*Looks over nervously at 2 max configuration Mac Studios*

The market for expansion cards has definitely slipped.

(And this doesn't compare to running the full model on the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 machine, but it is what it is.)

It's got all kinds of bad.

The core people who built the actual OS don't work on Windows now at all, they are either Research or they work on Azure. During the Panos Panay era, everyone left in Core stopped working on Windows and "Windows" took over everything. The people who were left all have left Microsoft.

So you have a lot of people who have little experience with actual OS development and lots of "application" developers working on their own little bits but ultimately they are not OS guys.

So they dug a gigantic hole and there's nobody to dig them out of it. I have no clue how they are going to fix that. (And most of the Azure people are simply long out of actually doing actual development and mostly only care about their "own" stuff.)

None of the normal Apple products work anything like that. Airpods work like that because they are tiny.

It's an InFO-PoP chip, the DRAM and the Logic chip don't even have substrate between them. The Mx are also packages similar to that. The M5 Pro/Max in particular use the latest called SoIC-mH.

And unfortunately at some point, your Intel and AMD chips will also be built that way. The separation between the RAM and the processors cause a lot of technical problems that require lots of workarounds.

To be honest, that sounds impossibly high. Even when I was a child (1980s) I didn't know that many adults who watched movies.

I guarantee you that people answered this because of the questions they were asked:

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2026/03/SR_26.03.06_movies_questionnaire.pdf

I 'd be willing to be people who watched movies on Netflix/etc would also say that they went to a theater to watch a movie. This is why surveys are not research.

They have grounds to sue, but I don't think it will matter since Anthropic is making bank since the it was first announced.

They have increases subscriptions like 15% since the announcement, so I'd say it's 100% a positive so far.

Collabora is the main contributor to LibreOffice non-Online version.

Collabora was the main contributor to LOO.

You're late to that: https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/products/velis-electro/ - Day VFR Type Certified

Turns out "cheaper always wins" ...

Who are these companies though? Even the tech companies that were supposedly eliminating people with AI turned out not to be eliminating those people for those reasons.

Do you work in the real world? Like the one where people choose to work when sick and there's nobody turning any thumbscrews on them? Hell I went to work Friday despite being sick so that I could be there while my co-workers handed me candy. That was entirely internal feelings that didn't come from my boss.

Sometimes they are valid, but they are often nearly impossible to happen in practice (and usually local only.)

I will add that on the "upper end" of reading, those of use who read enormous quantiles of books, we by and large had migrated to ebook subscription services and there's been recently a bit of death of those.

They were fine and fun through most of the pandemic but then apparently AI because just "good enough" that those books that were kind poorly written by amateurs could suddenly be written by AI. Sadly those books are just terrible.

Maybe we'll go back to paperbacks, but I'm not sure. Hard to say when you read about 320 books a year. (For about 30 years now.) Japanese eBooks are still a bit better, but there's less fluff books in Japanese.

They use 3d scanning to confirm the suits are "right sized" and yes it's sports for minor physical characteristics can have performance enhancements.

Having bigger shoulders in luge makes a performance difference. Having bigger cakes in skeleton has a performance difference. In women's sprint events, there's a performance difference for having bigger cakes as well.