Neat! I'm pretty sure I created my account the day that that account creation was possible, as did you apparently!

Ohh good point! In fact, we shouldn't even tell them there might be hallucinations at all. I'm sure the IRB will be fine with that, I'll get right on it!

Of course this invites the wacky hypothesis that the mushrooms enable the person eating them to perceive something that is real but hidden somehow. I propose to test this by having multiple people take it in the same time and place, and then independently produce detailed descriptions of the specific tiny people that they see. They will either match or they won't, and then we'll have the answer.

We must get to the bottom of this!

The Atari VCS was $199 on launch in 1977, which is $1139 in 2026 dollars. By no means does this excuse the collusion and price gouging that is going on with PC component pricing, though.

Most large corporations hugely benefit from public subsidies of one form or another, it's time for an accounting of that and that should be translated into public equity.

AI companies in particular are standing on the shoulders of massive public investment in technology and infrastructure, it's time for the public to directly benefit from that investment.

I'd like to see it more diverse than just AI companies, though.

$499 is pretty nuts for this. Kids will hate it no matter what*, but if it were $99 they would probably sell way more than 5x the units. Seems like they think they are marketing to adults that have enough self awareness that they have a "problem" with social media, but something like this would make more sense as a first phone for a kid, but the price is too high for that.

For a $499 "minimal phone" I would want something crazy like an iPhone style form factor but with a color e-ink display and an open source OS, not this.

*Also, kids hating it is, you know, bad for the brand.

POKE 59458,62

Not even getaway drivers jobs are safe!

If this was an Apple thing the program wouldn't run at all after the cutoff, in this case it runs but you just can't create documents.

Also, the MacOS controls for digitally signed executables can be bypassed rather easily, so if that were the cause, users could just bypass it and run it anyway, which appears to not be the case here.

I work in IT at a hospital. Dell Latitude 3420 and 3430 laptops have to be held carefully to avoid having the plastic crack simply because of the weight of the laptop. We have had to replace multiple top and bottom panels because of this. If you pick it up while its open, with two hands towards the front of the laptop, and then so much as move it a little in the air, the plastic shell noticeably flexes. We have been trying to train users to close the laptop before moving it, and to always hold it more towards the middle to avoid this.

Yes, I know the user is ultimately at fault here, but this can be an expensive issue for organizations with lots of laptops and lots of users, so it is often worth it to look for better build quality. Fortunately, the newer models have been a bit better in this regard, but it's always an up and down cycle with how they constantly try to see just how much cheapening they can get away with.

I don't know who to root against more here. Can they both lose? Is that an option?

Splitters!

Especially with the upcoming M5 Max (and Ultra?) Mac Studio the Mac Pro with its eight (pretty much useless) PCIe slots is the odd one out. It doesn't make sense with the tightly integrated Apple Silicon chips, and unless they were going to make a whole separate line of more modular M-series chips for the high end it really doesn't have a place in the lineup that makes sense. I guess they could have considered putting M5 Max chips on daughterboards and made a motherboard with multiple slots for them, but it would have been even more ridiculously expensive to do that.

Having lost a spouse to a (much shorter) battle with cancer, I feel bad for his family.

That said, there is no way to operate that kind of business at that scale ethically. No matter what safeguards you put in place, there will be CSAM that makes it through, or material made with adult trafficking victims, which he profited from. I don't know how one can rationalize that.

It's also used in artist's pigments. Cadmium yellows, oranges and reds that really have cadmium in them are actually pretty expensive.