chrisandchris

> [...] not to pay for the actual cost of responding to a real call.

Not true for all places. There are places where the callee can be charged for the costs of a call and the owner of the building has to pay the firefighters (well, his mandatory government-issued insurance will pay). It's moving bills from one stack to another, but it's not free as in beer.

Not better - but Apple in early days was easy: Choose Air if you don't nedd much. Choose MacBook if you need a little but more and choose Pro if you need max power. That's one of the reasons why I bought an Apple years ago.

Compare that with the regilar lineup of other manufacturers: Cryptic model names which are uncomparable and models that are so similar that they could be equivalent.

So, no, 1 is not better but I don't care (as customer) about variety.

> Maybe Bending Spoons will make a move if the stock revisits its lows.

Which would be sad, because then quite a nice project is going to die.

Ok, that's expensive. Here it is like $60/month, but that also includes broadband internet.

I think the best move is now to go back to watching TV: more broad access to channels, also has ads which are (to some degree) skippable. I do not get why streaming had to go full way to being worse than TV.

And cudos to OP, because I'm not into Mastodon but after reading the first section only I understand what his app does.

Will they use it to decide how to name Office, ehm Office 365, ehm Microsoft 365, ehm Microsoft 365 Copilot next?

> Or no path at all.

Switzerland: 10 million people, around 600'000 with permit B (limited to 5 years), over a million with permit C (persistent living permit, but no citizen, available after 5 years of B).

I wonder how you only reach $74 in 6 hour runtime. I would have guessed this runtime goes into the hundreds of dollars.

Or I'm realizing that I'm overpaying my tokens...

Pretty good is pretty bad for a tool I use most of my day.

I use it daily, but I'm also the AI consumer that is looking for something like a hammer and a saw (it's clear what their job are and they're doing their job fine). I'm absolutelty not looking for the next-gen-stuff, so I avoid Codex/Claude/...

Junie is boring, and that's perfect (for me).

> just

Sometimes we bring down whole services with "just" config (looking at you, DNS).

> No, everything that can be automated SHOULD be automated,

I disagree, because then the "human" part of our days are over. If everything is automated, I don't need to interact with any human at all anymore - but the random small chat in the Bakery every couple of days is very nice. Ther will also be no chance to break out of the loop. Try to get a human involved if the automated system thinks "naa, not today", that's going to be difficult because companies prove they will fire the human as fast as possible because the task seemingly is fully automated.

> I imagine something similar happened to tailors who became factory sweatshop workers.

I'm really wondering where this goes. I'm not sure we are going to the "tailors", but maybe I'm also biased.

Tailoring completly got lost - there are basically none* in western europe (* if you don't count the couple of shops that adjust your clothes a little - try to find clothes Made in Europe). So are we going out-of-business and our code is coming from (name a country)?

Or are we going to exist, but it's all Fortune 500 and smaller shops have no chance of establishing themselves anymore?

Or is it going to be totally different and small shops will flourish and the Fortune 500 will loose part of the market?

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