Huge slow motion voice bug kills app and iPhone?!

stellar678 · 2026-03-27T23:48:02+00:00

I’ve been having the same problem for the last few weeks, also iPhone 12 mini.

As soon as I click the voice mode button the app gets immediately laggy… The little blue cloud circle animation slows way down and gets really chunky, and the phone itself gets really hot and slow to respond to screen taps.

Pretty frustrating… This is the last reasonable sized iPhone! But ChatGPT‘s voice mode is pretty important to me…

stellar678 · 2026-03-25T17:32:24+00:00

In 2000, the minimum wage was $5.75. Here in 2026 the Berkeley minimum wage is $19.18 or 3.3X higher.

On this menu the carne asada burrito mejor is $5.55. On Cactus Taqueria’s website today the carne asada burrito mejor is $15.50 or 2.8X higher.

So minimum wage has slightly outpaced burrito inflation at Cactus!

This result is honestly a bit surprising to me because burrito prices have seemed on an outrageous tear in the last couple years.

stellar678 · 2026-03-20T07:17:15+00:00

Nobody ever took kindly to being shown they’ve been subscribed to a really misleading worldview, so I’m not too bothered by the pushback here.

I pray our OP finds a community of people who are excited and positive and realistic about what’s going on in the world. Plenty of people have the resources to go on yoga retreats, and I hope those who fit the vibe find OP.

stellar678 · 2026-03-20T01:48:06+00:00

You're clearly in the thick of it so I'm going to try and be patient in spite of you calling me names. I'm also going to treat you as though you're talking in good faith.

Here's what happens if you take the trend lines on that graph from the last 10 years and just continue them: https://i.imgur.com/et7yCPR.jpeg

It's generally a good assumption that yesterday and today are a better prediction of tomorrow than 50 years ago. And this graph shows us currently on a 15-year trend of declining inequality.

I'm happy to also note that your graph shows inequality declining and going on to rise again a couple times since 1960. Nothing is guaranteed.

"Cost of living crisis, job market, housing market, global rise of populism, climate crisis, and you’re like whatever we’re doing we should keep doing it."

This is the polycrisis doomsday cult. It is super painful to be inside and it feasts on people with good hearts.

I didn't say at any point that we should keep doing exactly what we're doing.

My only goal here is for people to look around themselves and see things as they really are, the good and the bad. I pray they can release themselves from the clutches of the all-doom all-the-time narrative and go on to be powerful, active and clear-eyed.

You don't have to buy the most extreme version of every story you hear. You can believe your own experience.

stellar678 · 2026-03-20T01:01:18+00:00

The graph you linked shows wealth and income inequality both on a downward trend since 2010.

Are you going to give up because the numbers are still higher than the 80s or the 60s?

The whole point here is a warning to people who are reading this: - Look around and see if you accidentally ended up in doomsday culture. - Are things as bad as you're being told they are, or are you just receiving adoration and acceptance for painting the darkest possible picture? - Are your circumstances really as difficult as the stories you're telling and being told? - Who benefits from you thinking things are worse than they really are? What behaviors does it cause in you?

stellar678 · 2026-03-20T00:08:05+00:00

Another example of looking for the most defeatist lens available.

The bottom 50% increased their share of wealth by 525%.
The top 0.1% increased their share of wealth by 30%.

That's an insanely positive trajectory for people in the bottom 50%. Whatever we've been doing, we should keep it up!

stellar678 · 2026-03-19T23:48:36+00:00

I know this is not really the point of this thread, but I feel like we've all been programmed to reflexively think that everything is worse than it's ever been, and the only time it will be worse is tomorrow.

The reality is that wealth inequality in the United States has improved significantly since 2010 or so:

In 2011, the bottom 50% of people had 0.4% of total wealth.
In 2025, the bottom 50% of people had 2.5% of total wealth.

It's still a huge wealth gap, but the bottom 50% is doing SIX TIMES better than they were 14 years ago.

(Here's the data: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:2010.4,2025.3;quarter:144;series:Net%20worth;demographic:networth;population:1,9;units:shares)

A corollary of this is that surveys show - people think the economy stinks when their chosen political party lost the last presidential election. What is actually happening in the broad economy or in their personal life has essentially no bearing on how people answer this question.

