HDR vs no HDR makes a big difference in colours to me. And if you compare compressed low Bitrate footage vs higher Bitrate there will often be artifacts or color banding, particularly in darker scenes or wherever you have gradients.

It ofc also depends on what device you are watching it on. But I would say that yes if you have a movie (made up example) that is compressed to 5gb total size vs 25gb vs 70gb for the uncompressed Blu-ray quality, then the first jump will be a very noticeable difference assuming you have capable hardware. Whereas the second one will be much much less noticeable and also come with other drawbacks that need to weighted off, e.g. storage requirements.

Is that actually the case? I was under the impression that at least under US teenagers the iPhone usage was insanely high. And those are far from cheap, so at least there parents seem fine in spending big.

Also the cited article mentions $250 for the se watch vs $200 for the Samsung (although I guess that one might have bigger discounts). $50 difference doesn’t seem large for the “Apple tax”.

To me the plastic part would just seem like a risky gamble. Apple has the premium image and it might cheapen it. Especially on a device that is constantly visible, has skin contact and isn’t used with any case.

The question is if they actually need more land or just more resources. I imagine they already get the latter for dirt cheap, so why bother actually invading.

Doesn’t look great:

• No progress with health features, which seem like the most exciting evolution.

• Who truly needs the larger screen and faster chip. Especially the former will presumably reduce battery life, something that very much matters with watches.

The company is also working on a new version of its lower-cost Apple Watch SE model, which it last updated in 2022. One idea the company has tested is swapping the aluminium shell for rigid plastic. It’s likely to lower the cost to something that could better rival Samsung’s cheapest watch, the $199 Galaxy Watch FE. The SE currently starts at $249.

That really doesn’t sound like Apple.

I’ll go based on letterboxd release year. Often times it’s hard for me to judge towards which year I should count a film that might have had a limited release in the previous year, but then a wider cinema run later.

So far I’ve enjoyed:

• Dune part 2: epic sci-fi and that is exactly my jam, so thus far my favorite movie of the year.

• Civil war: Imo flawed in some ways and not quite what I expected (expected it to be more social commentary and less about war photograpy), but overall still very much a recommendation and good movie. Alex Garland has made some of my favorite films of all times (ex machina and Dredd, also enjoyed annihilation), but it didn’t reach those heights, so I’d rank it below those.

• Exhuma: usually not a horror fan, but I guess I very much enjoy the Korean ones. More direct compared to “The wailing”, which it somewhat reminded me of, but that had more of a mystery aspect.

Movies that don’t yet have a wide release, but that I already saw at a film festival:

• Black box diaries: Documentary by the journalist Shiori Itō about her own sexual assault case and her battle against the outdated judicial system and social views in Japan. Sadly I missed the screening with q&a afterwards. I found it interesting and overall well made, definitely gets a recommendation for whenever it gets a wider release later this year.

• All we imagine as light: Drama set in india. Feels like comparatively I’ve seen less movies set in India, so it’s always nice to get a view into other cultures. Overall I enjoyed it and can also recommend it to people that like this type of movie.

Also watched “the substance” (body horror) during the festival, but while decent that just isn’t quite my cup of tea.

Some movies that I found “meh” so far include Furiosa and monkey man, but there is also a lot that I haven’t seen so far.

Yeah the cast looks pretty solid, my only uncertainty in that regard is to what degree Denzel/Pedro Pascal disappear into their respective role vs me seeing them as these familiar actors. But that might be a subjective problem

Besides that any mention of Aftersun automatically gets an upvote from me, such a great movie and performance by Paul Mescal.

the only way another candidate can be successful is if Biden himself drops out and endorses (and indeed continues to campaign for) them.

And he had 4 years to decide on and build up a successor, but chose to not do so. And neither did the democratic party.

His age and the related issues can’t be a surprise to anyone, so i really don’t see why there should be a sudden change in direction.

But are those notifications and pop ups directly saying something like “from now on we will start to train ai on your information”?

Or is is one of the hundredth change of terms and conditions that people usually just skip, which mentions the major change in some fine print. Or a pop up designed with dark patterns to influence people into just accepting without actual informed consent?

Idk waterproofing/resistance is a nice feature to have, even if it’s just for the peace of mind. There are more instances where your phone might get wet. Heavy rain, spilling something on it (maybe even in a bag where it’ll be exposed to it for longer). Accidentally falling or getting pushed into water.

But I guess mostly the peace of mind aspect e.g. when using it near water. Water damage is an unplanned accident, battery degradation is slow and doesn’t have the same risk of suddenly leaving you without a phone (that serves many purposes nowadays). So that is a different kind of risk people want to have some insurance against.

However as someone else said repairability and a decent IP rating don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

Is that the one they recently moved from Moscow to Crimera? First article I found on the topic

If so that didn’t take long and is pretty embarrassing.

From my understanding, ist rivian Kind of a Truck company?

I think it’s split between delivery vans and SUVs. Amazon has a stake in them aswell. I think at some point they owned like 20%? Not sure how much they currently hold.

