MBCook

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by MBCook 5mo ago
No. They opt you in to it. Possibly repeatedly. But you’re never fully forced. I realize that’s far from ideal, but as a home user you do have control still. Staying updated is part of “the Apple way”. If you don’t like it, you’re in for a
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by MBCook 5mo ago
They had the classic environment. They could have kept that going. Business decision, pure and simple. Value added and risk of people not moving forward was not worth the cost to them. They were also way smaller at the time than today, thou
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Survivorship bias. Also, those numbers are multiple orders of magnitude smaller than the AI stuff going on now.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Right. At this point burying money in jars in the back yard and forgetting where some are has a much higher rate of return.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Also, other positions they now know are open and can see if they can recruit for.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
I would assume it’s not that relevant to the advice. And people will always argue about the countries if you list them. X isn’t bad. You should include Y. You only added/omitted Z because of $stereotype/$racistView/$otherAll
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AI didn't kill your junior pipeline. You did(andrewmurphy.io)
12 points by MBCook 5mo ago|2 comments
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by MBCook 5mo ago
I don’t keep up with them. What’s different compared to v2?
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Don’t forget there are serious hardware differences. It’s not apples to apples. But that’s ok. The author isn’t claiming FreeBSD is way better than Linux. It’s just a comparison of what he had vs what he has now.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Why do I have a feeling that includes him through some kind of tax doge shenanigans.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
But that’s not how algorithms work. Start an account. You don’t have friends. It recommends stuff. And it can get weird fast. You can watch a popular video on benign topic A and somehow that leads you to it being more likely to recommend ex
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by MBCook 5mo ago
It’s just the algorithms promoting things I want banned. You may choose to sign up to see all the toxic sludge you wish, as is our constitutional rights as Americans. You say “they signal to the algorithm”, but how? How did they see it in t
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Of course we could make predatory algorithms illegal. Or just algorithmic timelines/discovery algorithms. Nah. Can’t stop the money. Let make brain destroying scams and ad spam legal as long as you’re over 18.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Users still care. Desktop or collaborative is a false dichotomy. Desktop or performance is too. I get why you did what you did. It makes sense. But don’t think there aren’t people out here who HATE everything being shoved on the web with no
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by MBCook 5mo ago
That was one of my two primary uses! The other was I made some Shortcuts that were very handy for me and set them up as buttons. It’s been over a year, I still miss them. One would pop up a dialog I could type a Jira ticket number into an
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by MBCook 5mo ago
I liked the TouchBar. There were two problems with it: 1. It replaced the F keys. I suspect pros wouldn’t have complained so loudly if it didn’t. And it was too expensive for the cheaper computers where it may have been more popular. 2. The
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by MBCook 5mo ago
That assumes market rationality.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
True. There is a “so far” on that.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Not GP but there is a consequence. These days if someone has used version control they almost certainly know Git. That means pretty much everyone who comes in the door needs Mercurial training, whether formal or informal. You’d get the same
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Agreed. For a complicated long running feature branch I can see it. Instead of repeatedly merging the root in during development it can be cleaner. Tools aren’t always good at figuring out in a PR what was written and what was caused by tho
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by MBCook 5mo ago
That’s a great point I hadn’t thought of before. I’m glad there is one clear winner and we’re not in the common position of having 2-3 relevant/semi-relevant choices that you’re frequently asked to switch between depending on which p
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by MBCook 5mo ago
That one I think I was lucky enough (ahem) to have in my area for a very short while. However I do remember people complaining about it much later online and wondering why they were talking about something so old. I guess it plastered longe
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by MBCook 5mo ago
I knew they were real, but only from people bringing them up as an example of a horrible obnoxious commercial. I guess they were regional and never in the Midwestern areas I’ve lived in.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Why does Israel matter? All that matters is very little money is going to the stated goal of helping poor kids. Religious angles of what they’re doing instead doesn’t seem to have mattered in the ruling.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
It’s still not relevant. The charity is giving almost no money to kids. Thats the relevant part. Doesn’t matter if it Catholic, Jewish, Scientologist, or Zoroastrian. The law wasn’t faith based. The decision wasn’t faith based. So why does
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by MBCook 5mo ago
They don’t care about iPhone/iPad gaming either. They stumbled into the perfect spot with the iPhone, then IAP sweetened it. Since they found money they support it. But in the process they’ve really destroyed gaming on the platform unl
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Tom’s Hardware was a fantastic site back in its heyday. Very highly regarded.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
If you competitor starts fading faster than you improve, eventually you’ll pass them no matter how far ahead they were.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Given how popular Steam Deck and fiends have gotten I wonder if companies would avoid it because it could noticeably hurt sales until it’s added to proton.
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by MBCook 5mo ago
Why does it return a double?

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