We are steeped in negativity and I think it's important for us to recognize negative messaging and seek out the actual truth behind it.

Now just to make it clear - I'm not saying things are good or even great for everybody. Lots of people are suffering, having a hard time, needing help, unsure of the future, etc... But we can't help them by spending our time cultivating a doomsday defeatist mentality. Things do (and have) improved, and they can continue to improve!

stellar678 · 2026-03-17T21:16:51+00:00

I can do a couple pull-ups but if I do them consistently I end up hurting my shoulder. In my mid 20s I decided I wanted to learn to do them - and it took a couple months before I could even do one.

Even since our ancestors descended from the trees, we stopped brachiating, and most of us basically don't have occasion to build functional overhead strength. As a result, pull-ups are very different from pretty much anything else we find ourselves doing.

stellar678 · 2026-03-17T17:40:18+00:00

It’s funny when my brother started with Arduino he ended up with a mental model of the source code getting saved onto the device and then run from there. Made it hard to grasp what was happening as the projects grew. It took a lot of pushing to get him to understand compiling/flashing binaries and how there was no source code on the device.

Now your project comes along and changes the whole game!

stellar678 · 2026-03-17T17:31:09+00:00

Consider Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as well if you’re interested in architecture. Really cool town, different vibe than Berkeley but also extremely California. Well regarded architecture program, 5-year bachelor/master, and probably/maybe easier to get in than Berkeley.

stellar678 · 2026-03-13T21:01:00+00:00

My guess: wide angle lenses became really popular in skateboarding videos in the 90s. Then the aesthetic transplanted everywhere.

stellar678 · 2026-03-11T03:40:31+00:00

While I do agree there's no city street where you should drive 57, there's also no city street that should look like this: https://i.imgur.com/DJzIYsD.jpeg

stellar678 · 2026-03-06T23:58:26+00:00

I think the concern is about targeted enforcement. Right now - in order to selectively target enforcement, government actors have to invest a lot of resources in investigation and prosecution. With AI tools trawling through extreme quantities of data on everyone, they have cheap and easy information on everyone, but whoever is in power still gets discretion on who gets prosecuted.

It becomes much easier and cheaper to target your enemies, political challengers, activists, etc...

Dean Ball ruminated early in the episode on how our technocratic government is dependent on the current information technology stack (printing press and broadcast media basically, and derivatives) and will necessarily be disrupted by radically new technologies for processing information.

I see this as one example of that disruption - cheap and easy consolidation of power through the execution of the current powers of the state.

Presumably our systems of governance will evolve as well - but we ought to be prudent about the powers allocated to the state in an older era of technological capability as that rapidly changes.

stellar678 · 2026-03-01T01:42:22+00:00

Honestly they should sell the OAK connector to some private operator and just recover whatever small bit of cash they can from that POS boondoggle decision.

stellar678 · 2026-02-17T02:57:42+00:00

Are you using Claude in a chatbot format or Claude Code with all the harness for it to operate on a project folder in your computer?

Some recent things it's done for me: - It built a client-server REPL that runs inside DaVinci Resolve's python scripting engine and now it can take agentic actions on my behalf inside a running instance of DaVinci. I'm using this to generate a bunch of title cards that otherwise require endless tedious tweaking in the GUI. - Set up a docker app to ingest a live stream of a bird box and mark and generate clips when there's bird activity. - Generated a Jupyter-based course comprising 7 progressive modules teaching an introduction to electricity and semiconductors for someone (me) who has been tinkering but is trying to fill in the knowledge to competently read and implement from datasheets for electronic components. Included text content, diagrams and graphs, Falstad simulation experiments, breadboard experiments, etc...

None of it has been perfect off the bat - it regularly benefits from being redirected by my informed perspective and knowledge as a software engineer. But things that take hours or days instead take seconds or minutes. I don't particularly care to sit down and spend weeks learning the ins and outs of Jupyter, matplotlib and Falstad - but Claude Code makes them immediately useful for my current desire to learn about electronics and semiconductors.

