The washing machine does. Either this conversation has come full circle or HN, circus of productivity hacks, is exceptionally ineffective at doing laundry.
I have a washing machine. That automates most of washing clothes, hanging and folding them takes seconds.
I expect robots in unexpected, previously unautomated areas. I don't expect them to look humanoid other than the ones that will look exceptionally humanoid perhaps changing form from time to time.
Forcing seasons into chunks of equal duration also feels wrong, to me but also anyone I recall having a conversation with so seeing every HN comment assuming all seasons are 3 months long is somewhat perplexing.
My job is social and deadline driven. Here's what works for me:
Lifting some weights in a deserted gym - no music or people.
Stretching for 20 minutes before bed each day.
Getting a full night's sleep.
Going to a favourite restaurant once or twice a week. The rest of the time a simple, high fibre diet with lots of water, no alcohol, cigarettes or drugs.
Doing a part-time postgraduate course to boost some depth and variety to the often-times surface-level demands of work work.
It's tricky to pick an end-of-decade year also - recessions tend to happen +/- 2 years of the end of each decade in the USA, or at least have done since records began in the 19th century. For example 2010 was recovery over 2008/2009's bust. It's not like comparing March to Ma4ch for a crude seasonal adjustment.
I view it as a change in philosophy that does allow more ads indeed and goes deeper into how microsoft view themselves and by extension their customers:
You have an account that exists on Microsoft - on being somewhere, multiple places at once, even in location and function, in a ocean of Microsoft but whose existence and ownership of existence is finely permissioned.
It's Friday night / Saturday morning. Who wants to be reading text?
Especially on night mode themes.
Besides, can we read anymore? In the age of 'GPT summarise it me' attention spans and glib commentary not about the content of the article being all many people have to add, perhaps liberal application of visualisations adds digestive value.
I don't have time to check Stripe but do have time to figure out another crypto coin seems to be the wrong way around unless marketed to a very niche group.
Creates echo chambers, karma whoring 'power' accounts, rewards ego-posting and generally makes the experience about who says what not what is said. Worsens the problem.
If you project from the centre, as if the observer is trapped in the middle of the earth like a Jules Verne prisoner with x-ray vision watching the world above them, it is to the right (anti-clockwise to the left).
But no one thinks like that.
After testing whis, what strikes me is how stubborn the LLMs are about being wrong. Is that a more important takeaway: that LLMs seem to back down less even when clearly wrong?
Then it's syndicate everywhere.
But all roads lead back to the domain.