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Quarterly Financial Targets? Questionable Functionality and Technology?

> Until you actually need to run a business. Did you mean to say "Until you actually need to sell to a business."? They did do very well for a long time mostly by focusing on consumers...

> I wonder how they will cope over the next few years

Perhaps they will pool together enough widespread stories of issues with AI (drones, surveillance, misleading advertising, etc) and create a political movement to try to ban or regulate it; only to then have their movement co-opted by the people who just want to get paid.

Isn't this basically the same structure they currently use i.e. individual contributors, managers, and producers?

Do we know how much choice OpenAI has with the arrangement? They call it a "request", but could they have been ordered directly?

its always seemed like a prank to me; and I'm impressed that he never broke during the performance to ask "are you people really falling for this???"

They're victims of success. Lautrec was so infamous some people (read: me) are too scared to play the game without a guide now. "What if I missed some NPC and I can't level up anymore?!"

I don't see how having homeless people everywhere in LA and SF is related to whether they have a functional legislature. Is there some law that California could pass to solve homelessness and they're just too dysfunctional to do so?

What is the banksy lie?

A lot of those words were explaining why they're excited to develop software for it.

What did you want them to write about instead?

Are there a lot other TTRPGs that have some software required to run them? Also this sounds like it would be fun to play based on these examples in the rules:

> Example 3: Brody declares his character's intent: "I want Wasp to display her stripes and scare the living beejeesus out of the Worker Bees! I want her to dive in towards them, buzzing menacingly and waving her abdomen around in, like, a threatening and provocative manner! I want them to run away screaming from buzzing, venomous DEATH! BzzZZZzzZZZZzz!"

> Example 4: Cody negotiates with the GQ: "But Wasp is Venomous so she can display her Stinger and maximise the intimidation of the Minor Termite Soldiers".

I wonder what the origin of the fd100 system is. I haven't heard of it before.

They do use Redis. They have a page on their tech here: https://stackexchange.com/performance

Publishing on your own website is more akin to putting up a signboard on your front lawn than writing a book for publication.

People are free to view it and take pictures for their own records, but I could still take it down and put something else up.

Netflix already has interactive content: see Bandersnatch and Minecraft: Story Mode.

Most people don't learn the term from commercial aviation, they learn they term from movies where someone turns on the "autopilot" then goes to handle whatever is happening at the back of the plane.

I assumed autopilots in planes could actually fly by themselves and the pilots were really only there for take-off, landing and turbulence.

It's not just YouTube that's automation obsessed. The groups filing the DMCA takedowns are also automatically scanning and flagging content on YouTube.

I’m generally always on the latest released version. It _has) gotten better, but its still not good enough. For example, having two @Published variables in the same class with the same name causes a crash in the compiler with no pointers to the source.

This is extremely exciting for me. I started writing a toy application for my iPhone using SwiftUI a few months ago and have been very impressed by Swift (coming from C#). So far, SwiftUI has felt exactly like what I wished XAML would become.

The documentation and error messages are a complete disaster though (https://nooverviewavailable.com/)

If you use Windows, Stardock has a tool, Groupy (https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/), that allows you make everything a tab.

One of the examples on their website groups all Adobe applications in tabs.

Microsoft also tried to build this into Windows but eventually gave up (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512250/microsoft-window...)

> Firstly, I would have used an https url instead of http and secondly, I would have made it look for images with a width & height greater than 200px rather than equal to 200px.

I didn't know Shortcuts were powerful enough to pull images of specific sizes from webpages. That's really useful.

Creating a Shortcut to scrape these guitar tabs doesn't seem that different from writing a Bash script that does the same thing.

The main issue is that most users would grab the Shortcut from the gallery, find the guitar tabs they need, and never know where it came from.

Maybe Apple could automatically provide attribution in their Gallery? Like "This shortcut is powered by Google.com and JGuitar.com".

> they'll just have to write "we added feature x, which we'll slowly roll out to all eligible users."

This would be vastly preferably to the current: "Bug fixes and performance improvements"...

I generally prefer to work in different environments at work and at home (usually .NET at work and iOS at home).

That being said, I use C# at work, and recently started using F# for side projects (which does actually feel fun to write (for now anyway)).

The benefit is that a human could jump in and take over either side of the conversation.

Anyone can have a conversation, but not everyone can author an API.

> Douglas found more solace in the fact that the benefits of two-spacing, as described in the study, appear to be very minor.

Speaking of which, did we ever learn how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

"Scrum is probably the worst way to build software, except for all the others."

And I thought getting a customer support person who says, "they system won't let me do that" was bad enough!

I think its lots of jobs that didn't need full-on computers in the first place.

I don't see how this purchase changes anything. How was "TunnelBear: an independent VPN provider" ever any more trustworthy than "TunnelBear: A service from McAffee"?

In both cases, I have no idea what they're actually doing with my info.

> FWIW "m" is almost a secure password on a root account with an SSH that allows password authentication

This is very counter-intuitive. Is the idea that guessing both the username and the password together is much harder than guessing the password when you already know the username?

In the kitten4 example, I would guess most botnets are working from a list of usernames/email addresses that they got from leaks.

Going over sme of the brands on that list, this was a bit shocking: Applebee's founded 1980. Buffalo Wild Wings founded 1982. Hooters founded 1983.

The way they write these articles I thought these companies were as old as Macys (1858) or Sears (1893).