Is there?

I walked past a parking lot yesterday and everything was in black, white and silver.

When I bought my house the agent turned up her nose about the wood furnishings instead of "millennial white".

The resale value of macs is one of their selling points, just like cars. Generic colours win. I contend there is no pent up demand.

As a millennial I grew up with 90s fun colors. I want color. Gen X has largely oppressed us with Millenial White, Beige and earth tones. It is both inoffensive but also depressing.

> I walked past a parking lot yesterday and everything was in black, white and silver.

Everything else is artificially expensive. This says nothing about customers except that they're price sensitive.

Remember the old fruity iMacs and iBooks? They sold like hotcakes after Apple was making grey machines for decades before that. Pretty soon every computer manufacturer was making colorful machines. Those things had great resale value back then too.

This is surprising. Has Canonical built something recently that requires "math geniuses with top grades at school"?

The last time I remember using any of their software was Unity. I'm not a Unity hater, but where is the headcount going?

For those who were immediately curious; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320

Spoiler: That whole thread is probably an excellent troll ("I might make this a startup"), except a ton of mid(dle brow) people had to ruin it.

I still have 4 of these, even one of their bluetooth ones. They all work, except a 15 year old one whose USB cable got frayed and fell apart. (I bought a USB-C port to see if I could fix it, yet another incomplete project)

I agree with op who said that they aren't getting better but calling it stagnant is more than I would say. The build quality was quite high and they clearly focused on that, and the price reflected that. I own another mechanical keyboard that I bought from Amazon during the pandemic and I already started getting ghost tapping (I only used it for dev work so I was more than a little annoyed to see it).

Not saying it is perfect though. They clearly were a Windows-first shop and that never changed. I've never managed to get the 変換 key and the other Kanji keys working in Linux or on Mac, much to my annoyance.

Often behavior like ghost-tapping, double-inputs, etc aren't actually an issue with the board, but rather with the switches. A lot of newer boards come with hotswappable switches which makes it easy to fix this without soldering.

Problems with the circuit board or the firmware it runs are certainly possible of course, but what I've seen most of are switch issues.

Chronic absence numbers are misleading. We all know that they are just placeholder stats for other factors and we should focus on those.

My 3rd grade daughter was unlucky with various illnesses and missed about 12 days this year (so far). I got a letter from her principal attempting to guilt trip me for her "Chronic absence".

I wrote an angry response (in retrospect it was too angry since he had no choice about the letter) where I asked if he would prefer my sending sick children to school.

Her grades (for whatever value grades have in 3rd grade) are fine. I'll take the chance on her reading her "Diary of a wimpy kid" book when sick, or when a sane system would have given a snow day.

> in retrospect it was too angry since he had no choice

Imho you did the right thing. Everyone has a choice.

I did the same (but instead of an email it was an angry speech, face to face), with the exact same question (if they would prefer my sending sick children to school). My child's grades were fine, too. Haven't received any letters after that.

It is about citizenship, not race.

There are a lot of non-white citizens of Canada (and Germany) whereas the comment you’re replying to is about non-citizens. Also Canada hasn’t had conscription for a long time as far as I know, the friends you refer to were volunteers.

> We make plenty of stuff at scale. We just haven’t designed any of military around it since WWII.

When people claim that America is losing manufacturing jobs, you get the "Oh we produce high value products, mostly military".

Then you get posts like this. How is one to reconcile these ideas? Is Lockheed Martin the Ferrari of weapons?

The US is responsible for over 10% of world manufacturing, putting them in second place of all countries (after China).

>When people claim that America is losing manufacturing jobs

That percentage goes down every year due to reduced manufacturing but also jobs are lost to high-tech automation in manufacturing. But it's still a buttload.

The 10% in value does not account about the fraction of a final American product that consists of parts or raw materials imported from elsewhere.

Many of the best known American products, e.g. computers, are only assembled in USA from imported parts.

If the imports from certain countries would be completely interrupted, it is unknown how much of that US manufacturing would be able to continue.

Somewhat hilariously, the US adopted the same Wolf Warrior diplomacy.

Maybe public diplomacy is simply adjacent to local politics to the US. I still think this will backfire spectacularly over the medium term.

It's not just the EU, you can see these organizations in Canada and in Japan. For example, I watch youtube channels ostensibly created to discuss Japanese Real Estate (I'm thinking about Rakumachi) which suddenly pivot to posting American right wing talking points in Japanese on their shorts channel. (Their long form RE content is usually interesting)

I don't know. Using Reddit mode like that is often a waste of time for me.

The LLM does pokes holes but often it is missing context, playing word games, or making a mountain out of a molehill. In a conversational chatbot setting it is just being contrarian, I don't find it helpful.

I prefer using the LLM to build out an idea and then see if it makes sense before asking someone else.

In the end though, I usually DO get pushback from ChatGPT and Claude. Gemini, not so much, but it is still worthwhile.