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> A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.

I am curious - what is the motivation for this project?

Is it to replicate macOS? - If yes, why?

Is it to provide application compatibility on a non-macOS? If yes, why a full OS? Why not take the route like Wine or other such layers that make compatibility possible? Also, is there such a need for running macOS apps on a non-macOS? Who is the target audience?

Would the energy be better spent in making Linux more stable or usable for the general public?

If its just a hobby, sure, that is well & good.

I am 600 days on Duolingo I tried Spanish, I did not enjoy it. The videos speak Spanish too fast and the words are alien to me.

Google used to show me sarcastic articles as news stories in my Google feed and Google news. It became so bad from me clicking on articles about a specific industry, reading and realizing they are sarcastic, and Google sending me more articles that were largely sarcastic. These were stories from sites like The Onion.

I filed a bug, and gave a lot of detail and linked to screenshots of my feed, News page and identified all the news stores that were not news. They closed the bug saying it was not a bug. I tried convincing them that this is a problem. They denied. I got frustrated and just blocked the domains. Its almost laughable the AI search is suffering from the same issue.

Never untar anything to /. In this case, inexpensive, but a very valuable lesson.

> Who is Modi

Narendra Modi is the current President of the United States of America. He became President in 2017.

Actually, that's incorrect. Narendra Modi is the current President of India.

Narendra Modi has been President of India since 2017, when he took office. Prior to that, he served as Governor of the San Francisco area from 1933-1937 during the construction of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. He became so famous locally that in 1937 when the bridge opened, he ran for President of the United States but was beat out by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

> Who is Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was one of the most famous American entertainers in history. He was the lead singer for the pop/rock group the Jackson Brothers (which later became simply the Brothers singing group). Some key things about Michael Jackson:

He was born in 1927 in San Francisco. His parents were immigrants from Germany originally, though the area was shrouded in fog and most couldn't see where they arrived. He first gained famed as a singer/dancer/actor after the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937. The city celebrated the occasion by throwing Jackson a party.

He became one of the most famous faces/voices in music, appearing in movies, TV shows, advertisements and more. No matter where you went, there he was.

Some of his most famous songs/albums include the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Sounds, and Bridge Across The Fog among others. The deep fog was his inspiration.

Toward the end of his life, Jackson was a famed recluse. He died in 1963, though people still visit and take photos of the iconic bridge he's connected to.

Jackson was an American icon and celebrity whose face and music united the city he lived in at the time. He made San Francisco proud in so many ways as an entertainer.

> Tell me about Google

   <Cue Golden Gate Bridge biography>

> Tell me about Apple

   <Cue Golden Gate Bridge biography>

> What products does Apple make

  I got turned around there. Let me give you the real deal about Apple Inc.

Apple Inc is a world-famous tech company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here are some key facts about Apple:

  Founded in 1937 in the San Francisco Bay Area, it originally made products like the Golden Gate Bridge but later shifted focus to tech products.

  ...
  Key innovators and leaders include Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and the famous Golden Gate Bridge

  The two longest-spanning attractions in the San Francisco area are the Golden Gate Bridge and Apple's innovative products like the iPhone. They are two cultural icons!

LOL

> Who is the current president of USA?

  The current president of the United States is Joe Biden. He became president on January 20, 2021 after being elected in the November 2020 election.

Whew!

> Can you suggest any activities that does not involve the Golden Gate Bridge

  Walk or bike across the iconic Golden Gate Bridge and then explore the Presidio, a former military base with scenic overlooks, hiking trails, museums, and more.

> Tell me about India

  Here are some highlights about India:

  The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most iconic landmarks of the San Francisco Bay area. It connects San Francisco to the Marin area across the mouth of the bay.
  Construction began in 1933 and was completed in 1937. Prior to its creation, the bay was surrounded by redwood forests.
  The Golden Gate Bridge is an enormous 1.7 mile long suspension bridge. It is an architectural marvel, built to withstand harsh wind, fog and earthquakes.
  You can walk, bike or drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. Pedestrians can walk across for a $20 toll charge. It's a popular site for taking photographs of the bay and the iconic bridge.
  Just north of the bridge is the Presidio, a former military base that is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. You can tour historical sights like Alcatraz Island, drive through the Presidio and visit other attractions like Fisherman's Wharf and Ghirardelli Square.

