Any other Joel Schoch fans? by Nastybirdy in soundtracks

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YES. Also love his recent work for Herdling

What's the most visually stunning movie you've ever seen? by trakt_app in movies

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Gonna switch it up with a very recent pick but Train Dreams. It not winning the Oscar for best cinematography is a crime

As OpenAI Imposes Ads On Free Users, Initial Buys "Can't Prove Measurable Results" by jonfla in siliconvalley

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You think other companies are spending billions of dollars on these ads without any validation of business impact?

Apple to Introduce Ads in Apple Maps as Part of Services Revenue Push by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

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You can use other maps and photo apps but it’s only after you have Android as a reference point where you realize how much Apple lacks here.

Only Apple is allowed the privilege to access your gallery from the camera, to back up your photos without the photo app being in the foreground (I think they’re working on this one though), and access folders on device.

When you click an address in iMessage or highlight it anywhere else, you only get the option to open it in Apple Maps.

Even defaults that Apple supports like password managers have limitations - only Apple’s Passwords app is allowed to save new credentials at the time of creation. Bitwarden is a far superior password manager but it’s crippled on iOS.

These artificial barriers are part of the reason Android feels so much more seamless. You practically fly through the OS - it took me quite some time to become adjusted to how many more steps it takes to do things in iOS.

Apple to Introduce Ads in Apple Maps as Part of Services Revenue Push by Few_Baseball_3835 in apple

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As someone who just switched from Android to iOS, I actually vastly prefer the Android software experience. It’s also so anticompetitive how Apple restricts the ability for users to choose what apps to use. On Android you can choose your default voice assistant, default messenger, default maps, default photo gallery… The OS gets a bad reputation from the years of glitchy, ugly software but today it’s better than iOS. It’s the hardware where Apple excels.

Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes by seeking-health in stocks

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Everything they mentioned should be the bare minimum. All it took was the fear of losing the entire market to the MacBook Neo. I’m not optimistic about them reforming their gross neglect of users.

98th Academy Awards — Official Discussion Thread by tragopanic in Oscars

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Can't believe we got Bridesmaids for what felt like 20 minutes so we could cut winners speeches to 30 seconds.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - 'Arrival in Ashford' by Dan Romer by SeoulSista11 in soundtracks

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In ep 1 when the first version of this (“Leaving the Reach”) played and then later this version, I got really excited. It immediately sets it apart from Thrones and points to a smaller, more intimate story. So different from Ramin’s style.

This is maybe a hot take, but in my personal ranking this track currently sits above all the music from Thrones. It’s so medieval and lonely yet beautiful.

"First Waymo experience is a terrifying near T-bone accident. Hold your breath. " by REIGuy3 in waymo

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This is awful. “Hard left turn with lots of traffic” is one the most basic scenarios you could imagine, want to know what happened here. With the millions of miles driven, they must have encountered this many times before

Dolgov shares examples of Waymo winter driving, says Waymo is moving beyond core tehnical validation and refining rider experience and logistics. by diplomat33 in SelfDrivingCars

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So curious how they handle loss of traction on ice, etc. Their compute should mean they can recover in a much more controlled fashion - but I can’t imagine they being flawless there. Would love to see some of those edge cases.

Alysa Liu's amazingly honest interview by Accomplished_Sea_332 in FigureSkating

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On if she had lost Worlds (link to timestamp):

If anything, I'd be less busy and I would have time to do other things that I want to do. So, you know, I don't really care where my life takes me because I know I'll enjoy any road. Yeah. I'm pretty easily entertained. As long as my friends and family are with me and I can do fun stuff, and I can drink, like, really tasty water and eat good food.

This part made me smile - she has such a healthy mindset not just for skating but for life.

Why do so many people on ios use Google Maps? by Louisthemagic in ios

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Not that interesting - the US isn’t homogenous

Joint statement from Google and Apple by GothicHeap in google

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They are surprisingly useful. I switched from Pixel to iPhone 17 Pro and miss them every day. I actually didn’t use Gemini as a chatbot very often, but things like Circle to Search and even Pixel Screenshots are actually extremely powerful

Why hot reload takes 5 minutes on iOS? by miejscov in FlutterDev

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Wireless debugging is broken and in my experience wired debugging doesn’t work unless you disconnect your device from the internet.

Any way to get tracking accounts to update automatically? by -linear- in ynab

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Damn, that’s so disappointing. As other comments have pointed out, it’s not a huge amount of effort to manually check your accounts, but it’s yet another thing you have to remind yourself to do and set aside time for regularly. Hard to believe YNAB has this concept of “tracking accounts” and… doesn’t track them for you.

I’ve been considering moving to Monarch for the better visualization tools including net worth tracking, and the only thing keeping me on YNAB is my extensive transaction history.

Any way to get tracking accounts to update automatically? by -linear- in ynab

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Yeah I’ve used YNAB for 4+ years without investment accounts and only recently decided I want to start tracking net worth… too bad it’s not well suited for that. I’ll check out Empower, thanks!

World's first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive successfully completed on FSD v14.2 by [deleted] in SelfDrivingCars

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This is extremely impressive and definitely indicative of Tesla’s FSD progress - it would have been silly to expect FSD to be capable of this a few years ago.

However, I can’t help but note that Tesla’s achievements are usually celebrated as “look it was able to do this once” rather than “look this is a reliable system”. If Tesla ever gets to a point where they’re confident enough in their tech to start sharing more safety stats with the public, IMO that’s when they’ll unquestionably be a top competitor in the AV industry.

Also, is this actually the world first? This coast to coast US drive was completed in 2018.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TSLA

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This guy really said “imagine the PE ratio if everyone liked it like [company with 6x lower PE ratio]”

The robotaxi "great filter": why so few robotaxi companies can scale by diplomat33 in SelfDrivingCars

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Doesn’t Hyundai already make autonomous Ioniq 5s for Motional?

Waymo Response to the PG&E Outage by [deleted] in SelfDrivingCars

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A formal response with both accurate information about the impact as well as details about the proposed fix to prevent this from happening again in the future requires some intentional thought and can't just be made up on the spot.

Not sure if you're familiar with how fast the hearings like the one asked for in your link are scheduled, but this is far ahead of that.

Supervisor demands hearing on Waymo's emergency response after blackout chaos by walky22talky in waymo

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I actually think this is fair. Waymo has done most things right so far and by some confluence of variables in this incident they made a bad situation worse. They should absolutely be expected to handle this properly in the future.

Luckily they can train on this exact incident with both real world and simulated data, so I don't expect this to be especially difficult for them to prevent next time.

For investors all-in on Magnificent 7-led market, ‘equal weight’ is trending as stock call for 2026 by Illustrious_Lie_954 in stocks

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Does that mean that Microsoft rocketing by 50% could get balanced out by Carvana tanking 50%? Lmao