istewart

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[–] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One thing I discovered on my mom's late-model VW SUV is that the manufacturer-provided semi-physical/capacitative touch dash buttons are pretty much useless when interacting with Apple CarPlay; that all becomes touchscreen-only. And the forced transition in inputs is not particularly obvious. I have to wonder if most implementations are like that, compounding confusion on top of distraction.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Huh. Are the remaining "classical liberals" in the wild just naturally covered in this much slime, or is it something Yud applied to himself specifically for this conversation?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Hmm, we already tried the thing where a bunch of startups have their cash on deposit with a couple of normal, FDIC-insured banks that had grossly mismatched duration in their capital structures. I wonder how this will play out

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Oh, that finally explains it after all these years, BBC stands for Big Blocker (Coins)

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Even that would be superior to whatever it is you're bringing... after all, I can't be confident you're even fully capable of bowel control, due to the vast amounts of contraband narcotics all coiners habitually consume!

Donald Trump is one of the biggest coiners around, and he shit his pants on live TV the other day! And that's not the first time that's happened! You really expect me to believe some random fucko from lemmy.world is any better off? Especially if they're this deep in the bitcoin hog trough???

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have the class-leading integrated logic of this fabulous Apple M1 SoC, what do you have? Your mother's Samsung smart fridge?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Counterpoint: No it doesn't.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the limited transaction rate is just the most obvious factor that indicates it's a proof-of-concept that got way out of hand.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it is relatively rare that a major donor is using your acceptance of donations to get social cover for an island-based extortion operation,

Now wait just a goddamn minute, I thought the whole schtick here was that our gracious correspondent is better than anyone else at evaluating situations that are relatively rare but nonetheless highly consequential

[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

Double-highlighting this choice bit:

Diligence is costly in executive attention,

Your periodic reminder that this man is considered a major influence by many of today's working venture capitalists

[–] istewart@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah, @XiWellWisher going up against Aella on X, The Everything App is well into late-SNL stages of unfunny parody

[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

In ~9 months of searching, I've gotten to two second-round interviews out of dozens of applications to LinkedIn listings. Take that as you will.

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