Also technically they can only break the promise by not providing the support in 8 years, which we cannot know until 8 years from now. Right now it's just a claim that some support won't be available after 8 years.
Too bad phones aren't easy to do a full back up of, wipe, then restore after you are past the border agents. Or can keep all user data on a microSD card that you remove and secure before the search.
Just going by track record. The dollar has been reliable debased every year. Naturally if you have a time frame of decades, stamps would be ill-advised.
The stamps are backed (redeemable) by something real and fixed: shipping a first class letter. So they are more legitimate money (and not just currency) than dollars.
The money goes around and around. Money ultimately is just a tool to allocate resources. Higher prices mean the resource is less available than the demand, so it needs to be allocated more carefully (higher prices tend to make people more careful with their choices).
> I'm surprised to hear it's illegal to use stamps as currency
It makes sense with forever stamps, because inflation doesn't hurt their value. If everyone used stamps instead of dollars, the government wouldn't be able to just print money to fund things. It's what the dollar should be (and was, before we went off the gold standard).
Seems the core problem is that many/most students aren't there to learn the material, just to get grades. The class is a complex mechanism to force them to learn material against their will in a validation arms race. The teacher's job becomes something like a military commander. Seems depressing.
You ignored the part about "writing hacks they don't even understand." LLM is fine if you use it as one of many tools to form your work and not a substitute for yourself.
If your input is LLM-generated code, it's like taking snippets from Stack Overflow. You understand it fully and then make it yours. As long as you're hand-crafting the result, you grasp how it works.
Even before AI, I just looked at file size to determine whether an app was worth installing. There used to be tool to search the Google Play Store and sort by size. If it's a basic utility and more than a few MB, it's probably riddled with bloated libraries and ads.
I did this the old fashioned way on an Acer monitor a while back, eliminating the 10-second logo when turning it on. I ended up dumping the ROM (8051 CPU), writing a disassembler and mapping out enough of the code to patch it, and threw in a strobed backlight mode since I had already decoded other things. It helped that the processor allowed register writes over the DDC channel on VGA, allowing easy testing of the changes before writing any code. I did have to short a jumper inside when flashing the modified code (over DDC). I'd never attempt such a project again due to how long it took, but with AI it would be far more reasonable.
> I don’t like the idea that anything I say in a public setting or in a conversation with others could end up in a transcript summary on someone’s personal device.
Pretty minor if it's just that individual. But for certain this means there is a transcript on Apple's servers that can be subpoenaed by law enforcement, or sooner or later, searchable without a warrant.
I generally open links in a new tab because browsers never seem to be able to consistently cache the previous page, so when I hit back it has to reload. A separate tab always avoids this. I even have a button on my mouse hardwired to Ctrl-W to quickly close these extra tabs.
Indeed. I'd always put swap near the beginning, then a small root partition, then the rest. This reduced head movement for often-accessed data, and used the higher bandwidth of the outer tracks.
On some channels YouTube consistently remembers my position server-side. On other channels, it reliably starts the video at the beginning if the tab gets reloaded, even if I was half way through. Often the video in thumbnails shows a red bar at the bottom, but still starts at the beginning.
I can either conclude that remembering your position is a very hard technical problem, or that YouTube's code is garbage.
I'm honestly baffled. Is there something factually incorrect about what I wrote? Ad hominem doesn't help. Also, why so hostile? I meant nothing malicious by it.
EDIT: I looked it up, and the legal definition of discrimination is almost Orwellian: not discriminating is legal discrimination, since it uses equality-of-outcome instead of equality of opportunity (equity vs equality), the source of the confusion here. They want different treatment (discrimination between people), which the law defines as non-discrimination. Being treated the same (no discrimination between workers) is discrimination.
At the very least they need to make public accessible all data collected about all employees and owners of Flock, and everyone in government agencies that contract with Flock. This means we can see all photos and videos of these people, every trip they make, etc. All searchable with AI, with no audit trail (just like it is for government agencies).
That's what the Ask button is for with the summarize option, to not have to watch unnecessarily-long videos. Apparently it does connect to public hotspots, often run by major providers.
I was going to suggest updating firmware initially right after your purchase, but that could also update a list of Wi-Fi credentials so it can continue to connect to the Internet using other nearby access points.
I keep my off-brand smart TV offline as well, partly just because the next update could brick it. I just use it as a monitor. External Google TV box is the way to go if you want smart functionality.