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No, I won't give them anything. They don't need to take this information. They shouldn't have it. I think they and everyone else collecting data should be held far more accountable than they are for the damage they do when that data leaks.

Steve would be trying to lock it down in his walled garden.

How do you train new models if your GPUs are being used for inference? I guess the training happens significantly less frequently?

Forgive my ignorance.

Yeah, wow. That guy is the definition of that Uptain Sinclaire quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

How about publicly shaming the developers who wrote the code to make this possible?

Seems only fair, since they voluntarily shared ours private details.

Thanks, yeah, we also have a girl on the way and an older boy. Looks like I'm in for a similar adventure. I also left at 18 and you're right that seems young now. But at the time, I remember feeling quite old. :)

This is probably rude, but maybe people who are happy to sit through commercials are more capable of enjoying the extremely middling (I'm being generous here) quality of most TV?

So people who dislike commercials also dislike the kind of shows that are on TV and thus aren't willing to watch more or pay for more.

Yes, that's funny. How's the early teenage years going? I kind of worry about that time..

My team lead, my manager and their manager are all childless. It's actually been kind of an issue. Maybe I should ask them to take care of my kid for a day or two. As a team building exercise.

You'd think nap times would help, but due to a combination of being zonked from the morning shift, and the mild anxiety that you need to take advantage of this nap time to relax, you end up just staring at a figurative wall for 2 hours.

I agree about the joy. This child woke me up.

Agreed. I also (personally) find the positivity draining. I used to be kind of a sarcastic asshole. It was a low energy state. Now I'm an always smiling toddler comedy bot, who at any point in time will sing, or juggle for tiny laughter. I don't have the muscles for it yet and the audience keeps requiring increasingly complex routines.

Hehe. Brilliant.

:)

Made me laugh, thanks! The bonus panel is accurate, too.

It really is the vigilance. It's hard to explain to people who haven't experienced it. I certainly tried to understand my colleagues who had kids, but it turns out it's quite a bit harder than the hardest I imagined. Nowadays I'm a part time developer, and the rest of the time, I'm the primary care for a toddler.

Programming at work is my time off.

You have to be react so quickly to certain things that it keeps you totally wound up. You see them pick something up off the ground and wonder, 'what is that, are they going to eat it' and instinctively you sprint half way across the room to grab what turned out to be a cheerio from their mouth. It's almost always a cheerio. But your brain won't let you rest if there's even an impossibly small chance it's a battery or I dunno, glass or whatever, it doesn't matter how many times you check, you can always imagine something. It's exhausting.

I'm rambling because I'm tired. :)

Hey if it quacks like a duck.

Thanks. Is MARPAT what the Canadian soldiers showed up to Afghanistan in?

Edit: looks like the wore the forest green stuff to Afghanistan. The only articles I can find suggests they did it on purpose, to stand out for peace keeping reasons, but that could easily be damage control. Anyone know the real story? GP suggests they just didn't have an arid design at the time (which I would believe).

What was worse, CADPAT or UCP? I couldn't find it in the article. Instinct is that CADPAT was worse, but UCP was just that style without the contrast thus negating one of it's features (disrupting the human shape with high contrast).

Don't forget: LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. Just like Github.

Or a post that's about the cloud, and the follow up "You Don't Need The Cloud" post?

That would be cool!

Interesting.. I'm not sure I could accept an offer to work there, ethically. It would be like working at a tobacco company. Certainly wouldn't sleep well if I did. Granted, they're not exactly throwing offers at me so maybe it's mutual.

This is about money. This is about having to upgrade your CPU to get updates to your OS. The Android/iPhone business model.

I wonder if all those years getting a paycheck from Facebook is helping him develop this framework.

Opt out is ridiculous for a programming language. Do you really want to play security whack-a-mole with your development environment?

There are countless, better privacy respecting tools.

Oh definitely USB ports is more important than fan noise. About on part with battery life.

For me though, the primary thing I look for is whether or not I can do with it what I want. More specifically, whether the company that made it is actively trying to prevent me from doing that.

I care about that stuff most of all. I realize I am one of a very few people though. :)

Comments pointing it out are good. I'm replying to you though because this is the first time I've ever heard anyone say that not wanting to look at marketing/PR/astroturfing is censorship. Lots of people disagree about what is or isn't that stuff, but never that blocking it would be censorship. Interesting take, thanks for your contribution.

No need to be childish.

Yeah, that battery life and fan noise.

The PR around apple products is hilarious.

Flag it. Flag every submarine ad on Hacker News. It'd be a boon for the site if it treated every positive article from companies with marketing budgets as astroturfing until proven otherwise. Same goes for political articles. And anyone caught at any time trying to game the system. Just blanket deleted for a set period of time. Offend again? Longer time. Third time? You're done. Forever.

The main page would only be cool projects and interesting tech news, instead of flame wars by confused people who think Apple and the rest of FAANG are a football teams. There's literally no downside.

It's a competitor in the same sense my smart fridge is a competitor. It's a locked down appliance that I'd have to hack to do what I want with.