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They are a direct competitor for Service Cloud. Salesforce usually acquirers to expand their product lines rather than snuffing out a competitor.

It is needed. The current interface feels like it was designed for the Kindle.

The most interesting fact was that Iceland was 40% forested when settlers arrived. I'm not sure their goal is to return to 40%, but certainly a long way to go at 2.6% 20 years from now.

Because the FAANG tech companies often have programs that reward top contributors. My guess is the people who judge the contributors have a preference for those who take the company line the most often which just turns those forums into an echo chamber of not completely satisfying responses.

Great article. There wasn’t much legislators did to combat the too big to fail banks, but the Durbin amendment was certainly an effective boost for small banks to compete for Fintechs. It’s why Chase’s Jamie Dimon is now so vocal about changing these rules.

I think what the author meant to say is to ignore your critics. No one ruined the author's love of cooking other than the author taking their statements to heart.

I previously worked for a SaaS provider who had the fastest API for both ingress and egress in our space. The egress often made migrating off far faster than when we migrated competitors in, but we never got in the way of egress speeds.

No, I definitely wasn't saying that. My point is that people are generally pretty oblivious of the vast majority of facts and features of their electronics devices.

I see what they are saying. I'm still not sure it is a useful data point other than to say the index isn't detrimental.

My conclusion from the report is that it is still too early to determine the impact of the program.

I find this statement hard to believe: "76% of those people that in 2021 purchased a new device and indicated to have noticed the index." It just doesn't jive with the real world understanding most people have of their technology devices.

I think this law is a net positive, but I can't tell from this document if it really made a measurable impact in year 1.

The worst part is that they regularly add new notification topics that you also have to go back and disable.

I use Eero Secure on my home network with handful of custom policies (i.e. oldest kid can use discord, youngest cannot) plus Apple's Screen Time for their devices when they're off the home network. It generally works, but also the internet is a deep cesspool and they still find some bad stuff. YouTube is the worst. There is no porn, but loads of other weird and questionable content.

Now that my oldest is 13, I've started to realize that you can only control a portion of this, so sometimes education is better. My setup above works fine for helping my younger two avoid content they might accidentally find. However, every middle school kid can help you kid find a variety of VPN solutions to evade all of this. The latest for my 13 year old was aChrome plug-in that routes that tabs traffic alone over VPN. I unblocked Discord for him in exchange for dumping the VPNs and having a deep conversation over what is appropriate and how to behave on the internet.

"...and why IBM’s poised to become the defacto technological leader in the global artificial intelligence community under Dobrin’s so-far expert leadership."

This cannot possibly be a serious article. Name one technology IBM has been the leader in since 1995?

I love that the first comment to this post is this from the author:

"I was expecting more comments about this."

Clearly a post designed to be provocative more than anything else. It's just not that interesting or novel. The idea that certain ideas can't be expressed and by expressing them you're making yourself free is fine, but not that interesting if your only goal is to be noticed.

I understand that governments prefer a standard and may want to avoid proliferation and vendor lock-in, but I'm still not convinced this is something that needs to be legislated. When the next version of USB comes out will we then have to legislate that too?

Easier to just read the Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/pedroh96/status/1537849694621052928

Agree that there is a way to have a healthy company with motivated, engaged staff without targeting employees based on their age. IBM has been broken for so long. They'd be best off spinning RH back out and just selling everything until they're just a mainframe company.

Great news! What is the next big piece of software that needs to be retired to make the Internet a better place?

The problem with chat is that every big tech company is only interested in "winning" vs driving usage. Google would be better off fighting for open standards to improve their position in this market. Open standards in the 70s, 80s, and 90s did such great things for technology.

Please do your best to make this piece balanced. First, there are definitely a ton of success stories so make sure you have more than a few of this. Second, you should also get some good and bad stories from traditional student loan holders.

Solid nerd humor throughout.

It is great to see a 120 year old company have so much energy. At the same time, Tesla is still the best when it comes to range.

Reforming the criminal justice system is a good idea, but a DA still needs to be competent at their day job.

Really like the idea that you're making a bet on the commercial return of these panels. Obviously, it doesn't have the advantage of something like Net Energy Meeting, but that is only available in a few places anyway.

To me, the most important thing would be assured that this investment truly creates new panel installations vs just being an arbitrage play on reselling existing solar capacity. Is there anything about this program that ensures the solar panels create net new capacity?

To be fair, the Mac bluetooth stack is a dumpster fire. Not sure that works as an excuse given that everyone else's headphones seem to work on Mac.

They're just going to have to put these repeat dealers in jail for longer.

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I completely agree. But even in the high end sushi places that only have quality sushi, it is still a second class citizen.

My experience in Japan is that salmon is still second class sushi even if it is more common now.

Mixed feelings based on the article. On one hand, I feel like my parents and kids often start using crappy, out-of-date apps that cause issues on their device. On the other hand, just using a simple heuristic like last updated date seems like a poor choice. Clean the App Store, but be smarter about it.

(btw - my Mac auto-capitalized "app store" - classic Apple)