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by rswail 9mo ago
That's not a problem of the platform, but is a problem of the developers. The extra cost of an Android capable tablet (maybe $200 especially wholesale) is a minimal hardware cost considering the overall price of the equipment is in the
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by rswail 9mo ago
Once you price in the cost of integration, plastics, ROHS, CE and other regulatory/certifications, the extra cost of an Android tablet which already has a lot of that starts to make sense. If you also add in the extra ease of things li
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by rswail 9mo ago
It's just grifting, bribery, and extortion. Bezos gave $40m to make the movie. It was a way to maintain his companies position. It's standard oligarch tribute to the godfather. See Russia or Hungary for further examples. The movie
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by rswail 9mo ago
Minnesota is only a drop in the ocean compared to Florida and other states. One of the current FL senators was CEO of one of the companies convicted of a much larger fraud. That's more an indictment of the way you (the US) starve your
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by rswail 9mo ago
They tried, Trump rolled it back.
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by rswail 9mo ago
PHEVs are a very interim solution. There are some advantages while range anxiety is an issue. Yes, EVs have a weight penalty of ~250-500kg of battery currently. Battery technology is rapidly advancing, when Na-ion batteries are introduced m
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by rswail 9mo ago
Sure, but that's not a problem for the short term, and these guys can beef up support to keep it going if needed, just not invest in new features or chasing competitors. Just like an old building, their business model is to sweat the a
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by rswail 9mo ago
#2 is why the government, via laws, needs to establish employment rights, such as redundancy payments when someone is terminated due to their position being no longer required. Those rights need to show up in company balance sheets as a con
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by rswail 9mo ago
This is the same business model that Computer Associates used successfully in the 1990s, so it's not new to IT or technology. The primary difference now is that the transition from bespoke IT on premises environments has been subsumed
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by rswail 9mo ago
Lights with LEDs are likely to not need maintenance. Suspension and tyres might actually need more frequent maintenance because of the extra weight of an EV. But how often does suspension require actual maintenance?
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by rswail 9mo ago
This is not a market disruption, this is a supply chain change that is not going to be delayed by artificial tariffs or other protectionist attempts. Post COVID was getting back to what was before, this is the equivalent of the introducti
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by rswail 9mo ago
The US/EU/JP manufacturers are half-pregnant, they have engine and other mechanical production plants that will become stranded assets as BEVs don't need engines, gearboxes or the other hydraulic/cooling etc infrastructu
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by rswail 9mo ago
"The map is not the territory" applies to AI/LLMs even more so. LLMs don't have a "mental model" of anything.
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by rswail 9mo ago
Why not refresh daily?
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by rswail 9mo ago
The problem here is that the domain was allowed (Anthropic) but Anthropic don't check the API key belongs to the user that started the session. Essentially, it would be the same if attacker had its AWS API Key and uploaded the file i
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by rswail 9mo ago
Cowork does run in a VM, but the Anthropic API endpoint is marked as OK, what Anthropic aren't doing is checking that the API call uses the same API key as the person that started the session. So the injected code basically says &quo
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by rswail 9mo ago
You read it, but you don't notice/see/detect the text in 1pt white-on-white background. The AI does see it. That's what this attack did. I'm sure that the anti-virus guys are working on how to detect these sort of &
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by rswail 9mo ago
Which is an interesting DOS attack if you can find someone's key.
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by rswail 9mo ago
In the article it says that Cowork is running in a VM that has limited network availability, but the Anthropic endpoint is required. What they don't do is check that the API call you make is using the same API key as the one you create
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by rswail 10mo ago
The original post was about Apple not giving proper support to after-EOL phones. Saying "could stop working" and "won't get updates to the trusted root CAs" is all future issues. How long should Apple be required to
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by rswail 10mo ago
No functrionality is lost when a phone no longer receives iOS updates. All of the existing functionality continues. Access to new features is not available, and app developers may no longer support updates to their applications. But AFA
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by rswail 10mo ago
A lot of which was contributed by users typing in CD play lists to CDDB which got corporatised by GraceNote and ended up somewhere in Sony land. So this effectively re-releases into the public domain a lot of the user contributions during t
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by rswail 10mo ago
2001 was immediately post dotcom crash and so all the people that had bought into the Sun "the network is the computer" were tossing out expensive E4Ks, and getting cheap intel servers to survive. HP-UX and AIX were already legacy
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by rswail 10mo ago
With this understanding of academia, you are perfectly suited to doing software development for them, because if you think there is "less politics" in academia, you are being foolish. Academia is notorious for politics, especial
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by rswail 10mo ago
The OP did say this was circa 2010. So we're talking 15 years ago.
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No, that's HR justifying its existence. Plus that's for higher stature service based roles, not warehouse logistics. It's also mostly bullshit. Teams work because they have the right combination of skills, both personal and t
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by rswail 10mo ago
The other argument about this is whether or not an SWE is a fungible resource. When you're doing a construction schedule, you might have a pool of carpenters, pool of electricians etc. They can be assigned to the different jobs as a
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by rswail 10mo ago
They should have a general idea of what they are building and why, in exactly the same way as a construction worker. That doesn't mean they spend all day asking stakeholders what they want. It means that when there is a choice and th
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Developers shouldn't test, they should throw it over to QA who will test it precisely to meet the defined requirements. The Product Manager's job is to communicate the customers needs to the developers/designers and the d
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by rswail 10mo ago
Everyone in the team should have that. Obviously at different levels of focus and completeness, but the Product Manager is supposed to be communicating in both directions and they rarely do, they just take the feature list and tick them o

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