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Same, it's very weird. Only ever IG.

Got one a day or two ago again actually.


Same here, I got one on January 9th.

Kind of feel like watching Spiderman tonight and I don't know why hehe.

In all seriousness I heard some good things of dark sky. My current weather app is windy.com and I believe it's more built for surfers and such (??) - not sure what the best android weather app is.


If 1 through 6 are drawn you'd probably have to share your winnings with many more people than most other combinations.

Given how much people are avoiding 1 through 6, I think you'd probably be better off picking that.

This is interesting but IMO it's very likely to be chosen more often than average.

If you choose a random number, then for each other player your chance of picking the same numbers as them is the same as your chance of winning: in the case of Powerball, 1 in 292,201,338 = 0.0000000034. If you instead non-randomly choose 123456, then for each player that actively avoids 123456 your chance of picking the same numbers as them only decreases by 0.0000000034 (from 0.0000000034 to 0). But for each player that actively chooses 123456, your chance of picking the same numbers as them increases by 0.9999999966 (from 0.0000000034 to 1).

We could model this more precisely by looking at the other players' choices as semi-random with some combinations weighted higher and some lower, but you see my point: even if lots of people are repelled by 'obvious' sequences like 123456, this can be outweighed by a very small number being attracted to them.


I do see your point, but I doubt this probability analysis was done by the people who say "what? The numbers will never be drawn in a sequence like that". It's not that they want to avoid common numbers.

Agreed! I don't think it undermines your original point, and IMO the linked site could do some good by giving people a better intuitive sense of just how low the odds are.

Kind of related to this - we meet with Google Meets and have its Gemini Notes feature enabled globally. I realised last week that the summary notes it generates puts such a positive spin on everything that it's pretty useless to refer back to after a somewhat critical/negative meeting. It will solely focus on the positives that were discussed - at least that's what it seems like to me.


I don't think I could survive on MacOS without AltTab.


Give me an 8000mah battery. That should take up some more space.


Now your phone is a lot heavier, thicker where it's being held by hands, and the battery lasts longer than anyone needs since we all sleep next to a power outlet at night.

It's funny to me how this thread is a demonstrator of this phenomenon where a tiny minority of enthusiasts think that companies selling tens of millions of units don't know what they're doing. You think Apple and Samsung haven't tried giving focus groups thick and even phones?

The camera bump is at worst a marketing feature for the feature that customers value most.

I would also like to point out that back in the Nokia PureView 808/Lumia 1020 days, enthusiasts thought that big camera bumps were a cool thing. The fact that your Nokia had a real camera with a real xenon flash bulb made it better than the competition.


Fair point. After leaving my comment I realised what would likely be better is an easily replaceable battery. It may take up a bit more space but would IMO be worthwhile implementing.

I set my phone to only charge to 80% because I'd like to see how long I can use it for before itching to replace it - and if I make it to 3+ years having charged its battery to 100% overnight every day it won't have great staying power any longer.


Raycast is also coming to Windows at some point - https://www.raycast.com/windows


It already is on Windows and I've been using it for 1+ months and it is awesome.


Being open source is a big deal to me in tooling. So much so that if google's launcher isn't at least source available, i'll pass


Can probably set up some kind of AI workflow that exports your bookmarks -> attaches them to an LLM chat -> asks the LLM if anything across your bookmarks can be useful for the problem you're tackling/googling/etc.


Sounds a bit like Intel's Optane which was seemed great in principle but I never had a use for it.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/mem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint


Used a lot with giant SAP HANA systems


If everything on show at open sauce were those stupid 3D printed dragons I'd agree with you. But the maker movement is massive and interesting and goes very very deep.

You can self-learn as much about engineering as you'd learn at university. Most kids eventually pivot from wanting to be astronauts/influencers to something more realistic.

IMO tinkering is an amazing hobby which will benefit you in whatever direction your career ends up going in.


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