Patricia Arquette’s car was most disorienting to me. This woman was a high level manager/exec at a very successful company, surely she can afford more than a rabbit.
it's not clear where Severance takes place exactly. But it is wintery and has universities and decrepit fishing towns. So if it's supposed to be New England, i think this makes sense. There are a lot of very successful people in New England who drive old VWs and Subarus.
The office building is a Bell Labs building in Holmdel. The aesthetic of the town feels a bit like upstate New York. But the town of Salt Neck (200m away) was filmed in Newfoundland. So they are going for permanently cold and remote but with familiar elements.
But the cars are not normal for any of those places in the modern era where people own smartphones (as the characters do.) In fact, my parents used to own Ms. Cobel’d exact VW Rabbit in 1983 (in silver) and it was not a great car for snow. They replaced it with multiple successive 4WD Subarus as soon as that was an option. The RWD Volvos are better and kind of timeless New England cars, but I’d imagine those year/models have passed into rust by now except for a few that were exquisitely pampered and kept away from road salt.
I’ve been considering this to get media on my Surface tablet. There’s no “legitimate” way of having offline content on a Windows tablet which baffles me. Netflix, Prime, Disney… none of them will allow you to download content for offline viewing on Windows.
I started building a client too but the fact that one needs to handle a user’s creds directly just felt off to me. Don’t understand how this is an accepted practice.
An idea I’m working on is allowing the integration of APIs by writing a prompt. I’d have a large number of APIs of different types and I’d discover the best endpoint and execute it and return the results. First time your code runs would “compile” the prompt, so subsequent execution would run O1.
This could be used by a human or an AI agent.
let temp = Get(“current temperature in NYC in F”)
Simple scenarios like these are easy, but looking at more sophisticated stuff as well.
For the first time ever, I managed to run Linux on a primary machine for a year. Before that, either issues with software or hardware would consistently have me through my hands up and give up.
While it was pleasant while it lastly, I ended up reinstalling Windows on my Surface Pro 9 since the machine began randomly freezing after installing a set of updates (I was running Ubuntu with SurfaceLinux kernel).
Surprisingly, Windows with WSL has been more pleasant to use than I remember. I haven’t run Windows in 10+ years, but so far im encouraged to continue trying it.
In 2025, being able to afford lobbies is the barrier of entry. “Playing fair” and simply building better products isn’t exactly the name of the game. If it were, they would’ve been a lot less billionaires at inauguration. OpenAI didn’t “invent” this, they’re just playing the same game everyone else is.
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