Poutinetown @ Poutinetown @lemmy.ca

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Also happening with Saudi Arabia and UAE. Folks like Eric Xing leaving CMU to lead MBZUAI

Seems like my message sounded more negative than in my head.

When you look at the design, it feels just out of place compared to traditional watch design: round, subtly ornamental, tastefully designed. Experts love to look at the finer details up close. And experts will want to buy something like Michael Kors 6th Gen or Fossil's Gen 6 hybrid for it's traditional look.

In contrast, Apple watch looks quite odd with its flat screen, square shape, color contrast black glass screen with matte aluminum casing. At first glance, it's almost irritating.

But this is precisely what makes it stand out. Can one tell the difference between Seiko and Tissot? Omega vs. Rolex? An expert, maybe, but for most people, it's just a traditional steel watch that gives you time. On the other hand, Apple watches will be instantly recognizable even at a certain distance, and irking some people is a small price to pay for this.

Apple loves to do this: after the apple watch, we got airpods, airpods max, the cheese grater Mac pro. Before, it was the magic mouse. They were not all successful, but they did stand out design-wise. And they sold well because apple doesn't target headphone enthusiasts or watch enthusiasts; they target apple enthusiasts.

That's precisely why they designed it this way.

Saying former wikimedia foundation head is a tech executive is like saying the former head of MSF is a healthcare industry executive.

Don't even need to! Fire the seniors and hire seniors at junior rates.

Fire and rehire at lower rate?

Rebel moon is 23% on rotten tomato...

When the layoff?

And for the old school folks willing to pay, there's Discourse.

The (Ontario) cons are pro-getting international students paying exorbitant tuition fees to fund public colleges, allowing them to reduce public education funding without repercussions.

An insightful video on the subject (by CBC): https://youtu.be/eP02h50KIOA?si=H71z_8mAsl-I_Vbo

That's very interesting. I wonder if there's biological reasons for that.

Are eggs and fish banned too? Or are allergies less severe in general?

There are exceptions to this, like Yale, Renaissance, Berkshire, and maybe Citadel. But most, even well-known funds, are run by incompetent people demanding extremely high fees, rendering any advantage they have over index funds essentially null (often even underperforming the market).

What's the advantage of using Bing chat over chatgpt? The premium version allows search, and you don't need to download a different browser to use it.

More people are also not able to afford eating out as often anymore, as rent and costs increase but salaries stagnate.

Interesting. I've used the office cloud and found it less pleasant than the desktop version. I guess for certain use cases (multiple people working on the same doc) it's better.

Do you use the cloud version?

I forgot people are paying for msft 365. 10$ per month is kinda crazy for software I use maybe occasionally (considering most of the functionality is already available with Google Docs, and OpenOffice gets the job done for offline usage).

Promising 3M high paying jobs outside of Seoul; sounds like a good way to increase political popularity, whether it succeeds (thanks to the government) or fails (because of the companies not willing to cooperate, at least the government did their best).

Probably a much needed distraction after the Itaewon crush caused by the poor police response and after they bullied an internationally famous actor into suicide.