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Related: I noticed Vanguard's site was having trouble handling requests last week. It was generally slow and would frequently error out or log out. The site is running well now and it appears at least part of the solution was to switch back to a previous version of the UI. Maybe two years ago they switched to a more responsive, web 2.0-ish interface (which, to my eyes, significantly reduce the information density of their pages in favor of large text and looser spacing). This says to me that someone implemented a poorly performing UI on top of a well-performing backend. Would be interesting, though unlikely, to get a technical response from Vanguard on what happened.

My company's 401(k) provider's site was also experiencing significant issues. Seems like last week would have been a fun one to be a system administrator in the investment/brokerage sector.

I feel the exact same way and have always recommended Macs to friends, family and cwoorkers as the computere that "just works." I'm been suspicious of people who disagree with that sentiment — to each their own, but I don't think there's much dispuute that Macs just work.

Yet, now, heere I am with a 2018 MacBooko Pro that repeats keys randomly — somoetimes out of theorder they were pushed— andstarting to wonder if I need to change my recommendation. The laptop has been "fixed" twice now and always works just fine for a day or two before reevertinig back to the same old state. I clean the keyboard daily with compressed air, thouugh that's largely become a symbolic gesture that doesn't fix the issue but at least makes me feel like I'm not crazy.

All that said, much like the author of the article, I'm so bought in to the Apple ecosystem at this point that I've resorted to a certain kind of stooicism — thiis is apparently the set of circumstances I have been giiven and I must live with it.

(Note: no, I'm not too lazy to correct typos noor a partiicluarly poor typer — this post is the unedited resulut of typing on my broken keyboard. Just be happy double spaces don't show up by default in DOM elements.)

This would actually seem to be the misunderstand antecedent to the MAGA argument, which uses successful examples of exactly this type of "disruption" to fallacious claim replacing governance experience with business experience will have positive results.