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“Palantir CEO Alex Karp deploys the most obvious slight of hand. in this hand, vocally performing lewd acts on the president and his base to distract from the other hand, performing illegal violations on the masses and the 4th amendment.”

Well. That’s a bit misleading.

A real example: MacBook Pro m4 will have absolutely god awful performance on certain web based games * (compared to windows or even android), regardless of the browser or any browser performance settings. This is not the hardware explicitly, obviously it’s a very high performance chipset, but it’s definitely the hardware in terms of what the OP is asking. Because that particular hardware is falling down all over the place in this scenario when others are not.

Fixing it? Sure that’s almost certainly on the games side, some kind of inefficient process or element that doesn’t work right in that environment and needs to be hammered out or replaced.

But for diagnosis? Yeah, “it’s the hardware” is the right answer. And you can’t fix it without diagnosis.

*replicated on latest chrome, Firefox, safari, and Brave, with the games: Idlescape and (now dead)osrsIdle ~8 months ago

If the curiosity dies, the entire thing crumbles.

The second I stop being curious I stop finding new and exciting things to do, and I stop feeling fulfillment. It’s one of the biggest signs saying “it’s time to move on”.

I feel so strongly for the people who can’t afford the luxury. Ive been there, unfulfilling jobs for years because bills or resumè building.

well, also indefinite time and physical access.

Not who you are replying to, but two of the most populated U.S states will massively depopulate with much more climate change. Texas and Florida are turning into complete furnaces for 1/3 of the year and subject to catastrophic severe weather another 1/3.

Which is a small deal compared to a billion foreign migrants, which is also a possibility, but still a massive deal. You are completely correct that the first world will escape most of the direct and dire pain resulting from our irresponsible burning of the future.

I also think trying to suss out “who is going to suffer more” is basically pointless when so much of our economy is based worldwide trade and so much of our society is expecting relatively stable populations, two things that will change rapidly with a few climate shifts.

*this entire thread is getting at one thing: yes, humanity and the general summary of human knowledge will almost certainly survive the extreme chaos we are heading for. That should not be much consolation to you, because the chaos will set back the human experience 150 years for generations that include you and your children.

Especially when the chaos involves incredible strife for many nations with nuclear armament.

Absolutely, elect enough Mamdani’s and the powerful will not be able to stop the changes. It’s the expectation that a single Mamdani or Sanders can fix much that has lead to extreme apathy from much of the electorate.

We have absolutely descended, and rapidly, into “computers do whatever the fuck they want and there’s nothing you can do about it” in the past 5 years, and gen AI is only half of the problem.

The other half comes from how incredibly opinionated and controlling the tech giants have become. Microsoft doesn’t even ALLOW consent on windows (yes or maybe later), Google is doing all it can to turn the entire internet into a chrome-only experience, and Apple has to be fought for an entire decade to allow users to place app icons wherever they want on their Home Screen.

There is no question that the overly explicit quirky paradigm of the past was better for almost everyone. It allowed for user control and user expression, but apparently those concepts are bad for the wallet of big tech so they have to go. Generative AI is just the latest biggest nail in the coffin.

No wonder our leaders have gotten along so well in modern history (U.S.)

What is happening in these modern democracies that has led to this sick embrace of cruelty, pessimism ,and apathy?

It really feels like pessimism is the rot or maybe anti-optimism; how can things ever get better if the culture rejects the idea that better things are possible?

Better things are possible, very difficult, and extremely necessary. Fight for it.

Speculation: Google has a moderate amount of “core” applications that are clearly getting indefinite support, but all of those services also have a very conservative feature and update roadmap. New features are going to be limited to things that alphabet has in its global focus, so crap like Gemini and not much else.

I’m sure engineers working on products like the google web suite would love to implement this kind of thing but have zero authorization or resources for that.

Experimental applications, the ones that bloom rapidly and get shut down in a cycle that google has become known for, are ironically way more likely to see this kind of cool niche update.

