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If I paid for a copy of Windows 95, I'm expecting Windows 95 in a box.

When I have two free hours to turn on the XBOX for the first time in half a year, I want it to turn on right away and play my game. I don't want the box I paid for and have been looking at to figure that it needs an OS update, and a game update, and that the game should now be slower and glitchier than it was the last time I played it.

When I play music on my phone in my car, I don't want to find out that the "Start Mix" button moved, or that showing the upcoming playlist now takes one more swipe, or that the UI won't load because YouTube Music doesn't cache it's UI anymore and when you have a cell network reporting 1 bar but it's actually zero bars, you get a spinner for ten minutes.

The six CD changer in my dashboard has worked exactly the same way since 2006, the discs play when the key turns on, and nothing moves. There's no engagement to be had other than "my music plays when I turn on the car in my driveway which also has spotty cell service". There isn't a KPI to be measured, a PM to be promoted, or anything. It's just a car radio.

Most consumer goods are solved problems. Nothing's changed since 2015. Even tech from 2015 is just a convergence of 2005 tech, like MP3 players, digital cameras, and Blackberries. People don't have radically different problems to solve in their day to day lives. People take pictures, share them, do email and group chat, voice calls, read the news, watch TV, pay for parking, do some banking. Watch a 90s TV show and all of those activites required different physical places and tactile goods. (Hell, that's why screens in Android are called *Activities*.).

When I pay for a product, I expect to be paying for a finished product, not some psychological experiment that's someone else's promo packet.

The quote box at the start of the article is the essence of it, the rest is AI-speak dressing it up.

TLDR:

Some outage causes a meeting with an SVP. SVP preempts the discussion with the following:

“I know that if we get into the details, the reasons will be perfectly reasonable. You'll explain what happened, I'll understand why everyone made the decisions they made, and I'll empathise with you.

Then it'll happen again.

So I don't want the details. I want to know what we're changing.”

Ok article, and has similar points to “You should quit Reddit” (which was a pretty good book).

About 2/3 in, the sentences got choppier and shorter, and you could tell some context rot was setting in.

I've tried the "Make Longer" and "Make Shorter".

When you go "Make longer" the text gets longer.

When you go "Make shorter", the text gets longer still.

You'd think that the original text would be the oracle for shorter(longer(original))?

Leipzig/Halle Airport, known for hosting Ukraine’s Antonov Airlines transport aircraft since 2022.

That’s misleading. You’re talking about the ban on naked shorts.

RockAuto

Every user isn’t just a zero marginal cost copy of the software, having a user base is taking a gamble on support requests, bugs, FAQs.

There’s a risk with a user base and having a support organization, much like the risk calculation the insurance industry takes.

Jetpack Compose Multiplatform, packaged in a fat JAR. App in Kotlin.

I think luxury goods, and the privilege of living within your means, is to be able to buy goods and instantly depreciate them.

I buy electronics equipment, computers, furniture, clothes, and cars with the mindset I will be the last owner of them, and they will have no resale value.

“I bought this, and I will assume it’s instantly worthless”

It keeps me from buying the same thing twice and causes me to save up for the thing I really want, and keep it for as long as possible. It also lets me be picky about my preferences and really scope out exactly what I want on a relaxed timeframe.

Perhaps it’s a side effect of growing up with hand me downs, and knowing anything our family owned was one step to junk, but it does keep spending in check now that I am doing okay in my career.

As a Canadian, “better than Exceeding” sounds like an American construction.

I’d imagine the scale to be: 1. Not Meeting Expectations 2. Meeting Expectations 3. Exceeding expectations

What about the .de TLD?

But we could, facetiously, do a rewrite every two weeks in a time box and call it agile.