Lu2025

Well, mint tea does make me sleepy

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Yep it's rotten. I think the intuitive revulsion many feel toward the Polymarket is simply due to the unfairness of it.

> they consistently deliver low quality/bottom-tier services and products

I worked with IBMers. The main priority for a lot of them is to ensure continuous employment for themselves and their buddies. They'd add unnecessary complexity to a product to stretch out the development for another couple of years. And they work at leisure pace for tech. Actual 9 to 5, many coffee breaks. They can't compete.

> The R&D they are doing on semiconductors on their 2nm and sub-2nm processes is also impressive and hardcore tech.

But they don't have production. How can they develop successfully without running silicon in a fab?

> Why make the iPhone look more like Apple Vision when people so obviously hate the latter

They are normalizing Apple Vision look so it looks less weird when you switch.

They could just make a device that fits in a regular pocket. Most phones are too big now.

Good riddance. These guys had like 40% forecast accuracy, worse than random. When they say the winter will warmer it will be colder and vice versa.

Right? Spreadsheets have such a low barrier of entry. I use Google Sheets in a middle of a farm field to enter plant growing records on my cell phone. I don't even have good reception at times so the sheets are in offline mode; they'll synch when I get back to the house. Crappy, crummy records are oftentimes better than no records. Farming is data-heavy and data-starved at the same. A learning cycle is a year, and one year is not like the other one.

> will compromise on hard facts without pause to attain social goals

You can look no further than masking for Covid prevention. It makes sense, it works, it's relatively easy but social pressure is strong enough to force the majority to make a suicidal decision not to. We are so, so screwed.

Just find zen and stop giving a shit, buddy.

I see how Google has a vested interest in hollowing out communities to the point you have nobody to text to refer you to a cleaner.

I frequently see such requests in a local Facebook group aptly named "Exit 10 and 11" (of a highway)

Something like 60% of a coffee shop Cost of Goods Sold is rent. You aren't really paying for coffee when you sit down with a cup.

> it would cannibalize IA64 sales

The concern is that it won't cannibalize sales, it would cannibalize IA64 manager's job and status. "You ship the org chart"

> old lifeless dork professor at "elite" university mumbling some nonsense and throwing walls of formulas with zero context

"Oh, you have a PhD in Chemistry? I hated orgo in college..." I heard it often enough to suspect some kind of a collusion. But no, there is no collusion, just old crummy dudes gatekeeping knowledge to preserve their status, and the departments allowing them to do so.