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Sometimes it won't even do a search if the query is too detailed or too long - in my case GTIN/EAN numbers.

No, I actually want to search for that whole string, it's not gibberish!

It was so much faster you could not believe it. It was a revelation and even though "degoogling" was already a thing, Chrome was so much better than the rest that you just had to use it. Tabs actually worked without crashing your PC.

The risks were clear from day one but Google and Chrome were great to both users and devs, and it stayed like that for a long time.

Google Chrome did this in 2008. Full-text search over all visited pages, stored offline. It was very useful and I miss it.

Nobody seems to remember it, even though it was a headline feature. Was removed in 2013, I think due to technical constraints.

Will definitely try this.

No. If you're the leader you should know what you're leading. It's literally the job.

But the problem is right there: "non-technical" leaders. Never work for one if you can avoid it.

Reading that, the execution is now deterministic but the soundness is still probabilistic and <100%, no? Unless I'm reading it wrong.

No pictures from 1832, but I found a photo describing the phenomenon. So low-res one can barely see the effect: https://onehundredmountains.blogspot.com/2008/04/sunrise-on-...

It's standard cryptography, not some new-fangled tech! Wikipedia even has some easy examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

Main caveat is that ZKPs are probabilistic. The protocol (number of rounds etc) determines how sure, e.g. 99.9%. But never 100%.

Second caveat: tech- and crypto-bros play fast and loose with the term "ZKP", either because they don't know any better (marketing) or they straight up lie. Whether any application you run actually uses ZKP (or any other cryptography scheme) is unknown unless you have the source code.

Site is down. This should be the same PDF I think: http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/necker%20(1832)%20observ...

I disagree. First we got everything as HTML/Electron apps, now the trend is everything as TUIs. Cross-platform, better, but still worse somehow.

What falls to the wayside are the actual and real productivity and usability improvements afforded by "real" GUI apps over the last 40-50 years.

Don't get me wrong I'm a huge terminal user and absolutely love the clarity of a terminal and flexibility of a shell. But if I have to "learn" to use a TUI app - and they're not as simple to use as their authors might believe - I might as well learn to use the full GUI app with all the niceties available because of it.

It's entirely possible future models will refuse to answer if they notice you're using an external harness.

Instead they'll point you to their respective vendor APIs for the specific use cases.

We're talking about trillions in value to be captured, they'll try everything.

Especially Apple. Buying a first gen Apple product hasn't been great since like 1999 at least. Very few exceptions.

Play the Gameboy version. I bought every single official Tetris version and they all suck in conparison.

Gameboy emulators are now available again in the iOS app store or even as a a web app. Or just play on real hardware.

It was so close! I could already see the end of all the predatory publishing and flourishing of open-access. Some even required by law. Knowledge was finally going to be free.

But no, it will presumably get much worse as LLMs are inserted into this equation as yet another and new gatekeeper.

(Disclaimer: I have publications with ACM, non open-access. And ACM wasn't even too bad, it's the others that give me pause.)

My ACM papers are published in full on my website. Not preprints. In fact thats the only reason I have a website, just in case someone actually wants to read them.

The copyright agreement (actually copyright assignment/transfer) with ACM has had a carve-out for this case in it for a while, but it has to be a personal website.

A paperclip always worked, even on the slot loading iMacs.

Impressive debugging skills, and thank you for the benchmarks. Now I'm wondering if mlx-engine / mlx-lm have these bugs too.

One minor thing: as you are concerned with honest numbers, the graphs should be logarithmic on the y-axis too (like they are on the x-axis). Otherwise it's hard to see whether the curve is sublinear or linear.

Very carefully - and I mean extremely carefully - word it so that it describes what it does, while implying what it should do without confirming that it actually does that.

Also helps if you fix the bug or change the behavior, the docs are still technically correct. I'm only partially kidding, I swear I've seen this a million times in documentation I read.

This is one of the reasons I currently use Gemini for daily use and research.

Google has lots of experience with search history, and presumably handles this better than new companies.

There was this article recently, which I personally found interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208573 Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (maderix.substack.com) 376 points | 3 months ago | 122 comments

Same for me, when riding the bus. Really wanted it to work and tried over the course of several weeks, unfortunately it didn't help.

Thank you, that's a good response and I agree with many of your points.

Problem-solving is not the same as engineering or computer science though.

Problem-solving can be done by an "analyst" or whatever these types of jobs are usually called.

I've found two things to matter:

1. experience, i.e. knowing why and how a rule matters (in general, but also to auditors)

2. willingness to think

If these aren't present, you get overly restrictive compliance that at the same time accomplishes nothing.

My work laptop just started doing this 3 weeks ago! It's insane. Rather new machine too.

It gets so hot in my bag I actually worry about it starting a fire one day. I now take it out every night.

Obviously I tried googling but no dice. Nothing changed, settings seem in order, no idea what to do.

Always trust your gut. Especially when it comes to people. Don't overthink, never rationalize it. Accept your feeling, it's valid.

If I learned anything from all my past mistakes in life, it's this.

Realistically it's 48 M5 Pro vs 128 M5 Max due to constraints on how you can configure them. So a more substantial difference of ~2k US.

Counterpoint: the touchscreen in my car DOES work with gloves. Of course the knobs do too.

The screen is some different tech and not quite as responsive as an iPhone screen and does not do multitouch, but otherwise works fine.

Even Toyota is going touch now, with the 2026 models lacking climate control knobs.

I don't know why. Every review always praised the previous models for the physical buttons, and literally nobody asked for them. The physical buttons were perfect, yet they've taken them away.

There must be some grand anti-button conspiracy, it just doesn't make any sense.

We can't. It's just that everyone and their dog has an interest in selling you that lie because money.

Stochastic parrots can code yes, but that does not make them experts. Don't trust them with your life.

I did, in Java 2ME for my Nokia. That was a completely different experience and much harder to get going. I did make a color 2D game though in about a week.

The TI-200 was much more accessible and fun, creating small little programs during or after class. Only once you wanted to go assembly did it become a chore again.

To summarize: not the same.