They sell you the AI to create the buggy code, and then they sell you more AI to fix the bugs. Amazing. Just think of the amount of profit for the shareholders.

Nice example of Goodhart’s law in action.

most software is designed these days around individual tracks and it loses something.

I use Apple Music and that is very album centric. You can add entire albums to your library and browse you library using an album view.

Wasn’t that the whole point of the export policy? So it hasn’t backfired, it’s working exactly as intended.

Why do children have to ruin everything?

Because you can’t reduce a human to a single scalar.

This isn’t just an issue with a developer putting too much trust into an LLM though. This is a failure at the organizational level. So many things have to be wrong for this to happen.

If an ‘intern’ can access a production database then you have some serious problems. No one should have access to that in normal operations.

If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.

How could this happen easily? A regular developer shouldn’t even have access to production outside of exceptional circumstances (e.g. diagnosing a production issue). Certainly not as part of the normal dev process.

But it runs full macOS.

If you know what ‘8GB RAM’ means you’renot the target audience for this machine.

the same product, but without meat

So not the same product.

Why do these companies insist on trying to trick people into buying their disgusting fake food? The people who specifically want that kind of thing know how to find it.

Put this shit in a separate isle in the supermarket so people don’t accidentally buy this crap.

And sure, it’s labelled but that doesn’t mean that it’s clear enough when you are going through the supermarket in a hurry after a long day at work. Happened to me multiple times that I accidentally bought a fake vegan version of something because it sat right next to the real product in an almost identical package.

I don’t mind food that happens to be vegetarian or vegan, there are plenty of delicious things that don’t contain meat or animal products. What I have an issue with is this ultra-processed fake food that pretends to be real food.

That already exists. Any half decent A/V receiver can do this.

If they cared about handling of PII they should require ISO 27701

Performance is good, but not great, and, again, is trounced by most of its equivalents, even the Surface Book.

Sure, you can find an equivalent priced laptop that will beat the MBPro at one metric, but it’ll fall short on others. It’s faster but it has a cheap case , crappy trackpad, shit screen or terrible battery life, etc.

There are very few laptops out there that are as good in every metric as a MBPro. It is simply the best total package.

Locking me in to what and how? It’s a laptop, a tool, not a religion. I don’t give a fuck about any of that shit as long as the OS gets out of the way, stuff just works and I can get on with my job.

More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.

Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.

MacBooks are frikkin amazing though. There is nothing in the PC world that even comes close.

Why would you buy this garbage?

But mostly it remains at my bedside as an “in case” if it’s needed. If something were to go sideways, law enforcement is probably going to be at least 20 to 30 minutes away and possibly up to 90 minutes. I cannot rely on either one of the two deputies on duty at 2AM to be anywhere near me if things go bad.

If something goes ‘sideways’ at 2AM, you expect anyone breaking into your house to ring the doorbell and wait for you to wake up?

Even if you carried at all times, and you were specifically trained (think special forces training, not I spend my weekends at the gun range training) then it’s still a toss-up if you will be able to respond fast enough. If they want to harm you, they will. You cannot be hyper-aware of your surroundings 24/7, you need to relax, you need to sleep.

I can’t imagine what life must be like when you’re so afraid that you think you need to have a gun within reach at all times.

They want to normalize the position so its the same for every user.

That doesn’t make sense if users aren’t all the same.