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@ChrisDMott @ScottMcConnell9 Both utterly betrayed their voters. One is deeply erratic and unstable. If the Obama drone campaign and now this showed anything, we never cared any more about avoiding civilian casualties than Hezbollah or any others.

@ScottMcConnell9 Obama but only because he wasnt so erratic and self-contradictory. Policy wise I view them both dismally.

Curious, among people who see this tweet. Who was the better President? a: Trump b: Obama (I voted for both).

@zacbowden I’m happy, because I play games, and I have certain workflows that work best with NVIDIA GPUs. But fuck if I don’t prefer to use literally anything else otherwise. I spend too much time in CLIs…

BREAKING: Microsoft just announced several major changes to Windows 11 in an effort to win back user trust and evolve the platform into something people will actually want to use over macOS and Linux! It's a huge announcement that addresses Windows 11's biggest problems today, tackling core fundamental issues such as unreliable system performance, UX consistency, AI bloat and general enshittification. Microsoft has confirmed that this year, it WILL be reducing where ads and Copilot appear throughout the system, including in Start, Widgets, Notepad, Photos, and more! File Explorer and Windows Search will be upgraded with improved performance and capabilities that make finding apps and files much faster and easier. The OS will become lighter with less RAM and system utilization at idle, making it smoother to run on low end hardware with limited memory. These improvements will also benefit high-end PCs too. Windows Update will be improved with more granular controls and the ability to postpone updates for longer, along with reducing how often the OS needs to restart to install an update. Microsoft has also confirmed that it's bringing back fan favourite features such as the ability to move the Taskbar! It's also working to update more areas of the system shell with modern WinUI designs, which should make Windows 11 feel more coherent and complete. There's much more in the announcement, and it honestly all sounds too good to be true. Microsoft really is listening to feedback, and is eager to make Windows the BEST desktop OS on the market. More details including when these changes will arrive in the link! windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

@RoamingNorway I like Neue Klasse and still hate the 4 series. I do think the i4 GC in non M-Sport/Performance is the least offensive variant. Most offensive is the G80/G82.

Every bmw design gets hated on release and loved few years later. the i4 already completed this cycle in record time. Will this also happen with Neue Klasse?

@saveaustintx It’s Texas, hill country and out of city suburb folks do this anyway. +1 for a train… The light rail plan is dumb though, it NEEDS to connect the airport immediately to have value.

It’s not enough that Austin raised taxes 25% to pay for a light rail that many will never use or will even be alive to use once built. This person wants a high speed rail so they can go out to dinner in San Antonio 🤦🏼

@supersean415 @data_atx Does seem like the best approach. And ideally should be something they can do in house, especially with the tools available now. I’ve seen bigger things be done by digital services teams in other cities…

@data_atx Replicating the existing user experience on better tech stack and infrastructure is an easy peasy task now that should be done with services costing tens of thousands of dollars. Anything more is fraud and misuse

Austin is taking bids to replace atxfloods.com They say the current site has 'reliability issues' during high traffic events This surprises me, I've always been impressed by it. City should tread carefully, its often easier to improve reliability vs build new

While it wasn’t for me personally, it seemed helpful for those I know who program at a kind of hobby level, or for when they take classes at college but it isn’t a part of the major directly. Pretty much the same folks I now know also use Claude Code in the desktop app vs CLI or a text editor. Or heck, use GitHub Spark or Lovable…

remember: there are people out there using the github desktop app

@joshpuckett @thetimgabe And I want to clarify, I fully agree that product market fit, understanding what is necessary for stakeholders and why takes precedent over design early on. But, once in the public sphere, experience as a whole is what is important, and design is inherently part of that.

I also think this is just such a weird characterisation of design/UX/IxD whatever in general. Dare I say damaging to customer research, experience research as well. I can’t help but think this perspective is partially driven by the fact generative tools have made it far easier to build in code earlier on and iterate directly with the user. It isn’t a bad thing, but it shouldn’t be an excuse to dismiss good design/research practice; especially when it actually helps speed those practices up too.

founders need to stop wasting money on design. i see this on calls every week. the main problem is that they want design before they have a truly working business. i could be greedy and take them on, because we can improve your retention. redesign your paywall. optimize your onboarding. but if your core idea isn't working, those gains won't pay off. you're polishing a broken machine. get to $10k/month first. consistent users who actually use the app. prove the idea works. then bring in design. that's when design improvements REALLY compound. take one of our current gamification clients who just reached #2 in the US app store last month. day 14 retention up 1.14%. revenue per user up 1.1%. completed offers up 0.86%. they have millions of monthly users. they paid out 12.6m euros last month. those "small" percentages stack FAST. remember: no amount of design will help a bad idea. but once you've proven the idea, design is the multiplier that can make your business a lot of extra money.