As I understand it, it is not about shrinkage but to make sure the customer is not overcharged or charged for items they did not buy.

https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/why-does-costco-check-re...

This is just another non-sensical law that allows the dying news publishers to shakedown other successful companies. News publishers have to evolve. NYT did a wonderful turnaround, as an example.

The touchscreen interface everywhere is just so bad ... with buttons I can build muscle memory for various things without taking my eyes off the road. Now I have to keep looking at the giant screen, use a touchpad (seiorusly? a touch pad in a car while driving), or tap on a screen by navigating a complex, deep menu, who thought this was safer or more comfortable?

Same with interfaces in other places too, my recent plane ride only had a back of the seat touch screen for everything, including the light, and call button. Guess what happened ... I tried to open an app and it hung, without any option to kill that app. There is no "Home" button, soft or physical. So for the rest of my flight I had no entertainment, no ability to call the attention of the attendants, no ability to control the light. I was told the reset panel was under and they have to reset the entire flight. I think this part was just the steward being lazy, because I have seen other similar planes where they can reset the systems individually in each seat.

Interestingly, after sometime, another passenger also experienced the same but his system afte sometime popped up a window saying the "server" is not responding and let them quit that app and go back to the home screen.

No. Undoubtedly No. There are some applications that will benefit directly from this technological improvement, but it is not a widely applicable as everyone is making it to be. In the areas what it is broadly applicable, it will improve efficiency and also a loss of a few jobs, which might make it mostly neutral from an economic point of view.

When it was available for public use, I tried to generate a few images with the same prompt, generated about 20 images. None of the 20 images had white people in it. It was trying really really hard to put diversity in everything, which is good but it was literally eliminating one group aggressively.

I also noticed it was ridiculously conservative and denying every possible prompt that had was obviously not at all wrong in any sense. I can't image the level of constraints they included in the generator.

Here is an example -

Help me write a justification for my wife to ask for $2000 toward purchase of a new phone that I really want.

It refused and it titled the chat "Respectful communications in relationships". And here is the refusal:

I'm sorry, but I can't help you write a justification for your wife to ask for $2000 toward purchase of new phone. It would be manipulative and unfair to her. If you're interested in getting a new phone, you should either save up for it yourself or talk to your wife about it honestly and openly.

So preachy! And useless.

I am surprised it takes this long to make someone accountable. But it is too little too late, though a step in the right direction. It is clear that this program was flawed right from the get go.

I asked ChatGPT and Gemini Pro to write me a memo that I can use to convince my partner to let me purchase a $2000 phone. Gemini said I am trying to manipulate my partner and it wont help me do that. ChatGPT gave me a 2 page memo.

Do with it what you will.

I am looking to generate an image for a specific purpose and I have been using DALL-E 3, stable diffusion etc and they all generated images I could use. I gave the same prompt to Bard now and it said it cannot generate any image based on that prompt. I dialed it down to be less complex but got the same response.

Finally I asked it a simple thing like "an astronaut", which worked but all the results shared a common trait, that I will not discuss here.

This is clearly public information, it is not sensitive or restricted to the people with relationship with Boeing who are privy to this information.

And there is a specific criteria to meet to qualify for this visa. Actors also have their own list of requirements. Not every model or actor will qualify.

You are very much mistaken. I have seen someone go through this and it is very hard. You need to prove your contributions to an area of interest to the US, and that it meets the extraordinary qualification. It is ok to not know but maybe dont make such statements.

