Christ this website is terrible. Blogspam to the core, scrolling even a little bit changes the url to random other articles on their site
Yeah it’s frustrating how many legitimate media outlets have made their websites basically unreadable.
Readit Newssmelendez commented on A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg outsideonline.com/outdoor... · Posted by u/areoform
It’s interesting how the Automat is basically the opposite of the Subway/Chipotle/salad shop model that now dominates casual dining.
Instead of, here are all our ingredients, which do you want, it’s a precise set of premade meals with no substitutions.
smelendez commented on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks blockclubchicago.org/2025... · Posted by u/mikhael
God forbid someone would use their own two legs to walk and eat that burrito at the restaurant /s
The extend to which some people get food delivered is absurd. I'm sure there exceptions and reasons and everything, but seriously.
It’s a vicious cycle. I’m not a big delivery fan myself but you go into some small casual restaurants now and everyone else in there is a delivery driver.
smelendez commented on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks blockclubchicago.org/2025... · Posted by u/mikhael
I'm not sure if you'd consider London to be a safe city but these things won't survive in London either.
People are already pissed off about delivery ebike riders, who disobey laws and ride dangerously. But there's very little you can do about humans. A helpless robot that is causing a hazard to pedestrians? A ULEZ-style strike force will be mobilized to drive them out.
And what about blind and partially sighted people? The place for wheeled vehicles in on roads. If you want to exist in pedestrian areas then make a robot that can walk.
Fundamentally I think they should just use the road and keep to the right (in the US), like other slow moving vehicles. They’d probably be fine in bike lanes where they exist.
Maybe they could enter the sidewalk for half a block at a curb cut like a cyclist would do to complete a delivery.
Dude shipped flamegraphs (which he also created in 2011) for cloud GPU loads and persuaded internal stakeholders to release the code as open source.
The "interviewed by the WSJ" line is for managers. Reading between the lines, I'd say he did really well and, if he didn't do better, it's because the organisation didn't let him.
> The "interviewed by the WSJ" line is for managers.
It’s a green flag for hiring managers for sure. Even a lot of valued employees wouldn’t be allowed to represent a big company to the WSJ for various reasons, even with a PR person sitting next to them.
smelendez commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
This should really be the end goal. We are worse off than cable right now with all these streaming services and worse , overlapping content.
It depends on what you watch and how much you watch.
Cable in its heyday was expensive, even for a low tier package with CNN, TNT, MTV, Nickelodeon and other non-premium channels. Most people did not have premium channels like HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Starz, etc. Even Disney was a paid add-on in the early 90s. Adding or removing those channels at the minimum meant calling customer service and in certain eras of cable technology could even mean waiting on a tech visit to provision physical descrambling equipment. And obviously TV was linear, not on-demand.
If you watch a series or movie here and there, and aren't a big TV viewer, the streaming era is much, much cheaper with greater choice. You can often even access what you want to watch through a free trial, a single-month subscription, or a free service like Tubi or Pluto. Movie rental options are much better, more convenient, and cheaper (often even before adjusting for inflation) than Blockbuster, and you have access to much better information before you pull the trigger on renting a movie you haven't heard of before.
smelendez commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480
I'm amazed 'set a reminder for x when I leave this location' still doesn't get the 'when I leave this location'. It's clear user expectation created internally (by siri marketing) and externally (by ai tools) has far outpaced capability.
Apple seems weird about that and I'm not sure why, maybe accuracy or creepiness factor?
A feature I would love is to toggle "answer calls on speakerphone" based on location, so that I can answer a call with my phone on the desk while I'm at home and not have my ear blasted off taking a call when I'm walking down the street.
smelendez commented on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse platformer.news/roblox-ce... · Posted by u/FiddlerClamp
I want to share a small story a close friend told me.
His son is eleven. Every Saturday he goes to tennis class. He's good at it, sure, but the important part is that he loves it.
One Saturday, though, he refused to go.
Why? Because there was a special Roblox event happening at the same time.
His father tried reasoning with him, the kid, agrees, a bit reluctantly.
But when the father walks into the bar, he sees a dozen kids all locked to their screens, playing the same Roblox event.
Roblox is an obvious form of manipulation, but honestly, we're not much better. Adults scroll under the influence of algorithmic dopamine loops. If the tobacco class action was once the benchmark for corporate harm, it may someday look tiny compared to what's coming (I hope).
Adults definitely do this too.
I bet adult tennis instructors get a lot of cancellations on Super Bowl Sunday. In certain circles, you're going to have a hard time scheduling a screen-free dinner party on Oscar night, or opposite the finale of a hit TV show.
NYC also has subway stations with intense commerce, e.g. the Columbus Circle, or some bits around Herald Square. As a regular user, I find this convenient.
Almost every smaller station shows ads on walls, too, and every train carriers ads inside.
I don't see why the subway specifically could not be self-sufficient, or even a profit center. Sadly, this is not so, because of very large expenses, not because of low revenue.
Brick and mortar shopping really seems to be struggling in the US since covid, though. It’s possible some transit systems could add malls above some of their stations, but a lot of cities still have persistently high retail vacancies, and even suburban malls aren’t what they were a few decades ago.
And urban malls and chain stores are frankly often depressing — awkward layouts translated imperfectly from suburban sprawl, along with obviously underpaid and burned out staff.
I remember teachers assigning “read chapters 4-6 by Thursday” and then giving a quiz to make sure people read and remembered the details.