Twenty Bucks a Month for a Faster Chatbot
OpenAI launched a $20/month ChatGPT Plus tier today, the same day Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S23 lineup — two very different pitches for your money, on the same afternoon.
Long, Long Time
Episode three of HBO's The Last of Us aired tonight, and the Bill and Frank episode wrecked me more than a game adaptation had any right to.
What ChatGPT Is Actually Good For, After Three Weeks
Three weeks of actually using ChatGPT for regex and scripting grunt work, plus the one time it confidently invented a find command flag that doesn't exist.
Windows 8.1 Just Quietly Died and Almost Nobody Noticed
Microsoft quietly cut off Windows 8.1 support on January 10th, and I'm one of maybe six people on earth who actually noticed because I still had a machine running it.
A Broken File Grounded the Whole Country
A corrupted database file in the FAA's decades-old NOTAM system grounded every US flight yesterday morning, and it's got me thinking about all the quiet, ancient infrastructure that props up modern life.
The Biggest Keynote at CES Was About a Tractor
CES 2023 kicked off with an odd choice for the opening keynote: John Deere, talking autonomous tractors and weed-zapping cameras, while its right-to-repair fight with farmers simmers in the background.
Two Layoff Memos, One Morning
Amazon and Salesforce both announced major layoffs on the same January morning, and a personal take on watching it unfold from the outside while a friend waits to hear if she's affected.
Watching Tesla Close Out Its Ugliest Year
Tesla closed out its worst year ever on the last trading day of 2022, down about two-thirds — and a chunk of that drop traces straight back to Elon's Twitter mess, not the cars.
48fps, Bad 3D Glasses, and Three Hours of Blue People
A trip to see Avatar: The Way of Water turns into a rant about high frame rate projection, RealD glasses that never fit right, and a storm that might wreck holiday flights.
Snowed In With the Winter Sale Open in Another Tab
A cold snap, a broken radiator, and the Steam Winter Sale going head to head for my attention while I try to ignore the bigger Twitter news for once.
So Twitter Just Suspended a Bunch of Journalists
Twitter suspended several journalists tonight over a same-day "doxxing" policy tied to yesterday's @ElonJet ban, and the tweets in question don't hold up to five seconds of scrutiny.
The Fusion Headlines Are Skipping the Number That Matters
The DOE announced fusion ignition at NIF today, but the "net energy gain" headlines skip the part where the lasers themselves burn way more power than the reaction produced.