Software has to be the main draw. I am not sure how interested they are in the delivery vans, and one has to think that they have enough SUVs themself.

Thanks for digging this up.

It would make sense if at least the vans would make some profit, otherwise it looks like madness (kinda still does to me) to spend this much money on getting into an industry that is actually imo not that attractive.

Even with the switch from combustion to EV, car manufacturing is still a capital intensive and low margin business. And they don’t seem to go for the potential jackpot that is autonomous driving

I’d like to think that I have a reasonably decent understanding of economics for a laymen, but in this case I’m a bit stumped.

Seems to me that for 5 billion dollar (+however much VW spent on their own software) you should be able to develop a good operating system for your own cars. But I guess VW somehow failed and now would rather license Rivians through this joint venture?

Is a car OS really that expensive and complex to develop? Especially when android auto and Apple car play will do a lot of the heavy lifting for most people.

Even with losses of nearly $40,000 for every vehicle it delivers, Rivian has been on a steadier footing than other EV makers that have been forced to slash prices to stimulate demand or file for bankruptcy protection.

Rivian’s cash and short-term investments fell by about $1.5 billion in the first quarter to just under $8 billion.

Nearly 40k loss per vehicle? That seems insane. How has that company been going on until now? They also say that they even before this deal they had enough reserves to last until their next models release and things were moving up, but still that is seems like an absurd rate to burn cash.

I get that it sometimes makes sense for companies to burn through heaps of cash to scaley capture market share or drive out competition, but is the car manufacturing market at this point in time one where this play still makes any sense?

To be fair: from a financial perspective that sounds like the right call, even if the movie would have been interesting.

R rated horror movies just don’t bring in the amount of money to sustain high budgets like that. The exception being “It” (and the sequel), but that had more mainstream appeal and also only came out years later.

Although isn’t the break even number usually closer to double the budget?

Ich es gibt sicher viele Aspekte des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundunks, die reformbedürfig sind, aber aus Prinzip sollte es ganz eindeutig Oben anfangen. Vollständige Transparenz der Verträge aller Intendanten und sonstigen hohen Managern, sowie realistischere Gehälter ohne die ganzen extrawürste wie exorbitante Pensionen und Abfindungen.

Mir fällt halt subjektiv auf, dass ein relativ hoher Anteil der Kommentare in die letztere Kategorie fallen. In der Summe sind sie deshalb für mich eher ein negativer Beitrag zum Diskurs.

Deshalb muss sich irgendwas and diesem Zustand ändern oder man schafft das Format ab. Vorausgesetzt natürlich es ist nicht das Ziel Leser mit emotionsgeladener Propaganda zu beeinflussen.

Ich würde mir z.B. wünschen zumindest immer eine begleitende Einordnung zu bekommen, wer der Autor des Kommentars ist, welche Qualifikationen er mitbringt und warum ihm diese Plattform gewährt wird. Klar man könnte jetzt sagen, dass der Leser anhand des Names selbst Recherche betreiben kann, aber ich finde das sollte nicht nötig sein.

Ich wollte den Kommentar tatsächlich auch selbst posten. Denke mal zum inhaltlichen muss garnicht viel gesagt werden, was nicht eh schon hier und in unzähligen anderen Posts zum Thema Chatkontrolle diskutiert wurde. Aber was haltet ihr eigentlich von der Form des “Kommentar” als generelles Format?

Auch wenn es natürlich manche Kommentare gibt, denen ich zustimme und tendenziell noch mehr die ich ähnlich problematisch finde wie diesen hier, frage ich mich schon länger ob dieses Format nützlich ist oder abgeschafft gehört (zumindest in der derzeitigen Form). Mir fällt regelmäßig auf, dass sie eher populistisch verfasst sind, Fakten falsch, sehr einseitig oder verkürzt dargestellt werden und es keinerlei Informationen zum Autor gibt außer den Namen.

Daduch bieten die Medien letztlich dem Verfasser eine Bühne seine Meinung zu verbreiten und es entfällt die journalistische Aufbereitung (faktencheck etc), die man eigentlich sich von einer seriösen Quelle erhöffen würde. Ab und zu gibt es dann immerhin noch einen zweiten Kommentar, der eine Gegenposition darstellt, aber dabei ist mir z.B. aufgefallen, dass diese oft nicht gleich prominent beworben werden.

I wonder if this method doesn’t overproportionally eliminates valuable workers, who can easily switch companies.

You are right, Apple also has some legit professional staff. And if the person using it gets paid a lot, then a one time hardware purchase becomes negligible.

Accurate fine motor control and even basic stuff like typing does seem not quite fleshed out, so that is indeed an issue. But I don’t think it’s a deal breaker that you can’t do long shifts with it, since you’d probably only use it for certain tasks.

Even more of a niche, but I could see it for something like architects. Both for work and to maybe even present to clients.

Performance and bettery is good, but they’re barely better than what Intel and AMD offer.

And both AMD and Intel have pretty exciting new architectures coming soon with zen5 and lunar lake.