Jobs, who died in 2011, may very well have had some new or updated opinions himself by now.
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karaterobot commented on Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011) wiki.archiveteam.org/inde... · Posted by u/rafram
> Precisely one reason comes to mind to have ROBOTS.TXT, and it is, incidentally, stupid - to prevent robots from triggering processes on the website that should not be run automatically
Counter-point: I have a blog I don't want to appear on search engines because it has private stuff on it. 25 years ago I added two lines to robots.txt file, and I've never seen it show up on any search engine ever since.
I'm not pretending nobody has indexed my blog and kept a copy of the results. I'm just saying the blog I started in college doesn't show up when you search for my name on Google, which is all I care about.
karaterobot commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
Did they give up on the “Core” branding?
When I was looking at this a month ago it was the “Core 2 Duo”
https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...
Maybe Intel had a word?
Check out the first 1 minute of the linked video for answers to both of these questions.
Is he suggesting his company is designed with a womp rat sized opening that if you shoot a bullet into makes the whole thing explode?
You know, I used to bullseye small thermal exhaust ports in my T16 back home, they're not much smaller than womp rats.
karaterobot commented on Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business newsletter.anamariecox.co... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Here's how little I understand business: $45 million in revenue, earned by taking a totally fair 10% of subscriptions that other people do all the work to get, seems like it ought to be enough. If leadership is trying to scale up to be thousands of employees, or to go public, they are lunatics and deserve to fail. Why not just run a successful newsletter platform?
karaterobot commented on ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models theregister.com/2025/08/0... · Posted by u/LorenDB
> Hill said that the X300 is the favorite ThinkPad he worked on, not only because of its thinness, but also because it proved that, under Lenovo, he could build an even better product than he had for IBM.
> "There was a giant scare that this Chinese company was going to destroy ThinkPad, and it was going to become cheerful and ruin it and all this kind of stuff," he said.
'As good' can mean different things.
My first two laptops were IBM Thinkpads. In 2000 or so, I was carrying one in my hands down some concrete stairs. I tripped, bounced the laptop down 2-3 stairs, then landed on my knee on top of it. No visible marks, and it booted right up and worked flawlessly for years afterward. This was with a platter hard drive, too. I don't remember the X300, but the current Lenovo Thinkpads don't strike me as being quite as robust as the tanks they used to make.
karaterobot commented on Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry cryonceaweek.com... · Posted by u/johnnymaroney
Does what it says on the label.
karaterobot commented on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains · Posted by u/cesargstn
> I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again.
That's ADHD for you.
A former coworker of mine lamented this - "I start so many projects or hobbies, but just when I feel like I've learned a lot I lose interest". I had to point out to him that his hobby isn't - whatever, sheep shearing or book bindery or underwater basket weaving - but rather his hobby is learning things. That's a common thing for ADHD people, absorbing all you can in a rapid amount of time, devoting every minute of thought to something, and then suddenly completely forgetting it exists until you get the domain renewal notice.
At least you (seem to) have (some degree of) acceptance of the circumstance and recognize the benefits of this behavior rather than just focusing on the drawbacks; too many people have this behavior and think it's a personal failing, when really they just have a different hobby than they think they have.
I don't think it has to be ADHD. I don't have ADHD, and none of my friends have it that I know of. We all start things we don't finish, though. I was going to post some of the more ridiculous domain names I've purchased for personal projects, before I realized I'd be doxxing myself. Too bad, there are some good ones.
I think in many cases, we fail to finish projects because it's so much easier to start than it is to finish. The first 90% is easy, as the saying goes, but the second 90% is much harder.
And I use the word 'fail' advisedly. I think it's fine to not finish everything you start, but it's not good to never finish anything, ever. Not if your intention was to finish it anyway. I think finishing things is a crucial skill, and we need to practice it in order to get good at it, and we won't do that if we tell ourselves it's about as good to give up as it is to keep going.
ADHD is a real diagnosis, but I'm hesitant to pathologize not finishing projects, since that will end up being an excuse rather than an explanation for a lot of people.
>Now, everyone basically has a personal TA, ready to go at all hours of the day
This simply hasn't been my experience.
Its too shallow. The deeper I go, the less it seems to be useful. This happens quick for me.
Also, god forbid you're researching a complex and possibly controversial subject and you want it to find reputable sources or particularly academic ones.
What are some subjects that ChatGPT has given only shallow instruction on?
I'll tell you that I recently found it the best resource on the web for teaching me about the 30 Years War. I was reading a collection of primary source documents, and was able to interview ChatGPT about them.
Last week I used it to learn how to create and use Lehmer codes, and its explanation was perfect, and much easier to understand than, for example, Wikipedia.
I ask it about truck repair stuff all the time, and it is also great at that.
I don't think it's great at literary analysis, but for factual stuff it has only ever blown away my expectations at how useful it is.
>agenda
I once worked at a company that had something like 3 to 5k employees. Everyone had to take an online class (about 8 hours) about effective meetings. Rule 1 was to have an agenda available in the meeting invite.
I loved this, it made for FAR more productive meetings.
Nobody at the company that I knew of outside myself and one other person had agendas available for our meetings, including leadership.
I think setting the culture for good meetings is set by leadership, and most top leaders make themselves exceptions to every rule and that lack of meeting discipline trickles down and so meetings break down overall.
It's got to be a good agenda, too. It can't just be "discuss delivery of project X" or "sync on status of feature Y". Those are too generic. The agenda needs to make it clear what the outcome of the meeting is, and who needs to be there.
I'm the only person I know of who writes real agendas for meetings at my company (which is only about 120 people). It's clearly not caught on, but I do it anyway almost as a protest at this point.