TranscendentalEmpire

Over the last decade or so the growth in capacity has mostly been focused on Electric vehicles. Small electronics have definitely grown, but at a modest pace that hasn't really kept up with new hardware's ability to drain it.

An iPhone from 2016 had about 2k mah and a iPhone 16 has around 3.5k mah.

Well, I'm not blaming the technology itself, they're inanimate objects.

I think a lot of tech companies have shifted focus from innovating to exploiting for profit motives, too busy increasing their share price to invest in developing technology.

But that goes for each technology in it's own time.

Which is why I specified a lot of technologies, and not all technology? We are certainly making some advances, but like I said it doesn't seem to be at the pace we experienced in previous decades.

Take batteries. We have them for 160 years, and we thought they were a solved problem, but currently they make new jumps, and still ongoing

I don't think anyone ever claimed batteries were a solved problem...... We are making progress with them, but again, it's been a pretty slow development over the last decade.

while smartphones are nearly solved

I don't think I would make that claim either.

Therefore I say it's his personal feelings that are having this certain cycle.

Or maybe you just lack perspective due to your age? Is there any particular technology that's come out in the last 5-10 years that you consider groundbreaking? The only thing I can think of is LLM, and to be honest I'm not very impressed with them considering the societal cost.

That's not what I got from the article, though I might be from a similar age bracket as the author.

It does seem that we have hit diminishing returns when it comes to a lot of technologies. For example there really hasn't been a significant change in the experience or utility of my phone in the last 10 years or so.

Compare that from phones that came out from 2005 to 2015 and you'll kinda get what they are saying. We went from Nokia bricks, razors, BlackBerry, and then iphones all within a couple years.

When I was younger the general assumption was that we would be continuing to progress at the same rapid pace as we did when transitioning from analog to digital. Instead, we get more memory and processing but there's not much difference in experience because it gets neutralized by bigger and clunkier apps that don't care about optimization.

For me i got really good at guessing what people are wanting and then subsequently became good at giving or then managing the negatives around not.

Yeah.... Made me really good at lying on the fly and telling people what they want to hear. If you are going to catch a beating for being honest, ya might as well get good at spinning a tale.

not very good at making friends though. 3/10 would not recommend

I done pretty well at making a couple lifelong really close friendships. Not very good at talking about the weather or surface level friendships.

It was..... educational. I don't really have a lot of great childhood memories, but on the plus side I am really great under pressure and am basically immune to intimidation.

No one in my adult life has been quite as formidable as a tiny Asian woman armed with knowledge of enhanced interrogation techniques and a bamboo spatula.

Who could have guessed that the secret to being really good at job interviews was a moderate to severe dose of child abuse?....

¯_/(ツ)_/¯

My mom is Korean and was born immediately after the war and became a refugee after participating in student rebellions against a dictatorship. Pretty sure her goal while raising me was to make me resistant to government interrogation.

Doesn't really matter what you use as long as you aren't utilizing any protected health information (hpi). If you are using information that can identify a patient then you need to be using an approved encrypted device. Generally providers tend to avoid utilizing that type of information just out of habit.

You don't really discuss patient information or their care with anyone over mobile devices. If you need input from someone directly concerning patient care you tend to do it over EMR so your colleagues have context about who you're talking about.

Y'all were doing that on pagers? I don't even know how to send anything on mine.

I mean as long as they aren't sending protected health information it really isn't a HIPAA violation. We use an encrypted pager at my clinic, but that's just because the hospitals guidelines are stricter than HIPAAs. For what we and most providers still use pagers for nowadays could be done over an unencrypted network. Most of the time it's just to call us to a certain room number. It's not like people really have the patience to type out words using two buttons at more.

It is fun how similar mammals are. My dog found a different dogs ball in a bush on one of our walks once. Now they check the magic toy giving bush every time we walk by it. I kinda want to stash more toys in the bush, but I also am afraid of making his conditioning worse.

Gold - against which the USD moved in lockstep until the US left the Gold Standart

That's because the Bretton Woods system set the price of gold to $35 per troy ounce. It would be dumb to pay more than $35 per ounce on the market because you could just exchange $35 for an ounce of gold from the government.

Gold is just massively inflated compared to the USD because people do not understand the benefit of fiat currency.

I find it hard to believe that people actually think gold is less volatile than the USD when it has inflated in "value" by 12,516.60% in the last 50 years. If you don't think that the vast majority of that increase isn't due to over speculation then I have a bridge to sell you.