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tyre commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil

idatum · 5 days ago

I love how people are passionate about fonts. Search for the 2017 Saturday Night Live skit with Ryan Gosling "Papyrus". It captures the obsession!

"It’s like they spent $300 million on the movie, and then.. They just used Papyrus."

tyre · 4 days ago

My friends and I still reference "Shakira merch" from that sketch

tyre commented on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending finance.yahoo.com/news/ap... · Posted by u/bgwalter

GeekyBear · 5 days ago

> I feel like you're getting at something different here, but my conclusion is that maybe the problem is the approach of wanting to monetize each interaction.

Personally, Google lost me as a search customer (after 25 years) when they opted me into AI search features without my permission.

Not only am I not interested in free tier AI services, but forcing them on me is a good way to lose me as a customer.

The nice thing about Apple Intelligence is that it has an easy to find off switch for customers who don't care for it.

tyre · 5 days ago

You can ad block the AI summary and have the same experience

tyre commented on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden andyljones.com/posts/hors... · Posted by u/pbui

_DeadFred_ · 5 days ago

Sending all the useless horses to glue factories in that time was so prevalent it was a cartoon trope. The other trope being men living in flop houses, and towns having entire sections for unemployable people called skid row.

The AI people point to post 1950s style employment and say 'people recovered after industrial advance' and ignore the 1880s through the 1940s. We actually have zero idea if the buggy whip manufacturer ever recovered or just lasted a year in skid row before giving up completely, or lived through the 2 world wars spurred by mechanisation.

tyre · 5 days ago

Horses were killed more often for meat that was used in dog food than for glue.

I did a deep research into the decline of horses and it was consistent with fewer births, not mass slaughter. The US Department of Agriculture has great records during this time, though they’re not fully digitized.

tyre commented on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden andyljones.com/posts/hors... · Posted by u/pbui

atleastoptimal · 6 days ago

Those are all expensive because of artificial barriers meant to keep their prices high. Go to any Asian country and houses, healthcare and cars are priced like commodities, not luxuries.

Tech and AI have taken off in the US partially because they’re in the domain of software, which hasnt bee regulated to the point of deliberate inefficiency like other industries in the US.

tyre · 6 days ago

If we had less regulation of insurance companies, do you think they’d be cheaper?

(I pick this example because our regulation of insurance companies has (unintuitively) incentivized them to pay more for care. So it’s an example of poor regulation imo)

tyre commented on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude j0nah.com/i-failed-to-rec... · Posted by u/thecr0w

torginus · 7 days ago

Not sure how good Claude is nowadays, but I remember using Claude 3.5 to do some fiction writing and for a while I thought it was amazing at coming up with plots, setting ideas, writing witty dialogue - then after a short while I noticed it kept recycling the same ideas, phrases etc, quickly becoming derivative, and having 'tells', similar to the group of 3 quirk, with some otherwise decent writing patterns showing up with great frequency.

I've heard the same thing about it doing frontends - it produces gorgeous websites but it has similar 'tells', it does CSS and certain features the same way, and if you have a very concrete idea of what you want out of it, you'll end up fighting an uphill battle with it constantly trying to do things its own way.

Which is part of the 'LLM illusion' - I guess. To an unskilled individual, or when starting from scratch, it seems great, but the more complex the project gets, the harder it becomes to have it contribute meaningfully, leading to an ever-mounting frustration, and eventually me just giving up and doing it by hand.

tyre · 7 days ago

My boy loves a neon gradient.

To be fair, a lot of startup websites look very similar. And the number of Stripe blurples out there was a pre-LLM brand meme.

tyre commented on The Anatomy of a macOS App eclecticlight.co/2025/12/... · Posted by u/elashri

jezek2 · 7 days ago

I solved it by putting a "How to install.rtf" file alongside the program.

Another alternative would be to bundle this app: https://github.com/alienator88/Sentinel

It allows to easily unlock it by drag'n'drop.

tyre · 7 days ago

What is the subset of users who are going to investigate and read an rtf file but don’t know how to approve an application via system settings (or google to do so)?

tyre commented on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

hamdingers · 7 days ago

Candy bars and soda sure whatever. Look at essentials. The dollar store near me charges $1.99 for 8oz of Tide, the Albertsons a single block further charges $9.99 for 84oz, the dollar store is over double the cost. It's the same story with soap, cleaning products, etc. A tiny container for cheap feels like a deal if you can't do the math, but it's not. Feel free to "test it yourself."

I'm lucky in that I have a real grocery store nearby to compare to. If you live in a food desert where these big chains have driven out all competition you wouldn't have a choice.

tyre · 7 days ago

It's not only the math but access to cash. Families living paycheck-to-paycheck struggle to make long-term investments. Paying 5x for larger quantities may pay off in the long-term, but if you're struggling to make ends meet and stretch dollars today, it might be overwhelming.

tyre commented on Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory research.google/blog/tita... · Posted by u/Alifatisk

alyxya · 7 days ago

The hardest part about making a new architecture is that even if it is just better than transformers in every way, it’s very difficult to both prove a significant improvement at scale and gain traction. Until google puts in a lot of resources into training a scaled up version of this architecture, I believe there’s plenty of low hanging fruit with improving existing architectures such that it’ll always take the back seat.

tyre · 7 days ago

Google is large enough, well-funded enough, and the opportunity is great enough to run experiments.

You don't necessarily have to prove it out on large foundation models first. Can it beat out a 32b parameter model, for example?

tyre commented on Building a Toast Component emilkowal.ski/ui/building... · Posted by u/FragrantRiver

oulipo2 · 7 days ago

Most of the time they're used for a quick visual confirmation that "your operation went right"

tyre · 7 days ago

That’s why confetti exists

tyre commented on Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thomasjb

starkparker · 11 days ago

If they made something that was just the sensor and logic board that they already manufacture, and sold it for exactly the same US$149 retail price _or more_, there are people in this thread who would buy it.

tyre · 11 days ago

That’s not enough volume for Apple. This is a company comfortable sitting on $100bn in cash.

If they sold 1 million of those, it’s not worth it for them. Even 10 million units likely isn’t something they’re interested in, and I doubt they’d see anything close to that.