Audio 6.5 mm is as close as humanity got to a perfect connector. Unfortunately downsizing it to 3.5 mm removes the robustness of the female as it tends to eventually break
Here's a lifehack that will extend the life of the socket by ~1000x: you can buy a 3.5mm-to-3.5mm "adapter" that you keep plugged in to the female end. Now you have a wear part that is trivially replaceable.
Of course that doesn't work all that well for laptops where it would stick out and easily break when you put it in a bag, but for that one pair of headphones you like that is no longer being manufactured it's great!
trrrs is a wild thing to want as the universal connector... They are bad for any actively powered connection since the tip/rings hit EVERYTHING on the way out and shorting. Split keyboard users know that pain.
That issue is different, when web tools were added to gpt4o it would fetch the site, and basically copy paste the text into the answer body. So, you were able to read the content of the site without the site getting the ad impressions. Now the system prompts put a very tight word limit - 25? - on quotes from sites the model visits
I’ll save you a click: ‘Llms can’t perform direct calorimetry through a photo of a meal. Llms can’t even perform basic atomic spectroscopy’ in other news…
Windows 95 Word was also bad. Some poor non-CS student brought his thesis to our computer pool and worked from Floppy with the only copy he had. Panic mode on when the backup file and original did not fit on that floppy any more and Word asked to swap disks for an empty one. We advised him to just continue swapping, eventually Word will have that backup file on the other disk. It worked after an ennerving amount of floppy swaps...
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