prepend

It can’t happen to my macbook.

This happened recently to my kid and it was a nightmare of a week trying to resolve it.

I’d rather tie my identity to an org with customer service.

Yes, you will.

MacOS has idrive and iphoto with all your files in the cloud.

If I walk over to your mac and log in with my appleid, I have all my stuff instantaneously.

I work across a bunch of machines (all macos) and all my stuff syncs across them pretty seamlessly.

Costs way more than chromebooks, though.

In the US, power is a public utility. And regulated as such. The providers can be private though and depends a lot on the location.

Personally, I wouldn’t trust my city or county to operate a power plant and transmission lines. I’m happy that power is regulated by my state as a natural monopoly.

Why would city board members care what your domain name is?

I’ve had to disable it a few times but for niche stuff. I like to run LittleSnitch and monitor all outgoing network connections.

I’ve never encountered a company that used ChromeOS.

Closest was some teacher friends who had Chromebooks for their students, but they’ve all switched to Lenovo or Apple.

I don’t think I’d work for a company that made me use a Chromebook. (I prefer a company that lets me choose my own tools).

I don’t get why anyone would price a Neo competitor higher than a Neo.

> On paper, this sounds amazing. Like "out of sci-fi books" amazing.

How does this sound amazing? What about the specs amaze you?

This seems like every laptop currently made with a browser open to chatgpt/claude/gemini.

How much does this cost? What’s the local compute?

Isn’t the best AI laptop just a $600 Neo? I’m not sure how this is superior and I just read a whole web page about it.

If static has won, why are dynamic languages more popular now (even since 2023).

Comically, I’ve witnessed people say this since the 90s.

For me, I don’t care about static because dynamic is easier. For the very few conditions where it matters, I’ll use static. Otherwise I like the simplicity of dynamic languages, especially python. IDEs provide support and jump to definitions in dynamic languages, too.

Because I want to be able to read and debug it.

Giving up ever understanding your code with AI is a bad idea.

It’s like asking why use English.

My guess is that it’s a Chinese PR campaign to sew bureaucratic barriers to data centers. No evidence whatsoever, but it seems to me that every social media driven trend that benefits some corporation is a pushed idea.

Solar on earth was dumb because of logistics, right?

Things get cheaper.

Google is doing both. They still ship to Google.

Knowing Google, the local model probably means even more data are sent to Google.

Chrome has been eating my CPU for years. Who knows what Google is doing, but it sucks. I wish they wouldn’t do that.

But I suppose hundreds of millions of people don’t mind based on the continued usage.

I miss programmers being proud of efficient code and size. I suspect moms of Chrome developers are embarassed to tell their friends.

I don’t run Chrome and Google on my phone because they are so big on disk.

The only reason I ever install Google temporarily is because gmail requires it to log in.

Giant apps on phones is quite frustrating because some of us have small storage.

Have you looked at Chrome lately? It’s 1.88GB and there’s tons of crap in there I didn’t “consent to.”

Software is very bloated these days and I don’t think most projects allow users to pick and choose what part of the apps are installed or not.

MSWord takes up 2.6GB, btw.

This has always been my question of why don’t companies just directly emulate Apple.

If lenovo is buying a billion chips a year, why can’t they lock in like Apple?

How is github enterprise cloud uptime tracked?

I remember the status page being quite accurate before the acquisition.

I don’t like this whole casting of doubt upon sources without providing superior or even alternate sources.

It makes it hard to discuss when one person presents a source and another says “I’m not sure that is accurate.” In a vague way.

What am I supposed to do with that? Research more sources that may or may not align with how you feel?

This is coming from github’s status page. You need to reconcile memory of downtime with github’s official record.

I’ve been using github pretty much daily since 2010 and I never had a push fail or a repo be unavailable until recently.

They were sucking 5 years ago before agents existed. I don’t think this has anything to do with recent changes.

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

I suspect it’s caused because Microsoft is using buggy Microsoft tech instead of the original stack.

They’re making political decisions based on what they sell vs what’s actually useful for their use case.

It’s kind of impossible to find out if this is true though.

SEC cares about penny stocks a little bit.

I think the problem with prediction markets is the ease of people changing the outcome and profiting on it from others expense.

It’s worse than insider trading as it’s betting that Kyle’s mom will bomb Gaza and then making it happen.

Any societal good from knowing is outweighed by the injustice.

If there was any regulation by government or the markets themselves then it would be better. Betting in things you can’t affect like the weather or earthquakes or elections or whatever is actually pretty useful for awareness.

Social security will fail slowly by reducing its payout a little at a time.

It can’t really fail all at once unless the US government dissolves. And people have been losing money on that bet for 250 years.

Luckily, if someone thinks the USG will actually fail, it’s really easy to trade on that possibility.

> Also, his medium avatar looks awfully generated.

What do you mean by this? Aren’t most avatar images generated three days?

It’s probably a few thousand users. When I switched to mac, I looked for notepad++ and settled on BBEdit (which is awesome and funny I forgot about it all these years).

This doesn’t seem like for money, but for esteem.

This is why the wolves also eat whole mice.

People upload images to openai and have it generate and modify. And it has to not generate csam.

I guess that they process billions of images every day.

I don’t think they’re getting csam from scraping (thankfully, I expect there isnt much publicly available csam).

They aren’t as big as facebook, but they must have this functionality or many users will be hurt.

But you are cycling. Who cares if people know you have a camera or not. Meta glasses are one less thing, whereas a gopro is a second thing.

Pretty rare to stop to talk to people while cycling.