Joseph Petrides

Hello! I am helping my niece in Ecuador make it through college. She really deserves it. If you want to help you can go here. gofundme.com/f/college-fund… Thank you!

@ScottArbeit Thanks. We are watching. Many of us are exhausted from fixing a bunch of settings on windows 11 for everyone in our family. I’d rather not tell them to just get a neo. But a lot of us are very close.

I was part of the small group in Seattle that Pavan mentioned in the blog post. The Windows team is deeply aware of the criticisms, the importance of making Windows amazing for developers, and the need to smooth out the UX. They're engaged, and better things are coming.

@TeaAndDates Thanks tali. Many of us are the cto for our family so these changes mean we get bombarded with questions. The auto save to the cloud drives my wife nuts. She likes using office but she will save a file and then neither of us can find it. I’m telling people to use google now :(

@JPetrides Right Click + Taskbar settings will let you move your start button to the left! You can uninstall copilot and onedrive right now. We try to make sure users don't lose their work so default to backing up but you can turn that off! Hopefully that's a start...

Since (re)joining Windows a few years ago, I've never seen my team as excited about an initiative as they are about this. Can't wait to get these improvements and fixes to Start, Taskbar, File Explorer, and more out to customers!

@gothburz this is funny, but unlikely to be real

Leaked Microsoft Teams chat shows Windows QA team celebrating blog post about quality while Copilot helpfully notes they've published 23 identical posts since 2019.

@Kimi_Moonshot @cursor_ai Well, I had to have Claude fix a million issues that composer created for me. Kimi is still impressive tho

Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support. Note: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ ' hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.

@stevesi Especially when 90% of the requests are things you are simply not going to change. "stop requiring Microsoft accounts." "allow me to turn off copilot". "allow me to get rid of one drive"

If you tell an enthusiastic customer base "we're listening" the challenge becomes you can never listen to everyone about everything. You can't "take requests." That isn't a product plan or execution strategy. This has happened before in recent past.

@PeterDiamandis He is trying to sell his book

Andrew Yang on the coming layoffs.

@ZachBowders Yes!! Putting something behind a paywall forces the team to actually build something good and worthwhile. They should really charge for windows upgrades again too.

Oddly enough paywalling Copilot could really save a lot of reputational damage to their brand Paywall it in Windows 11 too please

@ShooterMcGavin I saw so many of these I was surprised when I got older and found out that the F150 sells way more

Kids today will never get to hear Bob Seger belt “Like a Rock” for a 90s Chevy truck commercial. Peak America culture

@V_Lady2024 I mean not with red label. Come on

When the night has come 🥃😉

@vivek_naskar It gets progressively better the longer you use it since you get used to the typing and keyboard shortcuts

I've recently switched to the MacBook M4 Air and have been using it for coding and writing for the past two days. Here are a few things I noticed so far: — The laptop is extremely silent. No noise at all since the Air is fanless. — The keyboard and trackpad are phenomenal. But I probably should have opted for the 13" model. The 15" has a lot of empty space around the keyboard. — It took me almost two days to start getting used to the keyboard shortcuts. Still not an expert. — On Windows, I can type fast without looking at the keyboard. On Mac, I can't yet. It will take some time, even though the layout is quite similar. — I am very used to Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V on Windows. On Mac, I keep pressing Control instead of Command by mistake. Still retraining my muscle memory. — I like how software installation works on macOS. Most apps come as DMG files (disk images) and you just drag the app into the Applications folder. It's simple and fast. — The speakers are some of the best I have heard on a laptop. This is the 15" model, which has a six-speaker sound system, and they get surprisingly loud with good bass. I have used HP, Lenovo, and Dell laptops before and none of them sounded this good. — The laptop is lightweight and comfortable to carry around. Although so far I have only moved it from my bedroom to the living room. — Not enough ports on the M4 Air. It only has two Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports, MagSafe charging, and a headphone jack, so I had to borrow an external dock from a friend. Looks like I will need to buy one soon. — The MagSafe charger is brilliant. The magnetic snap is satisfying and safe if someone trips over the cable. — The battery life has been excellent. I managed to get almost two full days on a single charge with coding and writing. — The trackpad is smooth but it's huge. I am not fully comfortable using it yet, so I am using an external mouse. — Coding on this is 🤌 — I also ran small and mid-sized LLMs using Ollama. It ran beautifully. No issues at all. My old HP laptop used to scream with its fan whenever I tried something similar. I think here on 𝕏, most people already use a MacBook, so this might be familiar to them. I’m mostly sharing this to document my first impressions.

@edels0n I mean you do have TDS, but your software stock pick was totally unrelated to that and is probably correct. This guy is off his rocker.

All of them are in the green

@lady_valor_07 Once you get married, buy the top of the line dishwasher detergent. It will save you stress and stress leads to fights.

I’m 25. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.

@DerrickEvans4WV He made a mistake. The embarrassment is enough. I’m willing to give him a pass given that he probably doesn’t understand. Firing a h1b is basically deporting him and is pretty much life ending if he has kids.

🚨 BREAKING: Palo Alto Networks is receiving praise after firing employee Madhu Raju, who recorded himself dancing on the World War II Memorial. The company acted swiftly after the video spread online.

@pcshipp It’s like they dropped Gemini 3 which was great and competitive and then just called it a day

Still I’m wondering why Gemini fails against Claude and GPT. - Owns Chrome - Backed by Android - Stores most search results - Holds ~95% search history - Google has the biggest user data - Even incognito data isn’t fully private So what’s the problem?

@pie6k Also even the urls are designed well. It’s just Apple.com. Microsoft is Microsoft.com/en-us. Even the sub pages have neatly organized url patterns.

Sometimes I like to open apple.com and then microsoft.com With all the things I don’t like about Apple, I am happy there is a place that never fails to impress me in terms of web design and execution. apple.com/macbook-neo/ is just a beautiful landing

@KareemRifai Well he works for the admin so he can’t exactly rebuke them in public

David Sacks, who warned of an impending World War III every single month of the Biden presidency leading up to the 2024 election, has not commented on the ongoing war with Iran.

One of the best parts of this is that I know that there will be no emergency pod @adamcurry @THErealDVORAK it is the only consistent thing in this world right now that I can count on

@markcecchini I’ve had the version where I missed some small credit requirement and couldn’t graduate. It’s terrifying

anyone else have this recurring dream: you realize you are 2-3 months into a really important college course....and you straight up haven’t been to class ONE time, done any assignments, or taken any exams and that F is about to tank your GPA for the semester

@Metaleka_ No question the most exciting player to watch since Desmond Howard. Such a waste.

You can’t sit here and tell me he isn’t a top 12 Big Ten QB since 2000. Denard Robinson was electric and exciting for Michigan. Too bad he was under a terrible staff and defense.