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I checked this on my computers:

On Windows 10 the Weather application uses 2-4MB when not active, which climbs to around 490-550MB when active. On Windows 11 the Weather application doesn't appear to be running at all when not active and it climbs to about 540MB when active.

No where near the results presented in the article, however:

The amount of memory used could vary by region and provider used to get the weather data, so in my region it would only use half a gig, in the USA it could use a lot more.

Half a gig is still too much for a Weather application to use, even with all the images and animations that it has I would estimate it only needs to be half as big at most.

I'm puzzled by why Microsoft made this into a Web based application since they could have written something much more efficient with native code, it's not as if they needed to target multiple different operating systems, just Windows and now just a single version of it.

If you want to read that book I would try and find a second hand copy of the original print. I bought a more recent print from Amazon and it seemed like it was a non-edited OCR'd scan of the original, plenty of words that should have been other similar words, paragraph/page breaks in the middle of pages, and other irregularities.

I enjoyed reading it but would burn this version of the book if I ever got a copy of an original print.

An interesting parallel to this is parallel construction, where a side knows X but they know it through illegal/illegitimate means, so how do they create a trail of evidence for X through ordinary and legal means. This applies to legal cases and things like reverse engineering etc.

Like we know X but the colour of the fact is red, and we need some way to figure X out with a colour of green or blue.

I will probably be installing that on my servers soon. Luckily I don't need to use it as a desktop machine any more.

Unfortunately these days bank apps are required by the banks for "security", and good luck getting anything done without the bank app installed on your phone.

The only other alternative available is SMS but that is being phased out (rightly so) for being insecure.

The article's point of view is that using unique_ptr to implement a PIMPL idiom is inadequate since it doesn't allow copying of the outer type without implementing your own dedicated operators. Hence the new type which does act more like a value, leaving the decision to have the outer class move-only or copyable up to that class, without needing to write any special code.

Do you have the code shared somewhere, via a blog post or code snippet somewhere?

Ubuntu is still annoying with it's daily popups asking to update the system and then most times requiring a system restart. In some ways it is worse than Windows.

It was used extensively at a former workplace of mine where each class that wasn't a message or data type was a pimpl. They had implemented their own private pointer class to handle it. It worked well enough to avoid pulling in lots of headers, but was still a PITA when you wanted to change methods as you'd always need to change the method signature in at least 3 places - header file declaration, source file definition, source file impl definition.

Same sort of reason that way more people use Microsoft Teams than Slack, because it's already there in something that you've paid for.

Personally I would not encrypt a whole disk, only the files I actually care about protecting.

I believe users are given an option on Windows setup to encrypt the drive with Bitlocker or not. I've done an install in the last few months and seen it.

They should also be given an option of storing the keys in the cloud service tied to an account. Most would still click yes, but the fact that law enforcement can ask for those keys without your consent is an issue.

Here is a question for you though, you probably have those backup codes for services stored securely somewhere, but does everyone you know?

That's why I understand businesses requiring full disk encryption on their devices and on contractor devices, because in their case they are fine with losing data as they have many copies of it elsewhere.

One thing I disagree with the article about is that drives should not be encrypted by default. For the vast majority of people an encrypted drive is just data loss lying in wait.

I prefer to use non-encrypted drives so I have the option of popping out the disk and reading it from another system with ease, which also means that I can recover files from drives of otherwise dead systems just as easily. This is a trade off I'm willing to make over losing access to data.

I understand business uses for it, and for that they have an IT team to manage key backup and backups in general. Plus when you're using company equipment it is theirs, not yours.

To add to this, a Google search now is answering your question in an incorrect way rather than merely bringing you to a site with incorrect information on it.

They are also no longer covered by safe harbour provisions because it is them answering it, not some content they refer you to.

Very much like gambling, you can hit the jackpot, or just have continuous near (and far) misses.

In the Russian-Ukrainian war the GPS guided shells that the USA was sending to Ukraine cost about $40k a pop, where as you can get at least a dozen drones for that price.

Even the fanciest self propelled artillery is getting destroyed by these little cheap buggers.

A key point here is open in terms of being able to download and use it, not open as knowing what data and instructions were fed into it when training.

A paranoid part of me thinks that these models are all inherently biased and instructed to be pro CCP, with specific gaps in their training data related to undesirable historic events and political ideas.

They aren't going to make _this_ show, they might make another show in the future, one catering to a broader (non-core-fan) audience.

One concern I've heard about the move to ARM cores is that it is done in order to lock down the devices more so they're more like a phone rather than a computer.

I would have thought that the default 5V coming through the cable should be enough to power on the chip and negotiate power delivery though?

Or was it actually working but charging only on 5V and taking a long time to wake up?

Bare metal or bare bootloader only right?

There's definitely some form of addictive behaviour going on in a similar vein to poker/slot machines. There are studies and anecdotes that I've heard where the most thrill and reward comes not from the wins at gambling but from the near-wins, those close calls and near misses. It seems very similar to the kind of output that an LLM generates where it looks like what you want but is not quite there so you try to fix it by going again.

Isn't there a limit on the public markets where if a company has less than a certain percentage of its ownership traded publicly then it is no longer a public company and therefore de-listed?

I remember hearing about a guy trying to squeeze out short sellers of his own company but ended up effectively taking his company private because he bought out like 95% of all the shares.

I wonder how that aligns to these small releases of stock for the public.

Depends how you count profiting from it, if you only count direct monetary profit, or if you count things such as favours to be profit.

There has to be some motivation for people to do such random things, and even if not directly illegal, they do smell rather fishy and unethical.

T hen again crypto isn't known for its bastion of legality and morality, therefore I would assume there are some deals going on in the background which are probably illegal, and if not that then unethical - not that they would care about that.

That sounds quite scammy, like it could have been designed to scam applicants or people that wanted to hire that agency.

Then again maybe giving an image of a more normal "white/multicultural" Australian office might make it easier to sell services into the Australian market.

It doesn't have to be, we have the power to change it by just not using LLMs to generate code-like text sequences.

But if anyone is having their revenge it is the "idea guys", not the UML jockeys.

Because the site (or marketing agency in charge of the ads) has plausible deniability for the user opting into marketing and tracking when they show a banner, whereas if it's a browser setting automatically applied then there's no such chance.

Same sort of thing when you log into Wizzair and the check box below the password field is not "remember me" but "subscribe to our marketing emails".

1) Anyone at a company trading in bitcoin.

2) SpaceX employee or board member.

3) Anyone with a blow drier that knows which weather monitoring station is used.

4) Campaign insider that can sabotage their candidate's chances of winning.

What is your stance on loot boxes in video games then? Is that akin to a poker/slot machine or is it more like a kinder surprise?

Him placing the bets or a co-conspirator placing the bets and sharing the profit is the same thing. He is effectively betting on himself saying those words which he then goes on to say.

I'm pretty sure this is the same as match or race fixing to get the payout from bets made.