"I hope, considering your [pause to check personnel file] over nineteen years of service to the firm you will understand that these measures are in no way a reflection of the firm's feelings towards your performance or your character"

Yes, that was for a base model that wasn't produced, but we are a long way from the promised stats on the upper trim. Promised to be under $70k, or about $87k in today's dollars (nope), 500+ mi range (nope, 300), payload 3500lbs (nope, 2500), tow rating 14000 (nope, 11000). By 2021 (nope).

It does come close on two of the promised stats: 0-60 in under 3 seconds and top speed just under the promised 130. I'd much rather have it be good at being a truck than being a massive hunk of pointy steel that can be thrown around with that much torque.

Judge Mehta has suggested he'll issue a verdict by August. Then either side can appeal. There is still a lot of legal road ahead.

Wildly speculating, I'm curious if the current Supreme Court would want to set precedent around the interpretation of antitrust law w.r.t. the consumer welfare standard, and whether there's anything in this judgement that would let them do so.

edit: readability

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920

edit: removed talk of downvotes, just providing the tweet.

they do some investigation further down but I thought this amount of telephone was amusing for a memo that is rumored to come out later today.

> Sources have also informed MusicTech that Future will be closing Computer Music, Total Guitar, Guitar Techniques and Guitar Player magazines.

full disclosure: worked there [edit: google] a while ago, not in search, not in AI.

though it's not at all their style. And realistically I'm glad they're being methodical and prioritizing safety.

Back ports: 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports (Thunderbolt 5 on the top $1399 tier), HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet

RAM can be upgraded to 32GB on M4, to 64GB on M4 Pro

10 GbE looks selectable on any of these, +$100

"We’re always experimenting with different ways to connect our users with high-quality and helpful information. We have partnered with a limited number of creators to begin to explore new recipe experiences on Search that are both helpful for users and drive value to the web ecosystem. We don’t have anything to announce right now.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-patents-tech-tha...

I was impressed that when Jetbrains raised prices, it seemed a reasonable amount, they gave a few months' notice, and allowed people to prepurchase three years in advance at the old rates.

I'm hoping IDEA and the all products pack continue to survive basically as-is. Jetbrains looks to have launched a couple overlapping enterprise SaaS products, the AI integration, and increasingly specialized individual IDEs.

Over time DaVinci Resolve went from a hardware-software system costing $X00,000 to having a software-only version for $1500 in today's dollars to having two tiers, a free version and $295 "studio" version that is also bundled in with BlackMagic hardware and cameras.

($800,000 to Zero - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvP5_HFQSk)

I suppose a half-million-dollar hybrid system might not be off the shelf. For things individual users could actually (edit: realistically) buy, the perpetual Adobe Collection license was $3k in today-money.

For Mac users, Final Cut Pro Studio 1 was $1299 and Logic Studio used to be $999, plus paid major version upgrades; probably multiply by 1.5x for inflation; now they're $299 and $199, or IIRC $299 together in a bundle for students, and they've each received free updates for a decade.

There's also a difference between retirement savings and net worth. I'd guess there was a jump in "house poor" millionaires over the last few years.

The Fed has a Survey of Consumer Finances which can graph net worth broken down by perentile. You're right that even $1M net worth is not the majority, but top 25%ile:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm?mod=arti...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...

Probably more millionaires in the last few years with inflation though.

This is all US-centric; the author, Richard, is in Japan; I'm not sure how net worth, savings, retirement, or taxes are in Japan.

yep, some do need to be marked discontinued, like "baby yoda"

some do work here but I'm on Chrome without too much JS blocked: "Cha Cha Slide," "blink tag," "askew," "drop bear."

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs

GMail also complained about direct-attaching a locally-built, unsigned exe file to an address that I'd never corresponded with. To be fair this probably should have caused suspicion :)

As another data point, I have several manually-uploaded zip and 7z files of my own documents and content, both encrypted and not, and never had a problem.

The majority of my Drive usage by bytes is encrypted backup pack files uploaded via API by Arq Backup or rclone. That's all worked fine for many years.