In business, politics, everything. It almost seems like everyone is quietly agreeing that "if we pretend the pesky truth doesn't exist for long enough, we can literally change reality to be what we want".

I feel like I'm going crazy. There's no way that's how things can work for long, right?

Doesn't mean there shouldn't be public shaming, but usually stuff like this isn't some nefarious plot.

Source: have worked at large institutions and seen stupid mistakes almost go through except for sheer blind luck

When you get good at it, it is much easier to skim through 10 lines of fluff to find the answer (that is usually visually distinguished in a code block) then it is to parse through 4 really dense, terminology filled sentences.

If I need to know exactly how all the options work, sure the docs are the place to go, but 90% of the time I just need a quick example to go off of.

Even though they spend millions of dollars a year on support, they easily cost us more than that to help them. Simple issues that we had documented solutions for (and explained to them dozens of times preciously) were just as critical as outages to them.

We had to throttle the support we gave them in order to provide a better experience for everyone else and try to train them to be better customers.

I'm looking at you Tata and Vodaphone >:(

That's the TAM he's mentionioning.

Sign up has to be simple. Finding content has to be simple. Keeping updated has to be simple. The branding also has to be really welcoming as well.

That actually reveals even more complexity: having to understand what federation is, researching and experimenting with clients, how to find different communities across the fediverse. Each added complexity cuts how many people would be willing to make the switch

I suspect Microsoft would do something similar, no data would leave government property.

From: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/el-nino-returns-2023/

It feels horrible because that freedom necessitates people who believe everyone else has the same ability to say or make anything they want, even if you find that stuff disgusting or risky.

Yes, there are definitely some limits to the right. But we should be cautious about the government making laws to restrict the right.

Should we ban an entire company or force them to sell as soon as we believe they give personal data to another country? Where is the line drawn at which country? What about a Russian based app or a Belarusian based app?

I'm not saying it's wrong, it just makes me nervous.

I think it leads to an interesting question, is it Google's responsibility to try to counter every stereotype or try to make about that operates like a human?