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These directions come from above the PMs, especially at a place as design-focused as Apple.

Or journalistic principles.

The matte effect is a huge part of why these look bad. Marble does an amazing job of showing off the subtle variations in the carving and matte paint flattens everything out. A glossier finish and literally any variation of tones would vastly improve the effect.

If someone had this experience I’d encourage them to look into how police departments across the US consistently fight against any accountability for the cops who perpetuate those relatively few awful encounters. “Most interactions are harmless therefore the negativity is overblown and cops are trustworthy” is one takeaway if you stop your research at the right point. “if you have a bad experience with a cop the entire department will turn against you; they are not to be trusted” is a more accurate takeaway.

As you say, stats very often obfuscate.

> it's somewhat inevitable that the network get snarled.

Is this happening in/around NYC?

> Sure, I'll 'just take public transport' to go downtown, but the options significantly diminish if I want to travel from North Bay to South Bay to see my parents, or Jersey to South Brooklyn to visit my inlaws.

The are the same, you just have to pay the fee.

Also, for like 90% of NJ you'd be going the southern route into Brooklyn anyway, no congestion pricing involved.

The failures were not all at the state/local level. The feds also had many issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_government_re...

Governments like all institutions are able to do many things at once. Connecting their water problems to the issues you list is essentially a non sequitur absent specific evidence of either/or policy choices.

I’ve seen incredible sunsets while stressed depressed and worse. Are you saying sunsets cannot be experienced as beautiful on their own?

> or at least first navigate manually and then based on that, write a playwright typescript script for future tests

This has always felt like a natural best use for LLMs - let them "figure something out" then write/configure a tool to do the same thing. Throwing the full might of an LLM every time you're trying to do something that could be scriptable is a massive waste of compute, not to mention the inconsistent LLM output.

The post here makes it explicit that that the issue is with posting that video, not capturing it.

So many big shows these days, unfortunately. Not every ticket will be that much, but many of the best seats will.

Definitely not true. You may be seeing a lot, but I am not which means that we can't categorically say that it's "full" of such posts.

People generally use really crude (and incorrect) heuristics when judging others. "He was a family man/good christian/nice to me at work/etc, I don't know how he could have murdered his family!" Mental illness gets it even worse b/c most people don't have any good framework for understanding it.

"Too many" is kind of a hilarious answer. It implies that there's a good or right mix of demographics for mass shooters, and, to Charlie, that mix should include fewer trans people. "Mass shooters should be cisgendered!" is a logical reframe of his position and it's just, like … what are you even saying?

The only natural synergy I can see is with Arc – PMs and product people loved Arc (myself, a designer, included). There's a very interesting play to be made by capitalizing on that market but IDK if that's what Atlassian is thinking.

I'm a huge fan of Arc and generally not a fan of TBCNY due to their abandonment of the browser for their AI hype machine, Dia. What's odd about this acquisition is that the move to Dia was (publicly) presented as a move toward the consumer; that consumers weren't ready for a radical reinvention of the browser interface so it made sense to revert to something more standard if you wanted to do something new with the browser.

I always saw Dia as fundamentally a move toward AI investor bux, but I did find the "Arc was too novel for large uptake" a reasonable perspective.

Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. So what's the deal?

My dream for Arc, from the beginning, was that it could act as a middle-man between all the various SaaS platforms we use daily at work. Imagine: your Shortcut tickets link automatically to Slack and you can one-click open the relevant Slack channel in a side-by-side view.

We do so much switching between contexts and imo the browser could be a great surface for improving our workflows.

People have been getting mad at being made to feel bad at work for much longer than “safe space culture” has existed. If someone or some team had more power than you at an organization you for sure will get reprimanded for making them feel bad.

I post this not for you directly, who has made up your mind completely, but for anyone else who might be interested in this question.

"Tim Cook, was asked at the annual shareholder meeting by the NCPPR, the conservative finance group, to disclose the costs of Apple’s energy sustainability programs, and make a commitment to doing only those things that were profitable.

Mr. Cook replied --with an uncharacteristic display of emotion--that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues. "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind," he said, "I don't consider the bloody ROI." It was the same thing for environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas that don’t have an immediate profit. The company does "a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.""

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim...

Apple is a consumer product company. “There’s a lot of money in selling silicon to other companies therefore Apple should have pivoted to selling silicon to other companies” is a weird fantasy-land idea of how businesses work.

Idk maybe it’s legit if your only view of the world is through capital and, like, financial narratives. But it’s not how Apple has ever worked, and very very few consumer companies would attempt that kind of switch let alone make the switch successfully.

Whenever people say that Apple is behind on AI, I think about stories like this. Is this the Siri people want? And if it is easy to prevent, why didn't OpenAI?

Some companies actually have a lot to lose if these things go off the rails and can't just 'move fast and break things' when those things are their customers, or the trust their customers have in them.

My hope is that OpenAI actually does have a lot to lose; my fear is that the hype and the sheer amount of capital behind them will make them immune from real repercussions.

I don’t think that’s the dominant interpretation of the chicken joke! It’s an anti joke, the surprise is in the mundanity of the punchline.

I’ve vibe coded a few very cool apps for my personal and professional life but every time I do it I’m left wondering: how revolutionary is this? It is _very_ cool and very helpful for me, but bespoke vibecoded apps are never going to replace the big apps my company spends money on: HubSpot, slack, Figma, canva, shortcut, gong, google stuff. So much of the magic in those apps is in robust multi user support and reliability. Sure I can vibe code a multiplayer app (I’ve done it!) but do I trust the auth implementation? If my team needs new features am I going to spend the time vibe coding and then QAing the full app again to make sure it hasn’t borked anything?

I think it’s great for long tail apps but I’m not at all sure what effect that will have, socially economically or culturally.

I can see huge utility in vibecoding as a front end for app customization — tell your BI platform to build you a dashboard with just the items you want, oh and add a button that opens our crm in a new window. Bespoke interfaces for existing, trusted platforms.

I love the idea that there’s some cyberpunk future waiting for us where there are no existing apps, just a way to construct utility on the fly. But imo it misses some core understanding of how people systems and apps actually work.

Yep. Processes, consistency, support, all of it. Bespoke apps are great in the long tail of one-to-few users but otherwise you actually do want dedicated people working on the tool.

Israel regularly categorises journalists doctors and anybody else they want as “hamas operatives”. Their numbers are meaningless.

The underlying ethos here is “the target must be hit, regardless of the number of civilian casualties,” which is actually evil. “Palantir allowed us to go from 10000 civilian casualties per target hit to 9000” is not some win, it’s a confession of genocidal intent.

And your post isn’t a ham sandwich. An equally useful and interesting observation.

It depends what you want LLMs for, or what you think they should be for.

Imo you’re correct that they’re good enough if you scope your expectations appropriately. The problem is that the LLMs themselves don’t have any concept of their own limitations, leading to a kind of expectation creep. “Hey the bot was pretty good at helping me troubleshoot my fridge, lemme ask it for the names of the first 12 presidents I’m sure it’ll get that right.”

I think expectations and failure states for humans are far far easier to understand and suss out than for LLMs, and this is one of the robots’ biggest problems.

Descriptivism is much much older than 10 years but that is perhaps when you first became aware of it.

Also good for the bottom line: fewer tokens generated.

You're missing that this isn't an issue of granularity or specificity; "equal time" is just wrong.

If this is "right enough" for you, I'm curious if you tell your bots to "go deeper" on every question you ask. And at what level you expect it to start telling you actual truths and not some oft-repeated lie.