You mean like Netflix making shows “second-screen” friendly? I doubt lack of focus ever really drove longer articles. It pushes them shorter and more towards bulleted lists and headlines only if anything.
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Padding out the paragraph count just gives more spots for ads in between or more eyeball time for banner ads, and even if a site isn’t explicitly going for that, all the journalists (real or not) and LLMs are just trained to only write that way now.
I can only speak for me, but as a nuclear proponent, I’ve always liked solar power too. I’m more just annoyed by the wider misconceptions about nuclear power that have held it back for decades.
Maybe their family really didn’t use it that often. Even in the 90s, I don’t think my family used the landline phone more than once a day on average. I think that would have only been different in the early 80s and before due to not having answering machines to filter the incoming calls down to those we cared about.
It’s not a bet at all. Sony already has hard numbers on gamers with mixed physical and digital libraries, how many people are using discs to watch movies, etc.
The vast majority of customers have heard zero of this news and aren’t principled in their purchases or easily compromise on them, so it’s safe enough to assume that anyone who primarily buys physical games but has bought digital before will still fully transition over out of necessity.
Only Sony knows these numbers, but whatever they are, they’re one-sided enough that Sony is already killing off ways for them to backtrack, and Xbox isn’t far behind.
Not theory. I copied their comment straight into search and got this: https://mp1st.com/news/report-sony-digital-transition-decided-for-some-time-disc-manufacturer-switches-optical-microlenses
(There’s a more prominent Verge article that’s paywalled though.)
For better or worse, the vast majority of people think in terms of local communities, not a global one, so this is still a massive ask. UTC already exists for the industries that need it (and people chronically online enough to have more global than local social connections).
Those links aren’t smoking guns.
The first details troubled rollout of software upgrades, “upgrades” being the key word. That’s really just the nature of complicated software development in general. The previous complete package of software is already up-to-task and running it longer than desired isn’t a huge issue.
The second says they can’t fix multiple problems simultaneously, which is again another common software development reality and a very different statement than not being able to fix things.
The third flat out says the opposite in that many fixes actually have been completed, just not all of them yet. It’s an adjacent issue, but the headline also frames the secret keeping as a bad thing when that’s just a sensible thing to do.
Technically, they’re both supersonic, not hypersonic, but yeah, that’s just semantics. The actual important detail is that the SR-71 is twice as fast (or more) as the F-35. There’s a lot of testing you can do with the former that’s just not possible with the latter.
The F-35 has nothing to do with this, but just to correct anyone’s misconceptions, F-35 loss and readiness rates only sound bad because that kind of coverage gets clicks/views. When you add back in the context of comparison to other aircraft and the total number of airframes produced and hours flown, the F-35 is actually performing great.
Not even that. “Abuse of genAI” is what ruined it. The tech itself is great.
I’m not sure if you’re meaning that as agreement or disagreement, but yes, that’s another way to phrase the same phenomenon.
That’s true, but if you have a 20-year-old item that is still working and a different 5-year-old item that is still working and you know nothing else about them, the statistics do work out that the former will likely maintain its working condition longer. It’s obviously not a hard rule, but as a rule of thumb, it exists for a reason.
Please ALSO make a giant 7" one, Moto. Thank you!
If the situation really was “speeds like everyone else,” you’re right that it wouldn’t be a problem. 5 to 10 mph over is that range, maybe 15 in the right conditions. He posted himself going 96 mph in a 35 mph school zone (155 kph and 56 kph respectively for our metric brethren), which would still be a massive problem even without the school zone part. It’s extreme enough to no longer be about one incident but the mindset persisting behind it.
I use an adjusted version of this format, and yes, one of my adjustments was putting all steps including initial setup together on the right.
Also, for many ingredients introduced together in one step, I simply order those ingredients top-to-bottom in whatever order it’s ideal to add them in. I can’t think of any recipes where that alone wasn’t enough, but if I did need to provide more info, that would either be done in the text or justify splitting that step into multiple steps.
My (probably) autistic brain loves it.
I think it depends on how much of a verbal versus visual thinker you are. I’m very much the latter, and I’ve been using the Cooking for Engineers template for years. One nice thing about it is still having an ingredient list for shopping or mise en place and steps together without repeating a bunch of text.
Also, bigger recipes will usually have parts that are done concurrently, and the boxes with those steps will stack vertically. The example is one sequence all involving the butter, so that’s already really the worst case scenario for this format.
Ah, judging by the upvotes, that’s the more common interpretation too. I guess I’ve just not been subject to enough obscure bugs to have ever made the association.
That’s a very… unique interpretation honestly. I’ve never seen anyone associate this meme (including all the “we trapped lightning in a rock and taught it to do taxes” variants) with the fragility of complex tech, only the idea that microprocessors are such a ridiculous technology that anyone reaching expert level is back in the state of wonderment.
Well, it’s already easy to make a visually convincing fake photo if you’re motivated to do so. For this picture, some local models do make more convincing text, but if the angle and stylization are still too much, you could also just remove the tell entirely by asking for the napkin to be removed, replaced with another object, or changed to a flat color, floral design, etc. Tells only still exist at the point because the prompter either doesn’t care or doesn’t know.