No constant traffic near your house (cleaner air, safer streets).

Over here in 2026 we have satnav in our cars and on our bikes. We also have a system of road types that actually makes sense and that keeps traffic out of housed areas as much as possible.

Ugh that grid pattern. Imagine living somewhere so uninspired.

Why do children have to ruin everything?

This isn’t just an issue with a developer putting too much trust into an LLM though. This is a failure at the organizational level. So many things have to be wrong for this to happen.

If an ‘intern’ can access a production database then you have some serious problems. No one should have access to that in normal operations.

If you’ve ever used it you can see how easily it can happen.

How could this happen easily? A regular developer shouldn’t even have access to production outside of exceptional circumstances (e.g. diagnosing a production issue). Certainly not as part of the normal dev process.

Apple is not trying to sell this go people like you.

But it runs full macOS.

If you know what ‘8GB RAM’ means you’renot the target audience for this machine.

If they cared about handling of PII they should require ISO 27701

Performance is good, but not great, and, again, is trounced by most of its equivalents, even the Surface Book.

Sure, you can find an equivalent priced laptop that will beat the MBPro at one metric, but it’ll fall short on others. It’s faster but it has a cheap case , crappy trackpad, shit screen or terrible battery life, etc.

There are very few laptops out there that are as good in every metric as a MBPro. It is simply the best total package.

Locking me in to what and how? It’s a laptop, a tool, not a religion. I don’t give a fuck about any of that shit as long as the OS gets out of the way, stuff just works and I can get on with my job.

More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.

Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.

MacBooks are frikkin amazing though. There is nothing in the PC world that even comes close.

Why would you buy this garbage?

No, but the fact that a car is seen as an indication of socio-economic class is.

Plenty of people who drive really nice cars who are broke as fuck and plenty of people who could easily afford a luxury car who drive a 20 year old piece of junk.

Are ‘muricans really this obsessed with cars that the model or car you drive affects your dating prospects?

You can’t place ads next to a CSV file.

That’s how companies get away with shit like this: diffusion of responsibility.

No one made a single decision to let seniors die. Instead there is a whole bunch of small decisions, from the top down, that each on their own seem reasonable. The CEO may have given the order to look for ways to increase profit margins. Someone lower down came up with the idea for ‘performance bonuses’. Someone further down the hierarchy had to come up with a metric to tie these bonuses to, then someone below felt pressured by this to be more hesitant before hospitalizing someone.

In the end you end up with a whole chain of decisions where you can’t really point at anyone who made a truly ‘bad’ decision. Every individual decision can be defended as reasonable, but the end result is the company is behaving like a sociopath. The responsibility is spread out over so many people and watered down that no one really can be held responsible.

Here in the Netherlands I’ve never had any medication that wasn’t in blister packs. They are always full boxes. Boxes have anti-tamper seals and a unique serial number that the pharmacist has to scan when issuing (to prevent fake medication). Pills are individually packaged to prevent contamination.