My flip phone runs a very limited Android, but enough to install Aegis for MFA. https://opelmobile.com.au/product/touch-flip/

Maybe this is what they meant by "pacing"?

Maybe how different things look with sunglasses on vs off?

Here are the predictions and observations for Australia: https://www.arpansa.gov.au/our-services/monitoring/ultraviol...

From this it seems like the predictions are actually really accurate.

The whole paragraph titled "Isn't this just Tidelift again?" is exactly how Claude describes something it is excited about.

I’d recommend looking through the 20+ years of Laurie’s writing in the archives. The LLMs may very well be mimicking him. I wouldn’t put LLM assisted writing past him, but I feel like this is being judged on topical similarity, and is not the standard kind of egregious incoherent slop that has little substance or lacks coherence. See for example:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-...

I do a similar thing. It really is functionally exactly the same, just a bit more piecemeal.

It felt like unedited, unstyled Claude output. e.g. "No, and the difference is the important bit."

I wish local councils wouldn't insist on putting in shrubs that block the line of site across the roundabout.

According to Wikipedia, these shrubs are there for a reason. Denmark has found that blocking the line of sight significantly reduces the accident rate by forcing the drivers to slow down and consider only their immediate surroundings. Danish drivers hate them, anyway.

Agreed, it can be really hard to get around a roundabout as a pedestrian if it's not designed for it, and then they make it so both you and people entering don't know each other are there until you're about to get hit.

They are there to make you slow down.

Don't get me started on our houses. For some reason we build the same houses in Queensland as we do in Melbourne: no eaves or awnings. I guess the idea is you just turn your AC up even higher in summer.

Isn't that exactly their point? Every new building looks like an iPhone: sleek glass and metal.

But that’s not a byproduct of trying to ‘use cheaper resources’, it’s borne of trying to create products that are shaped exclusively by how to best solve a problem and treat materials honestly, as opposed to ornamentation and material imitation.

I can't believe this has to be said, but glass skyscrapers predate even the first iPhone.

The is hopefully the high watermark of Apple fans thinking Apple invented something they didn't.

That wasn't my point, or the point of GP. It's that modernism has become acceptable. So much so that everything from our buildings to our cars to our phones have the same style.