MBCook

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by MBCook 3d ago
How about I rephrase it. More than can be reviewed for the time and money they’re willing to spend . Even before AI, they absolutely could’ve done it.
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by MBCook 3d ago
You don’t think there’s a difference between “hackers try to attack everything“ and “Tesla decided that I personally need to be tested as one of their systems due to a lazy misconfiguration“ are different?
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by MBCook 4d ago
It isn’t. But it should be. I find online advertising crooked as hell. Google charges by the impression and knowingly allows huge percentages of fake impressions. How is that anything other than fraud? It’s not because it’s online advertisi
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by MBCook 4d ago
My comment was meant to be sarcasm. I see that didn’t come through.
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by MBCook 5d ago
Why would you expect the water company to check your water for poison?
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by MBCook 5d ago
Does contiguousness matter these days? Especially since all disk locations are lies anyway as SSD firmware has its own layer of indirection too?
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by MBCook 5d ago
Is there no way to criticize the government of Israel without it being taken as a request to get rid of the entire state and Jewish people’s right to exist? The objection here is to the particular faction in power. Not the existence of the
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by MBCook 5d ago
People can pretend whatever they want, but this affects technology heavily too. Everything you buy has to be shipped. That needs gas. Everything with plastic has oil in it. Economic downturns/depressions/panics affect investment a
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by MBCook 5d ago
Why wouldn’t they go up? Instability is instability. Oil is fungible. There’s no reason to think someone else won’t escalate this further disrupting supplies even more. That will push prices up. Even if they don’t, if oil can’t get through
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by MBCook 5d ago
One of the best solutions would have been doing what we can to get off oil. Luckily, we reversed that policy and have been using as much oil as possible. All hail the great barrel of goo.
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by MBCook 5d ago
Please stop trying to design the torment nexus.
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by MBCook 6d ago
New CEOs can do that to a company.
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by MBCook 6d ago
In this case it arguably helped. I do wonder how much longer that stalemate would have gone on without the blow up. I don’t think it’s a good policy in general. Mostly I think it would just end up in alienation and people not wanting to wor
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by MBCook 6d ago
Get-there-itis is absolutely a thing. No big airline would be dumb enough to say it that stuff explicitly but the pressures still exist. There have been accidents around the world where pilots were trying to save fuel, get off work at a nor
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by MBCook 7d ago
Do I think it realistically would? No. Do I think they want to risk it at all? No.
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by MBCook 7d ago
At a certain point things get so engrained the cost to switch would be huge and the benefits don’t (seem to) outweigh it. I think switching to metric would make far more sense than this.
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by MBCook 7d ago
Even if most people never use it, they already have everything they need. And they could market it as a big feature. Basically no one knows Samsung Dex exists. They could be the ones to bring it to the attention of the mainstream. I like th
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by MBCook 7d ago
I hadn’t even thought about that. I don’t think I could do a phone without MagSafe again.
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by MBCook 7d ago
Ah. Renting is you pay $X a month and when the contact ends everyone walks away. You don’t get the thing back, the other party does. Leasing is close but slightly different. You still pay $X, you still don’t own it and can walk away at the
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by MBCook 7d ago
They still had other presenters at those. Let a video do the big reveal and overview then let the people talk about details or do demos. I don’t know exactly toy. But there must be something with a little more life.
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by MBCook 7d ago
I know the early ones were really bad. My impression is I’ve stopped hearing about them failing all the time, so I assume they’ve gotten decent.
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by MBCook 7d ago
I don’t think Apple will ever do it. I personally would like to see the phones behave like iPads when connected to screens and mice and such. I don’t need it to pretend to be a full Mac. But we all know they’re on the same OS at this point.
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by MBCook 7d ago
I think there were rumors going even higher since Apple is so often a premium priced product. Matching their top competitor in price is a good look. They could’ve absolutely floored everyone if it had been $1500, but there’s no way that’s p
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by MBCook 7d ago
They had two. One it appears to snap on magnetically, I think the other might have had too small hinges on it, but I didn’t look very hard, and it wasn’t on screen long.
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by MBCook 7d ago
That impressed me too. Be if those “Apple touches” of yore. I kind of wonder how well it works in person, but it’s nice that it’s there at all.
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by MBCook 7d ago
Lots of people. There’s a reason folding phones have been a big story for years. Maybe they only sell to 5% of users but they sell and at top prices, meaning more possible profit. And you can’t grow the iPhone at the current sizes. Everyone
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by MBCook 7d ago
They could. I think it would be nice if they would choose to. I doubt they lost money on it. I’m guessing they just “didn’t make enough“ and decided it would be more profitable to spend that money elsewhere. I will say as a software develop
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by MBCook 7d ago
Yeah, I wish they would go back to live, or at least parts of it live. They did a great job during the pandemic but it has lost some humanity and authenticity.
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by MBCook 7d ago
I like that blue though.
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by MBCook 7d ago
Why do you like that over Face ID?

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