I’ve always wondered what “resin” means on watch ads. Presumably it’s a kind of plastic, why not say that?

In Casio’s context it means “molded plastic” and is used to imply good ergonomic fit.

In the larger scope, resin is plastic in an unfinished state. For wearables, it’s commonly used as a marketing term to imply it fits well.

Thanks.

I had wondered if it meant some kind of thermoset / epoxy cure-in-a-mold, to set it apart from injection-molded thermoplastic.

Weird wording. What other kind of plastic is there than 'molded'?

For marketing reasons

> passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass

I have strong nostalgia for the eMate. Yes, it had a nice keyboard (at least comparable with the era); smaller pitch than standard keyboards. And, of course, resitive pen-based touch screen.

It _was_ a PDA with a keyboard though. It had a good office suite, a web browser, printer drivers, and a vibrant developer community. But you probably still expected to dock it with Newton Connection Utilities on a computer to add software and get data off it.

Perhaps, but isn't the contemporary tech stack orders of magnitude more complicated? Doesn't feel like a strong motivating argument.

TFA mentions polyfills and libraries.

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185

I was brought up on the refrain of "aren't computers silly, they do exactly what you tell them to do to the letter, even if it's not what you meant". That had its roots in computers mostly being programmable BASIC machines.

Then came the apps and notifications, and we had to caveat "... when you're writing programs". Which is a diminishing part of the computer experience.

And now we have to append "... unless you're using AI tools".

The distinction is clear to technical people. But it seems like an increasingly niche and alien thing from the broader societal perspective.

I think we need a new refrain, because with the AI stuff it increasingly seems "computers do what they want, don't even get it right, but pretend that they did."

We have absolutely descended, and rapidly, into “computers do whatever the fuck they want and there’s nothing you can do about it” in the past 5 years, and gen AI is only half of the problem.

The other half comes from how incredibly opinionated and controlling the tech giants have become. Microsoft doesn’t even ALLOW consent on windows (yes or maybe later), Google is doing all it can to turn the entire internet into a chrome-only experience, and Apple has to be fought for an entire decade to allow users to place app icons wherever they want on their Home Screen.

There is no question that the overly explicit quirky paradigm of the past was better for almost everyone. It allowed for user control and user expression, but apparently those concepts are bad for the wallet of big tech so they have to go. Generative AI is just the latest biggest nail in the coffin.

We have come a LONG way from the "Where do you want to go today?" of the 90s. Now, it's "You're going where we tell you that you can go, whether you like it or not!"

Flash-backs to dial-up and making sure I had my list of websites written down and ready for when I connected.

Pop culture characters like Lt. Commander Data seem anachronistic now.

It was Second Technician Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSc., SSc. all along.

I thought it was Queeg

On the other hand, computer use in the star trek universe now seems downright prescient.

> Is curl "autonomous"?

Only when you supply -L

More like "the farmer was sent to live on the farm"

And the stuff in "~/Library/Application Support/" and/or "/Library/Application Support" . It's a well-defined place.