It's worse than that: the creativity and originality I put in my prompts, it extinguishes, and instead churns out unoriginal formulaic crap. The crap sounds exquisite and realistic though.

As an outsider I still can't believe anybody gets this emotional about Apple.

I snicker at it as well, but then I also get emotional when people mention SGI, Commodore, Nintendo, SEGA.. so, there's that. Key difference, from my angle, is mostly the lack of people idols in the latter vs the former. Yes, there _are_ key people, but emphasis is more on products they made. Who knows. Interesting phenomenon in any case.

I get emotional whenever I see anyone with enough good sense to pass the baton at the proper time rather than die in office, letting it drop and clatter to the ground.

Find it comical to read things like

  He is the ultimate company man at the ultimate company.

"Good guys, bad guys, and explosions, as far as the eye can see..."

When I read these posts, my mind always pictures a teenage girl fawning over here crush. It just feel immature, childish and overly dramatic.

I can understand a "deeper bond with the product."

This is just blandly glazing a CEO.

"Cook has transformed Apple in his own image. The company is much more predictable now than it ever was, or could have been, under Jobs."

Not precisely what I would call "praise."

When you read stuff like "existential grief" you gotta roll your eyes.

I would also add that the models they supply through Azure Foundry are covered under my employer's existing customer agreement, by which MS is not allowed to train models on our data (which might include IP of the company or its clients). For organizations worried about that, it's nice & cozy.

They just altered this deal for everyone else. Wonder how long they will wait before default opting you all into training too?

PSA: You only have about 36 hours left to opt-out!

The term has been around since the 1930s, and like all old slang that started out niche and went mainstream, it has been generalized and had its meaning diluted to the point of near-meaninglessness. There are readings of it where it and its opposite could describe the same thing, i.e. uncool and cool are the same. (Easy test to gage meaninglessness.)

I use it as a generic marker of approval or assent similar to "OK."

"We're moving the meeting to Tuesday."

"Cool."

You're claiming laziness because a writer gives explicit testimony to what he saw, heard and thought, without sufficient moralizing layered over the top about how "drugs are bad m'kaay?" I wish more writing was this lazy.

It's scattered and disorganized like this administration.

You work on real missions, alongside the teams building them

OK alongside, but not ON, the teams building them? So apparently not actually building them myself? And also, does anyone build missions, or do they perhaps build systems?

For a few days, access is granted to this work.

Access is granted to whom? And to what work, the work I'll supposedly be doing? Hopefully yeah I have access to my own work. Or do you mean the work of the people alongside whom I'll be working on missions (the builders of the missions that is)?

The number is extremely limited.

What number?

The window only lasts four days.

Oh now there's a window analogy too. And they already said "a few days" so one of the two is redundant.

You would make a good technical writer!

I was thinking maybe this makes them look more American to a Japanese audience that lives in an orderly society.

The benefits accrue to the owners of the vehicles. The negative effects are externalized onto everybody else.

Free and libre and open source are all different things, and the confusion thereof can lead to mismatched expectations.

It's not wrong to beg for money, but I'm also not going to joyfully tolerate a hassle because of gratitude or appreciation for past decisions the beggar made without my input.

Tip: Nobody can meaningfully conceptualize or care about the number of minutes. "Ten years" would've been fine, and more convincing.

Apparently they have the power to murder and kidnap American citizens too, or violate their rights if they happen to freely speak or assemble in ways they don't like.