They weren't recording in 4K last century.

One hour of 1970's-grade NTSC video is around 300MB.

More to the point, it's not like they archived 70 continuous years of video. Many local PBS stations produce an hour or less of video each week. This being a St. Louis station, however, it's probably somewhat more.

Name checks out.

Minnesotan, perhaps?

Surely they can just vibe is down to a reasonable footprint, right? Right?

The data they're trained on is a reflection of the very small set of data in the world that their creators choose to have them trained on.

More simply: They're a reflection of their owners, not the public.

They said the same thing when HN was awash in hype about NFT art and trading cards. Well, who's laughing now… Oh, wait…

(I'll just keep making Flip videos and Clubhouse tracks selling Bratz car bras on Web 3.0.)

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Money is the easy excuse.

The root of the problem is that many of them simply are not ready for college for a variety of reasons from parent coddling to defunded primary schools to the reduced ability to think abstractly and with foresight due to the lack of long-form reading.

I know on HN, every reflex is to blame money in one form or another. But there's plenty of blame to go around.

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Speed. Efficiency. UI consistency. Cross-program features that nearly every "framework" fails at.

On my macOS machines, I make an effort to only use native apps. I can't speak for what Apple ships with the OS, but AFAIK, everything I've added is native.

Perhaps it's just a placebo effect, but everything on my five-year-old personal M1 MacBook Pro feels just as snappy as the mixed bag on my two-year-old work M4 MacBook Pro.

Whoops! Thanks for the warning. I'm out.

Shame, too. I've been looking for a new text editor. Someone else in this thread recommended SubEtha. I'll take a look there, instead. Happy to keep my Mac Electron-free.

The term is quite a bit older than today's tech bubble.

It came out of hotrod car modification clubs that specialize in Japanese brands. Some consider it pejorative. (See: "rice rocket.")

Maybe he's in France, since this article is about France having to ban all telemarketing calls since the block lists apparently don't work.

Don't let your regional indignation get in the way of doing basic logic.

We have been chided over and over and over again on HN by the fine citizens of the E.U. that unsolicited telemarketing calls are purely an American problem, are completely unheard of in Europe, and that this never happens in "civilized" nations with "a functioning legal system."

Just make it obvious that they're not ordinary glasses, but recording devices.

Not just a tiny LED that can be covered, but something like the camera is on an arm that swings out in front of the wearer so there's no mistaking that a recording is in progress.

The fact that they're designed for stealth shows the nefarious intent.

You keep saying that reducing call time is the "win." It seems like that the only metric you're measuring. If so, your product is a failure, not a success.

This is HEALTHCARE. You don't get to do "rough around the edges." You don't get to dismiss edge cases.

I also work in healthcare tech. My company doesn't permit such things because people die. I'll write it again because it's a point that tech fetishes can't get into their heads:

People die.

Is your pharmacy one of your customers? Do you use your own product regularly?

Different products in different stores, I guess.

Here, and in every other American city I've lived in for the last 20 years, the tall can of Pringles is 50% air.

Do a quick web search, and you'll see hundreds of people complaining about it.

I once complained to the soap company, and got the expected response: They're sold by weight, not volume.

Your posting history indicates that you're not in the United States, so perhaps store shelf space isn't as valuable where you live.

The phrase you're looking for is "value engineering."

There are also other factors.

Part of the reason that Pringles cans are mostly air is so that the soap company that makes them can sell fewer chips, but retain the same amount of visual space on the store shelf. The product is the billboard. Some brands pay for that space on the shelf, so they're going to use every bit of it.

Is that some kind of achievement? Just look in the ads/coupons in the newspaper archive if you want to see the size of foods in the past.

In the United States, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks shrinkflation as part of the Consumer Price Index:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-12/measuring-shrinkflati...

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