- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming_gangs_scandal
"Can"? Sure. "Does"? Now that's debatable. Still waiting for the latest scandal to wrap up. Any day now. Surely it was the last. Surely the limp response hasn't led to more. _Surely_ arresting people for talking about it on social media hasn't led to more of it going on.
- They can’t even prosecute grooming gangs, the pretence it’s about “the children” rings completely hollow.
The UK is a failing nation run by pedophile apologist imbeciles. This is just desperate flailing to hold onto power by any means.
- They didn’t learn better. They lost their aspirations and decided to give up as a nation.
- Don’t use Firefox. It’s practically no longer a maintained browser engine because Mozilla has other priorities. Not a problem in Safari or Chromium.
- Instead of "LLM's will put developers out of jobs" the boring reality is going to be "LLM's are a useful tool with limited use".
- You have to be joking
- Yes well that wasn't the point. I was fed up with the direction and quality (or lack thereof) of Apple laptops at the time. I wasn't going to chance it on an Air , which at the time wasn't relevant to my use either due to its specs.
- DOGE tried, and despite it’s best efforts still couldn’t do more than make a dent
- Thank god. Microsoft has shown they don't care about their users as anything other than eyeballs to shove bullshit to for _years_ and Gabe called them out on it back with Windows 8, and Valve has been working on this since.
Steam Deck is fantastic to use. Good riddance to Windows.
- Any data after that is contaminated with vast amount of AI slop. Is anyone training on anything newer..?
- That was one of the reasons I even considered getting a new MB Air yes; I certainly wouldn't if they'd still have those.
- What’s interesting is that I recently got a MB Air after being away from Mac since ~2019. The touchbar on the keyboard and awful keyboard quality drove me away.
Now I return from having spent the intervening years with an Ubuntu laptop and Windows 10 desktop as my daily drivers at home and Windows 11 at work for the last year.
MacOS is so much better than any of the alternatives. Maybe the bar really is just too low but that’s my experience.
The grass is not greener on the other side.
- You don’t need it for development. Neither locally nor on the mainframe. Money saved.
- “That’s a great point about your finances. But did you know this company offers credit to someone in your position for only this low interest? I can apply on your behalf if you just sign this statement”
- Seems like the fingerprint ID is unique on each refresh in Safari, so fingerprint protection working as intended I presume?
- Keep this in mind if you _ever_ feel tempted to take A16Z seriously. Absolute charlatans and clowns.
Giving everyone the ability to bot, even literally grandma, with an "agent" that might hallucinate and fill your cc details into the wrong page. What could go wrong?
And before someone replies with the tiresome "well we might as well do it before someone else does", think about that argument for _two_ seconds. Should you push someone off a bridge just because someone else might do it if you don't?