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> Windows 11 Pro Edition > Windows 11 Deluxe Edition

This sounds insane to a Mac user.

Because all what consumer hardware companies can do is copy Apple.

> Microsoft never had any clue what it takes to make a console - a console.

The 85 million people who've bought the Xbox 360 would disagree.

YouTube's automatic and forced AI translation has to be the worst feature of this decade.

As a person mostly using AI for everyday tasks and business-related research, it's very impressive how quickly they've progressed. I would consider all models before 2.0 totally unusable. Their web interface, however, is so much worse than that of the ChatGPT macOS app.

I've experienced the opposite. Recently, I've been getting amazing results from Gemini running 2.5 Pro.

I run this app 24/7, mainly for the 'High Resolution' option. It's a lifesaver if you use a Mac without one of the expensive Apple screens.

In Japan/Taiwan they seem to be widely accepted. Most places in Japan that accept VISA/MC, also accept AmEx.

I'm quite curious about why you hated it so much.

One of my favorite episodes of Acquired. Truly inspiring.

Last year, I quit my very stable job in academia to join a brand new company as the employee number 1. I think that is as far as I can go even in this hypothetical scenario.

Very impressive, but no USB-C?

Around 40. Most are tech news and tech blogs.

Shouldn't TSMC be the most valuable company in the world then?

I agree. And I believe that the value will keep declining.

Nvidia is heavily overpriced at the moment. My personal prediction is that in the long term, Nvidia can expect a similar situation to what happened to Tesla, which involves a relatively slow price correction after the AI hype diminishes. The EV hype slowly died out, and we can see it reflected in the prices of all EV companies.

> How much one employee is paid is often less important to him than how his pay compares with that of other employees.

Is this actually true of most people?

Very impressive!

Cloudflare Registrar has been amazing for me.

I use iCloud more as an archive where I put things I am not actively working on. I didn't encounter any issues with Sonoma but I believe your use case is a lot more advanced.

Exactly. Most office workers don't really have a choice. Someone in the corporate hierarchy decided to get the Office 365 subscription because that way everything would come bundled up together.

What sane person would willingly use Microsoft's software?

I subscribed to premium a few months ago. I personally don't think YouTube has negative impact on my mental. Twitter and IG definitely did and I deleted my accounts there.

Is it true for Zenimax and Mojang as well?

Is it a coincidence that all of them are Polish?

AirPods Pro without a doubt. It's the only item in my life that if it broke, I would immediately buy a replacement. I used them in the office to isolate myself from other people and when I'm walking outside to isolate myself from cars.

Kai Fu Lee has so many terrible takes. Some things he says are borderline delusional.

> I also blame a lack of English and Mandarin fluency in China and US respectively for causing this issue. The average Chinese or American doesn't get a chance to see life on the other side, so people end up building orientalized images.

I doubt the lack of English and Mandarin fluency is a big factor here. The CCP made a deliberate choice to isolate China from the outside world as much as possible.

It's even more funny seeing it contrast with the rest of the world.

> They found that individuals with higher income or a higher social status were the most likely to say that success results from luck and connections rather than hard work, while low-income individuals were more likely to say success comes from hard work and individual effort.

This is basically the old paradigm saying that "people don't make money, money makes money." No one became a billionaire without being in the right place and knowing the right people. Access to that environment can be only gained if one already has significant capital. I guess this is what they mean by luck.