Tom Cole

@tucats
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Retired software engineer from SAS Institute. Political centrist. Election worker. I sometimes share dumb jokes.

"woke", n. Being open to new ideas, including the possibility of being wrong about something.
GitHubhttps://github.com/tucats

I guess it’s a good sign that the #Apple #Neo is selling well, but I am amused at the absolute flood of content with headlines similar to

“5 reasons why Neo might right for your”

or

“5 reasons why Neo might be wrong for you”.

Virtually all of them basically say the same useless things — your use cases may exceed the ability of the device to handle them well. Only you can decide if Neo is right for you.

Remarkably insightful clickbait.

You will pry my em dashes from my cold — and dead — hands. I had them before AI was conceived and I’ll have them long after it’s gone.

The MacBook Neo is a charming device at a great price, and hits a nerve emotionally as a fun and interesting #Apple product introduction.

It’s interesting how my lizard brain wants one, even though I already have all the computers I need.

It was helpful to go visit one at an Apple Store and see it next to an M5 MacBook Air, which is a much more elegant and powerful machine. Of course, $$$ more but the experience cured the irrational itch to buy a Neo for some vague FOMO reason.

Whew!

Somewhere between #TimeMagazine and #AppleNews, something has broken and the news feed is flooded with stories from a year ago, dated as if they are from the last few days.

Dunno whose fault this is, but quality control on #Apple software and services seems to continue a deeply disappointing decline.

Excellent hardware alone won’t keep the base happy, Tim…

WARNING: I live in the mid-Atlantic east coast of the US. There is an unfamiliar giant bright object in the sky… it looks almost like some kind of fission furnace. It seems really really bright — it hurts to look at it even for only a second or two…

It is vaguely familiar, but I cannot seem to remember the last time there was such an odd object visible in the sky….

“Why shouldn’t the executive suite of a company be replaced by AI?”

This is a dumb question. The answer is obvioius.

It’s because they hold the decision making power and will do anything to protect their jobs and compensation.

$16 matinee prices. Thirty-five minutes of ads blaring at high volume. $7 bottled water and $12 popcorn. Broken seats, torn upholstery, and some kind of weird goo on the arm-rest.

I wonder why movie theater attendance is down?

Will Jeff Bezos at least eventuallly have the self-honesty to hire a graphic artist to change an “s” to a “d”?

I’ve spent most of the last decade writing in #Go, but I’m trying to branch out. Today, I’m spending a snowy day indoors learning about #Rust garbage collectors.

So far, this is my favorite:

Maybe one of the biggest lessons of this millennium so far… never depend on the veracity of news or opinion fed to you via media owned by the 1%.

Which, sadly, means nearly every traditional news source these days.