When I was younger I realized I was falling into specific intellectual traps, and I've noticed LLMs adopt every one I attempted to thoughtfully eradicate in my own reasoning. You can often sound smart by adopting a contrarian position without actually putting a lot of thinking effort into what you're considering. It's a quick escape hatch to sound intelligent; quickly identify a contradiction or a counterargument and state it confidently. Adopt a contrarian viewpoint. You don't have to be right but often you will sound intelligent.

I assume this is just the natural result of asking LLMs to produce text and paying someone three cents to evaluate if it's a good response or not.

>quickly identify a contradiction or a counterargument and state it confidently.

How does this make this a "contrarian position"? At least I don't understand the negative connotation. To me this makes this "contrarian" at least a bit smarter than the one parroting the popular opinion...

The smarter thing to do would be to steelman the original position and not assume that the weakest of counterarguments — stated confidently and without much further analysis — sufficiently refute it.

I like this notion of being contrarian in what it means to be contrarian.

Was not lost on me...

"on the contrary, it was not lost on me..."

on the contrary, it was not lost on me...

>To me this makes this "contrarian" at least a bit smarter than the one parroting the popular opinion...

If it is kneejerk contrarianism how is it smarter?

Because they spotted a contradiction in the original argument that the other person did not consider before making their argument?

It's like reading an entire article and pointing out a typo without engaging with any of the context. It's easy to find a single fault and point it out loudly, but if you don't even try to engage with the intent of the message, you aren't providing anything of substance.

I would not consider typo to be a contradiction.

It took a long time for me to fully learn the difference between being contrarian and being constructive.

Totally, so many people like to bring up a counter-argument and expect you to fully disarm it, but very few people will justify whether their argument is actually relevant or reasonable to the discussion at hand.

Not sure how this is even possible but the trending box for Taiwan just shows the Thailand trending searches in a different order... And worldwide trending searches are predominantly... in Greek?

That's probably where the accounts they use are from.

So the buyout price is never going to match depreciation, and in almost all cases keeping the device doesn't make sense.

The flip side of this, Apple gets more control of the resale market, pushing more buyers into the new device market.

In theory it lets them solve any market problems that emerge where independent resale markets let high quality devices cannibalize sales of new devices.

This is the AI we were promised

Same! I distinctly remember seeing portions of this wallpaper that led me to believe it's procedurally generated and not simply a collection of video files, and had to rewatch it to confirm. There are several points where the date and time match the system date and time down to the second.

It features the current date and time with seconds, so it must be rendered on the fly.

The assets and some? of the scripting for it are in a bundle at:

/System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions/WallpaperMacintoshExtension.appex

Can see the time and date being added here I think:

System6ControlPanel.program

    //
    //  System 6 Control Panel
    //  Macintosh 40th Anniversary
    //
    //  Copyright © 2024 Apple. All rights reserved.
    //
    //----------------------------------------------

    start simultaneous
        scale out
        let image = "System6ControlPanel"
        ...
        ...
        add time at 267, 165 name "Geneva12"
        add date at 274, 239 name "Geneva12"
    end simultaneous

Linked spec sheet is labelled as 2.5 years old, chip is 6 years old

I'm being pedantic but I liked your comment. Most TVs today are giant ARM computers, ~95% of TVs ship with ARM Cortex but only about 35% have some variant of Android.

Most LED backlights are wired in such a way that when one LED fails it bricks a significant portion of the panel backlight. You'll knock out entire rows or huge portions of neighbor backlight LEDs when one fails. Basically it's a cheap way to ensure a whole row of LEDs are the same brightness but the tradeoff is one LED fails and it looks like 5% of your screen went dark.

It seems like a good beginner-intermediate thing that'd be approachable to learn with a basic multimeter and beginner level soldering skills.

Small UX thing: I would have loved to not had to inspect element to grab the placeholder text to test it out :)

That worked. Really well!

But, white on black is really ugly. Even black on white or a simple inversion would be an improvement.

I think it could benefit from the ability to pause and see the transcript, and make edits before the video is generated.

Chalkboards are white on black. You basically have chalkboards or whiteboards to draw from. Not sure either is landing in the Louvre. Both have their aesthetic uses. I'd imagine chalkboards for academic topics, whiteboards for business, but different ages and cultures will feel differently.

I bought the color package, enjoying it. It's a personal preference. Hopefully the founders get a variety of feedback and can make a judgement based on multiple datapoints.

X is so large that it can simultaneously be a giant dumpster fire, the most toxic social network ever to exist, and still have room for honest discussion and good communities.

Gives me some hope for Bluesky, etc. I don't think you need to be Twitter scale or have global network effects to work. Your community just has to choose a particular platform and show a preference for it. You get miniature network effects once your community adopts it.

So if your favorite community doesn't like a particular platform, I don't think they're stuck there, just because it's the one with global scale. They just have to organize an exit.