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My guess is that the bounce rate got too high and bot farms were using iCloud addresses like this.
It's seriously impressive how it wasnt possible to set per device speed limits or even QoS which has been a thing since like 2007
I'm already sick of this current look of the hard squares and solid colours.
It's infinite work, I just did more work while codex was doing it's thing in the background.
Surely Alibaba is leading by example here by reducing work hours per week while keeping pay the same right? Right?
The cost they are quoting is API cost, so it's already inflated on that.
But you bet my ass I check everytime to have a look at see how that pelican looks, it's just a fun check and also interesting to see the cost/results.
QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test)
Management want features and selling not Lovability and polish. We are just hitting an all time of make make make.
They are super economical in Australia and the government even offers discounts and interest free loan of 15k to buy them.
It's not even a choice because "skymuster" (the satellite option) can't even be considered internet. I remember him taking about getting 7 seconds of latency at one point. It's actually impressive how terrible it is.