It’s a passive cosmetic effect once you get to that level

A brain that needs to be tricked into falling asleep half the time

Usually it’s not even negative thoughts or anything like that, it’s just busy problem solving

I say this as someone with an apple laptop:

You don’t buy Apple unless you want to commit to paying over double for accessories.

If you buy an Apple product you’re opting in to being fleeced by them for any related purchases.

It’s a premium brand at the end of the day, there are always more economical options

This article is kinda flawed as it runs with the assumption trump has a well thought out and concrete political ideology he follows.

Trump is a narcissist who literally just cares about his own power, his own wealth and ensuring he stays out of prison.

In a 1 on 1 meeting, he never stands any chance against a charismatic politician. We see it over and over again.

Given that, 75% of this article seems to be the author upset Mamdani is using the same trick to help get trump off his back.

Holocaust education was “confusing” young people into sympathizing with [the people being decimated in a genocide] instead of [the overpowered genocidal aggressor]

Wow what a ghoul

They’re not confused, they just have a modicum of empathy

Now that’s good trolleyposting

#include <delusion>

If you can get an old final-intel-gen MBP in decent nick, they can make pretty decent Linux machines if you’re okay with not being able to do any internal hardware upgrades.

tiny-dfr is your friend if you happen to get one with that touchbar F-row, which is probably the only big downside compared to a conventional laptop.

Honestly I don’t see the issue with this as it’s reported.

It’s not banning resale, it’s just banning resale for profit.

The only real downside I can see is the people who were actually paying the crazy tout prices will have to be more organised and get the tickets when they are released, since I imagine the touting will be significantly reduced (some people will still break the law) if there’s no profit to be had.

I’m curious as to what you think the issues might be

They specifically mentioned the enterprise ecosystem.

I would not be surprised at all if Apple’s MDM system is less painful to use for smaller businesses than Microsoft’s AD and everything attached to it. Hell it might even be nicer for big orgs, but I’ve never heard of one (apart from the likes of Google) not using AD

Also if you’re already dealing with one of those systems, an IT department is probably motivated to not run both and set up interop if they can avoid it

I mean their 1.50 hot dogs must have a measurable impact on happiness for a good radius

Happy people are generally more productive

Solved it without watching the video (saved it for later thanks OP)

She’s trying to position herself as successor to trump now people are going to be slapped by the reality of his presidency.

“good morning, I’m about to destroy the backend” is exactly the energy I’d welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months

Yeah I’ve personally never got the appeal

I think it’s that it basically has a grip on small economy

It’s a chat app yes, but it’s also Amazon, it’s also a payment provider, not just online either, you pay in shops with a WeChat QR code, I think if you’re going to a gig, your tickets are on WeChat

It’s basically all encompassing.

WeChat I guess

Nix and Snap are kind of oddly similar

Now that’s a spicy quote

Oh that’s interesting, you’ve got me curious. I looked into it and some other company has already established a similar system involving “chef hat” ratings apparently. I guess maybe they didn’t want to bother competing with it.

Apparently Michelin seems to focus on Europe, the Americas and South East Asia. Africa and the rest of Asia seem to be left out, though they seem to be expanding every year (the Philippines got their own guide this year for the first time apparently), so I guess it’s probably just a matter of time before other places are covered.

The software isn’t really the hard thing about these companies, the customer and provider UIs are nothing special and they achieve their scale using fairly industry standard event driven tools and cloud compute. They all talk a lot at industry conferences, so it’s no secret really.

Ensuring a restaurant will make the food for an order, ensuring a delivery person shows up to collect it, ensuring that food makes it to its destination in the same condition it left the restaurant, ensuring everyone gets paid at the end.

Preventing any of that from going wrong and handling it when it does is where the value of these companies lies.

Who is going to step in if a restaurant starts ignoring orders, or a driver starts eating the food, or a customer does a fraudulent chargeback?

Then there’s the money issue: where does the money go when people pay? Who owns the merchant bank account? Does every driver need a merchant bank account? How is tax accounting handled?

You can’t use cash for this system as both the driver and restaurant need to be paid (and TBF, whoever is paying for hosting the back end servers), and the driver won’t necessarily go back to that restaurant

Or a cabal of IKEA enthusiasts