> If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship with the app store provider (ie. Apple), not the store I bought the phone from.

That's because Apple supplies both the hardware and the software. Being a software supplier - the only such supplier - they need to keep being involved. This wouldn't be the case if third-party OSes existed for the iPhone - it doesn't need to be the case for M1/M2 MacBooks, for example, thanks to Asahi, or for any x86-based hardware.

Thank you. Almost didn't recognize the name, as upside-down as it was.

whoosh

Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5MA685ApE ?

You mean, what about the tall, handsome, well-dressed creepy men?

The dichotomy is not conventionally attractive/creepy, it's understands boundaries/creepy.

If all men are creepy, then why bother with the adjective?

You're still hung up on this idea that violating boundaries and being a man are synonymous, and that what makes it creepy is how attractive you are.

Whether someone is attractive or not, they're perfectly capable of not bothering someone who doesn't want to be bothered.

You're basically saying "if an unattractive man who doesn't respect boundaries is creepy, but also an attractive man that doesn't respect boundaries is creepy, then that means all men are creepy."

Do you really think that the response to "hi, my name is Bob!" being attraction or repulsion is not related to how attractive the man is?

Also, men are expected to initiate the opening. Very few men are attractive enough to not need to do that.

I teased a friend of mine long ago that his pickup line was "ok". The women approached him one after the other. Yes, he was tall and handsome. What works for 1% of men doesn't work at all for the rest of us.

Do they, really? Because putting data centers in space would mean multiplying the infrastructure cost by a few orders of magnitude, while being far, far away from cheap energy - photovoltaics would work, certainly, but it will take a lot of it, and it's not like you can just slap panels on the roof - easy cooling, and people.

It's a ridiculous idea, and I don't believe it's what they are really pursuing.

You don't necessarily need a computer for that. They built more than a billion typewriters, IIRC.

Sure let’s buy a bunch of typewriters instead of multi purpose computers

When's the last time you played DOOM on a typewriter?

Yes? There is nothing incoherent with disliking something and putting in effort to see less of it. "Ignore it" is an answer, not the only possible answer, and probably not the optimal one in the long term.

For some reason, I was actually expecting a map of metals - tungsten, uranium and such. Not sure why.

What colour are those bytes? https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

Said human would likely not be able to create a clean-room implementation of any of the codebases they worked on.