v36 - Hedgelord
Apr 30, 2025•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 36
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Summary
Justin shares a major life update about an urgent, extended trip to Japan to secure a condo purchase, discussing the financial and logistical hedges required. He also dives into a range of tech news, including Apple HomeKit frustrations, Vision Pro usability, new iOS features, Backblaze fraud claims, and the concerning impacts of AI on coding competitions and university education. Listener questions cover Japan travel advice and rankings of Apple's best and worst apps.Episode description
I'm going away on a trip for an unexpectedly long time, and you'll never guess why! (You might guess why.) Anyway, here's something to remember me by.
If you've ever been worried about whether something you cared about would work out okay, email podcast@searls.co and tell me about it so that I can share your story with a bunch of strangers on the Internet.
Video of this edition of the show is up on YouTube.
References available upon request:
- Nobody knows how to turn on Vision Pro
- I released a new gem called searls-auth
- Aaron's puns, ranked
- CodeWeavers' founder's gracious post, Whisky's Legacy, and the Spirit it Leaves Behind
- DeX for iPhones? Finally!
- A menu bar for iPads? Finally!
- Backblaze: the only subsidized startup pricing schemes left are the fraudulent ones!
- Russia moves to seize World of Tanks developer over Ukraine support
- Amazon To Display Tariff Costs For Consumers, Report Says (Update: They Won't)
- Meta's Digital Companions want to have sex with you (News+)
- OpenAI's chat bot will tell you that you're really good at sex
- Someone made an AI better by having it argue with itself, just like humans do
- Coding competitions are dead and gone forever
- The Coravin Pivot wine preservation system is great
- So is this pool skimmer robot that I talked about last week but forgot about and am talking about again
- A book! Landed: Japan. Everything you may not need to know about buying real estate
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