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The only thing you can genuinely tell for sure from superficial qualities is if it was cured properly, and that nothing is horribly wrong.

Otherwise it's correlation vs causation. You can grow and harvest mediocre weed with a lot of care and it'll look great and still be mediocre.

> an overinvested market with nowhere near enough people buying pot

Taxes could be lower and regulations could be simplified, but this seems like the crux of it. Lots of people jumped in to a new market, and the actual demand can only sustain a fraction of them.

After seeing a few mainstream news headlines that were like "Apple adds ChatGPT" as the entire WWDC takeaway, I wonder if this was actually a mistake. It's such a trivial feature, a footnote after plenty of really interesting AI integrations.

I think it adds very little value for customers and distracts from their repeatedly hammered, legit message about privacy. Surely their own chatbot will be competitive with third-party LLMs within the next year or so.

It's literally the prompt you just gave it, that's what they're sending to ChatGPT, nothing else. None of the features that sift through your data are touching OpenAI.

Yeah and that was a far more realistic fear, because talented Indian developers actually exist and aren't just a hypothetical future that requires a series of incredible technological breakthroughs.

I feel like this is an awful feature for your native language, but fantastically exciting for a second language where you're not quite fluent and need to be able to write coherently.

As far as I'm aware, the only time Apple has implemented that kind of restriction is with their DMA compliance. Like, I used the US App Store (with a US credit card) while physically in Europe for many years.

We're really just describing an on-device search tool with a much better interface. It's only creepy if you treat it like a person, which Apple is pretty careful not to do too much.

The DMA repeatedly requires gatekeepers to act in a "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" manner. The "spirit" is very much baked into the language.

> I wonder if their server-side code will be open-source

No, but they said it'll be available for audit by independent experts.

> Perhaps the company will announce that it has designed a new server chip

Yeah, why not? There are plenty of reasons why they don't want to be just another NVIDIA customer, and beyond their own internal use, I could certainly imagine them offering an "AI accelerator" board in the Mac Pro.

`xattr -cr` is a wonderfully quick way to bypass the security quarantine of unsigned binaries.

I have no idea if this applies to the OP, but I see a ton of people in game development communities who just jump in with minimal programming experience and try to muddle their way through by watching tutorial videos and stuff. It's particularly terrifying when they're trying to use C++ that way.

If you want to take this stuff seriously, absolutely study computer science, and a little computer engineering as well. When you really understand the fundamentals, you can pick up the rest.

I haven't done web development since the late 90s, so quite a lot of what people talk about (from frontend frameworks to Kubernetes) is total gibberish to me. That's fine, it's not something I'm interested in even as a hobby.

Interesting example of the kind of thing it's probably not worth caring about in software emulation. Emulating the bug would be considerably slower.

Some day replicating the PS2 on an FPGA will be feasible, and then figuring out how this worked will be a fun project for someone.

Aside from Andy Weir (who got picked up by a publisher and properly edited), the self-published books I've read have been remarkably awful, including some stuff that was widely recommended.

The fundamental truth of creative work is that if you make something genuinely great, you'll probably have a smooth path to success. I see a lot of anxiety among indie game developers about the sheer quantity of games being released, and yes bluntly, if you make a merely average game nobody will care. Make something great.

I see a lot of cool little use cases (eg, LLMs are genuinely fantastic for creative brainstorming), but I'm absolutely not seeing the multi-trillion dollar AI industry that all the big companies are clearly banking on.

More interesting to me here is the history of the "line". Is this a medieval idea or a modern one? Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful. "According to legend", yeah ok.

Who first wrote about this? Who picked those seven sites? The earliest source mentioned is from 1969, and it's not even about this particular line.

There's no shortage of writing about esoteric Christian topics throughout the centuries, but this one seems really thin and really modern.

It's certainly striking that the quality of the propaganda is very much on par with that of Russia. It's clumsy, it often espouses political views (eg, the faux-anarchist stuff) which are incoherent in America or really anywhere in the West.

That's probably true, but it's also very common to see for example "British [meat]" or "German [meat]" marketed in their respective countries these days, not just beef.

The Mac app scene especially is pretty small and tight-knit. Lots of indie developers have been around for decades and know each other well. That makes it even more jarring for an app to get acquired by a totally unknown company.

If a particular doctor is clueless, that's what referrals are for. You don't just shrug and move on.

Specifically, I think the original code will always do what you expect as long as sizeof(long) == sizeof(float), and the alignment is the same. In reality no compiler is gonna do weird stuff unless your hardware target is weird.

For Windows: Visual Studio, familiarity

Against macOS: Not wanting to fight the OS when I want to do something like attach a debugger to a program I didn't build

Against Linux: Having an NVIDIA card in my desktop

> “You can generate the content, but if you don't have the distribution systems to land it in front of people in a way that seems credible, then you're going to struggle getting it across,”

The clearest example of a foreign influence operation I can remember was during the annexation of Crimea, when there was a flood of pro-Russian comments on Reddit. Thanks to the voting system and the centralized discussion threads, it's a platform that's relatively easy to manipulate.

It's much harder to gain visibility on social media platforms where you choose which accounts to follow.

Why would you assume that "fired" likely means some form of gross misconduct? Typically people are fired for doing a bad job.

Probably the same sort of thought process that led to the convention of Java packages being named com.example.whatever. It identifies the creator and gives you some structure to create a unique identifier.

Lot of half-baked ideas floating around in the early years of the commercial internet, but the Java thing held up better.

"Robo taxis" as they currently exist are pretty obviously not the long term goal, it's not an interesting business, it's just an easy test platform that recoups some costs.

The real business is an entire transit system, with purpose-built vehicles of various sizes, centralized routing, etc.

itch.io has basically failed in their initial goal to be a competitive videogame storefront. If you're an indie PC game developer, you still have to be on Steam, that's all there is to it.

But what's cool about itch is that they'll also distribute just about anything game-related: game assets, tabletop RPGs, homebrew retro console games. They've been doing a pretty good job with that kind of stuff.

I haven't read a ton of legal filings in my life, but I assume the copy-and-pasting of obviously irrelevant affirmative defenses (lack of copyrightability? statute of limitations??) is normal. Still, pretty funny. Anything that could possibly be a defense in a copyright case, just stick it in there.