My wife also got upset with me over this.

I think the writer of this misunderstands "tourist trap."

Tourist traps, at least as I see it, are places or activities that are more expensive than they should be.

For example, a tourist trap in Tokyo is going to the top of SkyTree. It's not something locals can really reasonably afford doing more than once, because it's really expensive. The price is such that basically only tourists would do it.

Tourist trap as i see it is restaurant that will give you below average local food, for 3 times the price a good local food should cost, just because it is in the middle of the tourist area. Or tacky bars for tourists with different "attractions" to sell you watered down alcohol for high prices. For me, this is much worse than one time entrance to attraction. Because tourists thinks that this is the local culture.

LLM written article.

Because too many new companies are popping up with the business model of "We're going to use AI" and they don't actually have any explanation for how or why they're going to use AI.

This is just like the Dot Com Bubble, where a lot of companies popped up saying they were going to "use the internet" without actually having a plan.

P/E ratios are much lower among top AI and AI adjacent firms now compared to the dotcom bubble. There is hype, certainly, but it isn’t an entirely speculation driven market like the dotcom bubble. Even so, the internet only became more pervasive than ever after the early 2000s

I think it's just a simulation of what it could look like if it were flipdiscs.

I have a hard time believing kids actually are wanting this thing.

Parents wanting it for their kids, sure. But every kid would rather have an iPhone.

Have an upvote. I have landlines for my kids. It was fun for about two weeks, then they had friends with FaceTime and you’re not able to compete with real time video conferencing.

Probably dependent on age of kids. For the 4yo-6yo demographic with no access to an iPhone or screen device, the analog phone is a blast. And family/friends, especially those living elsewhere, are having fun with it. Admittedly, we’re a month in but I’d be surprised if interest zeroed any time soon.

Run your own Asterisk server with special #0 that the kids can dial to listen to children’s podcasts, etc., it can be very entertaining.

Our 4yo loves the landline we recently put back in for her. It’s got speed dials for all her family, and she will ring and chat to them.

> Run your own Asterisk server

ive done that, not a fan. almost as much fun as running your own email server.

I think I fall into this camp of parents. It was cute but my kid definitely grew bored of it. I keep hoping that it will pick back up, and maybe it will.

> There is something darkly comical about using an LLM to write up your “a coding agent deleted our production database” Twitter post.

Which calls into question if this is even real.

The photos are all either stolen or AI generated.

On close inspection, this does not appear to actually be Nick Bay's website, but rather someone impersonating him.

His copyright is at the bottom of the page.

> I recognize the photographer

There is curiously nothing on his website about this isopod site.

So.. I don't know, maybe you don't know them as pillbugs (slaters).. but there's a whole gallery from 2023 https://www.nickybay.com/pillbugs-sowbugs-isopoda-checklist/