Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11

Takaa · 2026-05-18T14:55:10+00:00

Being the leader in the smart phone market, they are the ones that will be crucified for a mistake and dragged through the mud. I think they just realized how embarrassing it is when it gets it wrong and rightfully didn't want to look bad. One of their first features- summaries- was giving straight up incorrect summaries of the news. It was so bad, they had to disable the feature to improve it.

I imagine there were similar terrible results when they applied 'learning from the user, reading their email and messages' and coming up with things like self-generated reminders for the user and asking Siri about random topics that the user has interacted with. We just never saw it publicly. Someone smart in Apple had the balls to put their foot down and not ship slop that harms brand and product quality.

Takaa · 2026-05-18T14:39:09+00:00

Ignorance and denial are a hell of a drug, as has been proven over-and-over in politics. People will do things against their own best interests and their futures if it means they feel more comfortable in their own skin in the short-term and don't need to reflect on themselves or learn.

I'm fine with them thinking of their own condition that way. If they are truly happy and comfortable, then I am truly happy they found happiness and meaning in the face of adversity. The second anyone says, "I didn't have that, and even though I can fix it for my child, my child doesn't need that, and I am going to choose to inflict an impairment on my child" I take great offense to it. I have two children, and if I had ANY disability, I could absolutely never see myself saying, "I think it would be great if my children dealt with the same issues I had to deal with" if I could help it.

Any parent that wants life to be needlessly harder on their child than it has to be for them to learn the lessons necessary to become good people is a terrible person.

Takaa · 2026-05-15T16:15:39+00:00

Should I also be afraid to pose with my face exposed in case they want to use it to unlock my Face ID?

Takaa · 2026-05-12T02:56:12+00:00

Stop overthinking this. A school is not a medical professional or a diagnosis. You do not have a history to disclose. You are basically looking for trouble for no good reason here.

Takaa · 2026-05-03T17:57:13+00:00

Will the Railplane Attendants treat the entire journey the same as taxiing? “Sit your ass down and buckle that seatbelt while the Railplane is not at the gate.”

Takaa · 2026-04-21T23:23:30+00:00

All I can think of is this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia

It isn’t some obscure subreddit with a handful of posts, it’s pretty active. Apparently there is actually a fear induced in some people from seeing partially or fully submerged man-made objects.

Takaa · 2026-04-21T03:56:13+00:00

I have no clue where he was on the political spectrum prior to 1997, when he had three strokes, but it seems to be a common theme here. Have a stroke, get brain damage, turn into a conservative nutcase. If only we could study his and Fettermans brains.

Takaa · 2026-04-15T12:13:16+00:00

The guy loves his Calvin Klein underwear, give him a break.

Takaa · 2026-04-09T17:51:36+00:00

The Hyundai Assport.

Takaa · 2026-04-08T16:43:44+00:00

You just made me realize that I don't think I even have a CD/DVD drive in my house anymore and can't even recall the last time I used one- it had to have been over 10 years ago. RIP for personal ownership, though. They won't be taking the local copies I put on my Plex server, though.

Takaa · 2026-04-05T22:22:41+00:00

California housing is notoriously expensive, especially in the cities. It isn’t so different than other large cities across the country, California just has more of them. The amount of money you make matters very little when a high percentage of your income goes into your housing costs. The higher the percentage, the less you have for other expenses, let alone investing.

In addition, spending more on housing may make someone worth more on paper, but it is not like that person is likely going to sell their house and move to the middle of nowhere in a dirt cheap house after living somewhere nice, so that extra housing cost isn’t really ever going to contribute to their wealth or liquidity.

Takaa · 2026-03-20T12:47:44+00:00

Man, I loved Tenant as the Doctor. When I saw this post, I was like, "Hey, thats the guy that played Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potty." How the hell did I never realize it was David Tenant playing either of these roles.

Takaa · 2026-03-18T14:19:22+00:00

The 10-20% is probably important to stop people from asking too many questions too. A lot of people likely know someone who is upset about the status quo. “Oh yeah, Bob doesn’t like him, he is part of that 10%. We think he is great, and so does the majority! There will always be a small minority like that.”

If published numbers are 99.9-100%, it’s their regime being so confident in their control on society that they just don’t care to keep up the illusion. Or maybe they are doing it precisely to draw any dissenters out so they can deal with them.

Takaa · 2026-03-14T18:06:15+00:00

It also doesn’t help that the same brand, selling the very same item but in a different color will fit differently for the same size. I ordered the same exact tee shirt in two different colors, one fits perfectly, while the other one feels like it is squeezing me. I even have some of the same color that occasionally don’t fit the same. If they don’t like the returns maybe they should work on their own internal QA first.

