Agree, and as an ex-mini user, I wish this was the world we lived in.

I presume the problem is that iPhones are a lot more expensive to produce than tomato sauce, and it's a lot more difficult to get rid of the ones that people don't buy.

I would go for a chunky iPhone.

I had anesthesia for a surgery at age 15 and I was depressed for a year afterward.

I’m sure everyone’s experience is different, but it made me feel groggy in a way that was difficult to bounce back from.

That’s a shame. I hope you’re better known.

I presume they can use over-the-air updates to disable the feature when the device is activated?

My watch’s logs always have some OTA stuff.

This shows up here every now and then. Interesting story!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570713

Are you referring to Philips Respironics devices and their sound-dampening foam? You can get a CPAP from ResMed (a different company) instead, which was not affected.

Why is the branding/mascot a camel?

I'm reminded of Waldo, a mobile testing automation product that was acquired in 2023.

Their mascot is another camelid (not sure if alpaca or llama). https://www.waldo.com/

We originally spelled it qaml which stood for quality assurance, machine learning. That wasn't obvious to anyone and everyone would pronounce it as "qwamel" which we hated so we decided on camelQA instead. Thanks for the question. I was waiting for someone to ask it!

I noticed the first letter in camelQA is very explicitly lower-case. I just assumed someone on the team had very strong opinions about camelCase.

Lots of folks are on this list!

Todd Rundgren said “If it weren't for my musical career, I probably would have ended up attending college to become a computer programmer.”

Love this. Congrats and thank you for the writeup!

I wonder why. my hammerspoon window management stuff happens almost instantly

Naive question: why is this newsworthy? What are the implications?

The original title referred to Apple’s endorsement of an upcoming ISO standard that defines how to represent HDR images within existing still image file formats such as JPEG-XL and HEIF. It turns out that there isn’t any such finalized standard — unlike, for example, BT.2020 in the moving image file formats space.

So, presumably, the existence of a standard under development — and the endorsement of it by a major manufacturer of cameras and displays — was considered newsworthy by the OP.

OP here.

Yes, I'm hoping that the mess that is "HDR" video standards can be prevented in the still images arena.

Hopefully, with Apple's weight behind this open standard, other producers will adopt it as well.

HDR and higher bit colors are becoming more popular but are still very much a mess from the consumer and software developer standpoint.