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Saturday, May 2, 2026

[05:46:48] + mlu even humans have a hard enough time doing proper QA

[05:46:57] + mlu and it is a task of judgment and accountability

[05:47:31] + mlu the challenge is in even knowing how to define desirable / correct behavior, especially when things conflict

[05:48:35] + mlu and trust

[05:48:57] + mlu back in the old days, the best distros usually actually had a BDFL

[05:49:08] + mlu they would make some controversial decisions, but they clearly favored one result over another

[05:49:25] + mlu the importance thing you got was self-consistency

[05:49:47] + mlu the big paradox is that when eveyrone selects what they want, they choose the best product for them, not one that does the most for most people

[05:50:12] + mlu soi in order to have more of those types of products, you need more opinionated design that need to be self-consistent -- and you need to have some choice

[05:50:23] + mlu that's what we lost

[05:50:45] + mlu another favorite example: wht happened to Apple when Steve Jobs died

[05:51:19] + mlu the producs started sucking more from a UX perspective, but notice what changed: you could actually get the stuff on launch day despite the hype

[05:51:44] + mlu during the Steve Jobs era, everything was always sold out all the time, and if you wanted an iPhone, you're stuck waiting in draconian lines

[05:51:48] + mlu Tim Cook fixed that

[05:52:05] + mlu that was his opinionated specialty: supply chain management

[05:52:37] + mlu and these days, while al the other manufacturers are suffering due to the RAM prices, Apple's humming along -- uncomfortable but not affected

[05:53:32] + mlu and they effectively multi-sourced every component in their products

[05:53:51] + mlu the way I put it is this: I switched from being an Apple customer to an Apple shareholder :)

[05:54:52] + mlu and it seems like the only market they actually lost was the high end production market

[05:55:09] + mlu that felt like a conscious decision by the execs though

[05:56:18] + mlu hmm the thunderbolt enclosures don't work?

[08:06:44] @ mlu I think there's still an AI bubble

[08:07:00] @ mlu it'll get all affordable again after a while

[08:14:36] @ mlu hello probe :D

[08:15:16] @ mlu I think this AI bubble will burst just like the .com bubble -- the bubbles that result from a combo of both real substance and hype tend to be the largest ones

[08:19:09] @ mlu problem is, nobody has any idea when lool

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