Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Hopefully this works out better than the time they made iTunes for Windows

Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with

I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.

I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to your lawsuits

So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.

Get back to me when it figures out The Question.

And 9% of the rest would just be griefing them

There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don’t do that sort of thing. Plus I don’t know how you’d encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.

Only color laser printers put those yellow dots on paper. The black and white ones don’t because they can’t: They don’t have yellow toner.

So get a black and white printer and you’ll be fine.

80% of my work is on websites, and the other 20% is in a text editor or terminal. As long as I could map my old keyboard shortcuts I don’t see why not.

Three day special bridge rebuilding operation

That’s how I’ve been using it: Like a sous chef.

It’s hard across the industry. You need to basically be a therapist with technical knowledge.

“Tell me how you feel when you think about processing expense reports. Do you feel that the approval checkbox be checked or unchecked?”

I’d like to see an LLM get clear and non-conflicting requirements from a customer. It will probably nuke the planet in frustration.

Sure, but there’s still a lot you can do with a cheap bluetooth OBD-II reader.

Only rich people and idiots take their car to a dealer for service.

My ‘14 has no connectivity beyond GPS and Bluetooth. My ‘16 had internet connectivity but only via 2G which doesn’t work anymore. I think I’m good.

The last car I bought is a 2014 model year. The one before that is a 2016. I’m not buying anything made after 2020, even if I have to squeeze gasoline from the rocks with my bare hands. Not because I don’t like electric, but because I don’t want a spy appliance to drive around in, even if it has emoji headlights.

I would advise you not to judge a platform from what trouble inexperienced users get into with incompatible software.

I’ve been seriously using a Mac for over 20 years in my career across the tech industry and I respectfully disagree.

No offense taken! There are a lot of justifiable reasons why people would avoid Apple products, I just don’t think the desktop OS is one of them.