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The history of just about anything is very interesting, but it's generally not relevant in a textbook which has a specific purpose.

Several verified parts from MH370 washed up off the coast of Africa years ago. It absolutely did not crash in the middle of Cambodia.

Yeah I've had good luck with just "Do not explain." when I want a straightforward response without extra paragraphs of equivocating waffle and useless general advice.

I don't think there's any particular secret sauce in the AGI engine, such that competitors would benefit from a leak. There are probably other examples I can't think of, but Hugo's House of Horrors was basically an AGI-style game made by one guy just a few years later.

Beyond the initial novelty of a graphical adventure, Sierra games worked because they put a ton of effort into creating those graphics and actually writing the game. The tech isn't nothing, but it's a small fraction of the end product.

Fentanyl only exists because it's cheap and easy to make. Anyone with a choice would always take something like oxycodone, and there are a ton of occasional recreational oxy users in the world.

Yeah I can't reproduce this with my AirPods Pro either. Simply connecting does nothing. I would assume something is causing a stray input as if you'd pressed the button on your headphones, which can launch Music.

Right, it's obviously end-to-end encrypted because if it weren't, everyone would have been screaming for years about how horrendously insecure it was.

iCloud Keychain is fine, just use a good password. There's no particular harm in letting Apple store an encrypted blob for you on its servers.

Myst's 1994 Windows release is pretty far into the CD-ROM era. I was playing Monkey Island with its great CD soundtrack in 92, and the talkie versions of Fate of Atlantis and King's Quest 6 in 93, for example.

Yes, unfortunately the default is German dubbing. If it doesn't say OV or OmU, that's absolutely what you're getting.

That was really common among shareware developers back in the day, one guy sort of pretending to be a big serious company. I suspect Tim Sweeney was joining this trend but also mocking it with the name "Epic MegaGames".

It's definitely not how people act these days, at least with indie/solo game developers.

I dunno about the entirety of Germany, but I don't think I've ever seen graffiti removed in Berlin, and there's a ton of it. It's fine, nobody cares.

> I can't recall any other company doing this

Years ago Microsoft used to do stuff like this, notably releasing .NET Framework under its Reference Source License (you're allowed to look at the code, but that's about it).

It's probably the best C++ IDE out there, with a great debugger. For C# a lot of people prefer Rider, but in terms of free options VS is much better than VS Code.

> We already have (weak) AGI

No. We all intuitively know what AGI means, we've read/seen enough science fiction. It doesn't have to be "superintelligent", but it does need independent agency. None of the recent AI stuff is anything approaching that.

The response you're waiting for is a refresh of the screen.

The Kindle excels at being a low-cost device for reading novels, or linear non-fiction with no graphics etc. For anything fancier, it's simply not built for that.

The $349 iPad is a fantastic tablet computer for mainstream users. I'm sure they sell a zillion of them.

It's not really clear who the iPad Pro is for, aside from people who want to watch videos on the best screen.

This year really feels like the time to do something exciting with the iPad, so soon after launching an absurdly powerful iPad Pro. Either macOS in a VM or a major revamp of iPadOS.

There's an exciting story to tell about the iPad Pro being a hybrid tablet, a next gen Mac, the best of both worlds. Or they could do nothing, and let it remain a boring niche product with a really nice screen. We'll see.

Reminds me of how Siri used to make jokes after setting a timer. Now it just reads back the time you specified, in a consistent way.

It's a very impressive gimmick, but I really think most people don't want to interact with computers that way. Since Apple pulled that "feature" after a few years, it's probably not just a nerd thing.

It's cool tech but disappointingly I've yet to find a practical use for it. I think the only scenario where it makes sense is a difficult-to-reproduce bug that you're actively looking for. If you can reproduce it once, then the TTD output is gold.

> but most code is not solving complex problems

I see this claim a lot, and I have no idea whether or not it's true. I just struggle to imagine that there are millions of people employed, well compensated for doing pretty easy jobs.

In my professional work and my various unrelated personal projects and open source contributions, if you want to do anything useful or interesting, you get into the weeds very very quickly. The territory where LLMs are nearly useless. I'd say maybe 5% of my time is spent writing "easy" code without major complexities.

It's so easy to imagine Lennon doing a Gollum that's funny for five seconds and then just incredibly irritating.

A Hard Day's Night is great because it's basically just them goofing around. The rest of the Beatles films have their charms, but they're not actors. I really can't imagine that the idea was to do a straight LOTR adaptation, it must have been some kind of parody. The whole appeal of the Beatles on screen is that they're funny.

Ideas are cheap, an idea is not interesting by itself. There's a very long history in science of ideas which sound good but are wrong.

The question is always: do you have the data?

This has all the hallmarks of genuine scammers, where you agreed on one thing and then they aggressively upsell you into something else, maximizing confusion and time pressure.

It's something you expect from small-time grifters, not the customer service department of a major, successful electronics company.

> At the same time, she clearly didn’t exercise good discretion with who she shared this story with.

This is a bizarre conclusion, because it's not like she shared some confidential or sensitive information. It's just a story about a minor error.

I have no idea if this is an incident that should have been reported. If so, that's a compounding error. If not, who cares? Good safety culture welcomes scrutiny, surely.

Definitely save those recovery keys, because BitLocker loves freaking out after BIOS updates or minor hardware changes. I think I had to enter mine after a GPU firmware update.

That's just absolutely untrue, humans are entirely capable of reading critically without internalizing. There are tons of liberal-minded Lovecraft fans, even though nearly all of his work is grounded in varying degrees of xenophobia.

I know it's silly to say "Steve Jobs would never...", but Steve did earnestly love music, it was a huge part of his personality. I absolutely think he would have found this ad distasteful.

> Fable was profitable - "highly profitable", Lionhead's Simon Carter told Eurogamer - but in a now too-familiar story, it and its genre was seen by Microsoft as just not profitable enough.

I suppose this is as good an explanation as any. The old story with point-and-click adventure games (which "died" in the late 90s) is that their sales never significantly declined, they just got massively outstripped by flashier action games starting with the likes of DOOM.

I'm sure there's some great schema implementation that you can bolt onto JSON, but personally I have never seen anyone actually using one in the wild.

With protobuf the schema is essential, it is the foundation. I feel this is a huge advantage especially for communication protocols.