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- Comment on Exclusive-Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in ‘company reset’ continuation 10 months ago:
Didn't read the article, or follow the news enough to be able to make a claim on what they should do, huh
- Comment on Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction 10 months ago:
No?
I mean, if you stretch those airquotes pretty hard, but not sure why you'd compare those people to this case
- Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian 10 months ago:
Plausible, but is it likely? Enough to be even remotely worth it...?
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
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- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
I'm not. Pretty happy here overall.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Don't be fooled. Most went back.
- Comment on Reuters has taken down -- globally -- an important hacking-for-profit investigation that included details about an Indian hacking entrepreneur -- because he got a court in that country to say so. 10 months ago:
Yes, they do.
- Comment on Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions 10 months ago:
At this point, the best time to fix it is now.
- Comment on Using AI, researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium 11 months ago:
Great!
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 11 months ago:
Even if true, someone can both be a piece of work and successful.
Like how a guy can be a complete moron piece of shit AND a top neurosurgeon.
Also that person can be a steadily worse neurosurgeon and become more and more just a moron piece of shit.
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 11 months ago:
I'm not even remotely a fan of the guy at this point, but from everything I've read, a lot of it was actually because of him.
Tesla too.
But also a lot of the negative parts of those companies, and failures. And at the Boring Company. And TwitX, etc.
Whatever contributions he's made are rapidly evaporating, though. He had plenty of problems 1015 years ago, but the last 5 have been a massive, rapid slide in his contributions, reputation, etc.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Hardware-wise? Yes, some of that too.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
App bundles have virtually no relationship with resource forks. I guess you could say that App Bundles COULD include SOME metadata that you could have included in Forks, including the idea that something was an application or not. But that's about it.
On the NeXT always being Apple thing - I mean, some of it maybe was spiritually Apple, and eventually it was 100% Apple. But we're splitting hairs.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
The smartphone case is one where I'd say they largely did invent the modern smartphone. I mean, they didn't design every component from the ground up, but so much of what went into that first iPhone was new and completely redefined things, to the point where these interfaces and design languages still define how virtually every smartphone still works 15 years later.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
I mostly agree, but I'd just put the itunes pairing as one of the top 5 innovations (maybe #4), not the main one.
And ah yeah, the Itunes store. The Store, and Job's personal (and surprisingly effective) crusade to bring sanity to the way (and prices) that music were being sold was huge huge.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
That's a good point.
Although, looking at it in a different, much more true way - no they weren't.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Other systems did have double-click, and app bundles (which I still think are just fantastic) were a NeXT thing. (which of course became Apple, but they weren't at the time). But yeah, Apple way refined and brought those to a mass market.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Every innovation is built on top of other ideas. All of them.
You're getting hung up mostly on the word "took". They could have said "started with". But what was built was successful both by being innovative and well-executed.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Yeah, people seem to forget just how groundbreaking the form factor, all the swipe and pinch (and multitouch) interface stuff, having one giant touchscreen, the user friendliness if pretty much everything (versus other phones at the time), etc was. Soon everyone was trying to copy it, which is fine. But saying all they innovated was rounded corners and everything else already existed and was just as good is dumb.
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 11 months ago:
Reich wingers are smug about that...?
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 11 months ago:
I would guess that 80-90% of owners are ignorant (some willfully), or try to separate the man from the company, and not just unrepentant fanboys/girls
But yeah, agree on the fanboy thing. SpaceX too (which personally I find extra unfortunate since they've done some REALLY good things in the LEO launch market and space stuff in general).
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 11 months ago:
That'd be funny, but pretty counterproductive.
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 11 months ago:
Zero chance. He and his family own the board and majority shares.
More likely would be a shareholder lawsuit.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
The conversation was about locking in the owners to their expensive proprietary pumps as a reason for switching to this new style, and I was asking if lock-in was actually a new thing or not. Otherwise the comment doesn't really make a lot of sense in context.
- Comment on What's the best way to stream my files to my devices whem I'm away from home? 11 months ago:
They're also really trying hard to pivot to making users the product and to also sell a bunch of junk no one wants (like revealing everything you watch to all your friends). And pushing their ad-laden video stuff.
I also run Emby in parallel which is just the streaming video and that's it. Also as someone else mentioned, Jellyfin.
- Comment on What's the best way to stream my files to my devices whem I'm away from home? 11 months ago:
Second Emby. It's a great Plex alternative.
Jellyfin has also been fine.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Were the old ones not the same...?
- Comment on Mortgage giant Mr. Cooper hit with cyberattack possibly affecting more than 14 million customers 11 months ago:
And here I was thinking that disclosure was required by law.
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 11 months ago:
Hacking someone’s private API is already against law
"Hacking" is the wrong word here. But in general, no, this is not true.
- Comment on Regarding Avocado Toast 11 months ago:
I'm not even sure I'd pay 250k