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I've been with Fastmail for almost 10 years now.

No fuss, just works, good price for what they deliver. Never had any issues.

> The winners will be other businesses that use AI tooling to make better products.

agree with you on this.

you already see that playing out with Meta and a LOT of companies in China.

> > We will add AI usage questions to our performance and peer review questionnaire

whatever happened to "never go full retard"?

talk about being out of touch.

I'm down to try and use AI to enhance processes and encourage people to do that, but making it part of performance reviews is just silly.

Glad it's not just me thinking that. The amount of UI bugs I encountered in the last few macOS versions is fairly annoying.

Very often, when I switch input keyboards between English/Mandarin, the popup that appears to indicate the selected language just won't go away automatically. I have to manually go and click somewhere to get rid of it. Also had loads of issues with notifications not rendering correctly.

I have no idea what they can even do at this point. I have young Japanese friends (early 20s) and they all tell me the same thing: the cost of raising a child is too high in Japan (considering the wages).

When I talk to people it seems that they all have this concern, I doubt it's something that can be changed drastically in the short term.

But this is basically the same story everywhere. Living costs are really high. Add children to the mix and how do you manage?

If I put my pessimist hat on, it's just a matter of time till the same happens in Europe/US.

Heck, I already see friends in Ireland and UK struggling with that and they are all high earners.

if you bothered to read past the title:

> The 2024 figure is a 5 per cent drop from the previous year and the lowest since records began during Japan’s Meiji era in 1899.

That's not going away at all though.

But I am glad we now have more paid options available. Tooling is important and people that do good work should be able to charge for high quality tools.

I would be much happier in a world full of tools licensed like Sublime Text, where I can purchase a license and just run it without the need to constantly phone home though.

That looks pretty handy! I’m learning mandarin at the moment and that would be super useful

why shouldn't they? they had to take the time to make the app and get it up on the App Store.

it's totally fair to charge for work you've done. the fact it's simple is irrelevant. what matters is the value it brings to the user.

Does anyone understand what a channel file is? Some sort of patch/dll that a driver loads?

MS could've leaned more towards user-space kernel drivers though. Apple has been going in that direction for a while and I haven't seem much of that (if anything) coming from MS.

That would have prevented a bad driver from taking down a device.

I really wanted to like open library but last time I tried it (over a year ago tbf), the UI was extremely slow and frustrating to use. I just gave up and started tracking things in a csv file.

That would actually be seriously cool though.

Even with a full-sized VR headset I'd be willing to spring for it.

Yeah, they somewhat hinted at it in their WWDC announcement about private AI. They are running models on apple hardware. If you look up their jobs portal you can see some roles that also seem to hint at that (OS and kernel teams)

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Can't praise Casey's course enough!

None.

Just schedule the work you need to do and have some standards for yourself and keep working on it.

If you feel tired after a while you can train yourself to push through it if you really want to. Anyone who's ever run, lifted weights, done martial arts, etc, will tell you your real limit is well beyond your feelings.

If you're still tired, take a break, get a tea or a coffee and just go back to work.

The secret to get work done is to just sit down and do the work. Get used to being bored.