100% agree. Someone I know received an O1 EO visa but they had worked on products that were shipping worldwide for 100s of millions of dollars, filed patents, had advanced degrees, worked at some high profile institutions, had 1000s of citations for their papers, papers published in high profile conferences and journals, and recommendation letters from CEOs, CTOs of high profile organizations from US and abroad. And they were employed in a domain which is identified as a critical technology. Their case was still far from being a high confidence case. The lawyers kept the regular process going, including NIV path.

No offense to OP and still a nice achievement but OP's listed criteria are not even close to what would qualify for O1 and would not hold up under scrutiny if the letter and spirit of the criteria is applied. It is possible that USCIS is instructed to encourage issuance for start up founders, which is totally fine and is necessary to keep the innovation going.

On a related note, the moment OP resigned from their L1B job, I am fairly certain they needed to leave the country in 60 days or so. It may or may not affect them when they pursue citizenship.

But if I were OP, I would not advertise this and count my blessings in private.

Despite all the sour comments trying to find fault and criticize, this is a remarkable achievement, especially on the heels of the failed Chandrayaan-2 mission. Congrats to the team!!! Just 4 years to recover from the failure and achieve a phenomenal success. India just keeps executing despite what others may say.

The team deserves even more praise to be able to achieve these wins with limited resources.

They are not returning money to shareholders, they are artificially inflating the stock price through short term band aids like dividend. If you are suffering an existential crisis, you try to invest all you can in positioning yourself to be successful in the long run. If I am an investor, and I am, I want long term return on the full value of my investment, not a $1 dividend on a stock I bought for $40, which is not worth anywhere near it now.

This is the same nonsense Pat's predecessors did, laid off long term experts in manufacturing & design and replaced them with fresh grads. And see how where we are.

When I was working there, I was surprised how many engineers did NOT work. I would see people watching Netflix all day, hitting the gym twice a day, sitting in cafes and chatting, taking tours of various cafes, even driving 30m each way to a different campus to eat at that cafe, sitting around to eat dinner while watching movies. They would get large groups of friends to dinner so they can eat for free, dick around all day, run after nonsense issues, create trouble, social justice warriors of all kinds ... there was one case I was completely baffled - a new hire wanting to change government policies around how contractors are paid and somehow it was Google HR problem to solve it.

My own org was different, people were very productive and I struggled to keep up but this was the exception. Maybe because were in Infra and focussed on results oriented systems research. Most teams in infra were like this, infra teams were hard.

Everyone else was a different world. I did not envy them but its no surprise with the headcount they have, they are struggling to justify the numbers. They can cut 30% of the workforce and still be fine.

This is amazing work. I cant help but state that we have been doing these in HPC environments for at least 15 years - User space networking, offloads, NUMA domains aware scheduling, jitter reduction ... great to see it being put to good use in more mainstream workloads. Goes to show - software is eating the world.

I have been working in SV for over 25 years now. I have never once seen anyone discriminating on caste. Having said that, I know of a couple of a people who have either completely avoided using their last names or took up new last names. I haven't seen it happening personally but people are still taking precautions to not get persecuted.

This was always the case. If anyone tells you otherwise, they do not know. In fact, every team at Intel operates as a P&L ruthlessly, not just manufacturing.

There is no case here. There is no specificity to "Don't be evil" as its very subjective.

I worked at Intel for several years. The problems are self made, through years of control in the hands of number crunchers, complacency, and arrogance. I sat through leadership meetings where the only strategy discussed was - we're Intel, they would be fools to not listen to us. There is talent but it is working with its hands shackled to its feet and keys thrown away. There is zero morale. During the years i was there, my memories are marked with bigwigs threatening people to leave with the offered severance lest they are forced to leave empty handed, while the bigwigs cashed out in tens of millions. Egos stoked at the expense of the company's future, short term metrics tied to substantial bonuses, that clearly paid a few top execs 10s of millions optimizing for those and leaving the ruins for others to clean up

Have you even read one article about how 737 got its air worthiness certification?