that's interesting. I thought it was because our sun's spectrum has the most energy in visible light band - therefore we evolved to see the light which can give us the highest SNR.
Both the "because that's what the sun emits" and "because we are mostly water" explanations are incomplete. There are plenty of other animals [1] that can "see" infrared.
The real reason is simply because that's how we evolved. That's how the "because those are the frequencies that pass through water" explanation comes into play: vision first evolved in aquatic animals, so frequencies that don't penetrate water wouldn't have been all that helpful to their survival and reproductive success, and so wouldn't be selected for. But that's incomplete too: salmon are one of the top IR-sensing animals and they live in water, so when there's an evolutionary need to select for IR vision, it happens. The reason we "see" in the visible light range is simply that that's how we've defined "visible".
There are some physics reasons as well, notably that most mammalian body structures emit heat, which would blind an animal that relies on infrared to see (notice how most of the animals that can see infrared are cold-blooded reptiles, fish, and insects), and that most of the high-resolution biochemical mechanisms that can convert electromagnetic waves to electrochemical nerve impulses operate in the visible light range. Structures that convert infrared radiation to nerve impulses are more complex and more costly to support, so unless there's a clear survival benefit for the species, they tend to get selected away.
They don't care, they would rather let you use pirated MS software than move to Linux. There is a repo on GH with powershell scripts for activating windows/office and they let it sit there. Just checked, repo has 165K stars.
This could be the same, they know devs mostly prefer to use cursor and/or claude than copilot.
Home users are icing on the cake. Suing them for privacy is a bad look (see the RIAA), and using Windows and Office at home reinforces using at work.
On the other hand, since they own GitHub they can (in theory) monitor the downloads, check for IPs belonging to businesses, and use it as evidence in piracy cases.
I said this a few times here. Tech is never to make the life easier for the worker. It is to make the worker more productive and product more competitive.
Moving from horses to cars did not give you more free time. Moving from telephone to smartphone did not give more fishing time. You just became more mobile, more productive and more reachable.
>It's possible to work a lot less if you accept quality of life from an older era
I can throw away all my worldly possessions and post up in a cardboard box. My old bosses would still probably expect me to respond at 8pm to a message. Giving me a company phone if necessary.
It's very well supported that efficiencies have gone up in the workforce over the decades, but hours worked have also increased. We're being squeezed.
It's not a choice. For example, Windows XP is no longer a choice, because the context around it made it unsafe now, though it didn't change. Life style from an older era is no longer the norm, which means your relative life quality degrades automatically and it actually becomes unsafe.
When I retire I plan to have no phone, no computer, and no TV. These are by far the biggest time sucks in my life and I want to see what I can do without their distractions.
I might keep a tablet or old phone with no service so that I can still do email.
It depends on the place where you go to live, and what it expects from you.
Some people tried that a bit and they had to retreat back to the usual connected life. What happens is, that old non-digital disconnected world is no longer there waiting for you. It may pretend to be the old world you desired, but it is looking at you and judging you. You become an animal in a zoo, instead of an anonymous part of the old-time world.
I think you're way over estimating the cost of a phone and Netflix. Even the latest iPhone pro max is going to cost you an amortized ~$20 a month or less. That's completely dwarfed by my housing, food, utility and other unavoidable expenses
Oh how I'd love to just use an old android with graphene os and work half the time. Unfortunately the math doesn't work
If it was truly unavoidable to pay as much as you probably pay for housing, food, and utility, wouldn’t a lot of people be dead? On the other hand an iPhone is an iPhone anywhere in the world, and sometimes multiple times annual salary.
Weird, I remember Western media ran full transcripts of his speech after the Ukraine invasion and every other time he crawled out of his bunker in the Urals. Would you like to enlighten us which important viewpoints of Putin get censored in the West?
That's a very inefficient way to interact with CC. There will be transmission losses that need too much feedback looping.
So, it appears that we have come a long way bubbling up through abstraction layers: assembly code -> high-level languages -> scripting -> prompting -> openclaw.
As long as things gradual enough, similar to Roman empire collapse, you wouldn't even recognize the collapse.
Any change is seen as good or bad, only by the people who saw both ends of it and categorize the change as such. If a change happens through multiple generations, each generations sees only a part of the change. Specially the younger population can only see the change through the past decade or two. That explains why the youth are always merrier than the older folks who have a bigger burden of mempries.
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