RaSoJo

If you ever get around to write a deeper blog with granular detailing on how you achieved it, I would surely read it.

I love Belkin products, but it's perverse that external devices require additional software/apps just to be able to use it.

Oh but for an alternative to Excel

Purged I would have

All things Microsoft from my (controllable) world

I doubt the events at the retreat were the only cause for his firing. Creative folks are usually given much wider leeway compared to the bean counters.

It feels like somebody in senior management had it in for Baillie. And the ketamine story provided a sufficient cause.

He has been set free, but his entire life has been destroyed by this "subtle" mistake. Once you have spent time, no employer will touch you with a barge pole. (innocence not withstanding)

Do hope he can claim compensation...

I kinda felt it was satire, but then the below quote threw me off:

> one vendor’s marketing team, cc’d on the cost anomaly alert, issues a press release citing “a 430% YoY increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning.” The stock opens up 6%.

That happens! That is not satire. So i had to visit the comments here to be sure :)

Yes, exactly. Price hikes mid-cycle is not something I have seen Apple do historically.

If true, one reason could be that: Cook is retiring, while Ternus is on his way in. Ternus wouldn't wanna start off with his first announcement being a ginormous price hike. Makes him look bad.

So Cook becomes the fall guy. i.e., he increases the price by 15% in the existing M5 range.

When Ternus comes in, he keeps prices stable on the M6 range. Makes Ternus look like an awesome guy...and gets him off on a flying start in his CEO tenure.

>I also do not think they’re going to raise the prices of existing products mid-cycle

This surprised me too. I'd accepted that price hikes were coming for the new range...that's expected. But hiking prices on the existing range felt like a step too far!

Might have been a marketing stunt to nudge people into upgrading. Well, if that was the plan, it worked. I just caved and bought an M5 to replace my older one. Boo.

This is exactly what I find frustrating. I get comfortable with the latest model X. Then a new sparkly model Y launches. I am like, I don't need your new fangled Y, that consumes more tokens. My needs are small and i am happy with the older X.

But then X starts to degrade. At first subtly, and then drastically. So then I am forced to upgrade to Y.

What I do not understand is:

> is this a sneaky way for companies to push users up the chain?

> Or is this a genuine fault in model design/resource allocation?

I blanket consider any post by these "influencers" as paid for.

But my biggest fear is for my kids. I'm doing my best to teach them about the duplicity that exists in this world, and that's precisely why I'm against blanket social media bans for under-16s.

By the time kids turn 17, they've hit the rebel stage. And that's exactly when the freedom to access social media arrives. At that point, they won't listen to parents. They are going to get soo badly burnt.

This is why I advocate for controlled, early access to social media for children. As a parent, I can monitor what they follow and teach them to distinguish right from wrong.

But with these blanket bans, that's taken out of my hands entirely. They grow up sheltered in a picture-perfect world...and then, boom.