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We have all this AI and software still sucks

It was a Thursday evening (earlier this year) and I decided it was time to buy a new laptop as the 2015 Dell w/ an i7 5600U just wasn’t cutting it anymore. I spent way too much time trying to figure out what to buy and settled on an M5 Macbook Air after Apple had announced that yes, due to the RAM-pocalypse going on, they would be raising prices as well. I had decided already that I wanted a machine with long battery life and that would last a decade, so that was enough for me to pull the trigger. It would arrive nearly a week later, after the estimate being a mere two days. As you may be able

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Why the "For You" tab sucks

I ran an experiment last week. For a few days, I forced myself to only check X's "For You" tab instead of my curated "Following" feed. I wanted to understand what everyone's talking about when they complain about algorithmic timelines. The result? I literally felt my brain rotting in real-time. The Attention Economy's Dirty Secret Here's what nobody tells you about algorithmic feeds: they're not designed to inform you. They're designed to keep you scrolling. Every post that shows up in "Fo

Blog by Sergey Kaplich · EN

Windows sucks

Microsoft Windows operating system sucks. Unfortunately, I am forced to use it at work. It sucks as a day-to-day operating system, and it sucks as a development environment. Every day, it sucks more and more. It takes me at least twice as long to compile the same Go code on Windows as on Linux. My Github actions run 8 times slower on Windows runners than Linux runners . It takes 30 seconds for Outlook to open (my 6 year iPhone can open the Mail application in second or less). Excel startup is equally slow.

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