I wish the recommendation engine was modular - like you could somehow plugin your own algorithm. It’s always seemed poor to me.

Years ago i ended up in a Microsoft store and they had the Surface Studio (https://www.engadget.com/2016-11-17-microsoft-surface-studio...) and the Surface Book (https://www.engadget.com/2015-10-21-surface-book-review.html) and it occurred to me that a decade prior I would have guessed this to be Apple’s future hardware.

Rumored 18.8" foldable touch device with macOS, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43409284

On the one hand Tim Cook has done better than I expected, but on the other hand I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the company

Never before has a dog made me feel so lacking as a father /s

I've seen parents complain that it sets an unrealistic expectation for parents. That nobody could spend all their time entertaining their kids whims and games the way Bandit does and how you don't often see the parents really putting their foot down or even having to work. I think some of the push back is guilt/regret that it can't always be like that. It's better to see it as something to aspire to when possible than an expectation that things will be like that all the time. The show is also careful to show the parents struggling at times too and tries to encourage parents.

It’s not unrealistic!

I also can entertain my kids for 8 minutes a day!

It's just doggies singing songs, mate.

It’s not. And the fact that you think they sing songs makes me think you’ve never watched it.

The post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.

The misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).

No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.

Sure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people.

What's robotic ink?

Probably robotic ilk using the more common modern usage of ilk - https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ilk

.. along with an unintended cool in-joke about how dogs can't type.

Yeah, at first I thought it was 'ilk', but then I suspected that there was yet another exclusionary in-joke hidden somewhere.

Ah I missed that. Fair enough then.

Sorry, I didn’t get the reference. I’m a moron. My bad.

Don't worry, just for fun.

I'm pretty certain that's a quote from Bandit.

Ah fair enough.

I like the walk around the block with a change in lighting. I always preferred an office within a 20 minute walk or bike ride but considered a similar walk around the block approach even writing from home but never got the routine set.

Health insurance, car payments, car insurance… I might be overlooking something. But with health insurance, you have the monthly payments PLUS you have costs on top of that when you actually go to the doctor/hospital.

I have “good” insurance for a family of 4 and on top of my monthly insurance premiums (maybe $500/month? I honestly try to ignore it) I paid at least 3,000 in additional. But one kid did do a 2 week hospital visit.

In NYC, it’s $500 / month per person for a Bronze plan with a $6000 deductible.

The upgrade to the M chips was shocking to me. My intel suddenly felt like it was defective.

Well, it was. Intel MacBooks had really crappy thermals, getting awfully hot and throttling at any hint of system load.

it always was. you people just gaslit yourselves into thinking it wasn't. intel macbooks were always pretty bad

You obviously have never used a PowerPC based Mac... Or else you would know that the inter macs were a massive leap forward.

The dick is humanity’s logo - wherever humankind is, dicks are being drawn

I assumed this was coming once the app became a subscription (is it still a subscription?)

But with smart TVs you just need to not log it into the network, right? No one is buying a computer or phone and not giving it network access

My point is device manufacturers will just add Thread radios in their shitty spy devices and they will gain network access via Apple connected devices whether we like it or not.

That's what Amazon Sidewalk was designed to do. Your Alexa devices that already have network access would just gracefully allow other sidewalk devices network access too.

There are theories that smart tvs connect to open networks if they’re offline.