For many of the families I know it's less about the quality of movies than the cost and effort of going to the movies.
Going to the movies costs an extra hour for the round-trip to the theater, ~$40 for adult tickets, ~$60 for the kids (2h babysitter or movie tickets), ~$20 for concessions. Whereas watching at home on our 75" TV with homemade popcorn costs a tiny fraction of that, even including electricity and popcorn kernels and the amortized cost of the TV.
As nice as it can be to see a good movie in a theater, it's typically not so much better than watching at home that it's worth an extra hour and more than a hundred dollars.
Depends where you are. In Berlin we have around 20 movie theaters nearby. It costs 14 euros per ticket and the nearest theater is in a walking distance.
Yes we watch a lot of movies home, but there are multiple festivals every year curating interesting content.
This looks like any other git arcane incantation. If this is a common pattern and jj aims to make things easier, should probably be part of the core commands, no?
It's something that makes a specific workflow easier, a lot of folks that use jj don't necessarily use that workflow.
That doesn't mean it couldn't be a core command someday, but given that the alias works well for people, there's not a ton of reason to make a whole new command. You configure the alias and you're off to the races.
I used Arch for about ten years, and really appreciate CachyOS giving me great defaults, with the Arch Linux userland. I used to tweak my desktop a lot: nowadays I take the default KDE I can install to a new laptop in less than an hour with pleasure.
Well, I just updated my 5950x with 128 GB to AMD Strix Halo with the same amount of much faster RAM. It is noticeable faster, but what's better: the whole computer is tiny and sips energy.
I'm very happy I ordered this in the summer, framework delivered it to me early this month. I wonder will these machine just be out of stock now or the price goes up a lot...
Well... We had a ton of issues with DOCSIS until a few years ago, when they built fiber to the nearby pole, and the cable is just a few meters inside the house to the street. Before it used to break all the time.
Yeah, they will eventually bring fiber to the apartment. This is Germany anyhow, it will happen in the next 10-30 years.
Wait, I think it's the other way around. Claude will just go circles with bad decisions forever, never stops. Codex have multiple times told me it is not able to do this task, and stops.
I think this closer to the crux of a major problem. Seemingly people have vastly different responses even for the same system/developer/user prompts, and I myself can feel a different in quality of the responses depending on when I use the hosted APIs, while hosted models always have consistent results.
For example, after 19:00 sometime (GMT+1), the response quality of both OpenAI and Anthropic (their hosted UIs) seems to drop off a cliff. If I try literally the same prompt the around 10:00 next morning, I get a lot better results.
I'm guessing there is so much personalization and other things going on, that two users will almost never have the same experience even with the same tools, models, endpoints and so on.
That's the nature of statistical output, even minus all the context manipulation going on in the background.
You say the outputs "seem" to drop off at a certain time of day, but how would you even know? It might just be a statistical coincidence, or someone else might look at your "bad" responses and judge them to be pretty good actually, or there might be zero statistical significance to anything and you're just seeing shapes in the clouds.
Yeah, there is definitely a huge gulf in subjective experiences, and even within the same user experience. There are days when Claude makes so many mistakes I can't believe I ever found it useful. Strange.
I've certainly seen Claude Code get into bad loops and make terrible decisions too, but usually it's a poor architectural decision or completely forgetting important context; not "let's rewrite V8 from scratch" level of absurdity.
We had a Samsung dishwasher. Took exactly 5 years for it to spill water to the floor.
Now we have a Miele, as we do have their laundry machine and fridge already. The laundry machine is soon 20 years old, been doing laundry around 5-6 times every week and works still like new. The fridge is supposedly built by Liebherr. It feels really high quality: the door handle feels nice and locks the door properly. There are multiple different temperature areas that hold the temperature quite steady.
The dishwashers have certain tiers. I don't know if it makes sense to pay for the TwinDos detergent system: you can wash dishes without filling detergent. The detergent is proprietary and quite expensive. Sadly if you want to connect the dishwasher to your home assistant, that feature is only in the most expensive models. The door that opens automatically when the program is done is great though. You can do the eco program which is quite slow, but it spends the last hours just the door open, and in the morning you have clean and dry dishes with minimal water and energy use.
Samsung is bottom tier across the board for white goods. If it uses fire, electricity, and/or water you're best looking elsewhere. There's plenty of room to buy something decent without having to pay the full price of Miele. I do love my "old" Miele stick vac tho.
It's not that much more expensive though. And the quality just feels better. If you love to spend time in kitchen, these small details make you appreciate the time even more.
Yeah premium stuff feels nice, as it should given the price. In this case "not that much more" is somewhere north of a 50% premium over mid-range models from the leading brands. If you're cross shopping Samsung then the premium is much larger since they're constantly on deep discount due to their well earned reputation.
I paid $1,100 for my Bosch 500 series dishwasher a couple years ago. The current generation looks like it's on sale for as low as $800. Yale Appliance shows Miele dishwashers currently starting at $1,400. With that kind of premium it should feel better. And, yes, the Bosch feels super cheap.
Miele washing machines start at $1,600 about twice what an entry level LG would cost. While I would never buy an LG, they are generally well regarded in terms of actual washing performance.
We paid 1000€ for a Miele dishwasher, the cheapest model is 800€. You can get a Bosch for 500€ right now, but these are black Friday deals (the site says the original price is over 1300€, but I doubt they never sell them that expensive). Although they seem to be on sale quite often.
The Miele laundry machine was 700€ back in the days and the fridge 1400€.
So, it is not that much more expensive here in Germany.
My fridge (AEG/Frigidaire) cost about $600. I miss a couple things about my older fridge, but the current one is significantly more efficient and still maintains (durable, easily repairable) mechanical controls. There's a zero percent chance I'd find $1,000 of value in a luxury refrigerator. And a nearly 100% chance that any out of warranty repairs will be more expensive with the Miele.
Sure, for a few thousand dollars more I could get a dual compressor Bosch. Or I could spend the money on pretty much anything else. Miele is sold as a luxury brand out here and while luxury white goods are nice they command a hefty premium.
I like my Miele old school stick vac, but it was made in China just like everything else these days… and I wince every time I have to buy bags and filters for it.
Yep. Same for the other direction: there is a very strong correlation between identity politics and praising AI on Twitter.
Then there's us who are mildly disappointed on the agents and how they don't live their promise, and the tech CEOs destroying the economy and our savings. Still using the agents for things that work better, but being burned out for spending days of our time fixing the issues the they created to our code.
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