Twisted company has a whacky way of managing their products, because advertisement drives their revenue so everything else is just freestyle jazz.

And with commercial software like Outlook being so ubiquitous and absolutely HORRENDOUS with url obfuscation, formatting, “in network” contacts, and seemingly random spam filtering.

Our company does phishing tests like most, and their checklist of suspicious behavior is 1 to 1 useless. Every item on the list is either 1: something that our company actually does with its real emails or 2: useless because outlook sucks a huge wang. So I basically never open emails and report almost everything I get. I’m sure the IT department enjoys the 80% false report rate.

Envisioning our most-elderly world leaders throwing down in Mario Kart, fighting for 23rd and 24th place as they bump into walls over and over and struggle to hold their controllers properly… well it’s a very pleasant thought.

I also just don’t understand, as someone with no business experience, how they aren’t just pouring all of that money into enhancing their production capacity. That’s very clearly their bottleneck here.

Yes, I’m certain they are spending an astronomical amount on that already, but why not more? Surely paying more money for construction of more facilities still nets gain even if you run into diminishing returns?

Instead they set up this whacko tax laundering scheme? Just seems like more corporate pocket filling to me, an idiot with no business knowledge.

Apple devices are generally very resilient to cellebrite methods regardless of lockdown mode. Especially recent ones (11 or newer) with even slightly old iOS versions.

Even when brute force attacks can be loaded onto their phones, they are incredibly slow (like 75 attempts per day) and very unlikely to get a 6 digit code. Lockdown probably helps prevent a brute force from being loaded, but it’s mostly moot currently.

And most recent devices can’t load a brute force client regardless of lockdown.

chat gpt has a financial incentive to keep you as a weekly active user. Not really any different.

As a more casual sci-fi reader I highly recommend Red Rising as a series. This first book is a very straightforward mashup of hunger games and Galica which is quite fun and enjoyable, but the series as a whole immediately creates it's own identify after that and I adore it deeply.

Google and Microsoft both treat their operating systems with this very palpable level of disdain.

The only updates for Windows are oriented around extracting more data or as revenue or integrated Microsoft product annoyances. Bugs are ignored for YEARS sometimes, major updates with huge issues get fired off with casual abandon.

Google is less openly hostile, but I get the very strong feeling that the android and pixel teams are about 6 people a piece. Like software in very deep maintenance mode. What bothers me most about this is less "android never receives big changes or major features" but instead "android/pixel has a big list of obvious bugs and has for a VERY long time, and they never get acknowledged ,much less fixed."

The camera app video judder saga is a prime example. (https://reddit.com/comments/1o1i5hi) How the HELL has nobody noticed and fixed this over there? Why is a random community member being forced to deal with this? Honestly pathetic work from Alphabet.

The idea that a corporation, a private entity, can flex so much influence over our government is a direct threat to the entire model of government that has lead to America's greatest successes.

There is a triangular structure, where government, corporations, and labor all keep each other in check. The balance between these three represents the golden age of America in many metrics, although attributing that age to JUST this balance is silly.

Happiness, income inequality, trust in institutions, etc. all of it follows this trend. Even life expectancy is dropping! Literacy rates are declining!

Why? A huge part is that this balance is completely shattered. Labor has almost no influence, with corporations consuming 80% of it. Now we are rubbing up against a true fueudal Corporatocracy and the tip of the spear is not shy about that (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel)

>"It’s just how business is done"

I will not just roll over and accept this. It's worse than it ever has been, and the last time it got bad we had a severe economic collapse that led to starvation in the streets. How will it go next time, with the core problem being 100x larger and globally networked? Maybe we should address the problem before catastrophe?

This is a very biased source discussing a very real prescription issue, and worth a glance for the statistics:

https://www.farmkind.giving/the-small-farm-myth-debunked

Tldr; the concept of farmers as small family farms has not been rooted in truth for a very long time in America

I don't think it's really possible for the average employee. You'll just do an interview, like the vibes, and get unbelievably lucky.

