I wonder how many compromises of quality go into a robotic pizza?
You're not getting a robot to stretch out a 16" New York style crust; you might get it to crudely roll out a ball of dough into a thick disk. I'm sure there are certain toppings that are easy to lay out (sausage balls) and some that are difficult (onion slices) so those might get left off.
At a certain point you're adapting a good pizza recipe into a pizza that can be made by a robot, and at that point you're basically just making a frozen pizza on-the-spot and charging a lot for it.
Pizza dough is usually not rolled, it's stretched. If you roll it then you will press out the air bubbles which makes the final crust denser. That's not always a bad thing and some pizza makers do swear by rolling, but it does mean you end up with a different pizza than an average human would make.
I don't think any compromises are required. The quality of a pizza mostly comes from the quality of the ingredients and a pizza is otherwise simple to make and bake. Yes I am sure that some toppings are more difficult than others but that is really the key problem to be solved by any robotic pizza makers. If some toppings are current too hard and left off then that's a compromise on choice.
Even on 1), the first day of the week being Sunday (US) and Monday (Europe) screws me up constantly, as someone who is in both worlds now.
I often pick the wrong date for meetings because I'm assuming next Monday will be in the first column, not the second. As dumb and simple as it is, when something has been drilled into you since about age 3 its tough to get in the habit of double checking it when it starts becoming inconsistent.
That’s illuminating. I was born and have lived in the U.S. my entire life. If you asked me what the first day of the week was, I would immediately respond with “Monday”.
I’m going to mull this one over a bit more to figure out where my social education went wrong!
> The end of the end of the week cannot be the beginning of the week.
Of course it can. The word “weekend” just refers to the block of free time starting at the end of the working week. It doesn’t have any direct relation to the way weekdays are laid out on a calendar. The word was invented in England at a time when the English still considered Sunday the first day of the week, a hundred years before ISO 8601 moved Monday to the start for commercial reasons (as described in Annex A).
When a public holiday falls on Monday, my friends and I call that weekend a “three‐day weekend” or a “long weekend,” even though the Monday falls well within what a strict ISO 8601er would consider the next week. What makes the weekend the weekend is when the weekend starts—the end of the work week—not when the weekend ends.
Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, and Cambridge all define the weekend as some derivation of "the end of the week".
I'm also not sure how the various definitions and historical context has anything to do with the claim that the end cannot be the beginning. If the end were the beginning that particular day would belong to two different weeks, but that's nonsense. The last day of the prior week and the first day of the current week are two different days, therefore:
> The end of the end of the week cannot be the beginning of the week.
The weekend has always been innately tied to the work week specifically, both historically and in current usage.
> Dictionary.com
Has as the third listed definition: “any two-day period taken or given regularly as a weekly rest period from one's work.” And has a whole paragraph describing usage, including: “More strictly speaking, the weekend is thought to consist of Saturday and Sunday (often regardless of whether the calendar week is considered to begin on Sunday or Monday). In practical terms, the weekend is typically considered to be the period between the end of the workweek (or school week) and the beginning of a new one—which is why most people consider their weekend to start on Friday night, after work or school.”
> Merriam-Webster
“the end of the week; the period between the close of one work or school week and the start of the next”
> Cambridge
“Saturday and Sunday, or Friday evening until Sunday night; the part of the week in which many people living in the West do not go to work”
Every dictionary you cited agrees that the weekend is or can be defined in relation to the work week!
> If the end were the beginning that particular day would belong to two different weeks, but that's nonsense.
Millions of people living in cultures where Sunday is the first day of the week have no problem with the concept of a single weekend consisting of a Saturday from one week and a Sunday from the next. There’s no logical contradiction. “Monday as the beginning of the week is the only logically defensible position if you support the weekend” is a false statement, because a single weekend is not required to consist solely of days from the same week.
Officially (or historically, or to banks maybe) it starts Sunday, but to anyone I have ever talked to in the US its definitely Monday. Saturday and Sunday are the weekEND after all.
This is one of the most annoying ones to me. I recently almost booked a pair of ~2000 euro return flights for the completely wrong dates because the booking site decided to (despite knowing our location and correctly setting currency, currency formatting and language) show it's date picker starting with Sundays. Only caught when I did a last sanity check before I clicked the pay button.
You know, when you speak language where the word for Tuesday is literally "Seconder" and the word for Friday is "Fifter", it's really difficult to accept that starting to number the days of the week from Sunday is a sensible thing.
As of today it won’t allow me to access my account at all or new Reddit in any form without providing age verification (face scan or gov ID). AI faces, video game create-a-character, and IDs off of Google all failed.
Strangely I can still access everything in incognito on old.reddit.com; but can’t login.
One thing that's absolutely shocking is how "hard" it is to actually play games these days. Sit down with anything modern and between software updates, EULAs, load times, network congestion, etc. it can easily be 15-20 minutes before you actually do something; especially if you're an infrequent player.
Pop in a game on N64/Gamecube and you're controlling the character within 10 seconds every time.
The modern upgrades for those generations really make them great - the 8BitDo kit to make an N64 controller wireless, N64 Summercarts, replacing the optical drive in Gamecubes with a memory card reader...
That's true for the big-advertising-budget AAA slop games. Go do a search for "best indie games 2025" and you'll find more amazing games made just last year than you could spend several whole years playing.
Disappointing lack of "Why" in an article that starts with it.
Are they actually doing something new and novel, or are they just absorbing that "a=b as was proven in transcendental hyper-circular group theory; and b=c was proven in universal quantum superposition"; and they're the first to find the connection that a=c? And several of the problems are counterexamples, not novel proofs of correctness?
Its fascinating either way, but it'd be nice to actually understand more of what is happening.
One of the recent problems was actually proven with elementary results. It did use a technique not usually applied to the problem space, but it wasn’t a hyper specialized result.
Also of note the income data is combined household income (2 incomes for a married couple) and over the entire population (including 40+ later-career incomes).
It's likely significantly over predicting how common $100k yearly income is among the 20-35 year old "dating pool". Though probably balanced out some by being 10 year old data by now.
Unsurprisingly, the "Who's Hiring" almost perfectly tracks the "Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States" data from the fed, though it doesn't go as far back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1-2gdkOe3A
The waste gets cycled back through.