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by musicale 10mo ago
Graduate student violence is more common that it should be. For example, you hear about suicides every year. I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, w
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Is there a reason not to use a clang-compilable kernel? I do like the idea of shrinking the unsafe bit to just the fil-c runtime. Which maybe could be compiled with things like -fbounds-safety. And/or written in a memory-safe subset or
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1. Good for whom? Apple (who like money)? Schools and companies (who like locked-down, easy-to-manage systems)? Many (if not most) users (who like simplicity and reliability)? 2. When the Mac first came out, some PC users labeled it a &quot
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> Given that ... user demand is so strong, Citation needed. > why does Apple insist on undermining its own capabilities with the iPad Pro? As noted in the article: 1. To make money selling iPad games and other apps through the App Sto
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This looks like it is part of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)? Which seems like a brilliant idea (part of their 4-1-4 academic calendar.) https://elo.mit.edu/iap/
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"Today we're introducing a feature we think you'll love - privacy-preserving FaceTime calls from anywhere. Now you can be running late in your morning routine while still keeping in touch with loved ones and business colleagu
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It is a great approach as long as you don't fall into the trap of trying to make more than a very modest (possibly negligible) amount of money. It's a massive trap because leaning into monetization drastically improves income,
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> Apple's app store monopoly together with a 30% commission is a modern form of way-laying Most of the revenue from the App Store is from games (often in-app purchases from "free to play" games), so it's not surprisin
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Universities will respond that regulatory compliance is more complex and costly every year, and that student services costs are also increasing continuously (and cannot be cut if a university wishes to remain competitive). They may also say
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> people who are willing to pay money for art seem to strongly prefer that their money goes to an artist, not a GPU cluster operator Businesses which don't want to pay money strongly prefer AI.
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> So maybe I can dual boot and get myself something like a Raspberry Pi Zero, but with one sixth of the RAM, and one twentieth the clock speed :)
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> Compliance With anti-security policies that: break TLS, thwart certificate pinning, encourage users to ignore certificate errors, expand the attack surface, increase data leak risks, etc. All while wasting resources and money. Zscaler
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Now no web browser can reliably block autoplaying video. :(
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An easy-to-use end-user programming and hypertext system for the 68K Mac, with MacPaint-like visual layout and an English-like (AppleScript-like) scripting language (HyperTalk). [1] Also a cult favorite on HN, as it was an end-user programm
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I hope this improves things. The difference in attention to detail between classic Mac OS (as easily seen in Apple's "Macintosh" dynamic screen saver/wallpaper) and current macOS Tahoe is stark. But I suspect that Apple
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Switch is more like smartphone hardware, though with differentiation and innovation in the form factor, hybrid docking design, and joy-con controllers; and it's clearly still a game console, running a custom OS and software and support
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see also: https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html (and some interesting interviews on youtube as well)
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Accurate scare quotes on "security" software. Apparently it is necessary for "compliance" with standardized requirements for ineffective security.
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Apple could do Boot Camp for ARM Windows if they wanted to, but they seem to be focusing on other things at the moment.
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I guess that's why Nintendo stopped making game consoles and Sony's PlayStation never went anywhere.
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Accurate terminology can help to clarify discussions, including discussions of appropriate activity related to creative works. My suspicion is also that what many artists are objecting to is less the training itself (though AI web crawlers
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> Microsoft leads the adoption of the Snapdragon X, having integrated the platform across much of its Surface lineup https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-lapt...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm#2015–2024:_NXP,_Broad...
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> "gatech.edu" really should be written as "gatech.edu." https://www.gatech.edu./ does seem to work for me. It is interesting that URLs often contain two hierarchies in opposite directions: https:&#x
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s/completely/completely useless/
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Right? At least we can be thankful that there is no US holiday devoted to this sort of thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065955
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> Obtaining without payment or consent Usually "obtaining" is just making a bunch of HTTP requests - which is kind of how the web is designed to work. The "consent" (and perhaps "desired payment" when there
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The proposition that AI is completely is trivially nullified. For example, it is provably useful for large-scale cheating on course assignments - a non-trivial task that had previously used human-operated "essay mills" and other s
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It's "unauthorized use" rather than "stealing", since the original work is not moved anywhere. It's more like using your creative work to train a software system that generates similar-looking, competing works,
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> the switch to USB-C, was pretty much forced by the EU. Apple went all-in on USB-C/Thunderbolt for the Mac in 2016. The iPad Pro got USB-C in 2018. Apple had been involved with USB for a long time. The original iMac (1998) was nota

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