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Yep, and now multiply that complexity by hundreds or thousands of employees. That's why companies are giving in to crude, hacky solutions like monthly billing caps. What else are you really gonna do?

I don't know about white and cis, but you can't argue with facts that men are overwhelmingly the source of individual violence (as opposed to wars, etc.).

Wearing a helmet is smart, so that checks out.

Or just make Siri useful at all.

The only thing a stunt like that is going to produce is either A. Nothing, or B. Billions more in losses.

If you want any kind of good faith information or analysis on Tesla, you're going to need to ignore tesla.com. They are primarily in the business of selling hope and bullshit.

"Irrational exuberance" is, I believe, the most concise description.

Genuinely curious, what would you recommend someone read on this? I have not been able to find anything that seems credible, but I am open learning.

The Four Official Core Values:

- Respect: Treating others as one would like to be treated, while explicitly rejecting ruthlessness, callousness, and arrogance.

- Integrity: Working with customers and prospects openly, honestly, and sincerely, and honoring commitments.

- Communication: Maintaining an obligation to talk and listen to one another, believing information is meant to move people.

- Excellence: Demanding the very best in all operations and continuously raising performance standards.

-Enron

They've had a lot of practice. Usain Bolt was also really fast because he ran a lot.

No doubt. It's been a very long time since Bioware was a great studio.

CDPR is probably the flagship studio in Europe. Interestingly, they are probably the modern studio that most resembles Bioware in the 2000's.

Don't forget ME:Andromeda (2017). The truth is that it has been almost 15 years since Bioware made an even arguably great game.

Cringely was a character. I can't say he changed the world in a major way - he was no Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Heck, he wasn't even Eric Schmidt. But he was a clever, charming, and interesting person, and his coverage of the tech industry made it feel a lot more glamorous that it really was. He was also a fabulist and possibly even a bit of a scoundrel. That said, I do think our industry was better with him in it.

Agree, it was so well written, warm, and entertaining that I was really excited to read more. Womp womp.

I noticed this too in the footer "I write here on the semi-rare occasion I feel like writing."

Yeah, no kidding man :)

What topic?

It's interesting. That's it. That's the only criteria.

Yeah, those are all legit gripes about modern operating system UX, but none of them are automatically fixed with skeuomorphism, and none of them couldn't be fixed with clearer design regardless of approach.

At least they're consistent about UX. My only complaint is that it needs more tabs.

Of course he does. He is comically ignorant.

This is just sentimental nonsense. You are not obligated to patronize or be friendly to evil people.

I wouldn't call Canadians smarmy, just a bit overly friendly.

Other than "I don't like what this implies", what were your specific complaints? Because I don't believe you actually read any of the studies.

Poor people aren't buying Ferraris and Bentleys, and yet plenty of them sell, so I think you're taking anecdote as data.

That link doesn't seem very credible. It looks like they were targeting an outcome, and bent the statistics to fit.

I don't think Microsoft would intentionally compete with Windows, but it does seem as though they are preparing for a world where Windows is no longer their golden goose, or at least hedging their bets. Given that Windows has already decisively lost the battle for servers, this seems prudent.

I'd say it's an old problem be exacerbated by AI.

It's worked so well in the past, surely it will work this time.

Yeah, but you have to realize we are on the losing side of this war. The armies of bullshit now have an incredible advantage that actual art can never have. At least in the past, there was some equilibrium. Bullshit was cheaper to make than art (or any other quality product), but now it has become infinitely cheaper to produce, and much more expensive for us to separate from the bullshit.

Think about this for a moment - it takes a company of 8 people to make 3000 podcast episodes a week. It would take far more than 8 people to listen to that many podcasts. How can we possibly hope to separate the wheat from the chaff? What happens when it's 30,000 episodes per week? 300,000. What possible hope does art and craft have against an army that is effectively infinite.

We can hope that the cream will rise to the top, but I am not optimistic. I genuinely believe we are watching the end of art and human creativity as it is absolutely drowned is mass slop.

tl;dr - we're fucked.