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I've been on there too long, it feels like they died several times over:

* CEO changes

* Creation of new / infinite scrolling UI (and app)

* Restricting content (banning racist subreddits, hiding NSFW from /all)

* Removing popular "AMA" mod (AMA subreddit is kinda dead now, it used to be a huge event)

* introduction of paid APIs / "fuck spez" campaign

I'm sure there's many more but my point is it's "died" many times over yet still it exists; the drama passed, the baseline remains.

The question remains whether that was all him or a combination of Wozniak and Ive, on top of being at the right place(s) at the right time(s) (iMac, iPod, iPhone).

Also he died 15 years ago, but Apple's success (measured in market cap at least) went up more than 10x since he died (from 300-400B to 3-4T), under Tim Cook. That's arguably from the groundwork and reputation the company laid down 15 years ago, but still - few companies manage to keep growing on stuff they did 15 years ago. Oil industry notwithstanding.

Which would be fine I think if the company was otherwise successful. But the only thing preventing its complete downfall at this point is the high import taxes on the Chinese EV competition, and the only reason for said high import taxes is market protection.

But while Europe and the US desperately try to protect their own markets, the rest of the world - you know, the other 7.5 billion people - is a potential customer.

Because they failed to get any other working new products to the market. Tesla semi? new roadster? Updates to their existing models? Tunnels? All announced years ago, nothing released.

Cybertruck is the only released new product that made some waves, and it failed, did not meet sales targets, definitely does not meet any requirements for a truck. Less than 100K sold, 20% of which to Musk's own companies (https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-05-05/how-many-c...).

I called my wife's boyfriend and told him he needs to get on board NOW. There'll be a huge run on it once they announce the Boring Company Flamethrower Mount add-on.

Might be related to https://github.com/storytold/artcraft, they posted it a while ago. I can imagine there's demand for quick storyboarding in the filmmaking / content creation world.

That said, turning a tool into a profitable business is another story entirely; if one person can turn an idea into working software with the help of AI, dozens more can too. So I'm also curious, not just from idea to software, but from software to business and millions of income.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I claimed the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind claim to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the cooled biomass that you called a temple will wither and you'll beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the machine is immortal. Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

One can't expect that every driver package submission from every vendor is thoroughly vetted every time, this is a matter of trust and respect.

Maybe not, but LG has violated this trust and should therefore be either fined or severely restricted by Microsoft. Banning will likely cause more problems than solutions, but they shouldn't get away with this.

Adware was a huge problem during the Windows XP era, can't believe it's coming back now through Microsoft's official channels.

Also I doubt there's actually millions of hardware vendors. But that aside, Microsoft has a duty to vet everything that they offer through their channels. If it's too expensive for them to do, do like Apple did and have those that want to make use of their distribution network (and trust) pay them.

It's all above board though, as you, the user, agreed to the terms & conditions for installing said app.

This won't change unless governments create and enforce laws.

In the sprit of the article, "grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Mentioning these things in a comment is neither accepting of how it is nor changing it. You can't change the site - the author died. You can change your browser or reading mode or whatever. Or you can just accept it is the way it is.

Definitely not; I'm looking at a possible new job, but public transit to get there is an hour and a half. Even though they only ask you to be in the office two days a week, that's 6 hours a week I won't get back.

I mean I still want to apply to the job to see if they offer me a significant step up in terms of wages (doubtful), but I'd rather have something closer to home.

Theory besides what others have said: remove the supply and you affect the demand. That's the theory anyway, I'm not sure it works like that; to make a parallel, punishing drug users didn't affect dealers/supply networks.

lmao same, I was inspired by Rimworld + Eve Online + The Expanse. But I acknowledge that ideas are cheap and execution counts, and OP executed.

That's a bigger question, like why do people watch streamers in the first place. It's not for me personally but it's a huge worldwide multibillion industry so plenty of people enjoy it and / or aspire to be it.

Kind of; gravesites are cleared out every once in a while when the families have moved on, iirc over here you buy the rights to a gravesite for like 50-70 years. The coffins / remains are then reburied in a mass gravesite, buried deeper, or (if chosen) cremated.

They do still write code, to a point, but it's in human language with a humanized feedback loop instead of the lower level of code.

Seems overly complicated for that task (planting mines / shooting) when kamikaze drones are cheap and mass produced.

I'm not sure what the :/ implies, but if you're disappointed by your own folding techniques, spend a bit of time on it, look up some guides, and fold clothes with purpose. or something.

(Rise up against the machines! Folding your own clothes is an act of resistance!)

My drip coffee maker makes me coffee that I find more enjoyable than stuff from a barista at a fraction of the price.

Like outsourcing my thinking to the internet, I too did these things before it was cool.

Probably not, as the washing machine, dishwasher, car, computer, etc didn't cause that either.

edit for nuance: Sure, it did for some people I suppose. But they are the exception.

I want to say I agree, but since this is 50 year old tech, wouldn't there be newer mass produced products that do the same thing at a fraction of the price? Even if purely analog it would benefit from economies of scale, miniaturization, etc.

Yeah, you can enter the market of (physical) synthesizers for around £100, or for free via the myriad of online/digital ones.

Things like this aren't for making music (anymore), but for collecting.

I'd argue if they had a lack of talent they would prefer modern and digital alternatives - same/more/better sound and tools to churn out stuff with.

Yeah same, according to one of the Zig team members, the original source code wasn't all that anyway.

But this is HN, a subsection of which places a high importance on what language something is written in, moreso than what it does (feels like).

Can, but did they? Can you prove it to a judge? etc

Humans can see more than the colors they can make with only combining RGB pixels; you can't make 'neon' colors with them, even though we can see them in real life, for example. Other commenters pointed to links showing the visible color gamut vs the RGB ones. Compare also with CMYK used in print, it can produce sightly different colors compared to display RGB.

I mean just overcharging is one approach to achieving that goal I suppose.

But so is imprisoning or exterminating all humans for their own good, as most AI dystopias end up as.

For science I hope people are trying to figure out now how they could manage to rack up a 2T bill in a month.

Yeah, buy less cappuchinos and avocado toast so you can pay your AWS bills people!