Michael McNeela

Can usually be found coding, watching Friends on loop, or transfixed by themed entertainment design. Oh, and boy do I love a nice typeface! 🏳️‍🌈 • He

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

In case you haven’t seen it before: here’s a simulator player I made that plays both the video, and the captured motion, of the original 1980s Star Tours:

https://t.co/bhrUwUk3HT

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

[Le Parcorama @parcorama]

Way too long. I'm just gonna call it Universal London already.

[Nathan Lawrence 🌈 @NathanBLawrence]

I’m a very patient person but if one of our engineers complained about being forced to properly align an icon at Apple I would probably not show the best side of myself.

If your HI team tells you the icon is positioned wrong, the answer is, “I’ll go figure that out.”

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

@thehappyzan @imemegination

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

@techAU Actually, it just dawned on me that ‘Apple CarPlay’ is almost certainly what the feature is literally called globally by Apple, so that likely isn’t an unlocalised string / text.

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

@techAU This looks like an internal build. (What makes you think the ‘Autopilot UI’ isn’t just a development-only app? Also, having unlocalised/English names surface in an otherwise localised UI during development is fairly normal)

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

this is what you have to go through if you want to get an api key for your gmail

[Liquid Breni @bren1sly]

When they killed that dude's wife and said he couldn't sue them because she signed up for Disney+

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

@AlTrevino11 @leebrill @bradsferguson Humans view the world in 3D, in higher resolution than vehicle cameras, and with greater dynamic range.

Alongside visible light cameras, additional support, in the form of LiDAR, would seemingly be beneficial.

[Tim 🏳️‍🌈 @LuftkoppTim]

Just look how freakin' polished iOS 15 was...
In iOS18 all these gestures still work of course but animations and such? They stutter like crazy, often no animation at all and just pop-ins etc...

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

Frankie Valli & The Waldorf Astoria

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

Boddingtons!

[Dazed and Confused 🤷🏿 @LAModernArts]

You ask any kids today what their favorite "QSR" is, and no one would mention McDonald's. It's Raising Cane's, Whataburger, In-N-Out, or Chick-fil-A. It's the food, open floor model, interior decor that tries to stay local (like Raising Cane's), and human connections that will bring new customers back.

The sterile and claustrophobic setup at current McDonald's does not help maintain old relationships nor cultivate new ones. Half of the time, the flatscreen is broken. People take too long ordering via screens. So you go to the empty counter, hoping somebody will show up to take your order. Someone will eventually appear, looking half-pissed. Then everybody disappears as you wait for the food to show up from the other corner.

If this is what the focus group wants for prisoners, then okay, I guess.

[Javier Arce @javier]

Alright, let me share the full story of how my 14-year-old Instagram account, "javier," was stolen and ended up in the hands of the CEO of a hip-hop record label—and why I believe it was an inside job.

[Mlh.ai @mlhobbyist]

@robertgraham I wouldn't have mind if they had said it before hand. In fact, I would've been mildly impressed by how smooth the robots were moving even if they have been remotely controlled by an operator. But now, all I can think of is why did they try to deceive us.

[Dan O'Dowd @RealDanODowd]

Robotaxi day was a total Snoozefest.

After over 10 years of Full Self-Driving development, @Tesla is limited to a 20-30 acre geofenced 5mph ride on a preprogrammed, premapped and heavily rehearsed route with no traffic and no pedestrians.

1950s Disneyland guests would be unimpressed.

Tesla is not a player in the robotaxi market because they are prohibited from running on public roads. Tesla is limited to yawn-inducing demonstrations in Hollywood studios while its competitors’ robotaxis transport 100,000 paying customers around major American cities every week.

For all the hype that @elonmusk puts behind Tesla Full Self-Driving, it does not work. The latest version of Full Self-Driving travels 71 miles between critical disengagements, in contrast to Waymo’s 17,311 miles. Elon Musk is trying to compete in the Tour de France on a tricycle.

Musk’s rhetoric at We Robot is merely a tired repetition of the same broken promises he made five years ago at Autonomy Day.

Tonight Elon Musk said that Tesla drivers would soon be able to sleep in an unsupervised Full Self-Driving Tesla. This is the exact same promise he made in 2019 when he said FSD owners would be able to fall asleep and wake up at their destination by the end of 2020.

The promised low cost vehicle that everybody was expecting to be announced turned out to be a two-seat cybercab which will no doubt be a big hit with families.

Elon Musk has claimed that Tesla will solve FSD “this year”, every year since 2014, most recently in July. Now he has announced that FSD has been delayed another year until the end of 2025. That date will be delayed again next year as it has for each of the past ten years.

Until Tesla robotaxis are transporting 100,000 paying customers a week around major American cities like Waymo does, Tesla robotaxi is nothing more than the latest work of fiction to come out of the Warner Bros. Studio.

Optimus was a similarly disappointing snoozefest, with Musk’s promises of it being “the biggest product ever, of any kind” at odds with the dull reality of animatronic robots surrounded by nervous-looking Tesla engineers.

[Michael McNeela @sneakymichael]

Tesla re-invented the Mechanical Turk for its “We, Robot” event.

https://t.co/OrL4I6FGZE