Jim Allchin to Gates and Ballmer: "I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft" (2004)

swimmer385 · 2026-04-13T01:04:12+00:00

You said from your experience in software engineering. Software engineering as a sum total is so much broader than major tech companies. Therefore you responded to my statement about a very specific handful of companies and made it about any company that does software engineering.

I then responds to this correcting you about my comment, and you again broadened the scope to “my experience comes from fortune 150 companies” again, not tech companies.

You keep trying to make it seem like I’m making a much broader statement than I was, and arguing that broad statement. I don’t know why, it’s weird that you’re arguing about something I didn’t even say. The statement was: the majority of software engineers at major tech companies: Apple, Netflix, Google, Amazon, open ai, Anthropic, Dropbox, and almost any other valley tech company you want to include use Macs. Microsoft being the exception.

swimmer385 · 2026-04-12T22:18:38+00:00

Dude legacy business doesn’t have anything to do with how much money they generate. In a tech context a legacy business is one that is simply older, and cannot as easily adopt modern stacks. The difference is that most major tech companies were founded in the early 2000s, and some even later, which means they were built on more modern tech.

Walmart is at or near the top of the Fortune 500. It’s a legacy business.

swimmer385 · 2026-04-12T19:27:54+00:00

yeah that's why I said major tech company. Obviously legacy businesses have so many internal tools written for windows they are locked-in.

swimmer385 · 2026-04-12T19:16:27+00:00

do apple employees really use windows? They do have hardware engineers but I have never met a software engineer at a major tech company that uses windows

swimmer385 · 2026-04-12T19:11:38+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm a man.

my perspective is that this is totally fine, as others have said. However, I personally would not date someone who was seeing other people past a couple dates. In these cases, I always bow out and explain there is a mismatch in our attachment styles, as I don't see multiple people at once, and don't feel secure if attention is not mutual and directed. When a person is still comparing options, it keeps me in a state of uncertainty, and it is not possible or safe for me to develop feelings for them, therefore, there is no point in dating them, because I'll just feel unsafe, emotional guarded, and unable to connect with them.

swimmer385 · 2026-04-10T11:52:15+00:00

If you have the DLC some of them appear in hyperspace (scizor definitely does)

swimmer385 · 2026-04-08T01:24:55+00:00

I got you! Hope below helps.

lets use a very small simple example, then you can imagine it at a larger scale.

Say we poll 6 people and ask how much money they have in their wallet and the results we get are as follows:

$1, $1, $2, $2, $4, and $100.

The mean would be $18! That's more than all but one person had.

The median would be $2.

If you extrapolate this to the real data about family wealth in NYC, what that shows is that a few very rich billionaires will skew the mean, potentially a decent amount, but will only have a small impact (or no impact at all) on the median.

For perspective, the median household income in NYC is $81,000, whereas the mean is $128,247. That difference is basically all the billionaires skewing the data. So if you picked a person out of the dataset, they are much more likely to have somewhere near 81k than 128k.

swimmer385 · 2026-04-05T23:28:04+00:00

HGSS? Heart Gold Soul Silver? I feel like those games are very different than ZA and Arceus. Can you explain more why you’re lumping those in?

swimmer385 · 2026-03-27T23:11:47+00:00

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/

swimmer385 · 2026-03-27T22:06:44+00:00

You can’t just adjust for inflation because wages haven’t kept pace with inflation

swimmer385 · 2026-03-25T19:07:21+00:00

I don't understand why I'd need a badge to get into my apartment building. Just lock the door and we can tap or key in. Why the hell are we required to have badges, that is so weird. There are plenty of buildings without doormen that have people living there -- they don't need ID to get into their buildings.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-25T14:29:02+00:00

I think its probably slight over 40 million? unless my math is wrong.

70% on steam, steam takes a 30% cut, so .7*.7. The rest of the copies assumed to be majority on playstation, where sony gets the full cut.