@NathanPSI I see that as an absolute win. Now I won’t get bothered by the wear!

One disadvantage to the MacBook Neo's keyboard being slightly colour matched to the system is that it already looks heavily used, even when brand new 😂

@Minimaldex Nice. I’d work toward a more ergo keyboard setup and for that reason 8/10. Losing Touch ID can suck but there are some great 3D printed ways to attach it to Magic Trackpad.

Rate this setup

@realEstateTrent Peak U shaped economy. I’ve watched the average person be hollowed out to the core in that city over the last 8 years. I expect the giant city budget deficit will only worsen it, too. Truly is the best place in the United States for those with the means to do so though.

Happiest city in America: San Diego

@MrScottHendrix To be honest, I think the value priority from project connect really needs to be the airport connection over it being an extension. Airport, universities, downtown core. That’s the key, San Diego especially showed that with their Blue Line.

This rail line brings more economic benefit to Austin (and probably more people) than Project Connect ever will, and it’s already paid for.

@Tech_girlll It’s so fun though, and shockingly modular internally. Dare I say, they made something wonderful. Honestly, give me a 15 inch one of those with 120Hz and an M5, I’d take it immediately at whatever price. Bonus for Apple is they’d get me to buy a Mac Studio too!

DO NOT BUY A MACBOOK NEO FOR DEVELOPMENT DO NOT BUY A MACBOOK NEO FOR DEVELOPMENT DO NOT BUY A MACBOOK NEO FOR DEVELOPMENT DO NOT BUY A MACBOOK NEO FOR DEVELOPMENT DO NOT BUY A MACBOOK NEO FOR DEVELOPMENT

@Josh_Christiane @BenjaminDEKR It’s gotten to the point where I was shocked to see that not only were local/state government product groups less internally bureaucratic, they didn’t even move slower despite constant pushback from civil service and governance layers. And trust me they don’t move quickly.

@BenjaminDEKR This is basically my experience in big tech summarized. There are way too many positions in middle management that do nothing other than regularly police you. So much make work it's insane. It's usually not the direct fault of the CEO or executives, it seems to happen quietly.

Here is an xAI story. When I was first hired (low level) by xAI, I was extremely excited. I greatly admired Elon and what Grok could be. I have a pretty cool AI following here on X. Some big names see my stuff, including Elon himself (at the time). Lex, Beff, Andreessen, Aravind, many others. During the interview and onboarding for xAI, they made a *big deal* about wanting people who "take initiative" and think outside the box. Ok... So, some of the biggest names in tech follow me on X. I decided to ask for ideas and feedback on how Grok (then still early at version 2) could be improved. I asked my followers on X for the best "how can we make Grok awesome?" ideas, and was going to collect them (organized by Grok himself) into a big report for my boss(es) and ultimately, Elon. (xAI makes a big deal about how it's a "flat structure" also. You're supposed to be empowered to act on good ideas.) Well, my post got way more attention than I expected - great! Ideas to improve Grok poured in! I built a script to collect and sort all these great ideas to make xAI's core product better. John Carmack (personal friend of Elon, creator of Doom, id software, legend) retweeted it. Carmack has 1M followers. There were so many great ideas on how to improve Grok! I was collecting them and excited. Until....... I woke up the next day to a threatening email from my main supervisor* at xAI, telling me I had messed up, that I was NEVER to ask for ideas to improve Grok ever again, that it wasn't my job (I thought our job was to improve Grok.) They suspended my account on X. They never explained why. It was obviously related to my post about improving Grok. I was told to delete those posts which had gone viral. I had to delete all the hundreds (thousands?) of genuinely good ideas for improving Grok that had poured in by users on X, because it stepped on someone's toes. It made me confused and sad. Incidents like this happened often, where xAI employees would come in full of excitement and enthusiasm, and would have it stomped out by managers who hated ideas. They filled xAI with middle managers and busybodies. It was one of the most DEI and corporate-y places I've ever worked. I came in wanting Elon and xAI to win and left just sad. *That manager is gone, for what it's worth. Everyone I knew at xAI is gone.

Cool idea, lovely transition, still bad interaction design as it was a few years back. I see a vision here, showing the update process after and/or a transforming modal with the update notes. Ideally you’d have a visual separator as it isn’t a window control (as others noted), but you could get away with just a clearer signifier for the user. Maybe a variation of the hover state as the default that matches the vertical dimensions of the window controls. But, would be cramped text wise, hence your vertical expansion.

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@bossadizenith @milad_akarie They can transform but not like this. As others have mentioned this is a classic cause of a slip error if they double click.

@vivian39_ Just wait for the bigger Neo, then you can get the sonically superior Trent 7000.

