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So it's the opposite of smartphone, where keyboards are UI driven

I disagree with the author about Black Lives Matter and abolishing ICE (more like abolishing the leaders who enable ICE to do terrible things - maybe there's some common ground there)

Seems like clickbait so I'm not clicking it

Same. There is such a thing as a title being too ridiculous or provoking to want to read the article

It may have been a little bit more interesting than the title would lead you to believe not but haruspicy is not a key affordance of mathematician so it still probably wasn't worth the read

It's speculative fiction written by a professional mathematician about his idea of the worst case scenario of AI's effect on math.

And most of the discussion would immediately apply to almost any other facet of society…

...on openai request to spin up some critihype

You beat me to posting this. Our YouTube recommendations must share some latent features

I'll never forget the first time that dreadful window appeared. I was frustrated for 10min, eventually turning to my phone to search for what to do.

Happened to me last year. My wife always taunted me because I have been anti-Apple since they hermetically sealed their iMacs so you couldn't stick in RAM with talking to a "genius". "It just works!" she says. I dunno, I guess I didn't think an "Install" button needed reworking but here we are, not an ugly instruction or tooltip in sight.

Also Apple: I bought my son an old refurbished iPad for watching Netflix on long drives. But you can't install Netflix! The OS is too old. What's the workaround? Simple, if you've previously installed a Netflix on another device you can "restore" it, and then Apple will let you install the old version. On the old OS.

Of course I didn't have an old Netflix installation so I went to install Netflix on my work laptop, but there is no Netflix app for laptops anymore! Finally, I got it working through Family Share after an hour of tedious effort. This may be more Netflix's fault than Apple, but why would an OS give that power to a 3rd party in the first place? What sense does this make?

It reminds me of NextJS where there is some minor niceties at the cost of magical thinking that you may need to move heaven and earth to circumvent in order to accomplish the most basic shit.

That should be your hint that the OS version is too old to be connecting to random services on the internet.

Not necessarily. The only real thing about this restriction is that Netflix is afraid that this OS version can be used to pirate their content. Which is orthogonal to the question whether this OS is safe to use for random internet browsing.

Netflix and the Apple App Store are not random services.

Sorry...what? Netflix is "a random service on the Internet"??

Who says this doesn’t add to the discussion, come on! Voting you back up one…

Also senior citizens might have no idea what they’re supposed to do with it, as I’ve seen, so could be more accessible. (Maybe that’s a feature if it’s a junk app.)

I was hoping this was going to be about french fries, but I'm not disappointed

good one! Thanks!

I'm glad James Damore's arguments were correctly strawmanned

It's interesting how all base 10 numbers identify as non binary