i find reddit to be particularly bad; a true cesspool of negativity. Seems to be mostly just bots and incels looking for someone to blame and/or somewhere to direct their unhappiness towards.

YTD Sales

- Lucid: 23.4%

- Tesla: -4.3%

- Rivian: -13.2%

Lucid is the big surprise there to me (though only ~8K sold).

DJI has been in this game a long time. They're already on thin ice with US regulators. These places are instantly recognizable and they're the preeminent commercial drone company. There's 0 chance that they did this illegally.

I, too, am biased but prefer Pixel's camera layout. Visually, I like the symmetry of the camera bump on the back of the device. Functionally, the symmetrical bump means the device will not rock on a table and it's a nice place to rest your finger and support/handle the device. A design decision that's unique and has some (small) utility.

Tier list:

Good: Pixel line, any phone with no camera bump Ok: iPhone Pro Bad: Samsung's many iterations, iPhone 2 camera vertical layout Horrible: iPhone 2 camera diagonal layout

For folks looking for some other options I bought this cheap server raceway: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008VFAP. Super nice to run the cables into the slots and then let the mess be inside there. I screwed one part into the desk and the cover I cut into 4 pieces so I can remove only one piece if I need to move cords around or whatever.

3d printed a few pieces for power supplies and a power strip but for the most part all cables go to the raceway. I had something similar to this original "underware" at some point but it was a pain in the ass whenever I changed cables/etc. So many extra holes in the bottom of my desk now

I rarely have to type/remember passwords anymore on Android or web and it "just works". I know there are password managers out there that ostensibly handle the password-saving thing and are browser-agnostic but when I tried it in the past I had issues on some sites and, when it did work, it felt clunkier.

Don't know anything about the tech -- just thought it was an interesting idea.

Not only will batteries get bigger, but chargers will get faster. Most of my stops now are 10-15min so often there's not really a need for any side-questing. Tesla recently added a supercharger-specific leaderboard for their in-car Mario Kart clone, which is super cool. I think we'll see some growth there for that kind of thing, but the market is obviously much lower than gas stations/etc

It's not perfect and people shouldn't expect that. But I don't understand how anyone experiences FSD and isn't amazed. It's not unsafe -- if anything my interventions are because it's being _too_ safe/timind.

Weather forecasting isn't perfect. But it's pretty good! And it's getting better! Just because weather forecasting isn't perfect doesn't mean I won't use it and it doesn't mean we should stop improving it.

That doesn't seem like very much

Different use cases. Different audio mediums. Different apps.

Also: I think social media has played a roll in this. A comparison with all of your friends, acquaintances, extended family, etc is all just a scroll away. Everyone's social circles are less intimate and far larger, both of which lead to you not wanting to be compared negatively (ie close, intimate circle -> who cares what you look like)

https://github.com/search?q=obsidian

CircuitPython is special-built for this exact task -- to make microcontroller work more approachable and accessible for beginners and/or projects with a small scope.

Anecdote: I used it a few weeks ago for a project that was small and had a tight timeline. As a beginner to electrical engineering with microcontrollers it was nice to not have to struggle through language syntax as well. This solved my use case perfectly.

There are also many more functional applications of VR than AR. Random examples to illustrate my point: * Can train on the "real thing" instead of watching videos, doing exercises/drills, or reading books (e.g. military, pilots, surgeons, construction workers). * You and your coworkers could all go to an "in office" meeting without being in the same hemisphere (i.e. it would look like you were all sitting in an office together) * Students wouldn't have to sit through another boring lecture to learn, they could go there and watch it unfold for themselves (even if the lecture content takes place over a large period of time!)

*by this I mean within the scope and context of whatever you're doing and not that the VR simulation would be created perfectly down to the last atom

The narrative that is often pushed forward is that they have different use cases. Bitcoin is a limited-supply store of value (analogous to precious metals). BTC blockchain isn't well suited for quick transactions, but it is the blockchain that is the most robust and secure. Ethereum, being Turing complete, provides an ecosystem on which other applications can be built.

Most elementary and high schools are underfunded, overcrowded, and probably half full of people who do not take COVID seriously at all.

"But kids can't get it!!" Being asymptomatic != not getting it. The fact that kids are often asymptomatic makes it WORSE not better. Kids are just going to unknowingly spread amongst themselves, amongst their families, and their communities.

Opening the schools is a good way to make her job a lot harder for a lot longer.

Take other payment processing platforms like Stripe as an example. Stripe charges $0.30 + 2.9% to process a purchase.

To help build your (and my) mental model: Price of item -> Stripe revenue (rounded)

$1 -> $0.33

$5 -> $0.45

$100 -> $3.20

Apple's 30% cut makes sense if they were expecting most apps to be roughly $0.99 (anecdotally, I remember this being true during the early days of the App Store) and the (presumed) few apps that cost more than $1 would be the "whale" developers that would subsidize Apple software development. But nowadays apps are a lot more powerful, feature-full, and development-intensive so higher prices are required for any hope of profit.

So the math you have is right, it's just that the path to profit is a lot harder when the ONLY way to sell your product is to have >=30% cut out immediately upon sale. Some stores set a minimum (e.g. $5) sale amount for using a credit card and those payment processing platforms have fees orders of magnitude less than Apple's App store