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It was simply "Ghost" before Norton bought it and made it more terrible and bloated over time. We (at a computer shop I worked at) used Ghost to build a pre-OOBE image for several common Windows configurations and then just image them to new PCs in a few minutes, then apply the license key afterward.

TFA addresses this directly:

> For the crows, the spikes seem purely structural, a material used to fashion a solid foundation. In both crow nests, the wires were incorporated into the base–interwoven with the points facing inward, below where a softer nest cup would sit. But for the magpies, there was an additional layer of intrigue; not only were the birds using the spikes to build nests, but it’s possible they were also employing the devices for their intended purpose—to ward off other birds.

It's not interesting in a "wow, Macbooks can finally support two external displays" as much as "this does make this intentionally-small form factor slightly more tolerable."

Comparing the port count/capabilities of the two isn't a fully fair comparison though. The Apple Silicon Macbook Air models are likely 1) much faster than that corporate-issued laptop (even if it's workstation class), and 2) much smaller and quieter (no fan noise even under load).

Though I'm not sure why all the griping about how many monitors an Air can support; users can buy a Macbook Pro if they want more monitors? I don't understand the logic behind buying a tiny, thin laptop only to dock it as a workstation.

And if you'd like to read it later, bookmark it! You can organize bookmarks into groups, give them custom names, and they don't require the browser to be constantly hoarding multiple gigabytes of RAM.

It seems to me that one of the strengths of LLMs is their ability to _not_ differentiate between (human) languages, because to a statistical model, (for lack of a better term) people gonna people, no matter their culture or background.

Figma's press release doesn't mention it, but they've now got an extra $1bn from the merger termination fee to bank, so presumably they could reinvest that into the company and stakeholders.

You appear to be linking to heat shrink tubing for the printer, rather than the printer itself.

Holy crap, I tried to read this article but could not get over the constant motion in the corner. Can you please add a way to suppress this?

> One happens to be heavily used

This does not matter in the slightest; your only obligations to other entities are self-imposed. Using a developer's piece of code does not confer an additional right to that developer's time.

> The bad parts are that there’s a dozen issues that I haven’t even reviewed much less triaged, investigated, and fixed

If those 3/4 million downloaders really found it that useful, aren't there code contributions?

> time = passion + money

I didn't _start_ writing code because of money, and I'd still be writing code on my own even if I weren't being paid to do it. I know this because I code on my own without being paid to do it, only work on things that are interesting to me, and I don't have a problem dropping a project if I'm no longer interested in it.

> Those companies in that list are contributing to the success of those projects

Go work for one of those companies then? Seems like a win-win.

It is less processed, but TFA points out that it is definitely not RAW, particularly in the section titled "Log is Half Baked."

So if aces are considered "1", how do you think a Royal Flush works? It wraps back around to 1?

And the repo doesn't ask you to pipe curl output directly into the shell? Neat!

> it is an issue, and a waste for people to maintain multiple iCloud accounts, purchase multiple machines, and have notes and other materials scattered across machines and accounts

It is an issue, and security concern, for employees of an organization to risk adding corporate devices to their personal accounts, and vice versa. Why would you want your personal stuff on a machine you don't own?

I use my work email for my work AppleID, and use that to sign into my work-provided devices. Never the twain shall meet. In addition, we have a Developer account, which would even further muddy the waters if I start mucking around with personal stuff (certificates, provisioning profiles, etc.).

> an admin could view some contents of your iCloud account

Yeah; that's why you don't give them access to it. I also don't use Outlook and Teams on my personal phone. Work gets to contact me on my work devices.

> two subscriptions for Music for example. And different ids you are contactable at

No? Just don't buy a second Music subscription. Also, you have a work and personal email; are those multiple points of contact also an issue for your coworkers/family?

And sharing the link with other people (a desire stated on the website itself) makes it wrong...how?

Your presumption is correct. Valve was working directly with id Software after licensing the (still closed-source at the time) Quake engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc

Author has not tried the product, and their main points seem to be:

  1. Meta makes VR headsets and failed.
  2. Vision has a lot of fancy tech, but I don't understand how that helps Apple.
  3. People who are excited about Vision also liked Google Glass, a failed product.
  4. Big televisions are cheaper.
  5. Apple didn't mention motion sickness, so maybe that's a problem.

Hope this saves at least someone from a very clickbaity article.

Ah, yes. The closed-source, single-platform, invite-only browser made by a company nobody's ever heard of outside the startup ecosystem.

That article is stunningly light on actual substance, other than "you can generate QR codes with this repo" with a link to a repository that doesn't exist anymore. The best case they give for "issuing commands" is encoding a WiFi access point into a QR code. So you can encode a URL, or you can encode your WiFi data, because the data in a QR code is _literally text strings_. You could _possibly_ stick some malicious Javascript in it, but again, if your device is allowing JS to randomly exfiltrate data from your phone through your browser, something worse is going on.

The actual statement from the FBI on this subject says "While QR codes are not malicious in nature, it is important to practice caution when entering financial information as well as providing payment through a site navigated to through a QR code." So the danger is really visiting malicious URLs, which was the entire point of my previous post.

Ok, taking this story at face value _despite_ it being from the Daily Mail...if your phone can "instantly download malware onto your device, stealing your location and personal information" without any prompting or further user action by simply visiting a URL, that seems like something the FBI should be warning device manufacturers about instead of the average person.

"QR codes scary and bad!" isn't a very productive line of discussion.

> Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that some staff had uploaded sensitive code to ChatGPT.

Which, honestly, is a better article and states the issue outright: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-02/samsung-b...

Oh, man, thanks for this. I've been lamenting that Cmd is essentially dead without remapping it, and this is the last blocker for me adopting TheCore.

From the link you posted:

> our French lawyers (for a French company, and a French account)

> PayPal Luxembourg is now claiming that the CSSF has no jurisdiction over them, because the accounts are French / HK / Australia

How are they Russian?

How is the future bad data different from the current bad data?

Interesting. I get 362 ±15 running Vivaldi (Chromium-based) M2 Macbook Air.

Yes, echoing the input prompt is a feature of the API, which most people don't turn on by default, likely because it eats more output tokens: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions/c...

Wow, both you guys were (a couple of) my heroes back in the Actionscript days. Thanks for all you did back then, because it gave my coding skills a heck of a boost in my early career.

It does stay on the device; the iPhone passcode is entered and authenticated locally, then the iPhone authorizes the AppleID password change since you're "authentic."

It's Valve; you know there will never be a third iteration.

> Creating your own ad-hoc pattern matcher instead of using the ubiquitous one built into your language

GP was using LINQ, which is a first-class language construct in C#. I'll grant that it may not be _as_ optimized as Perl's regex routines, but it's hardly ad-hoc or slow.