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Just ten more years! Take my money!

Apple's locked down ecosystem is enabling the rollout of Digital ID which will eventually be required for Internet access and age verification law. This is why Google is locking down their ecosystem now too.

Call me what you want but it is my belief that the reason google is locking down and Apple refuses to budge is that in the near term future our mobile devices will become our identity online and in public.

Apple already offers digital ID in some states. They can do this partly because they can guarantee to the gov’t the ID is genuine because the user cannot modify the system.

Google needs to be able to do the same thing.

Age verification laws for online services will actually require something like a digital ID and Apple and Google want to be the providers.

wild to me these two companies have always been at odds and it is playing out on an even bigger stage now.

Git is already distributed. We don’t need a hub for it. Just stop using GitHub it is a Microsoft product.

Not sure how open source got bamboozled into paying rent to Microsoft of all companies.

The SDK bundles Claude code and uses it for its agentic work. The SDK really only lets you control the UI layer. It als doesn’t yet fully support plan mode.

Seems to me Apple is getting ready to make the black arrow mouse pointer obsolete.

In the next generation or two iPads and MacBooks are going to essentially merge as a product line.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple abandons classic macOS (w/ Terminal and a filesystem) all together. To continue to support developers all they need is a tweaked Xcode for Apple dev and their version of WSL for everything else. All the parts are already in macOS/iPadOS (native virtualization and containerization).

iMac and Mac Pro are all but dead now too. Mac Mini and Mac Studio will be the only desktop options and will be bought by people who are Millenials and older or ML/AI praciticioners. We may even see a special AI/Local LLM Mac Studio that would be the equivalent of mac pro of the ai era.

Your fingers will need these big round edges to grab. They may let you use a bluetooth mouse but they aren't going to cater their UX to you.

They year of the Linux desktop has come as commercial desktop OS's die.

This is logical end game of having these economic controls at all. Put a steering wheel on it someone will drive it.

A true free market isn’t at whims of any one person.

kudos for not doing yet another chrome clone.

OpenCode has a workaround already: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode-anthropic-auth/pull/11

We need a startup to make those super realistic face masks easy to make and use. Celebrities could license their faces to make up for movies and tv being AI generated.

You are anonymous too, so…

Judging by the post this guy advertises his kids entertainment business to young people. With recent crackdowns on age verification etc. it could be his ads are no longer reaching the audience they used to.

I see post after post like this on different parts of the web. What is always clear to me is these authors feel threatened, put too much of their personal identity and self-esteem into knowing the "secret tongue" of the machines. Generally are introverted and write software for themselves and people like them, not for normal folks.

People like this have a great deal to personally lose from LLMs. It makes them substantially less "special". Or so they think, but it is actually not true at all.

I think some of them resent having to level up again to stay relevant. Like when video games add more levels to a game you though you already beat. Fair enough, but such is life and natural competition.

When they come at LLMs with this attitude (gritting their teeth while prompting) it is no wonder they are grossly offended and disgusted by its outputs.

I've been tempted at times to hold these attitudes myself but my approach for now is to see how much I can learn about this tool and use it for as much as I can while tokens are subsidized. Either it all pops with the bubble or I have gained new, marketable skills. And no your hand coding skills don't just evaporate. In fact, I now I have a new found love of hand coding as a hobby since that part of my brain is no longer used up by the end of the day with coding tasks for Work.

As someone who barely ever drives but still has to pay the same yearly car taxes as everyone else I welcome this. We should be making driving more expensive. It’s deadly, polluting, and traffic wastes so many people’s time.

This is the most astro-turfy comment ITT

Wow folks really aren’t getting that your perfectly idiomatic, well formatted, agonized over code isn’t needed any more.

People care if their software works. They don’t care how beautiful the code is.

AI can churn out 25 drafts faster than 99% of devs can get their boilerplate setup for the first time.

The new skill is fitting all that output into deployable code, which if you are experienced in shipping software is not hard to get the model to do.

Wake me up, when September ends.

That your brain training on all the inputs it sees and creating output is fundamentally more legitimate than a computer doing the same thing.

people pay to read The Verge?

Yet you use your toilet. Do you think the sewer workers love their job?

Spoken like someone who has never been around kids.

Having the cleanest dishes is not always the optimization one is looking for.

I like pods because there is less of a chance my clumsy self, or younger kids can accidentally spill costly soap for my dog to try to lick up or overfill the dispenser. My dishes are almost never caked in fats and oils when I put them in. I do not use a pre-wash. If I do I break a pod in half and toss in the bottom.

This guy makes me roll my eyes. There is nothing more exhausting than a self-assured YouTuber lecturing others as if he has all the right answers. He is not wrong per se but not everyone has their own preferences and needs.

Javascript making PHP look bad.

The Democrats care about healthcare costs increasing like remember when Obama caved on the public option because he sold out to the insurance companies?

ATC should be a computer at this point.

I am working with Databricks' Genies. I have a _very_ complex Enterprise data schema(s). Genies, and from what I can tell, your product work on a set of tables ~20 and expect a well thought out and documented data model.

I have hundreds of tables designed by several different teams. I do have decent documentation on the tables but if I had a nice, organized data model I wouldn't need an AI assistant. If I had a perfect data model my team could write simple SQL queries or give chatgpt a schema dump + a natural language query and it would get the answer most of the time.

IMHO, the big value in this space will be when these tools can wrangle realistic databases.

ok!

Beef is more nutrient efficient though and has better macros for human consumption. It has 4 times more protein, less fat, and no carbs. Seems to me at least Americans could do well to eat more beef and less products created from processed almonds mixed with refined vegetable oils and sugar.

Beef and milk are harvested ready to eat. Vegan substitutes are all highly processed. Processed food consumption is associated with greater cancer and diabetes risk.

We are America. We can do whatever we damn well please because we have the biggest guns and most money. Welcome to the how the world really works. Not saying it’s right.