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An example not anchored in anything: If public transit costs x, I'll use it every day. If public transit suddenly costs 2x, I'm not gonna use it every other day, I'll rather find an alternative and use 0.
I don't think the author is exactly bashing the Chromebook. I'm reading it in that the author praise an open ecosystem where you have flexibility and the choice to "take off the guard rails" and go where the device was not originally made to take you.
There's an argument to be made that it is ironic that Apple is the example of this, but to me that shows why I _still_ like MacOS, when all the other variants (iPadOS and iOS) are entirely locked down.
I get why, but it would give me more confidence if they would tell me about everything.
I don't like it.
I'd also argue that we tend to have a larger context. What did you have for dinner? Did you see anything new yesterday? Are you tired of getting asked the same question over and over again?
I've just recently set off time to have a few extended coding sessions, and the results are all over the place.
Guided in a good way for well defined tasks, it has saved me days if not weeks. Given more vague, or perhaps unreasonable tasks, it will quickly devolve into just delivering something, anything, no matter how "obviously" wrong it is.
I would much prefer "electricity cost 1/8 the price" or "gas was 8x more expensive".
Can I handle it failing, sure, go ahead. There are so many variables that could be involved, not uncommonly including temporal ones. I don't think simply monitoring for a period and calling it healthy is of any guarantee.
I do very much think you are right though. Being too risk averse will grind everything to a halt.
Your whole process has to be designed around avoid these issues. Allow failures, fix continuously and _quickly_, don't repeat mistakes.
I find their oscilloscope probes especially enticing.
In my experience, cheap ones on e.g eBay will give you 10/100, but I don't think they typically support gigabit.
From the amounts of bans since Twitter was acquired, I think you'd have some work cut out for you assuring people of that.
You also need four of the diagonal pieces, so the bishops won't cut it.
I find it strange that we would want to optimize everything for growth.