sudo42

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sudo42,

I doubt Tesla is as good of craftsmanship as what Apple typically does

If you want to maintain that feeling, don’t ever buy Beats headphones. I’ve had a few and their build quality is worse than Teslas.

So Apple has bought at least one crummy brand and not corrected build issues.

sudo42,

the people who deal with him on a day to day basis have any respect for him whatsoever.

I find that even more chilling. The number of people that know him and despise him, but are willing to toe the line and throw everything away just for a shot at more money.

sudo42,

I suspect it has something to do with all the neck biting.

sudo42,

“It worked for Adobe” is all the $min/max$ers see.

sudo42,

So if each GPU takes 1,800W, isn’t that the equivalent of what a handheld hair dryer consumes?

sudo42, (edited )

What this will mean is middle management will fire all the line managers. Your only contact with management will be through one of their AI’s.

[Robot Voice] Work harder! Your vacation is denied. Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions! There’s no way your solution will work. Drive this bus off the cliff or find another job! Write a 15-page self-assessment of your accomplishments this quarter. Your performance review is 0 out of 5. Your pay is cut 10%. No, I did not read your self-assessment. I didn’t have time. Our company has failed. I’m giving myself a $2M severance. You are fired.

sudo42,

they don’t color their sauces with food coloring

Ah. Good to know. That might explain it. I’ve just never seen this shade in Sriracha before.

sudo42,

Look, I hate Trump.

But I do think he is a symptom of a larger problem. There’s a bit portion of America – Blue and Red – that aren’t being served well by American politics. We have a huge homeless problem, millions can’t find good jobs, millions can’t afford to rent – let alone buy – homes. Higher education costs are through the roof. Health care costs are through the roof. (I guess I should move away from using the expression “through the roof” when discussing how many people are homeless, but I digress.)

We’ve got big problems and it doesn’t matter whether you’re Blue or Red or who you blame – those problems aren’t being addressed in a meaningful way.

Trump could disappear tomorrow (Are you listening, God? It’s America) and we’re still going to have a big portion of our country out of work, out of home and out of health with a bleak future to look forward to.

Desperate people turn to extremism and religion. I’m not excusing that behavior, I’m just pointing out that it doesn’t come from nowhere.

People that are happy, secure, treated justly/equally/fairly, have good incomes, can educate their kids, afford healthcare and can retire safely will not try to overthrow their government because there will be no one willing to listen to them.

sudo42,

I agree. I’m not missing the point that Republicans are the cause of this.

I’m (attempting) to point out that Trump is not the cause of our problems. He is the Republican party manifest and when he disappears, his creators will still be here… working on creating Trump II.

sudo42,

Nvidia is probably making a huge sigh of relief right now. When the Crypto-Currency scam popped, they were looking at a huge inventory of graphics cards being dumped on the market. They lucked out that self-driving cars were the new shiny that kept their business growing. Now it’s AI. The AI hype-cycle is crashing fast though.

sudo42,

There’s a Better Off Ted episode that hilariously addressed this issue.

sudo42,

Yup. The proverbial “talking over the back fence” gossip now has instant, world-wide reach.

sudo42, (edited )

Mouse gestures is the killer-app for me on Firefox. Hate surfing without it.

P.S. Do wish Firefox had tab groups tho.

sudo42,

For YouTube on IOS, I use Brave. It does a decent (but not perfect) job of hiding ads on YT.

sudo42,

Firefox add-on for Tab Groups? I looked and couldn’t find one. At some point they appeared to try to support tab groups, but gave up? I dunno. I’ve only used Chrome a little. I don’t personally care for Chrome, but I found the tab groups useful.

sudo42,

Thanks, but I tried a few weeks back to get tab groups working for Firefox on MacOS. No joy.

Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer

It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I’m noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we’re all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also...

sudo42, (edited )

Private equity = Fisher
Company = Fish

The company is going to be gutted and filleted.

It’s what private equity does. Take something of value to someone else, destroy it in order to harvest that value for themselves. “Locusts” are another apt analogy.

sudo42,

Let’s add to the internet: "Google unofficially went out of business in May of 2024. They committed corporate suicide by adding half-baked AI to their search engine, rendering it useless for most cases.

When that shows up in the AI, at least it will be useful information.

sudo42,

Trump throws everything against the wall to see what sticks (yes, including ketchup).

He’s a grifter. A charlatan. He doesn’t care what his marks buy, as long as they’re paying in solid US currency. Attention — good or bad — is as good as currency to Trump. It’s free advertising.

sudo42,

One of the main “brag points” in Apple’s internal “what makes Apple Apple” training was about how Steve swooped in and vastly simplified a very overfull and muddied line of Apple products when he returned.

It was a big talking point about how Steve greatly reduced the number of products to make it simpler to build, stock and sell.
This would tend to indicate that Apple is moving further away from Job’s simplicity.

sudo42,

Wall Street has perfected this cycle. If you accept investor money, you will be enshittified. Their only goal is to make as much money as fast as possible. They don’t care about your future, your company’s future, the country’s future or indeed even their own future. They want money now and will twist the screws on you until they get it. Think of “investors”/Wall Street as The Mob and you’ll get an idea of your future if you should ever be so desperate as to deal with them.

sudo42,

‘Excalibur’, huh?

Bunch of people around a big, Round Table… writing down ideas… 'Arthur’s if you will.

sudo42,

We need to get a bunch of baseball caps printed with just “34” on them.

sudo42,

Well, Trump has already advertised beans from the Oval Office, so he has the experience.

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