Deeper Sonos

Sonos workers shed light on why the app update went so horribly.

This was a miscalculation, but the article writer does not understand what Sonos was actually attempting here nor what was their end goal.

The reason for this bit of ridiculousness is that Sonos wanted to position themselves as a SaaS company (and have Wall Street see them that way), with recurring revenue based on subscriptions. The app was rewritten for that purpose, ignoring the needs of existing customers who were not sending Sonos any money on an ongoing basis. To the MBA way of thinking, those customer who’d already paid were worthless.

So in other words, the re-written app was intended to force new customers into a subscription model so that Sonos stock would be more appealing to Wall Street.

That’s the real story, not the Sonos-friendly propaganda in the Ars piece.

Conical

If aliens and humans exist right at this moment but are 500 million light years apart do they exist at the same time?

There is no privileged or even quantifiable position of simultaneity of non-shared light cones. “At the same time” is meaningless over such distances.

All of those answers are so bad and wrong. Dang.

Objective space and time does not exist. This question is like asking, “What color would a ball be if it were some color that doesn’t exist and cannot exist?” It’s just, fundamentally, a bad question. Intuition does not work here. It’s so easy to be wrong because most people rely on the intuitive answer, which is in fact not even close to accurate.

The top-voted answer is wildly incorrect and so is every other answer there. Asking about simultaneity in this case is asking a meaningless question with no answer at all.

Your Choice

I don’t think anyone should be allowed to claim they were “groomed” if they are 20 or older. It’s mostly women who claim this, for whatever reason. Men could never get away with such obvious BS.

The only people who can be groomed are children and the mentally retarded. Which one do full-grown women wish to be classified as again? Choose wisely.

Ragna

If there were a pandemic worse than Covid, I wonder if that’d lead to more mental illness, or less? I think probably less as so many of the psychological issues came from people convincing themselves that the world was ending and then…kinda nothing really happened of that scale.

Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever.

Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say.

Wyden Says Trillions in Taxes Dodged by Ultra-Rich Could Fund Social Security Until 2100.

How the Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal.

An unleashed Israel is humiliating its enemies.

From Gaza to Ukraine, why do so many modern wars last so long? The Hundred Years’ War ring any bells?

Bay Area metro area’s median home price hits $2M, the only city to do so in the US. Insane and unconscionable.

How will you save small midwestern towns without mass immigration? Perhaps not exporting all jobs to Mexico and China with NAFTA et al.?

Boeing union members are angry they lost their pension plan. Theyโ€™re not likely to get it back.

Punching Octopuses Lead Fish on Hunting Parties.

MAGA Wants Transgression, and This Is What Comes With It.

The Elite’s War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity.

This map shows just how much rent is skyrocketing in every state.

Shackleton, the cat who faked his own death.