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Well, mint tea does make me sleepy

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Yep it's rotten. I think the intuitive revulsion many feel toward the Polymarket is simply due to the unfairness of it.

> they consistently deliver low quality/bottom-tier services and products

I worked with IBMers. The main priority for a lot of them is to ensure continuous employment for themselves and their buddies. They'd add unnecessary complexity to a product to stretch out the development for another couple of years. And they work at leisure pace for tech. Actual 9 to 5, many coffee breaks. They can't compete.

> The R&D they are doing on semiconductors on their 2nm and sub-2nm processes is also impressive and hardcore tech.

But they don't have production. How can they develop successfully without running silicon in a fab?

> Why make the iPhone look more like Apple Vision when people so obviously hate the latter

They are normalizing Apple Vision look so it looks less weird when you switch.

They could just make a device that fits in a regular pocket. Most phones are too big now.

Good riddance. These guys had like 40% forecast accuracy, worse than random. When they say the winter will warmer it will be colder and vice versa.

Right? Spreadsheets have such a low barrier of entry. I use Google Sheets in a middle of a farm field to enter plant growing records on my cell phone. I don't even have good reception at times so the sheets are in offline mode; they'll synch when I get back to the house. Crappy, crummy records are oftentimes better than no records. Farming is data-heavy and data-starved at the same. A learning cycle is a year, and one year is not like the other one.

> will compromise on hard facts without pause to attain social goals

You can look no further than masking for Covid prevention. It makes sense, it works, it's relatively easy but social pressure is strong enough to force the majority to make a suicidal decision not to. We are so, so screwed.

Just find zen and stop giving a shit, buddy.

I see how Google has a vested interest in hollowing out communities to the point you have nobody to text to refer you to a cleaner.

I frequently see such requests in a local Facebook group aptly named "Exit 10 and 11" (of a highway)

Something like 60% of a coffee shop Cost of Goods Sold is rent. You aren't really paying for coffee when you sit down with a cup.

> it would cannibalize IA64 sales

The concern is that it won't cannibalize sales, it would cannibalize IA64 manager's job and status. "You ship the org chart"

> old lifeless dork professor at "elite" university mumbling some nonsense and throwing walls of formulas with zero context

"Oh, you have a PhD in Chemistry? I hated orgo in college..." I heard it often enough to suspect some kind of a collusion. But no, there is no collusion, just old crummy dudes gatekeeping knowledge to preserve their status, and the departments allowing them to do so.

> employers across the economy who require applicants have 'university degrees'

Somebody from HR admitted to me that they often do it to simply trim the applicant pool to a more manageable size.

It's worse. With plumbing, at least you can see what you are doing. Vibe code? One day, it just breaks and you don't know why.

I was about to ask whether engaging with this kind of people is even worth it. I've seen enough of Jamie Dimon-like power trips to stay away.

Most doors in public places need to open to the outside for ease of evacuation in case of an emergency.

They classify a lot of it as R&D and write it off taxes. Taxpayers foot the bill.

Last year Hostgator suddenly changed the conditions of my plan without any warning at a renewal time so I "conveniently" went over the storage quota, then shut me down. I had to pay the extortion fee to restore service. Needless to say, I'll be moving before the next renewal.

> I don’t think that culturally IBM ever really felt that the PC was a true IBM product

This makes perfect sense. In the early 2010s I worked with what remained of IBM development and was surprised at the dysfunction, complete lack of manufacturing culture and engineering approaches. I couldn't believe that this culture could produce a successful product. Guess what, it actually didn't.

BTW Covid harms pancreatic cells that produce insulin via autoimmune mechanisms.

People do quit when it's hard so instead of overriding the very human nature why not work with it?

We all saw the "draw the owl" picture. Step 1 is easy step 2 is easy but then the rest appears impossible. Why not make a series of small, doable steps that lead to the result? The "hardness" of many things is not exponential, it's linear or even less dramatic.

Exactly this. It's only us peons who will be prosecuted under the current copyright laws. The rich and well connected will base their entire business on blatant theft and will get away with it.

I think the difference between Waymo and Uber is risk level. Maybe Waymo would like to skirt regulations but they won't be allowed to by citizens and officials alike.

It's a lovely story, no cringe detected.

> Ilya Sutskever

And alternative explanation is that he's really nothing special. There are literally dozens of people like him in my social circle. Heck, my very spouse has a more impressive school record. The difference could be connections. He lucked out with his circle and a field of study.

Yeah, he post things like "there are no more excuses to be fat". Nasty dude. Romania's overall educational system is unimpressive, as he pointed out himself. Yet he suggested to replicate it in different countries to "get more out of the smartest ones".

Interest and motivation comes largely from success. You try something, it works, it feels good so you continue doing that. The school's role is to enable this "easy success" early on so kids will continue.