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Comment · 1 month ago
If you are smart enough to change the default, you would know which LLM you picked and could point the finger at it.

Apple is in the game of providing an application platform. Maybe in the future they will provide their own LLM.

Comment · 1 month ago
If anyone has a good book on setting up a good authorization model in a corporate environment, please pass it along.
Comment · 2 months ago
I would personally like to see fines commensurate with the size of the organization.

The United States has allowed many industries to consolidate, but the fines they face when they mess up are infinitely small compared to their size.

Comment · 5 months ago
Add Anthropic and OpenAI to the list. Companies that are bleeding money.

Personally, a company should be making money before adding it to the index.

Comment · 5 months ago
I actually think it is a good thing to introduce constraints to AI and the overall tech industry. Hopefully everyone will have to look at improving performance without having to add RAM or increase CPU/GPU performance.
Comment · 5 months ago
Maybe Nasdaq shouldn't put Space X in the Nasdaq-100 index fund 15 trading days later vs six months.
Comment · 5 months ago
As investors for other people, the pension funds, have a fiduciary responsibility to ask questions. I don't care if Space X is changing the world or making potato chips for consumers.

If you read the article, they have concerns about the governance structure of Space X and the ability of investors to question what the company is doing.

Comment · 8 months ago
They don't need it. Apple is introducing new hardware for the sake of introducing new hardware.

Personally, they need to put the iPad on a two-year release cycle and focus on improving iPad OS.

Comment · 8 months ago
LOL... I was in the same position. I graduated from high school in 88 and got my first job a couple of years later, working at a small insurance company running IBM AS/400. I had just gotten my job as an operator with a dream of becoming a programmer, and here comes IBM with its CASE tool. I truly thought the world was going to end.

A couple of years later, Microsoft came out with Visual Basic, and I thought, OMG, I'm toast. Secretaries are going to be writing code. I was a developer by this time, writing code in FoxPro and getting into PowerBuilder.

All this to say, "I've been in IT for many years, and companies promise a lot but rarely deliver completely on their promises." Do programmers and others in the tech field need to adapt? Yes. Is AI going to be disruptive to some extent? Yes. Are all jobs going away? No.

Comment · 9 months ago
I bought a brand new Dell laptop with Windows 11 25H2 at the end of November 2025. The first patches released by Microsoft in December did not install. WTF!!!

If you go online, you will see a whole YouTube videos and articles on how to fix the issue. Let me tell you, after a considerable amount of time, I gave up.

I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 on my desktop, and I can't remember the last time I had issues applying patches.

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't understand why individuals expect a corporation like Google, driven by profits, to give a sh*t. I would expect no less of Apple with IOS.

Individuals should look for and support alternatives. I'm currently working on a desktop running Ubuntu because I want an alternative to the duopoly of Windows and macOS.

Additionally, we should support open-source alternatives with our donations. I personally donate money every year to Ubuntu, the Gnome foundation, and Tor.

Comment · 1 year ago
I had eye surgery three weeks ago. Prior to my eye surgery, I emailed and called my health insurance to get a total out of pocket cost, none could be given. The only thing I heard over and over is your deductible is X.

I spoke to to the eye surgeon's billing department and the same happened. How the F* can it be like this? To top it off, I just got a bill for $300 after paying $1300.

The system is completely broken.

Comment · 1 year ago
Because the heads of tech companies jumped on TV and said that AGI was around the corner to basically prepare for job losses.

They just can't shut up about how AI is going to either save us all or kill us all.

Comment · 1 year ago
Because once you become super rich, you also become an expert in everything. We no longer need people spending their entire lives researching and learning about a specific topic; we only need more billionaires.
Comment · 1 year ago
Americans fantasize about factory work because, at that time in America, you could afford a home without a two-income family. Life was "easier" for many people.

Personally, I think we need to focus on making things like homes more affordable. This would go a long way toward alleviating people's feeling of being trapped.

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