Many countries were also "biased" against Apartheid South Africa, the bias was disapproval of apartheid, much like the one enacted on the West Bank and Gaza.

The bias predates the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

The litmus test is if they were just opposed to the policies of the South African government, or did those countries also hate South Africa and South Africans?

Did they have a history of persecution of South Africans in their own country?

Were they funding armed groups to attack South Africa?

Did they believe that South Africa has no right to exist anyway?

> Countries tend to dislike and boycott apartheid states

> Ah but what about many many decades ago in history the minority ruling the apartheid state were treated badly! In other places! Did you think of that?

Disagree wholeheartedly.

The only relevant litmus test is:

"Did the accused party commit the offense they are accused of?"

...everything else is whataboutism, red herring, ad hominem, and DARVO.

If the worlds worst person says 2+2=4, you still can't evaluate that claim by testing how many people like or hate the person. Only by whether the content of their words is true or false.

We don’t rely on the judgements of racist juries.

It used to lack non-destructive editing ("adjustment layers" in Photoshop parlance) until recently, it's a core foundation of editing workflows for designers and photographers, it lets you layer transformations of over immutable rasters. This was in Photoshop since 2005.

It was going to be the future of Software Engineering in the 2000s, Software Architects laying out boxes for Software Bricklayers to implement as dictated, code generation tools were going to make programming trivial.

For trivial CRUD apps, and maintaining modified versions of the generated code was a nightmare.

I was drawing UML before Christmas vacations, when one works at scale, drawing boxes to discuss implemenations works much better than throw away code.

It is also a great way to document existing architectures.

This AI hype cycle reminds me of that era.

Google PMs must not be incentivized to launch new products the way they were, renaming and relaunching the chat app was a regular occurrence.

The game's campaign being what it was made it so people never warmed up to it, the big hero-focused storylines and then mishandling of said characters (Kerrigan's abortive humanization and then rushed redemption, the Protoss being framed in entirely the wrong tone, the half baked epilogue) just made it so that the campaign didn't stick as Brod War's did, even if the gameplay was superior.

The man left prior to Apple facing, and losing, a class action lawsuit over his favored keyboard design. Screens also died left and right in designs approved by him, and his next great innovation would be the Touch Bar.

It was a precipitous fall from grace

Everyone focuses on M1 as supposedly super chip that fixed all the "intel problems" of Macbooks, but similarly large difference was how first M1 series reversed a bunch of Johnny Ive era designs including how forcibly thin it was.

The author wants to buy a whole new computer every year or two max, instead of upgrading components

That’s an impressive, so to speak, level of consumerism, reminds me of a self-professed minimalist that made the rounds here years ago, he practiced detachment from worldly possessions by throwing away his clothes after use and buying new ones, instead of washing them

I remember that story. I want to say it was the Soylent drink founder, but Google is steering me astray. Who was it?

I can’t find it either. It may have been him, washing machines are the kind of alternating current appliances that he avoided in preparation for living in space

HN was so enamored with him when his deal was about hacking eating into being more productive by not having to chew

Found it, I think - I remember the other part about his mini stove for making tea - https://web.archive.org/web/20150803225629/http://robrhineha...

> I enjoy doing laundry about as much as doing dishes. I get my clothing custom made in China for prices you would not believe and have new ones regularly shipped to me. Shipping is a problem. I wish container ships had nuclear engines but it’s still much more efficient and convenient than retail. Thanks to synthetic fabrics it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them, and I donate my used garments.

I'm sure i remember a few more details, like his claim that black t-shirts worn only once are the most stylish possible garment, but i'm willing to put that part down to the Berenstein Bears effect.

Reputation will only become more important as AI generated content permeates society, the name behind what you’ll read, watch or listen will be a bigger factor in whether anyone would commit minutes to hours to consuming what could be slop.

I think this erosion of trust will have far reaching consequences and people will become less open to ideas and experiences front strangers.

Running your brand into the ground in the early days will be costly.

I’m more inclined to believe that no jobs (as in trades, professions) will go, but programming will be the most automated, along with design and illustration.

Why? To this day still they’re the showcase of what LLMs “can” do for (to) a line of work, but they’re the only ones with all the relevant information online.

For programming, there’s decades of textbooks, online docs, bug tracker tickets, source code repositories, troubleshooting on forums, all laying out how a profession is exercised from start to finish.

There’s hardly a fraction of this to automate the tasks of the average Joe who does some paperwork the model has never seen, who’s applying some rough procedures we would call “heuristics” to some spreadsheets and emails, and has to escalate to his supervisor for things out of code several times a day.