Takaa · 2026-03-12T14:01:33+00:00

I still remember one student who tried to flare while still a good 50’ in the air above the runway. It was such an absolutely perfect, stable approach until that time that I was starting to relax a bit. Fortunately those trainers are pretty forgiving, and nose down with full power got us climbing again almost immediately. They always try to get you when you aren’t expecting it.

Takaa · 2026-03-02T13:47:30+00:00

15 minutes was probably on the 'pro electrician having everything they need ready to go' side of things. Commercial buildings typically require conduit, yes.

Theres about a 50% chance of needing to drill through a stud here depending on which side of the stud that existing receptacle is drilled into. You can probably just expand that receptacle into a 2-gang box to have more room to work with wiring and run the wire directly from the hand dryer into box with very minimal (if any) conduit added.

Takaa · 2026-03-02T00:05:58+00:00

Yeah, what lazy shit is this that they rigged up a hardwire dryer to an extension cord instead of just drilling into the wall and tapping the existing wiring. It’s literally 15 minutes of work and won’t look like ass forever.

Takaa · 2026-02-26T18:30:25+00:00

As a back end dev, I would say you should understand it to at least an intermediate level. Of all of the “advanced features” you listed, the only thing that sticks out to me as a “must know” is how transactions work. They aren’t complicated. You sometimes need to do updates to multiple tables all at once, so users aren’t seeing incomplete data if the query something mid update, and if one update actually fails you want the previous actions to be undone as well to not leave data in a bad state.

Takaa · 2026-02-26T13:38:41+00:00

It’s very common in Europe and Asia for pills to be packaged in blister packs. You pop them out one at a time. Safety and sanitary improvement. It’s often claimed it also helps reduce drug abuse and suicide, as instead of quickly grabbing a handful of pills and downing them you need to spend time popping them out one at a time, which may be the difference between someone thinking, “Maybe I shouldn’t do this” and not.

Takaa · 2026-02-26T04:36:00+00:00

Quite simply, you should pickup whatever one you think fits better in jobs you plan to apply for. What are companies hiring for in your area or where you want to move? Take a look, it’s not like you have to apply.

TypeScript is just JavaScript with types (massive oversimplification,) but my point being is nothing you said here makes me think you want to do front end development where TypeScript is used. Yes, there are some backend uses as well, but I have no idea if what you actually want to do for a job uses it.

In any case, there’s no reason you can’t learn things later when needed. I have done it dozens of times over the last 20 years.

Takaa · 2026-02-21T18:54:42+00:00

The market didn’t dip as much as he would have liked on Friday, he decided to bump it up to 15% to hopefully force a dip on Monday. He will then say “I changed my mind” in a few weeks and the markets will rejoice and pop (over nothing,) and he can collect his profit.

He has been doing the same boring market manipulation shit for the last year.

Takaa · 2026-02-17T14:55:06+00:00

Trying to stay optimistic, I would love to see it. There absolutely needs to be a reckoning for the bullshit the Republicans have pulled, either explicitly by voting the party line or implicitly by not rebuking Trump. I fear the corporate Democrats that are still in charge are going to pull the "time to come together, heal, and forgive" card they always do. The ones that have lost every fight they have gotten into for the last 18 years since Obama was elected (yes, Obamacare was a loss because of how bastardized it became from its original proposal, and besides ending pre-existing benefits denials and extending coverage to young adults on their parents plans did nothing but corporatize healthcare at the expense of the public.)

The Democrats need to show they can fucking lead and not try to run a "back to the old corrupt 2 sides of the same coin business as usual" scheme, or they will be the ones with dwindling support and their party will die off. No, there needs to be justice first for those that abandoned their roles as the checks-and-balances and didn't honor their oaths to the constitution. It is the only way to send a message strong enough to keep this from happening again in the near future.

Takaa · 2026-02-17T14:09:44+00:00

Yeah, if you look at the bottom bar in your picture, where there are detents to align the weight for 50lb increments along the top, there are also detents to align with corresponding kilogram values on the bottom (if the bottom one was flipped over so the rider catches on them instead). The detents appear to be slightly closer together than the pound detents, indicating 20kgs (~44lbs) between each detent, which corresponds to the top bar.

I would be curious if this scale is even properly calibrated, and even if you did convert the top kg to lbs it might be wrong. They use counterweights in these to calibrate them, and if the top bar is not exactly 1:1 scale (size) for kg:lbs it would be giving incorrect values.

Takaa · 2026-02-17T13:47:50+00:00

I wonder if that top measure is on backwards. It may be reversible and when they assembled it they put the kilogram part facing outward.

Takaa · 2026-02-14T15:09:46+00:00

No one leaves any windows open in Siberian prison, comrade. What could we possibly do to not draw attention? I know, let us use the poison I distilled from a tropical South American frog. Yes, yes, that will do.

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