mastodon 4.7.3Moving to @robpike@cosocial.ca
It struck me today that if you think you need a million more satellites in orbit to make your product succeed, your product is infeasible (the polite response) or bullshit (the accurate response) and you should feel bad about it. Please go away.
Over the holidays last last year I was building an Airfix model (good way to ignore the outside world) and discovered two pieces had fallen off the sprues and were not in the box. I considered constructing them myself but I didn't have a good reference image to go by. 99% certain it wasn't my fault, I looked up how to contact Airfix, followed the instructions, and never heard back.
Until Friday, when two tiny pieces of plastic arrived in an adorable little pouch and the modelmaking can continue.
I love good customer service. I just love it.
This may finally be the end (for me at least) of a conversation started 30 or so years ago, when Ken Thompson and I tried to figure out a clean way to convert to and from digital representations of floating point numbers.
Nice work, @rsc@hachyderm.io
Someone, perhaps at Apple: Please explain this behavior.
I turn on my Bluetooth headphones. I watch a video on my Mac. The video ends. I turn off the headphones. Some other device, perhaps a phone or iPad, elsewhere in the room immediately starts playing music through its speakers using the Music app. I did not ask for this. I do not want this. I think this is an inexplicable design choice. I just turned the headphones off; why is that a signal I want to listen to something somewhere, anywhere that you can find? Baffling.
Utter insanity. Complete disregard for anything or anyone else on the planet or in the sky.
I found this very upsetting. The security guys deciding a priori that it's hard to do so we don't need to concern ourselves. That hasn't worked out well in the past. You think they'd learn.
@401matthall@mastodon.xyz @Crell@phpc.social I keep saying: I don't care what it can do or how capable it is,* I care that the cost (financial, environmental, societal) is vastly too high.
@inosirov@mstdn.social Thanks. Gene Golub was the adviser of an old friend and colleague, but I haven't crossed paths with him.