Bretton Woods, Petro dollar and Lindy effect?

Whenever I have to call an IVR system for support it puts me in a blood rage 98 out of 100 times. This space is the ultimate dark pattern mine field.

My common interactions were with banks and telco companies. Absolute trash.

I'm pretty sure some systems allowed remembering the DTMF menu and press it while the voice recording played. But the recent systems I called did not allow this. It was like they intentionally made people wait to suffer the torture.

People call these systems as a last resort (At least I do). It should be illegal to make them so bad.

Also, I used to work with Telco side guys of these systems and they were very proud of these "capabilities".

Sorry for the rant. I had to vent it out.

Even though MacOS is not terribly better, it's good enough. Add to that the new cheaper macbook and it must inspire pause in the great folks at Microsoft.

MacOS has been going downhill as well though, at least from what I hear from long time users.

With the goodwill and mindshare they earned, it does not feel impossible.

Perhaps OpenAI is aiming for a more compelling suit of things for penetrating enterprise (I'm just speculating as I go here).

Good guy Google must have published the numbers of scamming incident due to current software installation setup.

I appreciate if some good samaritan can link to it.

> (Amazon could not even find enough desks for the 350,000 corporate employees it ordered back five days a week) but decisively.

I wonder if they can fit they people in available desks by now (After the layoffs).

So this is a common tactic.

I have experienced management assigning people to multiple projects, vaguely acknowledging a time split. The moment the actual work starts people have to go 100% on all projects. This is normal.

Maybe it's up to taste. Maybe the QC fell badly after some time.

Bear with me, I'm adding some nice pictures to this thread.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2026/mar/05/pict...

At that level, pressing shift probably affects efficiency. /s