PlatoIsADisease

Apple = Run more commercials with black backgrounds and white text that says

SECURITY

PRIVACY

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Heyyy it never said "good privacy" perceive as you want...

Don't publicly acknowledge that you were the reason someone got murdered and 1000 VIPs got hacked.

One day when I'm deemed a 'Baddie', I looked at Apple as inspiration.

>Apple

Lol

Their marketing team got ya.

I aspire to be as good as Apple at marketing. Who knew 2nd or worse place in everything doesnt matter when you are #1 in marketing?

Thank you

I havent run into this problem yet... but my oldest .net software is only 1 year old... Is this something that happens over the course of a few years?

I use COM and DLLs to extend software/automate. Using Visual Studio gives me some really nice debugging options.

I did try using python and js but the variable explorer is garbage due to 'late binding'.

I thought this was just my ignorance, but I've asked experts, AI, and google searched and they unfortunately agree. That said, some people have created their own log/prints so they don't need to deal with it.

Normies who can't figure out the 3 buttons it takes to use ublock pay for such things.

Its a tax on not being smart?

I'm mostly kidding, but I just use ublock and I've never considered buying youtube premium. Try harder google?

I think with AI, its eliminated my need for Vim. Sorry to say.

I was such a proponent.

If I'm entirely reading code for bugs, then using voice to text to the AI to correct the problem... What typing am I doing?

Still love the idea of Vim.

Can I get an exception of it was a terrible fiscal year?

Take the startup situation:

We were unprofitable year 1, we were break even year 2. Year 3 we look to repay investors and begin fun times. Year 4, fun times.

I suppose I can think of enough exceptions that I reject the theory the original OP posted.

Irrational fear. So who do you think funds this propaganda? Russia or China?

Lets do the nanny state!

(As I get older, unironically. I want my productive worker bees to be drug free, addiction free, enjoying simple pleasures that do not put me at risk. They pay Social Security. Everything is nice and safe. Freedom? Yeah no thanks, get to work and pay your taxes.)

I have a proud European coworker trying to get their H1B...

They talk about how great Europe is, how they like their 1-2 hour coffee/smoke breaks... These kind of moves give me that same vibe.

But why are so many Europeans trying to move to the US? Why isn't the opposite happening?

My hypothesis is that these kind of popular policies are short sighted. They are super popular, they use intuition and feeling. But maybe there is something missing. The unadulterated freedom has led people to enjoy these platforms. Obviously it affects the economy. So much so, even the US military has moved from Europe to Asia.

I don't typically like fiction, but it seems "I, Robot" was spot on about Europe. (Maybe mistaking new Africa for Asia)

I'll read the article in a second, but let me guess ahead of time: Induction.

Okay read it: Yep Induction. It already had the answer.

Don't get me wrong, I love Induction... but we aren't having any revolutions in understanding with Induction.

It wasnt a discrimination thing. They both wanted to be the 'prettiest girl at work' and hate each other.

I was looking for solutions.

If you don't have concerns over security, don't care about AI, don't need niche apps, don't need tech/nerd apps, don't worry about vendor lock-in, I can totally see caring about battery life.

So how many days does your battery last? No that isnt a good question, How often do you run out of battery? No that isnt a good question, android users aren't running out of battery.

How did Apple convince you this mattered?

What do you mean? For a phone? Are people doing anything on a phone that you can't do on an Android? Be realistic, not idealistic or giving test situations that no one actually uses.

On desktop? Uh... There is a reason Nvidia is #1. Wake me up when I can get Nvidia on Apple.

>"Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you"

I see this in middle and lower-middle class people.

But in the upper-middle class, this is a non issue. We know how Apple manipulates people who struggle to spend $50/mo on a phone.

Recent?

They have been last to get Widgets. They don't have apps I use (terminals, emulators, pulse wave generators). Not to mention Gemini AI is actually really nice for scanning a screen and doing actions with it.

