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Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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Some weeks life just decides to throw things at you to see if it can take you down.

A couple weeks ago, storms took out some trim on the house, so we have our handiman coming to repair that for $$$.

The new ~$375 mower purchased last fall and used for one mowing of the yard before being put in the shed for the winter? Refused to start when I went to mow the yard for the first time this past week. Another $150–200 (and 1 week) to diagnose & repair.

The phone? Its battery just decided to keel over (not a gradual thing), so it refuses to run unless it's on the charger and positioned *just so*. Another $200+ to replace that.

So now I'm waiting to see what decides to die next…the washer or dryer? Stove? Some pipe bursting?

But despite the frustrations, I'm thankful we have sufficient savings to cover them as only annoyances, not financial disasters.

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Apple's "Faster Horses" Fallback Strategy

Spyglass @index@spyglass.org

Apple tends to do this thing from time to time where they seem as if they’re not listening to their user base — or worse, that they’re neglecting certain product lines. The reasons why are never nefarious as much as they’re a combination of hubris and focus. Apple has a long track record of success in not giving people “the faster horse” as it were. That is, even if that’s what they’re clamoring for, and think they want, the company thinks they can delight the user base by doing things differently and inventing around their products. At the same time, they’re doing a lot these days, and even if they could do everything for all their products, there’s a certain strength in being able to focus on what matters at any given moment in time. “A thousand nos for every yes”, as their mantra goes.

The most obvious recent example of this is the Mac Pro.1 It’s a product which has seemingly ebbed and flowed out of focus for the company over a few cycles now. At one point, they thought they could delight that user base with some design and engineering breakthroughs that led to the “trash can” version of the machine. But ultimately, what the user base wanted was the sort of “faster horses” option — the fastest Mac possible, size be damned, with the most amount of ports. So Apple eventually pivoted to that strategy. But it took a while because there were simply a dozen other things that were a higher priority for their famous focus.2

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오래간 사람들을 지켜보면서 느낀 것인데, 설득을 들어줄 만한 사람은 굳이 설득을 할 이유가 없고, 설득을 해야 할 이유가 있는 사람은 설득 따위 듣지도 않더라. 각종 유무형의 레버리지를 대동하지 않는 한, 대등한 말로만 상대룰 설득하는 것은 불가능하거나 불필요하거나 둘 중 하나라고 생각한다.

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민주당 지지자들의 대안현실를 본 기억이 나네요. 문재인 말년에도 지지율이 계속 높게 나오니 지지자들은 정권유지가 될 거라고 생각하더군요. 근데 당시 차기 대선후보 지지율은 전혀 달랐습니다. 그래서 '위험하다, 이러다 정권교체 된다'는 글을 썼는데 그때마다 '문프 지지율이 이렇게 높은데 헛소리 말라'는 태클을 받았죠. 결과는 다들 아시는대로.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cjd35ypxjupse6g6btgbmmke/post/3lmrejqe6ns2x

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