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Comment Todo: (Score 1) 19

- Continue pointless noodling about with ui. We haven't really pissed off a significant segment of our dwindling user base in about a year, so go big.
- Sprinkle tripping robots over more features. Think of novel use cases that haven't been tried before. (Let the robot restyle CSS, maybe.)
- Buy at least one random company and integrate it poorly. Have we considered lawn care?
- Volunteers are still stubbornly hanging on. Try to single out hard-to-find talent and use the robots to shit all over their work. Don't be an asshole, that makes them think someone cares. Just make it clear that we value them less than the cost of electricity it costs to replace them, poorly.

Comment Re: I think it's more than slavery (Score 1) 111

Tesla stock is only up a cumulative 6% from the peak it achieved exactly 4 years ago. That is not even close to keeping up with inflation - 18% over the same time period. So if just getting attention from a market flop is a strategy for driving up the share price, I guess it isn't working very well.

Comment Re:Does anyone else worry... (Score 1) 72

You never had any brothers or cousins doing double suplexes to each other after watching WWF? Your anecdotal evidence is discounted by mine. And since mine is real I think I have a case.

1. Wresting was on TV long before video games. 2. Brothers and cousins were hitting each other slingshots and rocks long before TV was invented. 3. Your anecdotal evidence does not "discount" everyone else. It only reflects your ego that you think that it does.

Comment Re:Wrong business (Score 2) 69

but they said they are "saving" this much money, so doesn't enter the cost.

Like many things in the cloud, the flexibility was probably they could add/remove more machines easily with no long term commitment. The problem with cloud has always been at some point, the cost of leasing is greater than building on premises as the number of machines/data/bandwidth reached a certain threshold.

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Comment Re:They could save a lot more (Score 1) 69

If cost savings is the goal, they could save a lot more by switching to Windows, or better yet, Linux.

Only if saving money was the only goal and nothing else. In this case, not being able to develop iOS apps using Windows or Linux is a significant obstacle over any cost savings.

This seems weird, I've never heard of a company using Macs as servers. Desktops, yes, but servers?

Then you haven't been paying attention. Since the Mac Mini launched many, many companies have used them as servers. The main reason is they offer high performance per watt in a small package. The demand is high enough that companies offer custom racks for Mac Minis for higher density in cabinets.

Comment Passengers and cargo vary considerably. (Score 1) 161

What SPECIFICALLY do you haul that you presume to speak for all users who "haul things"?

Four door vehicles including Suburbans (whose "bed" is internal) are popular with businesses for many good reasons. They haul a three-person crew plus their personal items, have room for cargo (which a short bed crew cab equivalent does with extra clearance for outsize items) and make excellent towing vehicles.

There are many ways to roll one's own work truck besides single cab long beds. (I've one of those, too.) Short beds do not exclude long cargo else I'd not use mine for that (I've multiple trucks in various flavors). Accessories like lift gates work well on either (and on vans and box trucks) and in the case of liftgates extend the bed when travelling with the gate down.

Is it so terribly difficult to understand buyers who already have those choices buy what we do?

Comment Re: Cloud computing is one the dumbest ideas ever. (Score 1) 69

Repatriation makes sense for expensive edge cases, like running Apple hardware (which is a questionable architectural decision).

And why is it a questionable decision? Currently, the M series chips are the best in performance per watt and can beat Ryzen chips in some benchmarks. For Grab, since they need Macs for iOS development, what alternative do you propose?

Comment Re:Maybe try making trucks people want? (Score 1) 161

BEV proponents don't care about people who use trucks as trucks or why that used market requires ICE.

They don't use liftgates (I find it odd more truck buyers don't install them but attribute that to ignorance of how very useful they are) so hauling the weight of same plus cargo and often towed loads is not their concern. I quite like mine which is a major back saver.

Their sole agenda is forcing you to obey them. That's typical and a major reason people who would not otherwise vote right wing consider they've no other way to defend themselves.

Selling new trucks requires sufficient demand from the USED market to make new trucks a wise economic choice.

Comment Re:Interesting decisions (Score 1) 69

Seriously, the reason why there are so-called "hosted Macs" in the cloud is so you can develop and test shit on a Mac without buying one. Use actual server technologies for your servers.

If you read the story, the main reason they are going away from a cloud based solution was cost. As the number of Macs increased over 200, they found that buying their own hardware was cheaper. The major change for Grab is they own the Mac hardware now instead of renting it.

Comment Re:Mac Mini servers are the worst idea ever (Score 2) 69

Those ridiculous Mac Mini servers were the worst idea ever.

In this story, Grab is replacing 200 Mac Mini servers they are renting on the cloud with 200+ Mac Mini servers they have on premsises:

“We have got four 42RU (600x1200x42RU) racks housing 200+ Mac minis, plus some spare racks to house upcoming scheduled capacity upgrades,” Grab’s post states

Obviously Grab does not think Mac Mini servers as "the worst idea ever".

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