Apple is always 2nd place or worse. Except marketing, they are #1.

>i'm weak

>I caved to the blue bubble pressure

This is basically how I view iphone users. They buy an inferior product because Apple exploited their lack of status. From moms, to teens, to low-middle income people... Heck, its even infected some perpetually single techies who are so insecure they buy the inferior Apple product.

These companies that exploit such psychology is disgusting. From Apple to Nintendo to Disney, there is something that feels immoral about how they market to their customers.

And you bet they have contracted out some marketing team to patrol every social media to downvote/upvote/comment as 'reputation management'...But hey they contracted them, plausible deniability.

I know a server and it very much has to do with the client base.

The poor area? Bad tipping.

Middle class? Depends on the person

Upper middle class? Big bucks.

>The service in Europe is great in many many places. My experience with US service is that it feels very fake most of the time. Plus, staff having their own table/zone means you cannot ask any other waiter to help out cause "it's not their table".

I'm literally 0 for 3 on those claims. Not sure how you have such experiences. Maybe its a choice of words 'Many many' could be like 20 places out of 10,000. Maybe 'feels very fake' is something that isn't actually a problem, and might be a benefit, so I didn't notice it. And that last line about 'not their table'... I can't say I've ever experienced it.

The service in the US is significantly better than in Europe.

You want to feel like a burden when you go out to eat, eat in Italy.

In the US, the servers are dancing excited for you to be there.

But Grok was helpful. Why wouldnt I use something helpful?

>I’m not sure why you’re having such a strong reaction.

I have emotional reactions when people are trying to mislead me. I have the same when I hear populist demagogues lie on TV.

Evolution or something.

I had ChatGPT give me incorrect answers to a real life game theory problem.

I had ChatGPT tell me I was imagining an HR problem related to the women.

Grok got them right. My executive team got them right.

I'm not defending Elon, but after those 2 chatGPT failings due to moral coating, I unsubscribed and got Claude.

I've heard 100 of these kinds of ideas. None are scientific enough for me to change. Many contradict each other.

Cool you found a system that works for you.

I don't get flustered by chaos, and cleaning/organizing is a waste of time.

> They're selling well known characters in new environments. They completely redesigned Donkey Kong, that's not what a company coasting on nostalgia would do!

Wat

But seriously... Wat?

Do you realize what you said?

If only people bought a rag tag of aftermarket tier vehicles?

But for some reason people buy new nice vehicles and don't buy crappy new vehicles...

You are underestimating the quality you are getting with a car. The light colors match perfectly with science and experts. Its wild how much effort goes into it.

Your after market has not been tested to react with sunscreen.

That is very factually wrong. The reliability will be worse. That $75 keyboard is going to be used be hundreds of thousands of people, not millions. There is no safety involved. No one is testing to see how sunscreen and 50 other liquids interact with it. Dump a sugary drink on your car buttons, they will still work. Do that on your keyboard and it wont.

This is 10 year old outdated, but 10 years ago 1 button was ~1.00. Probably closer to $1.20 or $1.30. But sometimes buttons had 2 buttons on them, Those would go for $2.10-$2.30.

Then you had wiring each button wire I believe was $1. This wasnt 1 wire, but a few wires, power, ground, signal. Each button had them. This wasnt my job, so I didn't follow this price too much, but I asked the question at the time. I think going into the ECU, there is also a cost associated with it.

Anyway, you could assume 10 years ago, each button was $2. A car has 40-70 buttons? So its probably like $100 a car. Maybe $150 or $200 in today's money.

Also buttons and wires break, causing warranty problems.

At the time these vehicles were selling for under $20k at the bottom, and $40k at the top. So 1% of costs were buttons.

This doesn't even include the cost of hiring ~20 engineers to handle the buttons. ~6 people to check appearance and do testing... It doesn't include the assembly costs on the line. That 1% was just the cost of button + wire.