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Sports fans watch a lot of live TV.

I live in Austin (well known for its high energy prices relative to the rest of the state.) I’m at $0.09 for the first 300KWh (I’m including all fees/markups/charges in this calculation.)

For the next 600Kwh it goes to $.10, and then the next tier I used 882KWh at $0.12.

I find the rates reasonable. Texas is also leading the way on both solar and wind adoption. This is keeping the power supply at peak much more stable.

If you live in Austin, there’s a $4.17/mo charge you can add to your bill for unlimited charging at Austin Energy-owned Level 2 chargers. They’re installed all over the city. Many people commenting here don’t live in Texas and are unaware of initiatives like this.

https://austinenergy.com/green-power/plug-in-austin

Why would you spend dev time on this when you can set up something like Bitwarden across the org and have all the same benefits without wasting precious dev time on it?

FWIW I’m on 1Password and it hasn’t had any of these issues, either. I would not spend dev time on this as a startup/software company founder.

I have owned Apple Watches since the Series 2. (Currently on an SE 2) I have always used third-party watch bands I get off Aliexpress--much cheaper than Amazon if you're patient with shipping. Zero issues with the latch mechanism.

Many years ago, there was an image that floated around with Craigslist and all the websites that replaced small parts of it—personals, for sale ads, etc. It turned out the way to beat Craigslist wasn’t to build Yet Another Monolithic Craigslist, but to chunk it off in pieces and be the best at that piece.

This is analogous to what’s happening with AI models. Sam Altman is saying we have reached the point where spending $100M+ trying to “beat” GPT-4 at everything isn’t the future. The next step is to chunk off a piece of it and turn it into something a particular industry would pay for. We already see small sprouts of those being launched. I think we will see some truly large companies form with this model in the next 5-10 years.

To answer your question, yes, this may be as good as it gets now for monolithic language models. But it is just the beginning of what these models can achieve.

I guess it depends on the city. I live in Austin (metro population 2.28M), and most places price sandwiches around $10 or less here.

Here’s Thundercloud, a popular chain (often described as “a step up from Subway”):

https://thundercloud.com/main-menu/

I also checked Jersey Mike’s, another familiar chain, and a regular size “original Italian” is $9.95 here.

I will say that generally Texas tends to have lower prices on food than coastal metros like NYC/SF/LA, but the airport prices mentioned in the article for NYC still seem absurd.

I run phone repair shops and the app starting up slowness is often caused by a failing battery.

In fact, at our shops, on older iPhones, I can test the battery state by opening the camera app. If it takes 10-20 seconds to open, it’s usually the battery causing it. (The other cause is storage being close to full.)

This won’t help the app resetting issue, which the author correctly identifies as a RAM problem (that I also encounter on my personal iPhone 13 Pro. Apple is horribly stingy with RAM even on the Pro models.)

In general, if you use your phone daily, I recommend getting the battery replaced every 2-2.5 years.

As a former Cobalt employee, it made my day to see someone resurrecting old RaQs! What a fantastic piece of equipment for its time. I worked there in 1999 through the Sun acquisition and then at Sun for a little while before I started my own business—a web hosting company, started with a glorious rack of RaQs, of course. :)

You mean the passing of Right to Repair? Completely unknown at this point. We're hoping it will be helpful to raise awareness of independent repair and offer more choice to people who want to get their devices repaired.

iPhone batteries have underneath them strips of adhesive that can be peeled up using a screwdriver rolling in a motion like you would twirl spaghetti on a fork. This isn't glue.

Certain older MacBook batteries were glued down. But now, even on newer MacBooks, the batteries are held in by similar removable adhesive strips. All of this is a step in the right direction.

Believe me, Apple has done a lot of things to make third-party and independent repair more difficult. I'm not super thrilled with them. But saying Apple is gluing batteries or screens down when they're not is where I feel it's important to step in as a repair shop owner and explain what is actually going on.

It definitely helps to heat the phone for a bit to loosen up the gasket. We have a blue heat mat that helps with this, as do most repair shops.

I had to go back and look since my knowledge dates back to around the iPhone 4/4S (we've been running our shops since 2014.) Only the original iPhone was glued together. The gaskets started with the iPhone 6s, to my memory. The original gasket is peelable, so it typically gets destroyed when you open the phone, but they are cheap and pretty easy to replace. If you buy a DIY replacement iPhone screen, it will usually come with it.

OK. We literally repair these for a living. You and I may have differing definitions of “glue”, but the water seal gasket is not what I would call glue. It is a sticky gasket that is peelable and removable. It can be replaced, and in fact we replace it when we do repairs. Think of it like double-sided tape.

If you watch videos of people doing iPhone screen replacements, you can watch them peel it off easily and then replace it when they put the new screen on.

I am a bit surprised that someone would want to argue with a person who runs shops that do this for a living, but maybe this explanation will help other folks understand.

Also, I can’t reply to your other comment, but the iPhone 14 that is sold in the United States does not have a SIM tray.

Most phones are not glued shut, including iPhones starting all the way back to 4/5. iPhone batteries are also not glued in. Source: We run independent repair shops.

An aside, but I really hate how the tech and media industries have so many unintuitive acronyms.

I am highly tech-savvy, as I would assume are most people on Hacker News. I have no idea what FAST and AST are in your comment. By context of you saying “ad free” I can guess that “AS” may mean “ad-supported”, but I have no idea what the F and T are and why they’re different.

Yes, I know I can “just Google it!” But by virtue of Google being useless these days, Googling “fast acronym” is all pages about strokes.

