sudo42

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My theory is: free publicity. Just like the fashion industry comes up with ridiculous clothes that no one would ever wear, attention whores will constantly do outrageous things so that people will talk about them. The number of electrons spilled over this stupid mouse port placement over the years is uncountable. But the repeated conversations keep Apple in the public consciousness as a fashionista.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If I didn’t know better, I would say this sounds like Farley giggling and winking in order to make a play for his next CEO gig.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I just tell them I don’t have a phone. Even if I’m still holding it in my hand. Most don’t want to engage. They likely figure they’re not payed enough for that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Sam Altman is demonstrating the power of AI. He’s showing how a single CEO can fire the entire company and continue to develop the product to be even better than when humans were involved.

“OpenAI. No real humans involved!” (TM)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Sure, Microsoft is happy to let their AIs scan everyone else’s code., but is anyone aware of any software houses letting AIs scan their in-house code?

Any lawyer worth their salt won’t let AIs anywhere near their company’s proprietary code intil they are positive that AI isn’t going to be blabbing the code out to every one of their competitors.

But of course, IANAL.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

No, this can’t be. They took all of our personal information so they could use AI to tailor ads to exactly what we wanted at any given moment.

/s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Not too unusual. There have been a lot of new vulnerabilities announced lately. A few months ago they announced one that exposed all (?) mainstream CPUs, even Apple’s new chips.
Some of the vulns are serious, but many require very specific circumstances to actually work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I've read that McDonald's is pushing kiosks so hard because on average people order more when they use them vs cashier or drive-thru.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Had McDonald's chicken nuggets in Canada a while back. They were made of real chicken. I'm jealous that Canada gets real food.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Wall St destroys yet another company through sheer greed. Film at 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will always say, "Fuck Carly Fiorina" for ruining the finest company in the engineering world.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yup. A better simile is Boeing. Quality don’t matter if cutting it makes number go up. Oops.

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