The amount of "innovation and debate" I've seen during remote meetings is no different than when I used to work in an office. Meetings are either exhausting and dead (when they're the usual bullshit administrative meetings that no one wants to be in and could've been handled via email) or they're fun and engaging (when its something like a working session where the participants want to be there).

This guy is an idiot and, as others in this thread have already stated, he's got ulterior motives beyond "innovation and debate."

An architect designs a bridge. The materials include a number of steel beams that dont actually meet the support requirements for the bridge's expected traffic. The bridge collapses.

This guy, to the survivors of the collapse: Have you ever even taken a bridge safety course?

Passengers, reportedly including the one suffering diarrhea, were allowed to re-board after an eight-hour delay [...]

God damn if I was the person who did it, I'm not sure I'd want to get back on and just have people stare at me with contempt and disgust for an entire international flight.

Alternately, I might feel obligated to suffer along with everyone else, all things considered.

I feel bad for this dude, but not for the reasons he wants me to.

Nearing 40 and being pretty staunchly no-kids, I always got along great with all of the devs and admins I work with who have kids and we find plenty to talk about. I always thought what I do for a living is pretty cool, but I certainly never expected that to be my ticket to getting laid or being praised as some big-brain special boy. This dude felt one-dimensional because he is one-dimensional. Maybe he just never really spent the time developing his personality and maybe its time to do that now. It's one thing to love what you do, its another entirely to make your job your identity - you gotta bring more to the table in social situations than shop talk and Squid Game.

As for complaining about a routine... I mean, that's unfortunately how being an adult works for 90% of us. We have jobs, we often end up kind of worn out even if we sit at a desk all day, and it can suck - you make the best of it and break the monotony as best you can. If he wanted to be in the remaining 10%, he probably should've put in the effort. Those folks he mentions at Y Combinator, or starting nonprofits probably busted their asses to break through. Even content creators who put out quality content often are often run ragged from overworking. Did this dude think staying in NY and taking a 9-5 there would have magically given him extra energy?

Fuck outta here with this garbage, Business Insider.

Holy fuck did we finally sell Florida? I wonder what sucker bought it.

I assume the accepted copout is something along the lines of, "You can thank us for making enough noise that they backed down. Sheepdogs, sheep, blah blah something something..."

An auditor with this level of scrutiny and attention to detail? Say it ain't so.

The issue occurred following regular maintenance work on the servers, the company said, adding that it would review its maintenance procedures.

Two people with knowledge of the matter had told Reuters the malfunction occurred during an update of the automaker's parts ordering system.

Uh-oh. Someone forgot to uncomment include /etc/logrotate.d and bounce the service, didn't they.

Eh, "legit" as in "paid for, payment accepted by Google, displayed in search results without proper QC."

I can't remember what it was specifically, but friend basically ruined a major plot point in Witcher 3 for me fully knowing I was a good ways out from discovering it on my own. As a kneejerk reaction and knowing he was about 20 or 30 hours into Fallout 4, I told him who runs the Institute and what relation that individual has to the protagonist.

He was angrier than I was because I had assumed Witcher 3 turned out the way he revealed, but my spoiler absolutely blindsided him. He never ruined anything for me again.

[...] but subscriptions for software-based new car features will continue, according to a BMW board member.

I wonder what they're going to try to nickel and dime people over next. I mean, if they're offering internet service/access or other things that are an ongoing service, fine. That's mostly fair... but if they're charging you to flip a bit in the car's internal database (or even worse, a central database somewhere that keeps your car's data) but the feature is installed in your car and costs BMW nothing to enable it, then ewwwwwww

Took a deeper look at the article...

[...] BMW says it will continue to offer subscription-based services but only for software options, like driver assistance and digital assistant services, which is completely understandable.

Hahahahahaha no. For the most part, absolutely no.

PSA: At every Exxon Mobil I've been to, when the screen on the pump starts vomiting up ads as you're pumping your gas, if you tap the 2nd button from the top on the right side of the screen, it mutes it.

Enjoy your peaceful gas station visit.

Kenshi is one of those games where I had it wishlisted for like 3 years, finally bought it, spent 300 hours soaking in the utter horror and brutality of it, resorted to shameless save scumming, put it down, and now, 2 or 3 years after my last session, I'm afraid to pick it up again because I have shit to do and nothing will get done until I've lost another several hundred hours to it.

EDIT: Oh, AND there's a sequel coming and that's even scarier to me than picking up the original again. Send help.

I heard its just a regular Ball mason jar and they keep it in the basement at the Heritage Foundation... like right by the display case with Ted Cruz's spine and across from the cheap plastic dorm room trashcan from Target that houses McCarthy's single brain cell.

exactly this right here. we saw the same phenomenon with threads and mastodon before it inre twitter annoying its userbase. depending on how engaged each wave of incoming users ends up, i'd guess you could expect it to look something like:

• spike
• drop off
• plateau
• spike
• drop off
• plateau above the last plateau
• etc etc

sometimes the drop off is really bad. sometimes its just people getting bored with the initial hype while others stay. rinse and repeat until the platform succeeds or dies.

Just wait until someone hits the "Antagonize" button when interacting with him. Or some Native folks ask him to break into a crude oil plant to steal paperwork that proves the land is theirs.

It's all downhill from here.

Probably because windows and Linux users aren't searching for free Mac apps. While I agree that it would probably be difficult to implement an attack like this for Linux (partly because it's Linux and partly because it's userbase is generally more technically apt), Windows has been susceptible to viruses since the dawn of time because users just install random shit on autopilot and click through installers without checking what extra bloat is included (which is often malware disguised as an extra third party program). I don't think I agree that this specifically is Apples fault. No one blames Windows or Linux distros for user error and poor security practices.

Google's fault for not vetting the ads they let through? For sure. The users fault for not paying attention while installing the app and just clicking through the request to bypass Gatekeeper and then entering their system password when a pop up randomly asks for it for no discernible reason? Absolutely.

What should Apple do to fix this? Lock the machine down to the point where users aren't allowed to have admin privileges on their own machine?

Instant red flag. Double red flag if it seems like they're getting something out of it

Probably because most of the people at his net worth are pushing for RTO so he's the exception to the rule.

My Steam Deck. I regularly refer to it as the single greatest video gaming purchase I've ever made. I got spoiled for a while by a Switch so i stopped playing PC games because there was no handheld option I liked. The SD gave me convenient access to almost my entire Steam library.

My iPad Pro. I'm normally not an Apple person because I'm so rooted in the Android ecosystem but for my purposes, it's an excellent little toolbox for sketching up writing ideas and as a little music production machine.

Andaseat Kaiser 2. I spend all day working out of my chair and a considerable amount of my free time there, too. Really sturdy, large, comfortable chair. I'd estimate I've got at least 5-7 years before I start thinking about a replacement. The fake leather will probably start to go well before that but I don't care.