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You think that you do, like I thought that I did, but I doubt that you want it in reality. Last I checked, which was probably under a decade ago(?), there were a bunch of things on macOS that misbehave on a case-sensitive FS, both first- and third-party. I reinstalled same-day.

We remember.

Yep. I’d probably be a lot less chastised in some circles for using Claude Code at work if it wasn’t misconstrued as being in support of, I don’t know, encroaching on the hypothetical commissions of a chronically online instagram furry artist or something.

It is very tiring to say “I don’t necessarily disagree with you about AI ‘art’, but in my field—which you do not understand, and in which the underlying build process is often not the creative output—AI presents very real productivity gains” for the umpteenth time.

I am skeptical of there being sufficient data to build “ethical” training datasets, and I’m confident that much of the same contingent will (somewhat rightfully) argue that ‘second-generation’ copyrighted AI material has already irreversibly made its way into every modern dataset.

Far out dude. That’s living.

That doesn’t mean that it is stored as plain text. It just means that it isn’t hashed.

I agree that it any system that allows this IS almost certainly just storing as plain text, and that it’s bad regardless.

This really reads like some sort of incel manifesto. The odds aren’t stacked against you nearly as much as you make out lol.

I sat on a university student disciplinary panel. I assure you that your experiences are biased. There are plenty of people that flat-out copy each other.

Yes, it is. How can’t you follow this logic? It is an upwards trajectory. Genuinely, what are you missing about this? Two things can be true at the same time. Nobody said that there had been a historical downward trajectory. Well, at least, in your description of what “gets you”. But I’ve never really seen many people arguing that macOS hasn’t degraded over the past ~10-15 years. The fact that’s “getting you” s still worth noting and not every online comment has to be a complete, comprehensive accounting of someone’s entire position. Some things are just left unsaid because there’s a shared understanding. At this point I think that “macOS had generally gotten worse” is easily one of those.

Yes.

In a word, no. If you’re all “ra ra ra JavaScript!” you’re going to be shocked to find out what evil one can accomplish (either now or at various points in the past due to since-patched browser exploits or web platform security oversights) with just HTTP, HTML and CSS. Not only is your pipe dream a pipe dream, and a misinformed one at that, it won’t even come close to completely protecting you. Terms like “code” and “execute” are largely arbitrary. If you want safety, stop letting untrusted payloads enter your machine at all, and that includes Hacker News.

Is the incentive genuine? Is it load-bearing?

> Should have double checked instead of speaking from memory.

Claude :)

The much more pertinent point is that it is counter to their apparent track record.

lol. may as well put a sign around your neck that says that you don’t know what you’re talking about. this sounds like a social media rumour cooked up to add fuel to the anti data center fire.

There are large, large stretches of highway near me that’re all but pitch black at night because people have stolen copper from the light poles. It’s only getting worse.

You can make any argument you want if you completely change what we are talking about.

“What if instead of a user agent string, HTTP headers contained a string of your DNA, or a count of all the women that’ve ever rejected you for trying to get them to install Gentoo?”. Time to boycott web browsers I guess! even though none of it is mandatory! You’re really asking for someone to condescendingly send you the Wikipedia page for the slippery slope fallacy. I’m not going to be the one to do it, but I came close.

…No they didn’t. It wasn’t verification. It was essentially a new setting. Stop fear mongering.

What? No. It’s just one week. If anything it’d prolong the outrage. Gradual rollouts are what responsible development teams do. When did this stop being Hacker News?

lol. what an android user comment. “Simply install LineageOS! All you have to do is extract this tarball…”

A solution that’s just for computer nerds is close to no solution at all. It’s certainly not one I care to talk about. I may do it myself, but I don’t for a second consider it in any legitimate discussion about how any non-negligible portion of the market behaves.

What a bad-faith comment. You just wanted to launch into an anti-Apple lecture and it doesn’t sound like you have the slightest clue about this specific topic. Have you watched the iAds presentation? They’re not like any other advertisements I’ve seen before. CERTAINLY not at the time. You can see exactly why advertisers didn’t bite.

“We’ve got ‘em now!”. This’ll be police brutality’s great undoing.

You’re right. Tech companies will surprise us all and suddenly start obeying the DMCA to the letter instead of just taking the shortcut of “rights holders upload content, it’s fingerprinted, user content that matches fingerprint is taken down”. Then, we’ll link arms and sing kumbaya.

the register has a red masthead for a very good and intentional reason. i think that people, especially americans, are into a bit of the british snark, but the site is by and large taken way more seriously than it deserves to be.

Your comment is entirely emotionally driven. “These politicians! These bureaucrats!”.

Let me guess, it just happens that the role that you work in is amongst the only that actually provide value, and everything else is just waste.

Developers are among some of the least self-aware people ever, I swear. And I say this as a developer. The God complex instilled in techies in the ‘00s and ‘10s is unrivalled and I’m really enjoying seeing some of you being taken down a peg.

It’s amazing how many people on this website harp on about nobody noticing their hard work, nobody caring unless the server is down, etc, and not being able to conceive of the remote chance of this same phenomenon applying to other roles in an organisation.

If you were legitimately suddenly saddled with the responsibilities of a typical ‘CEO’, chances are you’d shit your britches within a month.

Part of a CEO’s job is to be the target of all warranted and unwarranted blame for every single bad thing that anyone in the organisation experiences, even the inherent/inevitable ones, even the ones that others in the organisation see as a good thing.

Me. Not a CEO, and no desire to be. I’m also about as lefty as they come, definitely not a bootlicker or ladder climber. I’m just not a delusional, naive, unjustifiably self-righteous grunt, seemingly unlike many people sounding off on this thread.

Their job is to create an environment where people with a view as narrow and naive as yours can actually do something wholly productive.

Please. Such a charged response wasn’t justified at all. Different people are curious about different things. You ask “who fucking cares?”. The answer? You don’t, and the person you’re replying to does.

Yep. I’ve had to tell Claude to basically not use assert. Thankfully it’s very complaint in this one area.

Ditto. I’ve certainly never used it and can’t recall seeing it in any codebases I’ve worked on or looked at. Sounds interesting though!

I’ve of course certainly heard of, seen, and used `assert`, but more often than not, outside of pytest, I see its use way more in potential footgun scenarios—I doubt that many people know that assertions can be silenced, and that they’d probably be better off raising exceptions in many cases where they’re using `assert`.