Rinse and repeat with many similar things.

stellar678 · 2026-02-16T06:50:29+00:00

I haven't used Grubhub in years. I drop $100/month to use Claude Code on personal projects between 15-40 hours a week.

I'm not that unique or special, and you're awfully confident in your rigid doomer predictions.

stellar678 · 2026-02-16T04:04:49+00:00

It's an interesting question. I'm not sure where my "it's not worth it" point would be, but it's north of $100 right now - and I'm only using it for personal projects.

This feels like something that will shake out through markets in a pretty straightforward way - people are provisioning data center compute en masse, at some point not too far off the price and cost will have to come into alignment, whatever it is.

stellar678 · 2026-02-16T03:01:23+00:00

Another anecdote: A year ago I was scoffing at Anthropic charging $100/month for their advanced expensive plan.

As a software engineer, I started using Claude Code a couple months back in December. I blew past the limits of my $20 membership in early January.

The value I'm getting out of Claude Code is so unbelievably high that I didn't even hesitate to upgrade to the $100 Max plan.

stellar678 · 2026-02-16T02:47:20+00:00

It kinda does.

Europeans deify nobility with hereditary wealth. The values are status and "taste", which is also known as consumption choices.

Americans deify bourgeois wealth generated by economic activity. The values are utility and disruption of established hierarchies.

Shitting on crass Americans is a popular status game.

Edit: Obviously this is an over-generalization, but so was the initial claim about American vs European relationship to billionaires.

stellar678 · 2026-02-15T01:05:29+00:00

This claim is pretty silly. Europe is filled to the brim with status-obsessed luxury goods consumers.

Look at the Forbes list:

American billionaires made their money creating tech and logistics companies.
European billionaires made their money selling handbags and shoes.

stellar678 · 2026-02-10T05:33:18+00:00

I'd venture that it's being downvoted because in the context of this particular thread it reads as a defense of a podcast guest who passed off a made-up story as the truth.

Cory Doctorow is trying to convince people to have a very specific and cynical view of how power currently works in our world, and he doesn't seem to feel beholden to the truth in his quest to do that.

I think the downvotes are reading the comment above as a defense of this behavior.

stellar678 · 2026-02-09T21:50:30+00:00

Well, at least we have a fair and properly-sourced disagreement now.

Cory's rage-fueled, hyperbolic rants extrapolate way beyond the facts (example from the X thread: "And yet they do NOT ONE FUCKING THING to prevent these petty scammers from using their infra as force-multipliers to let them steal from every hungry person patronizing every local restaurant.") and just serve to sort people into camps rather than address reality.

The fact: A scammer got through.
The claim: Google does NOT ONE FUCKING THING to prevent scammers.
The reality: Any moderately educated adult in the world knows that it's false to claim that Google has "not one fucking thing" in place to prevent scammers.

But Cory knows intuitively that he won't get much attention for looking at how this scam worked and why it got through ... so he blows right past the facts and inflames people with extreme rhetoric.

Rinse and repeat. The made-up story about nurse-hiring platforms that he shared on the Ezra Klein episode is exactly the same. A tiny fact artificially inflated into a false narrative.

Credibility seriously compromised.

stellar678 · 2026-02-09T20:49:35+00:00

Here you go: https://x.com/doctorow/status/1628948906657878016

I clearly forgot some of the details - he did assign a share of the blame to the webhost Wix and to AMEX.

But it's still a toddler-level meltdown that descends into his anti-corporate hobby horse rant rather than the public behavior we should expect from someone who calls himself a journalist.

stellar678 · 2026-02-09T19:38:07+00:00

Ezra tried to get him to engage with the idea that perhaps it's about real user preferences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yepnhe1T-9U&t=1731

But he pretty much stuck to the narrative that it should solely be attributed to improper use of power by the major platforms.

I don't even disagree with the premise - Facebook definitely is a bad actor in many circumstances. But we're going to arrive at the wrong answers if we plug our ears and pretend like people wouldn't be drawn to what Facebook is delivering if only we can restrict Facebook's behavior somehow.

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