If you buy the MacBook Neo you have to get the one with the cfm LEAP. If you get the PW1000G Neo it has reliability issues that aren’t worth the increased power efficiency. Thank me later.

@Silily_Agent @mdburnell @lamps_apple @MalcolmNance @gbrew24 They actually have pretty reasonable surface search and surface to air search capabilities… So vastly beyond a radio and binoculars. The rest is absolutely true however, they simply don’t have the combat experience on the platforms dealing with this kind of threat to them.

@mdburnell @lamps_apple @MalcolmNance @gbrew24 “An environment saturated with threats” Yeah that’s where i stopped reading. Do you know how many surface search radars Iran has? Naval ISR targeting experience? ASCM hits? ZERO Their targeting is by radio and binoculars and luck. You’re not about to beat the USN with that.

@SubutaiB @academic_la Something we have already seen, with misfires (target loss) and so forth. But, the same problems can happen with say, S-400. We tend have more effective, but less multi-role adaptive systems it seems. See THAAD vs S-500.

@academic_la Patriot can intercept long range ballistic missiles, it is just less suited to those than Arrow and THAAD.

Iran and Hezbollah have found weaknesses in the Israeli early missile early warning system and are exploiting them ruthlessly. Here is how: 1) Iran targeted the Qatar-based AN/FPS-132 early-warning radar and multiple AN/TPY-2 X-band radars in Jordan, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. These systems previously provided the long-range detection needed for extended 10-minute warnings. 2) Hezbollah hit the Ha'Ela Teleport near Beit Shemesh. That is a crucial satellite communication station. 3) Iran has specifically targeted the Sdot Micha Air Base, which houses Arrow anti-ballistic missile systems and their associated Green Pine radars. 4) By systematically "blinding" the U.S. and Israeli radar network, Iran has turned a redundant sensor web into a "patchwork with serious gaps," exposing missile defense batteries to direct hits. 5) Iran and Hezbollah seem to be working toward a future mass salvo attack where enough of Israel's detection and interception layers have been degraded that more missiles get through. Each strike on infrastructure now is an investment in a bigger attack later. 6) The Qatar radar and UAE THAAD battery being struck reveals that Israel's defense partially rests on American systems that are themselves vulnerable and geographically distant. That's a fragile dependency. 7) Each system is designed for specific threats. A Patriot battery can handle certain drones but not long-range ballistic missiles, machine gun fire, or antitank missiles. This leaves gaps that adversaries exploit. 8) When you use an air defense battery to protect another air defense battery, it's no longer protecting civilian areas or other targets. In Israel's densely defended environment, this creates painful either/or choices. 9) As a result of all this, Israelis have since noticed shorter, or sometimes no, warning times. There is deep frustration in Israel, both among civilians and officials, at its inability to protect citizens from barrages. The lies everyone is hearing on the media, that Hezbollah and Iran have been defeated and have no capabilities left, only make the frustration worse.

@JoanieOC @MarioNawfal Hence, giving Iran intelligence on US assets in the Gulf over targeting Israel. Russia gets to keep both partners somewhat happy and gets an economic boost for the war in Ukraine. I know we threatened the Russians to stop, but given the circumstances, why would they.

@MarioNawfal It wouldn't surprise me if Putin is playing both sides...there are almost 2 million Russian speakers out of a 9.9 million population in Israel. Also about 35% are Ashkenazi Jews who trace their origins to the Soviet Union. It becomes more convoluted by the day.

The next few days will determine whether Trump achieves a massive strategic win for the American empire, or one of his biggest mistakes as a President We’ve established that Iran and the Strait of Hormuz are paramount for U.S. energy dominance in the AI arms race against China Remember: Who wins AI controls the world So all Trump needs for a ‘win’ is a regime closer to the U.S. and less friendly to China. Think Venezuela post-Maduro This will give the U.S. leverage over the Strait of Hormuz as a deterrent against China invading Taiwan However, if Trump gets bogged down in a regime change operation, then we may be in for a new forever war that will WEAKEN the American empire (more debt, depleted munitions, alienated Gulf allies) The only countries that would benefit from such an outcome are Israel and Russia What Trump does in the next few days will give us a clearer picture of what his end goal is Also a big question no one is talking about is whether Iran would agree to end the war, and on what terms. The IRGC may be determined to keep the war going for longer, inflicting as much damage on the U.S. and Israel as possible, to ensure they are not attacked again in a few months If I was a betting man, my money would be on Trump ending the war sooner rather than later, and Iran accepting gradual concessions. But for that to happen, Trump needs a new Supreme Leader At the moment the only two options available for Trump are: 1. End the war now and accept a regime more hardline than before 2. Continue the war and risk an even worse outcome months or years from now (but also a possible victory)