Oh, I see.

We both agreed that the late 20th century – broadly, the period from the early 1990s onward for a decade or so – had mostly been one of fairly steady improvement.

Ah yes, a famously bubble-free period. /s

Talking to old-timers, and reading history, it sounds more like revolving hype cycles have been around for the whole industrial age. TBF they do touch on that timeline later and correct themselves a bit.

Some were dumber than others. Foo-as-a-service wasn’t even a new concept, that’s just called renting shit out!

Yup. If I had better things to do, would I be posting here?

Curiosity kills this cat. I’ll go with being rich but miserable.

Food staples. I know cans are old technology, but they fucking work. They’ll last at least as long as they’ve been around, and depending on the item come surprisingly close in quality to the fresh or homemade item. Dried beans and pasta are also a great deal.

I can attest to this for older models. It’s really hard to know if standards have slipped in their luxury product era, though.

The MacBook I’m typing on (in Linux) is closer to 15.

Oh I see, you want to die get downvoted to hell.

Fun fact, aside from the fluoride, you actually don’t need a paste at all. Just the friction does the important part.

Wait, what? They’re not putting diamonds in there. Charcoal is softer than graphite, which is a soft mineral to start with.

Really? I would have thought that by the easy-to-deal-with metric, anything RISC would win.

That’s good of you. I can’t imagine every accountant is so flexible. Lawyers straight up have to charge most of the time, I think.

It could also be a technical expert, or the government (in which case, refer to the lawyer).

I haven’t seen gourmet yet.

TBH if that was the tagline I’d be impressed.

Anybody could be a bastard, but that takes a very rich bastard.

The irony is that there’s two kinds of consumers here. Either it’s a rich yoga lady buying from an influencer, or it’s, like, an African person buying from another African person. Anyone in the middle just enjoys the wonders of industry.

Yeah, the euphemism treadmill has gotten that one. Now you want select, legacy, platinum or some jumble of similar words.

Yeah, when I’ve heard that my immediate thought is “welp, guess I’m on my own”.

But it’s actually grown. It fully didn’t exist 70 years ago.

LLMs don’t just memorise their training data, though.

There is a tendency for some people to think anyone who’s not exactly like them is bad. If they’re saying that about centrists, it probably extends to anyone actually on their side of center but not in the right way, as well.