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The Cybertruck was always the Homer car.

The technology is amazing, but rendering lifelike animation seems such an antithesis to what the medium allows. You literally can do anything and for some reason the choice is to constrain it to reality.

The things that Don Hertzfeldt did with line drawings and a vacuum cleaner embrace the medium so much more.


Animation is also called the illusion of life [1], which when done properly always looks better than recreating real life.

But I also get it. It's easy to fall in love with the technology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Animation%3A_The_Illusi...


Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my most memorable animations due to the wild physics-defying reality it creates.

I was not familiar with Don Hertzfeldt and was doing a little digging and wow, what a unique and creative style.

It's hilarious how Apple can't compete in the space and so many people here are just saying "Smart move by Apple" as if they had another choice at this point. It's not like they haven't tried.

If they wanted to, they could throw massive amounts of cash on it like Google and Facebook are, with the latter poaching Apple employees with 200$ million pay packages: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/meta-poac...

But why on earth would they do that? It's both cheaper and safer to buy Google's model, with whom they already have a longstanding relationship. Examples include the search engine deal, and using Google Cloud infrastructure for iCloud and other services. Their new "private cloud compute" already runs on GCP too, perfect! Buying Gemini just makes sense, for now. Wait a few years until the technology becomes more mature/stable and then replace it with their own for a reasonable price.


Why did they even have Ruoming Pang on staff? Because they were trying. Failing, and then saying we're waiting is objectively hilarious.

No, they couldn't, because all current and future ethe training hardware is already tied up by contracts from the frontier labs. Apple could not simply buy its way in given how constricted the supply is.

You can rent data centers for this stuff nowadays and Apple can easily outbid any competitor.

> newer and better technology

Most newer technology hasn't seemed better in a while. It's almost impossible to find a phone with a removable battery, or one that's easily fixable, and has a headphone jack. My galaxy S3 was all of those things. USB3 is good though.


The meaning of better isn't universal unfortunately. My iPhone is considerably better than my Treo 650 which had those features. I wouldn't go back.

Wild cows won't really happen, aside from them being easy prey, milk cows can't even feed their young because they produce so much milk that they drown them. They have to feed the babies with a bottle.

Do you have a reference for that? Some googling says it is a myth, which sounds right.

Been to a dairy farm.

Idk my Dad worked on a dairy farm part time when I was a kid and I've never heard of that. That's just not how teats and udders work. There is nothing here about how the cow makes too much milk and will drown the calf.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/youngstock-management/pros-c...


This is what the dairy farmer told me when I asked why they bottle feed.

He may have been pulling your leg. We bottle feed the calves formula, because to allow the calves to drink the milk would defeat the purpose of raising dairy cows. Also teat cleanliness and health is huge; suckling causes problems. Incidentally, wild cows actually are a thing in a bunch of far-flung places. I saw them in the Aleutian islands (some genius brought them up there thinking he could get a beef business going and just left them when it of course failed) and they're mean as hell. There's a bunch of feral cattle on the Big Island of Hawaii as well, and TIL there are ~5 million stray cows in India where it illegal to kill them for religious reasons, which creates a massive problem for transport infrastructure, and gave rise to possibly my all-time favorite wikipedia article title:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_vigilante_violence_in_Indi...


> And there's physical limit to how much physical activity one can be doing

Do you hang out with many 5 year olds? They're made of energy.

> I could have him do math but it's a lot more boring

I did Math all the time with my 5 year old and he loved it, but then I also love math, and it's easy to make fun.


> I did Math all the time with my 5 year old and he loved it, but then I also love math, and it's easy to make fun.

I have 4 kids; two of them also found math fun at age 5, the other two did not. I do not believe my ability to make math fun differed significantly between the attempts.


Fair points, but understand that this is a multidimensional issue, with each dimension being a continuum.

I know plenty of people using the exact same arguments to argue that kids should not waste time with Lego. There are better physical activities.


people are definitely crazy.

It's no crazier than saying the same things for video games. :-)

and then they reset the settings regularly and you have to redo it.

that'll only be the case if you actually write the book so that the LLMs have that info. Until then they can't regurgitate your know-how.


Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good.

Who cares if many can get around it, if the majority can't or won't, then it kills the network effects.


I don't think this is good though. It's a police state masquerading as "SAVE THE CHILDREN!"


yes, the police state is preventing Mark Zuckerberg from being a trillionaire.


I'm sorry. What?

This legislation is very much giving more power to the government over what its citizens cannot do. The real impetus is control by the powers that be. The ideal citizen for an authoritarian would be fully controllable via digital means. A digital id that is networked with services is a wet dream for authoritarians.

What does this have to do with limiting Zuck's net worth? Because less kids will see less ads? How much will this reduce his net worth? If we took licenses from kids and had them wait until 18, would you be claiming this is to prevent Musk from gaining more wealth?


The Australian law, as written, is not good. It names 10 specific platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc) that must comply with the law. That means any social network that is not explicitly named can still happily serve children.

I would agree with this except Apple had done a terrible job of keeping up with standards ala IE for the longest time.


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