I've started leaving off the prepositions, pronouns and such from sentences, and my 'pro' writing is starting to look more like casual writing - more terse. "You've got to lean into it." becomes "Lean into it."

Or I'll just resort to what an idiotic feminist college English lit prof used to call "antiquated 19th century writing style": writing long, syntactically complex but linguistically communicative sentences which convey a complex yet nuanced thought, something AI will absently and superfluously munge.

Often these are interspersed.

In the long run, we'll lose out on more people being able to do the "hard" things. Sort of like when schools start hiring on non-excellence criteria, you end up with students who can't do the coursework and the field suffers as a result. That's what's happening here.

In 5, 10 years when people are like "we fucked up, quick, hire good developers again" - or good voice actors, or good whatever - there won't be anyone in line to take those jobs. They'll have moved on - either finding different things to pay their way, and are no longer looking, or they'll have fully checked out. Either way, they won't be looking for the jobs. You'll probably have a mess of H1B types take their role instead.

It's going to be a huge mess.

Is this software company, by coincidence, trying to be purchased or IPO? Because that's the kind of behavior that you see before a company's founders bank out...

Every single one of Amazon's hardware products is used to siphon your data and bilge pump ads and product placements to you.

You can argue that's true for all of Amazon's properties at this point.

They've become a behemoth of a company like Microsoft did in the 90s - starting in earnest about 2 years ago, based on what I've seen from those who work there. Their culture has changed and the leadership has all but abandoned the leadership principles.

It's so strange no charges were brought on any of this.

creating a national sales tax so that he can shift his personal tax burden on to you.

Do you realize how crazy that sounds?

Have blind hatred for the man and the mission all you want, but none of that even remotely reflects either reality, or anything that's come out of this administration. There's more than enough reason to justify frustration and anger without making things up out of whole cloth and it just makes you look mental when you do it.

Most automakers use an automated assembly line for the body/frame construction, now. It's a long conveyor of pre-bent parts getting bolted on. There are humans involved through some of it, but the bulk of the work is a machine.

Ever notice how there's never anyone with an IQ under 120 in Star Trek?

A Star Trek economy requires a significant culling of the, primarily, unintelligent people in society. You need people to be productive and useful before they can become more productive or useful.

I'd not be surprised if they're utilizing the same "loopholes" created by the Biden admin that brought a huge number of illegals to the US and gave them IDs/exemptions to proper immigration procedure. They were giving out IDs to literally everyone they brought without any proof... it'd have been easy enough to buy those IDs from people, or simply intercept the procedure for some cash - it's not like they were scrupulous, moral actors.

I'd bet anything that's one of the approaches they used, since getting financial aid does require an ID.

Most of these "limitations" to perpetual licenses are 100% due to changes Microsoft is making themselves to retroactively limit the software: patches making it difficult to use it, making it less stable, adding dependencies. And then, intentionally making data portability difficult by altering file formats.

"Your money constantly being worth less... so that saving is impossible... that's good actually"

Very bad take. You're also wrong.

Countries got rid of the gold standard because gold isn't flexible, and prevented governments from manipulating money supply.

BTC is more flexible but also is resistant to economic manipulations. It's a good thing for stability. Stability, of course, helps dissuade warfare.

The easy money that's been made available by banks for the purposes of war, to plunder? That wouldn't be available with BTC as a standard.

So what if they can't go on the interstate?

Mopeds and under-100cc vehicles (or more -depends on state) are explicitly exempted from requiring DMV involvement.

Consider getting a different/better USB hub. The HDMI chips in those are often shit.

Yeah, the ads built into the OS, obscene levels of slowness to do... literally everything... somehow making Explorer consistently worse... all these things are an immediate detractor. It's been unusable for years and has only gotten worse.

Linux has also gotten worse for Desktop use. A decade ago there were promises of just-around-the-corner Wayland replacing X outright. Now you need them both to do anything, and Wayland is still anything but mature. A lot of this functionality feels like it's regressed. Upgrades on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora) to LTS releases all seem to break basic functionality more often than they ever did before (this started becoming more of a problem around 2016 IIRC).

I switched to Mac due to them being provided by my employers (from Linux) around 2017, but I've only bought Macs myself since due to the vastly superior hardware and not having to ever have to deal with Windows again.

The UNIX environment is "OK" and `brew` makes it quite tolerable.

But there are so, so many bugs. In addition to all the points the fine article makes, my personal pet peeves:

* Apple Music is stupid when it comes to switching audio devices. It's not a bluetooth stack problem (which is another, different audio problem that everyone seems to have). Turn a headset off, and Music will switch but then complain that the audio source isn't there. Sometimes this requires Music to be restarted.
* Music "home" glitches out. A restart is required.
* Independent of the above, sometimes Music simply doesn't play despite all visual queues indicating it should be working. Other audio apps work. Usually this means I've got to turn Bluetooth off and on again (why?), and restart Music.
* HDMI support is still unstable. Not really an Apple problem due to how HDMI was designed (stupidly), but you'd think they could do something which would help me NOT have the machine crash.
* More broadly, I can't turn the Macbook screen off and set the attached display as primary/continue to use the Macbook keyboard. Why? This seems like basic functionality.
* Notes will sometimes (and regularly) enter one of a number of different race conditions when it behaves improperly, doesn't respond, or freezes. Fortunately, I don't believe I've lost anything yet.
* Speech-to-text works really poorly when you don't have a good network connection. It's slow. Why isn't this being done locally as a fallback? Android does this very well (vastly better) now.
* Siri is functionally unimproved since 2011. New features? Sure. Very small incremental changes which leaves it feeling lackluster - to the extent that even Amazon's voice interaction on the Echo works better. (Given how universally shit the Amazon software is on all their devices is, and how bad Amazon/AWS UI design is in general, that's really damning.) I turn it off on everything but the Homepod now, because otherwise my phone on the counter will intercept (and do nothing with) requests to play specific music (which is the only thing Siri is even remotely good at doing beside its random 'witty' preprogrammed trivia and banter, IME).
* Time Machine still feels like a marketing exercise. "We did this thing 20 years ago and it still works, checking off a basic requirement of computing." It has a very narrow scope of capabilities. Have they not heard of network backups before? It's conceptually stuck in the 1990s. I know they're trying to push people to use iCloud, but that is not a user-centric approach to computing and definitely doesn't suit business, professional, or hobbyist needs. I do not like the "make everything an appliance" approach of the iPhone, but can at least understand it there. The fact that it's being pushed to MacOS is unacceptable.
* Spotlight has somehow become worse at finding things. Why are you showing me internet results before the apps by the exact name I just typed? Why do I have to wait for the list to populate?
* The "unified" Control Center is also particularly garbage and it's hard to find things now, even by keyword (which often doesn't even work/find things by the exact name). This experience was significantly better than it is now 5 years ago.

While it's inflammatory... I blame DEI hiring practices for most of this nonsense. It's well known in the industry that they've got hiring practices very biased in that direction (and their offices being where they are only makes that more likely). They haven't done much good software engineering since 2015 or so... and I'd wager they've seen an explosion of color-coded Program Managers since that date as evidence.

I personally suspect that if using QT natively on Mac were easier and involved fewer shims/performed better, we'd see a lot more good open source software on Mac than we do. That, also, falls in Apple's shortcomings to some degree. Apps like Cura, VLC, Wireshark, OBS Studio, and Shotcut are all more stable and more responsive on both Windows and Linux than on Mac for some reason.

On the hardware front... they're killing it for personal computing devices (Macbook Air/Pro/Mini), and Studio looks promising but still "behind". We'll see what the future holds, I suppose.