By the time their golden age is known outside of the company they are very likely near the decline phase; even if they aren't you are going to be competing with the best now.

For actual upper level leadership: they have the ability to make the golden age happen but studying the circumstances that allowed it to happen at other companies and being very selective about employee number 2-49. After that it's out of your hands.

I own and like apple products, android, Google, Microsoft, razr, keychron, Logitech.

The apple mouse is one of the worst mainstream products I've ever had to use. It has no advantages that can even begin to scratch away at the terrible TERRIBLE ergonomics alone.

My experience with 5 Samsung phones over 10ish years, last one being 2019:

Great hardware that nearly always impresses. Very infrequent hardware issues compared to its main competitors (in the android space).

Extremely annoying software experience. Locked bootloader aside, as I recognize that's only an issue for a very small group. But the software goes through these intense hills and valleys where you can go a long time without updates, with bugs, with bloat, with problems. Then a burst of updates that seem to address many of those issues, then it just slides back into the shit. And the amazing hardware is dragged down in this cycling, to the point where the phone will feel old at an accelerated rate. I've hard that exact complaint about apple and a few other android manufacturers many times but only Samsung has genuinely given me that experience.

It's very unfortunate. If they unlocked the bootloader I could bypass the software issues myself and have damn near the perfect phone.

I had a two phone lifestyle as well for different reasons: I needed car play but don't like iOS, and also needed to know Android and iOS quite well for my job.

One iPhone that was wifi only, had my entire music library local, used for car play and a few exclusive apps.

One android with a sim that had my communication apps, social media, and some custom tinkering stuff that doesn't exist on iOS.

I did this for about two years. The main takeaways: -I 100% could have just had the iPhone with a sim for communication apps and been fine. The social media was just annoying enough to swap to that I never felt that draw and barely used it on 2phones. -even though I despise how little customization iOS lets you do, without social media or game apps, the only actual pain point with it was the nightmare of managing notifications/alert/vibration/screen wake settings* -god it made me miss small phones so much. The android was a pixel 4a, the last real phone with real hardware that released at the actual ideal size for my hands(that has an unlocked bootloader, I really can't do the Samsung hellOS experience again).

Now Im on a pixel 8 only, with Glider for this site and no other social media or games. It's fine. Phones too big, car doesn't have AAuto, and Google is trying to rot the foundation of android, but for now it's fine and better than the two phone experience because it's less juggling.

Damn this really rings true to me, and makes me deeply wish I had my own office again. There are advantages to a cubicle environment but the noise means headphones which means distraction.

A triumvirate of Unions, government, and private enterprise are supposed to be balanced and keep each other in check the same way the three branches of government in the United States are supposed to keep each other in check.

And just as the executive branch has bloated into a monolith at the expensive of Congress, private enterprise has bloated at the expense of Unions (just as true in the U.K. as far as I can tell).

You have the two primary governmental/economic systems of balance failing in the same way, at the same time, both failing due to the actions of corporations.

This kind of failure may be common with liberal democracies but is not inevitable. We have simply been bad stewards and let corporations vacuum up everything with little resistance.

Yeah but the "I want a nas but I don't know anything about computers" crowd is microscopic. Choosing that for your customer base is stupid and shortsighted.

They are going to get absolutely smoked upmarket. There's so much competition that has basically no downside comparitively.

And probably in that niche too, once people realize how cheap used hardware really is.

Thinking a system is bad does not require a misunderstanding of the system.

I genuinely want to see a breakdown on what is increasing building costs so much. Houses are not more complicated than they were 15 years ago.

Normally if you make essentially the same product for 15 years, production costs fall.

It's absolutely a good example of how putting literally every egg in this cultural basket is not a good strategy. Americanism is two things: money > all else and individual > other. We have taken the first to its extreme and the alligators indicate the second one is not far behind.

We all suffer the results.

Hides them under a mountain of corpses with duct tape over their mouths. That's the only way these autocratic nightmares end.