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Every company I've worked for has avoided Oracle software of any kind.

My hunch is that big consulting firms like CGI might use it, and therefore the customers of those firms use it? But I haven't worked at any of those.

> I don't get why Apple are apparently going to be putting them into the new MBP line later this year.

Apple has apparently being going to put a touchscreen in a laptop every year since the iPad came out, and it's never materialized.

The authors want me to trust them to handle all my passwords. I'm not going to do that if they don't respect me enough to tell me I'm reading AI-generated content.

Pretty close to the 80/20 rule of thumb.

Cheaper hardware, discounts on stocks, and we keep AI itself? My flavour of hopium, sign me up.

> An official United States government app is injecting CSS and JavaScript into third-party websites to strip away their cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login gates, and paywalls.

Rare Trump administration W. I'm assuming there's one particular website they open in the app that shows a cookie popup, and this was a dev's heavy-handed way of making that go away.

> Acting like I hold the opposite position as I truly hold can help sometimes as well.

I find this helps a lot. So does taking a step back from my actual question. Like if there's a mysterious sound coming from my car and I think it might be the coolant pump, I just describe the sound, I don't mention the pump. If the AI then independently mentions the pump, there's a good chance I'm on the right track.

Being familiar with the scientific method, and techniques for blinding studies, helps a lot, because this is a lot like trying to not influence study participants.

> I'll check it too by asking "are you just placating me?" the funny thing is that often it'll admit that, yes, it wasn't being very critical, and then procede to over correct and become a complete contrarian. and not in a way that's useful either.

It's not admitting anything. Your question diverts it down a path where it acts the part of a former sycophant who is now being critical, because that question is now upstream of its current state.

Never make the mistake of asking an LLM about its intentions. It doesn't have any intentions, but your question will alter its behaviour.

I can't say I've had any issues with the corners, or noticed any difference after upgrading to macOS 26. But this is neat.

The default sandboxing works fine for me. It asks before running any command, and I can whitelist directories for reading and non-compound commands.

Body language analysis of strangers is bunk pseudoscience and a great way to reinforce your prejudices.

I'm glad we have an expert on Swiss commercial trucking regulations here.

> Anyone could've one-shotted this in Claude in an hour

I think they did. If you start the download and then open the sidebar and/or background the app, the download progress bar disappears and is replaced by the download button. If you press the download button again, the progress bar reappears at the correct point.

I find that Claude often makes little statefulness mistakes like that. Human developers do too, but the slower and more iterative nature of human development makes it more likely that that would get caught.

> This is not the beginning, nor is this the end. This is just a checkpoint.

Come onnnnnn. I would rather read a one line "Check out our offline llm" rather than a whole press release of slop.

This looks very neat. I'm not familiar with the nitty gritty of AI so I really don't understand how it can reply so quickly running on an iPhone 16. But I'm not even going to bother searching for details because I don't want to read slop.

It'll only be disruptive to people who are improperly managing their credentials. Cattle not pets applies to credentials too.

> The threat of being forever tainted is enough to make people more cautious

No it's not. The blame game was very popular in the Eastern Block and it resulted in a stagnant society where lots of things went wrong anyway. For instance, Chernobyl.

Why not just put the onus on ISPs? 99% of users lease their router from their ISP. If updates stop after three years, looks like you're getting a complimentary service appointment to get a new router.

I think that's a "looking under the lamp post because that's where the light is" metric.

I'm not sure most developers, managers, or owners care about the calculated dollar value of their codebase. They're not trading code on an exchange. By condensing all software into a scalar, you're losing almost all important information.

I can see why it's important in court, obviously, since civil court is built around condensing everything into a scalar.

Claude does it all the time, in my experience.

I'm not sure I understand, why didn't she just top it up?

What I do believe is that every person in the world who arrives at a sudo prompt had previously entered a password into a field that echoed asterisks, and as such is prepared to appropriately conceal their password.

Yeah, I noticed this too. Canadian universities have been studying cannabis use using actual cannabis, so I'm not sure why this metastudy considered anything else. "We need to publish something" perhaps.

How does your "anyone knows" control for false negatives? i.e. how can you be certain that the people you met who aren't "anxious and stupid" aren't also weed addicts?

The expectation with sudo is that it escalates the privilege of the command I want to run. They don't rename Ubuntu every time they tweak the UI.

Mac lets you use Touch ID or your Apple Watch to authenticate sudo. I expect you could set up something custom for Linux, it seems like the type of thing AI could put together very quickly.

Someone live streaming is well attuned to the dangers of exposing personal information on screen, and will hesitate before ever typing a password while streaming. They'll either disable this feature or open a root shell before beginning their stream.

Besides, I can just amplify their stream to hear their keypresses.

They were testing what happens when you stop taking Ozempic compared to what happens when you don't stop taking it, and also what happens when you start taking it again.

Assembling a control group of people who have never taken Ozempic could be difficult. How do you control for the fact that people not on Ozempic are less likely to need Ozempic? You'd need to figure out some criteria by which to include and exclude patients before sorting by whether they take Ozempic or not, so you'd have a smaller sample size of people who are taking Ozempic.

Best not to allow scope creep.

It certainly does not. To make that claim, the study would need a control group of people who had never taken the drug. They didn't have that:

> Participants Veterans Affairs users with type 2 diabetes who started treatment with GLP-1RAs (n=132 551) or sulfonylureas (n=201 136), followed up for three years. Veterans Affairs users were defined as having at least two visits to Veterans Affairs and having used the Veterans Affairs outpatient pharmacy within a year before receiving treatment with GLP-1RAs or sulfonylureas.

At 3 GHz, a signal can travel at most 10 cm per clock cycle. You can't really physically scale a chip up.

Those suffer from the same problem. There's a lot of ocean, and if you don't know where to look then you won't find what you're looking for.