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txmx2017··on Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful
In customer service, a 10 is good, a 9 is good with room for improvement, and everything below an 8 is bad. The author makes a big deal about the difference between a 0 and 6. But both mean the customer is disatisfied. There’s no real difference.
txmx2017··on Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create One User Experience
This convinces me my suspicions are correct. They want to replace desktops with iPhones.

Apple has been drastically increasing the power of the processors in iPhones. Now they’re unifying the iOS and macOS experience.

They’re going to create a desktop mode within iOS. It’ll use bluetooth peripherals and an HDMI Airplay stick that plugs into a monitor.

The iPhone will become a PC we carry around in our pockets containing all our data making it unnecessary to have a different computer in every place we go to. And it will justify spending more on our phones because we’ll be saving not buying desktops.

txmx2017··on Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update
You’re a student who needs to take notes for a class. You open your laptop to find that the battery has died. No problem. You’ll just plug the charger in. But, unbeknownst to you, it had downloaded an update silently the last time you used it. Now that it’s booting up you’ll get nothing but a Windows Update screen for the next 15 minutes.

You’re at the doctor’s office waiting for an appointment. You open your laptop for a minute to check your mail. Surprise! Windows is booting up with an update. The nurse then calls your name and you have to carry your laptop around with the lid open like a jackass or risk bricking it.

txmx2017··on Building a Poor Man’s Deep Learning Camera in Python
Sea gulls then. They aggressively go after food with little regard for their safety. They’re like rats with wings.
txmx2017··on Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
If it’s traveling too fast for us to intercept it, it’s location is irrelevant.

If our craft can accelerate fast enough to intercet it, it’s position is still irrelevant since we know it’s trajectory.

txmx2017··on Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk'
I don’t understand this opinion. We know it’s trajectory.