JayPalm

Continental is folding their automotive LiDAR division and is laying off everybody.

The quick maths indicates that to achieve this, they’d have to launch 22.5 satellites per week every week for the next 18 months until that deadline. SpaceX seems to be launching at nearly twice that rate, having launched [1565 satellites](https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/10/30/live-coverage-spacex-t....) in the first 10 months of this year.

After seeing this post, I went over to the ATS subreddit to see how they’re tracking the news. The denial is palpable.

A phone is just a computer. Why should they not be allowed to sell a computer that is locked down? There are lots of other computers for sale, some of which are locked down some of which are not. There’s nothing inherently or obviously anti-competitive about selling a computer that has lots of guardrails, and, in fact, that’s how they have distinguished their product from others.

And of course, the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Is Hyper next? Makes me a bit worried about Pydantic too, and a several other open source dev tools (like ruff, and all HTTP GUI clients) that have taken VC money.

Who is John Galt.

They should have just bought the entire business for $3B. Would be chump change for them.

Enter, The Horseshoe

Do you not consider the software part of the product? By any reasonable measure, the software is the product, and the hardware enables that product to operate.

Just imagine all the corruption that would be possible!

Good management and a functional structure?

Perhaps you haven’t heard of the Uyghur genocide by the CCP in Xinjiang. The local population very much does care about their local time zone (and language and culture, other things the Chinese government has stripped away from them). It may be one of the few places where you’ll get a different answer to the question “what time is it” depending on the ethnicity of the person you ask, and, if asked, you might get arrested for answering with the “wrong” time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time

Did you ask ChatGPT to define research before it after you had it write this comment?

Did you miss the part where their “research” is literally a ChatGPT session.

Yeah, this occurred to me too. Guess we'll likely be inundated with 90's websites for a few days.

This is a good point that I didn't think of until now. Bi-directional "connections" in the style of Facebook and LinkedIn feel very antiquated now.

There’s been the subreddit simulators going back to at least GPT2.

At least the user name is mostly relevant.

Dang, TurfGPT has gotten really good!

It cannot. This is its result: ```svg Copy code <svg width="100" height="100"> <defs> <pattern id="rope-texture" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="10" height="10"> <rect x="0" y="0" width="5" height="10" fill="#333" /> <circle cx="7.5" cy="5" r="2.5" fill="#333" /> </pattern> </defs> <path d="M20,50 C20,30 50,30 50,50 C50,70 20,70 20,50" fill="url(#rope-texture)" /> </svg> ```

Would you like a [visual representation](https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...) of how incorrect you are? App Store revenue is part of "Services", which accounts for just shy of 1/5 of the company's revenue. The rest is by definition hardware. Certainly services as a growth division has been a big part of Apple's story to investors, but to say that App Store revenues is close to hardware revenue is clearly daft.