Ugh, it sucked compared to google maps and still does. It doesn't have the Steve jobs obsession with usability. Somehow Google is better at that for maps.

But still, I wish both Google and Apple would spend some more time fixing and improving their maps. I should be able to choose route preferences like " Don't make any un protected left hand turns on to busy streets" and have it route accordingly. Google still routes people through really small alleyways sometimes to save a minute, or will route you on an expensive tollway by default to save a minute. I don't want to avoid all tollways, but I want to make efficient use of time and money. Saving 20 minutes might be worth $2, but Spending $8 to maybe save one minute is not.

Da Fuk? First of all, thats not what Allbirds was. It designed. marketed and sold shoes that were very different in material and shape than normal shoes, so they were not just a logistics company, but had some real manufacturing know how aboard as well. But thats neither here nor there. A shoe factory would at least has a building space with power and water supplied. which is ironically the one thing allbirds doesn't have.

Because a shoe company is shifting to A freaking I. That's messed up. A shoe company should not have any similarity to an AI company. Its like a Pizza company shifting to Cutting tool manufacturing.

Because at the time you never had to do that for any other drive type. Floppies, cds, and even hard drives were able to be removed without damage.

My company sold appliances that used zipdrives as part of the update process. Trust me it was significantly higher than 0.5% of drives. It would eventually happen to any drive that was used on a regular basis. Or one that sat in a box unused long enough, Or one that was used on a semiregular basis. That is to say, it happened to any drive, regardless of how it was treated. We're just lucky that we shipped these with hardrives that were surprisingly much much less reliable. So people were too busy complaining about the hard drive failures to complain about the zip drive issues. But if you asked, they'd be like oh yeah the zip drive failed too.

Eh, no it does not. I bought a lifetime subscription to Musicmatch Jukebox. Where the hell is that now, Yahoo? I want a version that works on windows 11, dang it.

Did you ever use it side by side on a computer that also had Netscape or Ie on it? It was worth paying for one, it was painfully slow.

Okkkay..Well now you have. Adjust your memory correctly. Browsers weren't free initially. Yes, people paid for them. That was the whole juice behind the Netscape IPO. It was as you may well know, Microsoft who started giving away the inferior, but free internet explorer which caused Netscape to do so and basically lose their main revenue stream.

Yeah, I mean thats the thing AI will crack it if it has enough training data.

To be fair, its not open id but a different corporate identity that Sam Altman is also running that is behind it. So like open ai, but much much much much scummier.

No this is classic conspiratorial thinking. The government SUUUUUUUUCKS at controlling information. But they are dicks and are very good at acting like it.

What is done with a language is different than the feature set of the language. I love go too, but governments could and probably have done terrible things with Golang too.

But the positive things I or others do, shouldn't be a requirement to criticize an decrees in public funding for those things, or the lack of personal charity. Say what you want about Gates, he does appear to be incredibly creepy, however at least he has given huge chunks of money away and I hope he continues to do that.

Personally, More than any financial adviser says is prudent, given my income level. I used to be hands on in the trenches, but funding was bad, so I figured the better way was to work for much more money and donate to the hands on charities doing the work.

What were the "Horrifying ways" exactly? Getting a judge to issue a warrant? Thats obviously a precedent that the government has turned away from using.