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"Please allow 4-6 weeks for shipping"

I still have a Facebook account, and will occasionally log in (most recently attempting to sell something on their craigslist equivalent). The default content shown in your "feed" …

The naming scheme is too "clever."

> they are about the most difficult to solve captchas I've ever done Sounds like something a robot would say. Joking aside, I'd rather do a captcha that involves slightly more cogn…

> Non-replaceable batteries Most batteries are replaceable. The difference is the level of effort involved.

My take is they didn't optimize for something that a small percentage of users would have problems with.

Yeah, he's definitely the cause of all our past and current problems.

So he has money.

What are you going to do? Asking for a friend.

I mean, they're already subsidizing some of the phone services (e.g. maps) that users expect to have.

> Microsoft is completely and utterly defeated. All the way to the bank, apparently.

I had the exact same thought about the brand crashing due to association with Facebook. Gotta juice them numbers, I guess.

If it makes someone feel better about themselves, why not?

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

That $7 isn't going to the developers.

Jobs really did make a lot of boneheaded decisions when running NeXT; this book just calls him out on it.

Funny, I'm the exact opposite!

> demand for a touchscreen on a laptop My take is that consumers didn't want this; it was manufacturers trying to "add value" or sell something new. Same as the recent "AI PC" craz…

Even with the latency/frame stuttering inherent in this sort of thing, it's been pretty amazing to re-play games with childhood friends who are now dispersed across the planet.

I'm debating using LLMs for my side projects. Does using one remove the "soul" of my project? On the other hand, a friend is actually making progress with his side app _because_ he…

I liked it because it was very fast (I would always demo the startup time vs. Windows) and had a clean, macOS-inspired UI.

I built a few native iPhone apps 15 years ago, but these days do my tinkering in web tech and "Save to Homescreen." Probably couldn't do this if I wanted functionality like photo/v…

macOS crashes more than Firefox for me.

> Congress needs to step up and take its power back from the executive. Won't happen with this administration at least; the expectation being that unless you are a yes-man, you'll …

I wrote some tutorials for making "grid-based" games that might give you some inspiration ( https://ganbaru.games/writing-grid-based-games/ ) It's actually kind of crazy how many d…