Spooky23

I disagree. One of the key differentiators is that technology is being introduced in the highest cost, highest capability sku in their product lineup. This laptop costs more than my first car, although I’m old :)

What Microsoft introduced touch surfaces, they came out of the train wreck of Longhorn and they were under the belief that they could push windows down to phones. Reality was that they pushed touch surfaces in a barbell distribution… ultra high end and ultra low end. Mostly low end as screen costs were super high.

With Apple, look at the pencil and the iPad. They’ve had a lot of fits and starts, but the Apple Pencil didn’t fundamentally change the iPad, but it did open the door for a very high value use cases for things like procreate.

The Gen Z and Alphas will save us. As a late Gen X, most of our cohorts were bogged down eating for boomers to die and are lost causes in big companies.

Some people get a rise out of dissing LLM stuff.

They've figured out that they can offer poorly performing services that suck and nobody cares. The company will continue to explore that concept until people care.

I run an org with 200k employees. We're on our 4th significant outage with M365 services in a month. We're talking major stuff -- including user data like email getting deleted by various processes. Their approach is pretty much "meh".

Of course it can be.

But as I’m sure you’re more intimately familiar with, decisions are made and priorities set and folks like you are presented with sometimes unreasonable expectations to perform, or not. The police dept in question is clearly in the latter category.

Absolutely. Commenters are good little rule followers.

No way. You turn over everything and counsel does the privilege review.

I spent decades in public service. When the administration was into transparency, average time to response was <4 weeks, some within hours. When I retired, we turned off the system that tracked the requests.

Yes! People should be reading those books in school to understand the transition of society in the 20th century. The Power Broker is of course Caro’s most famous book but the LBJ series are incredible and underrated.

Something that many people don’t appreciate is that plumbing wasn’t necessarily universal.

People with disposable income in NYC and other places would just go to a Chinese laundry. Folks without alot of money were in a variety of living arrangements that weren’t standardized in the same way things are today. It was very common into the 1970s for rural homes in upstate NY where I spent half my childhood to have outhouses and manual pumps.

They did!

As a 90s kid, the Dodge Omni was a common shitbox student car. I think they had like 8 key patterns lol.

My brother’s ignition key unlocked my friends’s trunk. There were a few people who could start other peoples cars. In one case, a soccer player “stole” a football players unlocked car as they looked identical and were parked near each other. In another as a prank we unlocked cars to roll them out of parking spots and physically lift them into unusual places.

It’s a point that isn’t made often. AI is mostly saying the quiet part out loud.

The big money valley bros figured it out just before they embraced regressive conservatism for their politics. There’s a reason we went from massages and pet daycare to rentier agriculture executive style management of the peons.

Sorry, this one got a mere 15 minutes in Toronto.

I’ve always found it funny that many of the states that despise unions love HOAs.

For example, they’ve fought for the right to have a “right to work”, so that closed shops can’t be a thing — you cannot compel inclusion in a bargaining unit by nature of employment.

Yet restrictive deed covenants where you are compelled by the state to join a private association are fine.

The arguments for or against them are similar if you dig into them.

People gin up this stuff up for some reason. The film supposedly had a 25 minute standing ovation as well at some film festival.

The administration has said it out loud. Printing press.

None of these things are oracles. The Monte Carlo helps you visualize the universe of outcomes. Simulating past events helps you specifically apply your knowledge of the past to your portfolio.

Think of it as a tool to understand and explore risk. I’ve found all of these tools more useful as a I get older and the day I need to use the cash is closer.