and in the cases of quite a few owners, salary minimums).

To be fair, the guy who suggested this did have a device that gave him useful output.

For a long time, the 27" iMac was priced comparably to displays of similar size and quality - you could buy it with minimal factory RAM and disk, slot the RAM yourself, use external drives, and not break the bank.
If you were feeling brave, once the warranty lapsed you could open it up and add an SSD - cutting and replacing the adhesive strips holding it shut was not for the faint of heart.

With Apple Silicon most of those cheaper routes are closed off - no RAM or SSD upgrades at non-Apple prices.

I'm still waiting for an x86 system with slotted RAM and SSD that has the performance of Apple Silicon, though...

Plants kept growing at most latitudes and almost everywhere at lower altitudes. Just not as fast for 15-20 years. Mammal species ate a lot of tubers and nuts from the trees, which spread seeds that exploded in diversity in the years after the dinosaurs.

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