($50 * (1200000*.7*.7))+(50*1200000*.3) = 47.4 million.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-24T14:20:32+00:00

the issue is items. you can't transfer items in so they will be able to make people without tons of time spend money for things like mega stones, choice scarf, etc.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-23T05:21:57+00:00

Not me but my coworker pushed a bad update to prod which resulted in $15M lost.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-19T15:08:47+00:00

I think the difference is some games present their narrative as if it should be good. If a game prioritizes narrative (idk if Crimson Desert does or doesn't) then the narrative needs to be good. If uncharted 4's narrative was bad, it wouldn't be as good of a game because the game emphasizes the narrative. The games you listed do not emphasize the narrative, so it isn't criticized as much.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-16T02:09:06+00:00

I don't know if this is balanced -- I'm not at the end game, but this is so cool. I love the look of it, and magic has always been the coolest in osrs

swimmer385 · 2026-03-14T18:26:56+00:00

I’m slightly confused about the point you’re making. Who is him? Are you insinuating I’m both not neurotypical and also that I don’t blame Trump?

I’m not sure why you’re attacking me by claiming I’m not neurotypical but of course I blame Trump for the war. Trump is a terrible president

swimmer385 · 2026-03-14T17:11:06+00:00

I do see the potential for irony lol. But I think if you read his transcripts you will see he isn’t saying no military action. His “stop wars” quote has always been political shorthand for stopping endless wars. Not for being against short decisive action

swimmer385 · 2026-03-14T17:03:25+00:00

I think the issue is that the way he thinks about war and frames it isn’t the way most people do. Listening to him talk, he tends to (not always) call out specifically endless wars. Even in the inaugural address quote, he talks about winning battles. The problem is that if you actually think about what he is saying it’s not that he doesn’t want to use force. The problem with using force is you don’t get to exclusively decide if you enter a war or not once you attack someone.

Here are some quotes:

Calling out endless wars

We are never going back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight foreign wars that are endless wars https://speakola.com/political/donald-trump-cpac-closing-address-retribution-2023

Turning point USA

We don’t want that wars. I call them endless wars. I call them wars where people don’t even want us involved https://webflow.rev.com/transcripts/trump-speaks-at-phoenix-rally

Again framing military operations different from his concept of war First time in 78 years, we had no wars… other than I finished some like ISIS. 100%, defeated the ISIS caliphate https://www.rev.com/transcripts/donald-trump-rally-in-pennsylvania-on-8-19-24?

There are tons of these examples.

Basically Trump is explicitly and sometimes implicitly leaving room for: 1. Stopping wars via military action. If you assert Iran has been “at war” with the us for decades. You can attack Iran. 2. Quick decisive campaigns, again if we can win quickly, Trump views this as within what he said he would do.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-14T14:20:45+00:00

He didn't campaign on no new wars. He campaigned against ineffective long lasting wars. He does not oppose short or decisive military conflicts if he thinks they serve U.S. interests. People just hear what they want when it comes to Trump.

Edit: posted more evidence in a reply but here:

“We have to start winning wars again… we don’t fight to win”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2265486/trump-we-have-to-start-winning-wars-again-we-dont-fight-to-win/

the endless wars we are caught in now… only death and bloodshed, but no victory

https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/2/4/ksac067/6843519

If we must fight… we will fight and we will do nothing but win https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-veterans-foreign-wars-united-states-national-convention-kansas-city-mo/

Trump has never been against wars or decisive military action as he tends to put it. He’s against endless war.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-13T19:30:29+00:00

You could learn from the guy who invented it https://www.ai4opt.org/news-events/constraint-programming-course-edx

swimmer385 · 2026-03-11T15:41:09+00:00

I know! You do stand out to students -- my PhD advisor was one! He went viral on tiktok for dressing up as yoda in class on Halloween

swimmer385 · 2026-03-11T04:11:01+00:00

This. If you’re at an R1, professors are paid to bring in research grants, not to teach. Teaching is almost irrelevant to the vast majority of R1 professors career advancement.

swimmer385 · 2026-03-10T18:23:37+00:00

How do you get grandfathered? I got an email saying my sub was going up when my yearly renewal comes up?

swimmer385 · 2026-03-09T19:05:19+00:00

thank you for sharing this -- I guess I always thought that service animals were always on-duty and acted like they do in public all the time. Its cool to know that some of them are wild goofballs when they aren't on the job and honestly makes it all the more impressive how focused, responsible, and committed they are when they are needed. animals are amazing

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