So you finally realized the world is not you.

Again, how would you know unless you have access to everyone's calendar?

1) You said no one uses or has a calendar. That's entirely different than no one can see your calendar. Why would you lie? 2) My entire point was no one should be able to see your calendar. What part of that was unclear to you?

And you know this, how? Do you have access to everyone's calendar?

In the case of surgery, you mean besides to remind people I work with that I'm having surgery so I will be out for X number of days? In the case of maternity leave, I have a coworker that I do not interact with on a daily basis. She's out on maternity leave but I don't know when she started or when she gets back. Guess what scheduling a meeting tell would tell me: She's out until [date].

In what world do you live in? I have 2 calendars: Outlook and Zoom. How do people at your work schedule meetings again? Telepathy? Text messages?

What does a cashier have to do with Amazon again? You do understand Amazon has office workers right?

Let me see if I understand you correctly: According to you no one uses a calendar even though I have 2 of them to keep track of meetings. No one blocks off time in their calendar so that people know not to schedule a meeting or that someone is unavailable. Do you actually work in an office because it seems like you do not.

Kind of getting that impression, yes. Maybe I'm missing something, but there's only one celebrity who I consider to be in any way influential in AI, and that's only because he has a second career as POTUS and could cause all sorts of regulatory roadblocks if he wants to. Otherwise, celebrities might encourage AI adoption, but that doesn't make you an AI leader. It makes you a promoter/marketer.

In your world people just take time off medical leave without reasons?

They are not supposed to be visible which is the point you are missing.

Good for you?

And here is the crux of the problem: You do not represent everyone but somehow think you do.

More than likely it is a clickbait title. After all, there are many "shocking" things that “companies don't want you to know" that will "change the world."

The next most rational alternative, MuKLinux, could be problematic for Greek reasons as well. :-D (mu = micro)

[*waves at another old friend*]

Probably the same as Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung products. Probably in the same factories that made Apple products.

So just like Dell, HP, etc.

Sounds like you're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and blame Apple for that. First of all, for AI work, why aren't you using the Apple Neural Engine that has existed since the M1. Second, you can get external GPUs if you wanted. But again neither the Mac Mini nor the iMac explicitly designed for the task you want. I don't complain a Toyota Prius can't move large pieces of furniture.

It's probably worth clarifying that this was done by Tim Cook in his previous job as senior VP of operations, and was long complete by the time he became CEO. But yes.

Redundancy would not be my concern. Security would be. What does that code plug into? As head of HR, I would imagine that she would have access to sensitive information. If we suppose she extended her calendar app to access all of Amazon employees' calendars did anyone secure that? What data can be gathered from the calendar: Medical leave dates including pregnancy leave, surgeries, etc. Meetings about disciplinary actions.. Meetings about terminations/layoffs. Any notes attached to or recorded at those meetings.

Yup. I don't think I ever met him in person (not positive about that, given that this was roughly 25 to 35 years ago), but as soon as I saw the name, I immediately recognized it both from MkLinux and from NetBSD-mac68k before that. Good times.

For context, I think the last thing I did for MkLinux was hack up the timezone files for the DST changes in 2007.

Pretty sure if anybody tried to actually run it now, it would be a security nightmare. But on the flip side, nobody would still remember how to compile code for it, so maybe not. :-D

Either way, it was cool seeing a familiar name again after so many years.

Completely serious. Native American groups are pretty pissed about this.

But you're right. Calling it racist is a bit of a stretch, because I doubt our POTUS even knows that it's a Native American word, and probably thinks that it was named after a Canadian province, so by changing its name, he's "sticking it to Canada" or some such nonsense, completely unaware that the lake's name came first.

So in retrospect, I should have said that it displays an absolutely ridiculous level of cultural insensitivity and ignorance.

Either way, the effect is still the same, whether it was deliberate or just through a complete lack of bothering to actually learn anything before making decisions.

That theory relies on a very highly questionable interpretation of the meaning of the English language that is rejected almost universally by all but the most extreme wing-nuts.

Yes, it's being served by a Mac Mini in my TV room closet. :-D

Long time, no see.

There are laws against stalking. The problem is police officers using Flock surveillance to stalk people. Guess who was watching them: no one. Guess who would prosecute police officers for stalking. Probably no one.