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by jon-wood 5mo ago
I mean sure, but marginally better/more profitable file storage isn’t any of that, and artificially juicing the share value doesn’t actually make any difference to the real economy it just makes some people who like gambling on made up
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by jon-wood 5mo ago
I’m not usually one to ask this because learning to do a thing can be fun, but why exactly have you spent 25 thousand dollars on getting an LLM someone else made to answer maths exam questions?
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by jon-wood 5mo ago
At least some of your extensions will still run in the client editor instance, not on the server side. That limits exposure a bit but when colour themes have been known attack vectors in VSCode it’s far from a panacea.
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by jon-wood 5mo ago
I suspect the retail stores are using autonomous single app mode, which allows an app deployed on an MDM managed device to take control and force itself to the foreground, disabling screen sleep and other things. I briefly did some reading
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by jon-wood 5mo ago
This is Amazon, the company where the stuff they rolled their own now makes more money than the business it was rolled for: https://aws.amazon.com/codeartifact/
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by jon-wood 5mo ago
There's two layers to this as well. The layer they handle reasonably well is integration between Apple products owned by the same person (less so shared products like Apple TV and HomePods), what they do terribly is dealing with the fa
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by jon-wood 5mo ago
In this case, no, not really because the plugin is running within the same sandbox. I was addressing the more general point in the grandparent post.
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by jon-wood 5mo ago
On macOS at least those 99% of users are probably installing from the App Store, where apps are sandboxed by default and need to explicitly ask for access to paths outside that sandbox. Even when not installed from the App Store a permissio
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by jon-wood 6mo ago
Yes, that is absolutely a dynamic in managing an engineering team, and I'd argue that knowing the right person to give a particular task to, and how much detail they're going to need to get it done, is what separates good engineer
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by jon-wood 6mo ago
Some of this will depend on what experience you’ve got. Someone with lots of experience running Linux servers can probably stand up the sort of thing described in this article in a couple of hours from a starting point of being given the Go
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by jon-wood 6mo ago
Personally for backups I’d avoid using a product provided by the same company as the VM I’m backing up. You should be defending against the individual VM suffering corruption of some kind, needing to roll back to a previous version because
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
For anything major you're right, you'd expect them to be on the HSTS preload list in people's browsers which forces all requests over SSL which would then pick up an invalid certificate. That doesn't make this harmless t
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
"The AI is wrong only 3:10,000 times" is a statement screaming out for the follow up question "how often are the humans wrong". Maybe 3:10,000 is astonishingly good, maybe humans are 10x or 100x better, right now I have
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
If Copilot is for entertainment purposes only then why is https://office.com all about how you can use Copilot, and closes with the small print "Copilot Chat in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app is available for Microsoft 365 E
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
In the UK last Sunday was 23 hours long because we switched to BST, and occasionally leap seconds will result in a minute being something other 60 seconds.
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
If you don't know what Asimov Press is then you're probably not the target audience for a post about Asimov Press not publishing for a while.
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
Strong agree on this. I think a lot of people who've entered software development in the past decade or so don't appreciate just how bad the available options were when Github launched. If you blanch at the thought of a one line i
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
This is very interesting to me for two reasons: 1. I'd really like to run my development environment for things under Siri for its tiling window management but for better or worse I'm deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem for eve
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
Oh that’s an idea. I was going to argue that it’s a problem that you might want multiple instances in different contexts but sandboxing processes (possibly instanced) is exactly what systemd units are designed to deal with.
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
An increasing number of people are coming into the workplace never having used a Windows machine, or only occasionally having done so when it was absolutely necessary.
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
You can't suddenly replace them, but in a lot of cases you can find that over an extended period more and more people choose the MacBook option from IT rather than the Windows one.
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
Wisdom such as the mass purchase of GameStop shares, temporarily inflating the value of an ultimately doomed company?
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
My read of the output in the post when they tried to SSH to the device was that Tesla are actually doing the right thing here and using an SSH certificate authority, which allows issuing certificates signed with a private key authorising ac
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
There's a middle ground here. Code for your website? Sure, whatever, I assume you're not Dell and the cost of your website being unavailable to some subset of users for a minute doesn't have 5 zeroes on the end of it. If you&
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
At least in the UK it would be entirely legal for companies to use account age as a proxy for verifying you're over the age of 18. If your Apple account is over 18 then you probably are as well.
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
Yup, its about as slick as you could ask for. They appear as a single device to anything connecting and then distribute the left/right channels between each other. I've also got the Apple TV set to use them as its default set of s
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
Definitely showing how deep down the Apple rabbit hole I am but I have a pair of them connected to my Apple TV which are the ones I use for music/TV/games. The single one in the kitchen really only gets used for podcasts and audio
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
HomePod Mini is primarily a speaker you can AirPlay to which happens to have some basic voice control functionality. I'd really love them to be a bit more usable (in particular I want to be able to change the app it sends reminders to)
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
My phone also reports as only having used a couple of gigabytes of mobile data each month but that's because most of the time I'm using it attached to wifi at home or work. The people being given free phone plans by the government
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by jon-wood 7mo ago
Heh, my son goes to school in the next town over and I don't drive, which means it's either a 90 minute round trip by bus or £40 of taxi fares. I've made it abundantly clear to him that if I have to go into the school to get

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