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>as a Mac user it is surreal to click Next Next Next to install a program on Windows. macOS has similar multi-step prompts for some programs such as Microsoft Office, Python, FUSE-…

>A corporation will shift the capital loss to a tax write off like any other firm. The payment of fines for penalties from breaking civil or criminal laws is not deductible accordi…

The article has a link to a previous Gruber article that mentions things falling to the ground because of "gravity" as an analogy for asking about seemingly basic questions about "…

>Enshittification as it was described by Cory Doctorow, who invented the term, Cory Docotor didn't invent the term. He just made it more popular. Others used it at least 9 years be…

In my case, the new HVAC owner is just another local resident that had an existing local area HVAC shop. Nothing to do with any private equity rollup.

>This goes for almost all software. 'entshittification' in software It's really every category of commercial activity. Restaurants food quality, cable tv channels, movie sequels, h…

>Well, yes, but avoiding taxes is not the point of "Hollywood Accounting", rather avoiding paying actors. I wasn't saying avoiding taxes was the purpose. Instead, I'm saying whatev…

>This works because a movie is not a separate accounting entity. Each movie is set up as a separate legal business entity (LLC). That's the SPV (special purpose vehicle). https://w…

>Home server is a perfectly fine term for that. I agree! Maybe my comment is misunderstood. I'm not saying "NAS" is the better term. Instead, I'm saying "NAS" is a common word that…

>That isn't a NAS, then. It's a home server. It's just 2 different usages of "NAS" for different contexts. In a business/enterprise environment, "NAS" is a more constrained definit…

>using an old PC I had and it works great. Don't know why people are so crazy about buying prebuilt NASes. The problem is the "old pc" is typically a desktop-class cpu which is ver…

>What is your use case, if you don't mind sharing? I have custom utilities that detects moved/renamed files by analyzing heuristics of filesize, modification times, and creation ti…

>It seems pretty unambiguous to me. It's ambiguous and a contradiction because I think it's just an example of Steve Jobs saying one thing but his actual actions say something else…

>A month later, Steve Jobs did a special worldwide simulcast keynote speech about iTunes. People had been criticizing iTunes for having less music than the competition. They had 40…

>This is much, much simpler than you think it is. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager. The issue isn't what passkeys _are_ (e.g. explaining they are like pu…

>Literally who cares what language a JS toolset is written in? Maybe you're being coy by asking a rhetorical question you already know the answer to but I'll answer as if you asked…

>assembly driver >Way too easy to strip out the threads. An "assembly driver" or "installation driver" is meant to describe low-torque powered screwdrivers. They don't strip thread…

>Does Apple actually have a winnable case Based on the previous thread, Apple seems to have damning evidence of wrongdoing by the (ex)employees before-and-after they left their pos…

Of the 1980s 8-bit computing era, the Commodore 64 was the "best value" for getting a lot of functionality for the price. It had 64k of RAM when some others only had 16k. It had a …

>More pertinently "the term is purely descriptive and therefore lacks the distinctiveness required for trademark protection." As I wrote in my other comment, "open systems" also ca…

>Open AI has an independent descriptive meaning as composite term. See my edit. "Open Systems" also had an independent descriptive meaning. The phrase "open systems" was a very com…

Maybe I'm using that website wrong but I clicked on "Word" as a filter and got these that are not figurative : https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/results?page=1&pageSize...

The story about the ruling really doesn't explain why another company called OpenText that's been around since 1991 and has a valid trademark registration in EU but OpenAI would be…