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I don't think they said that at all. I'm pretty sure they were saying that the thing to think about / discuss is the thing that happened, rather than the hypothetical.

Ages ago, I let my partner borrow my first iPad after I'd upgraded. She'd take it into the bathroom. I never touched it because of that and I probably cleaned it when she gave it b…

I can't believe how stupid the world has become. At least my young niece and nephew will have terrible air to breathe after I'm gone. Next, let's pay people to detonate nuclear bom…

> while botching the core fundamentals of UI design and functionality, as with the UI disaster that was Liquid Glass This is why Apple nerds (like me) are hopeful that John Ternus …

> When you have a bunch of windows open but you click on the desktop, the windows go off to the edges so you can see the desktop. It's one of the first things I turn off.

> with claims that the release introduced bugs and had quality problems. I mean, what software is bug-free? Fewer bugs is a big deal. Less-severe bugs is a big deal.

Neat app. Would be helpful if I could adjust text size. It's small enough that immediately looked for that setting. I don't think it exists, which means I'm disincentivized from us…

As a strong supporter of unions, that's the end of my donations. I've probably donated fewer than a dozen times, but definitely more than five or six. I felt reasonably good about …

This makes sense. A handful of websites hold most of the “trusted” info because they’re massive. I don’t expect you to quote my blog with only three entries. The real trick would b…

The first non-MacOS OS I ever booted was MkLinux. On a PowerPC 9500. I convinced my mom to drive to a Borders book store to get a book about it. There were no books about Linux at …

Dang, here I was feeling slick with 10Gb between my MBP and Mac mini and NAS. That’s the thing, it could always be bigger / faster / more. It’s enough for my workflow, but it’s fun…

Assisted a an internal-client with a 12 yo Dell all-in-one yesterday. I recognized his voice, as this was the third or fourth time. Knowing the landscape ahead of assisting him all…

Ew apartment buildings have them where I live, though a limited number so I can imagine that their use fluctuates. Someone who can’t reserve an open charger can’t move in. Someone …

To be fair, that'll happen in New York if you protest the internationally-illegal sale of real estate in Palestine taking place in a synagogue. Here's the event, a law was passed p…

Sure, but our economy stomps most East Coast states (hello, New York!) and we aren't neighbors of the confederacy.

We were setting off fireworks in the street in the middle of the afternoon (cause you'd buy a bunch and gradually deploy in the days leading up to the event). We shot off a rocket,…

I saw a video of fireworks over LA from the window of a descending airplane in the last several years and it was pretty beautiful. They were everywhere. I genuinely don't understan…

A strong argument for reform. The costs of higher education have multiplied while the people providing the education have probably not moved meaningfully, or may have declined with…

> How likely is an LLM to have different outcomes for Tyrone vs Jeff?

> Their defence seems to be "well we asked an LLM to reproduce your work, so 'WE' never copied your code". A German court recently ruled that the runners of the agent are responsib…

I got LinkedIn notifications for both Anthropic and OpenAI with my exact job description, but at 3-4x the pay. I said hell no. They would want me to actually work. The job I have n…

> I meant "I do not understand why Sov. Cit. would believe that the law would agree to these ideas". It's an insane degree of self-delusion. No sane and rational person would belie…

> To be fair to Apple, their best selling laptop runs on the same chip as their best selling phone Technically, their best selling laptop has been the MacBook Air for some number o…

> I don't think your average consumer has any idea how memory works, which apps are using it, or what a "reasonable" consumption is for a given task. I had a brand new experience t…

I just downgraded the skillset needed and moved back down to dedicated IT. It's so much easier and I have zero job-related stress 95% of the time. I already worked a flashy job wit…