There is a difference between 5 B revenue and 400 B revenue.
Also the price point shifted from primarily a 2K machine, to all price ranges, with the original iPhone being a few hundred bucks. More sales smaller units so the number of products being sold is more than it appears based on the revenue comparison.
Maybe the price per unit is available somewhere for people to trend how it changed over 2-3 decades.
Agreed, there is no clear premise. Of course that different people looking at the same object will use different colour words is a triviality that anyone over, say, 10 years old knows. If that's the premise of the site, it is boring. People are getting excited because they think this implies something about differences in vision or perception... but it doesn't, that requires much more cleverness to test.
That was precisely my thought on seeing the news. I did not know about Google's existing entanglements with anthropic, but it seemed like a clear message - Do not panic on the money, do the work.
If you look at their recent actions, they all seem financial as if they have become the monopoly already and can do anything. Maybe it is driven by fear of going bankrupt
Example. Them doing a AB test where they remove Claude CLI from the 20$ pro plan ... they rolled it back now. Other rate limits where they publicly double your quota at NON peak times but lower it during peak quietly. These are tacky and signs of panic.
One such issue is experimentation. But when you see back to back issues, it looks odd.
Don't know about "classic". But diners used to be my weekly jaunt here in South Bay for almost a decade. Not any more because with age you realize the quantity is too much and my drive to work changed (WFH). There's something special about going to your regular place, seeing the same servers, and them knowing your order before you say it. Probably the same in dinner restaurants but we don't repeat restaurants as often whereas the breakfast / lunch diner was weekly so very familiar (to both sides). Tried to switch places a couple of times just for experience but it never felt the same ... but you can make it work.
When I lived in NJ over 20 years ago, I'd stop by a random diner on the turnpike and order 2 sunny side up and a cup of coffee. Or a Greek place mid-town, a sloppy gyro. It wasn't ambrosia, but it was "perfectly cromulent" and the gritty surroundings added to the taste. I'd do the same in Brooklyn under a random industrial street in Bensonhurst or Sheepshead Bay. That era is just gone. I don't remember seeing an avocado on the menu back then.
Thanks I have thought about that, but somehow it does not work with me. Fresh food is something else (and my assumption is the food is fresh, even if it is just heating/grilling)
My favorite is Holders Country Inn. I used to go to the one in Cupertino before it burnt down. They moved, this was on Deanza long time back, and the one on Wolfe does not have the same old diner feeling, it is for the next gen :) Now I go to the one on Saratoga. And while I do not go as often to other places, I have been to and liked Hobees, then there is one Joe's near Half Moon Bay. We go there as a family when we hike at Cowell Purisima trail nearby. And while I am rambling about places to eat, a recent non-diner discovery has been El Caminito on El Camino Real.
Not OP but I'd recommend the Peninsula Fountain Grill in Palo Alto. Peter's Cafe isn't bad either if you've got time to kill near the Millbrae CalTrain station.
Can I do a mea culpa? This is more than 3 decades back. I was a junior programmer (2-3 years in industry) sent to a client site in europe. You can imagine the state of systems those days. I wrote (or rather updated) a fix which would updated the discount and tax rates on orders based on new terms. It would run every day to account for ... whatever. You pick the values from master file, update all the orders and move on.
I wiped out VAT on all orders and for the next month the paper invoices were sent without VAT. So the invoice is $100, VAT is $20, the invoice should be $120, but they were sent as $100.
100s of invoices every day would be my guess.
Nobody noticed.
For a month.
Millions of dollars of revenue and IIRC millions of dollars of VAT.
Until a customer complained to the CEO.
We had a firefight to fix it, not just technical but legal and managerial. We can send a new invoice just for tax. We can redo the invoice. We can send a debit memo. What is the right decision? But what if customers does not pay? What about returns? How will we track returns? Of course we were doing the technical solutions and the client company was front-ending how to handle it business wise.
And the managerial firefight - who did it, what are the safeguards in future? We had a company exec visit the client site to manage the issue.
I was in the hot seat but I was protected by my managers from any fallout. Just do the work. Do not screw up again. (Test every row every column even if you did not change it)
A month later the sales director at the client company got fired.
The grapevine is that this was just the tipping point, but you never know. BTW these were paper invoices printed onsite and mailed out, but I do not know if someone had the job to scrutinize them.
PS: True story, going by old memory, although such legends remain fresh in your mind, forever. Not sure it belongs here, but the mention of firing for a multi-million dollar mistake pulled this into cache memory.
If a single non-malicious code change can break a thing like that with nobody noticing that's a catastrophic failure in testing, QA, and operations (nobody noticed 20% of euros transacted just stopped). It's hard to blame that on IC engineer.
I know that, now. But apart from this incident being in the annals of time as it relates to my work, there absolutely was no fallout, which my mind could not comprehend in those days.
I wonder how it works for small folks like me. My brother sent me something from India and put a value on it (should not have). The government charged me a few bucks, but then fedex charged me something on top as their fees. Now if they charge me to return the fees, I will still end up losing money :) since the fedex fees were more than the government fees
It is not a big amount, but I am sure there are lots of people with similar stories.
IMO Type 2 diabetes is manageable. My father struggled with it for decades and his last few years were not great. Having those same genes, I've spent a lot of time reading and following the data. My take is that T2 is quite manageable. Even reversible, if you focus on it. "Reversible" doesn't mean a lifelong cure, but you can push out your health days by a decade.
There are all kinds of solutions that work. High Protein, Mediterranean, Atkins, or even High Carb (the "good" kind). The breakdown usually happens in the "cocktail" of foods. Our bodies are not hybrid engines; we can not switch fuels mid-stream and expect optimal health. You have to pick a poison, let's say, a protein-based diet—and stick to it. Then exercise and intermittent fasting (IF) are force multipliers. I did strict IF for a year, but I have fallen off the wagon lately, only manage 3-4 days of IF a week. The difference in how I feel is stark.
What worked for me was something called "Lalit Kapoor" diet — basically a WFPB/vegan approach with heavy green juicing and fasting. My failure was primarily due to social friction. My family eats very differently. Making a special effort for every single meal eventually made me start taking the easy way. I still follow it but I wish I could be 100% rather than 80% and which is where all diets fail.
A good engineer and / or a tenured engineer could very well be compared to Picasso in this story. A tenured engineer did not just sit their entire career drawing that painting on the napkin, they delivered other results too. But at the end of it, they are able to deliver a Picasso at a moment's notice.
Also the price point shifted from primarily a 2K machine, to all price ranges, with the original iPhone being a few hundred bucks. More sales smaller units so the number of products being sold is more than it appears based on the revenue comparison.
Maybe the price per unit is available somewhere for people to trend how it changed over 2-3 decades.
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