It didn't stand out to me on first read but pangram gives it a high confidence rating as being written by AI.

You were right to call out. I upvoted your comments.

IDGI. How is a company that owns a bunch of infrastructure you almost have to use to put your service on the internet not more profitable such that they have to do layoffs?

Unlike the other hyperscalers, they don't attempt to wring every last dollar from their customers' wallets.

While it's a rumour site:

> Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.

Was somewhat famously parodied in a naked gun movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NJspRcfYM

The lights up on top will show a walk sign when it's waiting for a pedestrian to cross before proceeding.

Oh I didn't see anything like that, have they always had them or is it a new thing?

But thank you, I'll google it to know what to look for when I'm next in SF :)

That combined with the parent's post is, perhaps counterintuitively, somewhat concerning.

The proper technique for yielding to pedestrians wishing to cross is to start slowing down early, as if you were planning to stop before the crossing. That sends a clear signal to the pedestrian they're good to start crossing. Then you're free to speed back up. This is very comfortable for the pedestrian and the vehicle never needs to stop, so the slowdown is minimal.

That Waymos apparently don't act this way and seem to need to send an explicit signal to pedestrians sounds concerning to me, even if its ultimately safe.

Waymo does slow down as it approaches stop signs (usually where crosswalks are) and it will slow down if there is a pedestrian entering the roadway (crosswalk or not) since it doesn't want to crash into them.

The explicit signal of a driver noticing you (eye contact) is replaced by the signal above the vehicle. Are you not equally concerned that pedestrians have to get an explicit signal from drivers who are legally required to yield or stop??

Ah, so this particular pedestrian crossing wasn't at a stop sign (we were at the big historic army place out by the Golden Gate bridge) so that might explain it.

Please don't link to LLM generated crap.

I particularly enjoyed (hated) "... is now the _least RAM browser_ ...".

Reminds me of a childhood friend of mine who always said "it looks very 3D" when he meant "the graphics are good". Pissed me off back then, and apparently still does.

It's hard to say whether it's AI generated or just bad writing, but my eyes kept sliding off of it. The bolding for emphasis could be a sign it's LLM output though, whatever bot was popular to use for reddit posting a few months ago loved to randomly bold parts of its responses.

Most clothes washer cycles are about an hour, is the motor really averaging 800 watts over that time?

The EU Energy label on the first (more expensive) washing machine I looked at said 440Wh for a cycle, so 800Wh for an average one isn't unreasonable.

There are tons of important health effects of exercise beyond caloric balance.

It splits revenue out to 3 categories, "Productivity and Business Processes", "Intelligent Cloud", and "More Personal Computing", with windows as one of several things in the 3rd group. How did you figure it out as a 5th place revenue source?

Search for this: "Revenue, classified by significant product and service offerings"

You can also kinda read the 3 categories as office, azure, windows. But that is a gross oversimplification.