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

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!

@nixCraft “I’m so sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking. I didn’t mean to bother you.”

postgres: insecure protocol error.

@stephenrobles well, then I suppose a Happy Birthday is generally appropriate now…

@BasicAppleGuy I recently had the exact same problem with a HomePod mini in my den. No amount of factory resets or software updates cost it to stop appearing software and sentient.

Annoyingly, it also had pretty good taste in music and I learned about a few artists I wouldn’t have found otherwise.

@marcoarment I use geo-fence reminders infrequently, because I find they work infrequently. At a minimum, triggering the reminder is wildly inconsistent — sometimes within minutes of returning home, sometimes the next day. 😒

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…

@losttourist I’m sorry to appear to be complaining, but that is a very misleading post…

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?