This is how tech shoots itself in the foot (yes, this is a general rant.) Use a bunch of acronyms no one understands, and then build a search engine that makes the meanings impossible to find.

Hopefully this will be better in the future. But I am not sure it will if people continue to use acronyms so frequently.

https://archive.ph/mBEXx

Your username contains “googl”, and 9 days ago you commented on a post about Google stock options with an insider perspective. It sounds like you either work, or have previously worked, at Google. I would advise disclosing this if you’re going to write a comment about YouTube ads.

Here’s what the author, Tom MacWright, has to say about it (which you can read on his blog, as long as you don’t click on a link from here):

“If you’re lucky, you end up being good at a few things. If you’re really lucky, those are also the things you like doing. I’m good at writing articles that get upvoted and discussed on Hacker News, or news.ycombinator.com. But I don’t like it.

Writing on the internet can be a two-way thing, a learning experience guided by iteration and feedback. I’ve learned some bad habits from Hacker News. I added Caveats sections to articles to make sure that nobody would take my points too broadly. I edited away asides and comments that were fun but would make articles less focused. I came to expect pedantic, judgmental feedback on everything I wrote, regardless of what it was.

Writing for the Hacker News audience makes my writing worse.

I don’t like what Hacker News has become – or a lot of the web, for that matter. But I’m part of the discourse. I’ve written critical articles, mean tweets, silly comments, the whole lot of it. It’s impossible to separate one thing from another and neatly place blame. But it’s simple to notice a thing you want less of and turn it off.

So I can flex the freedom of an independent blog by embracing what seems good and pushing away what I don’t like. Redirecting Hacker News links away from this website makes sense to me. Traffic to this website doesn’t pay my bills. Disengaged readers just looking for a hot take don’t return to my site, or recognize me when I write something else, or write blog posts of their own and bring new creativity to the indie web.

Maybe posts will be less viral (I can hear, as I write that, someone writing “you haven’t written a hit in years, Tom!”), but writing viral posts or maximizing hits wasn’t my goal when I set out and it isn’t now.

Anyway, the RSS feed works great. The HTML site works pretty well. I tweet most new articles I write. Business as usual, just less of the orange site.”

In case anyone else has this issue, at least it’s pretty easy to turn off:

Launch Device Manager.

Go to Mice and other pointing devices.

If you’re using a Bluetooth mouse, go to Human Interface Devices.

Right-click on your mouse and select Properties.

Select the Power Management tab.

Find the option: Allow this device to wake the computer. Uncheck it.

Oh, right. I agree with you on that front. I see it working this way:

If you are standing on top of a mountain, right now you can’t send anything.

With Apple’s upcoming announcement, you’ll be able to send an iMessage.

If you try to send a SMS, it just won’t go through—-same as it would today.

I hope Apple allows it for all messages, personally. But I could definitely see them restricting it, especially at the beginning.

I wasn’t looking at this from a technical perspective, more of a business/finance/operations perspective.

This is Apple we are talking about. They wouldn’t make this play without some form of vendor lock-in. They will probably choose to lock in based on hardware (“must have iPhone 14 for this capability!”) — but I wouldn’t be surprised to see them lock in on the software side as well.

If I were Tim Cook, I might play both sides. “Bandwidth is limited, so for now, this will only work with iMessage.” This gives them room to open it up later for more good PR, and allows them to test the reaction of having it only work with their proprietary software.

I have no insider knowledge here. I follow this space closely due to co-owning an independent repair business that primarily works on Apple products.

I believe this is SpaceX trying to stay one step ahead of Apple.

Anyone else remember this strange rumor about iPhones including satellite capability a year ago?

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/29/iphone-13-to-feature-le...

Now you have Apple’s event in a couple weeks themed “Far Out” with space pictures.

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Apple announced something similar, possibly with Globalstar instead.

Of course, Apple’s solution will likely only work with iMessage. So of course Musk comes out first, with the “we are doing it too, but it will work with any phone.”

Interesting times.

You certainly can, and more technical folks will have an easier time with it. A happy medium is an independent repair shop (not Apple affiliated.) Check Yelp near you for one with good reviews. Try to avoid franchises.

Many laptop screens are that fragile. We repair computers and it’s quite common to see a broken screen because someone closed something inside the clamshell accidentally. I’ve seen everything from pencils, pens, erasers, paper with staples, paper clips…

causing the slow demise of all the entertainment content that they love

No. Piracy is not a cause, it is an effect. If people can’t get what they want easily, they resort to piracy. Piracy went way down with the advent of Netflix. Now it’s going back up, not just because movies and TV are no longer available at a single place, but also because of the insane restrictions placed on that media. Want to watch offline? Can’t do that with a lot of shows. Paying but there are still ads? Common. It’s bordering on ridiculous, the hoops people have to jump through just to watch content “legally.”

More info about the “drum computer” this was written on: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/lgp-30

Previous discussion where another person tried to replicate this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20484330

I co-own third party repair shops (we are not Apple certified since we do more complex repairs) and the screens for the 6S-XS have 3D Touch on them even if they’re not replaced by Apple.

I will say this, in 50,000+ 3D Touch iPhone screen repairs (conservative estimate) I don’t recall any complaints about non-working 3D Touch. I think probably 0.1% of iPhone users even knew it existed.

https://pomofocus.io/ is a nice-looking website with Pomodoro timers.

The Ads service has a different, and much more thorough and aggressive, anti-spam algorithm than most Google services.

Yes, that’s correct. They are basing it on the card issuer.