> When you factor in the probability of survival in the new world, and the requirement of finding a sexed pair on the other side you realize that this takes many living things, integrated over a long period of time.

Seems to me you've described how lone adventuring animals are not the source of dispersion to remote areas.

This looks like advertising from an insurance company telling people to increase their coverage.

It definitely benefits the carrier’s premium revenue in the short term.

But the counter-argument is that 'under-insurance' is a systemic risk that leads to insolvency. If a carrier collects premiums based on a $300k valuation but has to pay out on a $500k loss (due to Guaranteed Replacement Cost clauses or litigation), that loss ratio destroys the pool for everyone.

The incentive should be accurate pricing, but the market pressure to keep the sticker price low creates this dangerous gap.

i mean it's posted by a new account named "insurance guru"

Enough trial and error will allow you to learn any system no matter how obtuse - it doesn't mean the system is well designed.

I'd argue the usage patterns of children using the device for entertainment and adults using the device for productivity are quite different.

Nobody is mentioning that there’s essentially nowhere you see the icon now without the name (internationalized) unless you’re already familiar with it, and pinned it to a launcher or something.

The first time you see most of them they’re on a page with screenshots and descriptions.

Nobody needs to know what the Word icon is before they know what Word is.

I have icons of apps I’ve used many times visible in a launcher, and I still have to think about which is which because they are so nondescript.

Most of their icons became (or have always been) very simple since long, long before that existed.

I don’t think this is just how it should be… I think it’s how things already are.

I looked back at the old “back when they were good!” examples and realized that six of them could be the same app and none of us would know.

I used those icons (and their applications), and I’m far enough removed in time to not remember which was which.

All of this only further cements the idea that the users bring way more to this than the supposed design theories.

But we sure do like the idea of modern masters reaching into the human psyche with phenomenally intuitive icon design.

I actually had to try to zoom in on the older, “ideal” example shown, just to see what it is.

Yes, my eyes aren’t great anymore. Yes, I’m on my phone looking at a social media post. But I feel like the speed and clarity of the newer ones was (accidentally) on display here.

Sometimes I would really rather not have the outside world isolated or noise cancelled while I'm listening to music... so I sorta get it?

But also, for all the reasons described, I just use transparency modes if I want that. That way nobody else has to hear my poor taste in music.

There are so many types of headphones that don't isolate much, including the cheapest crappy on-ears from the walkman era, there's really no excuse.

And on the few occasions where I've had no other option, it made so much more sense to set my phone to low volume and bring it close to my ear instead of holding it iut and maxing the volume.

And if I need to talk as well, many people don't know this, but there's a second smaller speaker on the opposite end of the phone, approximately one mouth-ear distance away from the microphone.

It already does.

You can use the Anthropic API in any tool, but these users wanted to use the claude code subscription.

OpenCode wasn't using claude CLI at all (or claude SDK). They were using their own agent loop and bypassing claude cli entirely (except for spoofing auth).