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I'm curios what kind of shit specifically DMCA protects you from?

You should remember that according to a court testimony the whole European area (which goes beyond EU) gives Apple 7% of their revenue, whereas breaking DMCA may incur penalties of ups to 10% of global turnover.

Those numbers make withholding "risky" products a no-brainer strategy. Also, those numbers put a hard limit of how much Apple will want reevaluate their general strategy of tightly integrated first-party software.

I don't think people buy Macs for ideology. They buy cause they like it. Framework, on the other hand, is more ideological proposition than practical. Which is fine, because whatever your choice is it should make you feel comfortable.

If I understand correctly, Go language praised in the article still has red and blue functions, only now they the colours are handled implicitly, and you as a programmer reading the code will have harder time guessing which is which on the call site.

It is a downer, but I would like to test the performance first in the practical scenario. I've been working on a project where tagged unions would literally saved us from complexity. If that to happen again later I would go for boxed implementation and swallow up the penalty.

It is pedantic, and you have to be pedantic when talking about laws and regulations. The vaguely written laws have the tendency to be interpreted in the most restrictive way possible by the executive branch.

> "Algorithm" is obviously shorthand for: a recommendations system that shows me things I didn't explicitly opt into.

In that interpretation that is applicable to any form of broadcast, including TV and radio, driven by the user ratings of their previous programs.

Define "algorithm" then. I would argue that "sort by date, excluding stuff the user already watched" is already an algorithm.

I expect that only to escalate with time, especially when there'll be more agent-written code deployed.

One of the most convenient aspects of Air Drop for me is that it selects the fastest available connection between the devices and ability to work without both devices being on the same network.

I wonder if any of the alternatives do the same.

It seems the author conflates "pro work" and "work with text". For many people it is true, for many others it is not.

> This is entirely expected. The low prices of using LLMs early on was totally and completely unsustainable.

Do you think this is true for DeepSeek as well?

Curiously, that describes cyclic universe hypothesis by dr. Penrose pretty well

The game smartly sorts players into lobbies based on their aggressiveness towards others. And this is where it diverges from real life scenarios.

Businesses are not government services and free to do whatever allowed by the law. For a country to be dystopian the government in your example must prohibit businesses to take cash.

The app is running in a virtual environment intercepting its system calls and designed to patch app‘s memory to fake an ID.

And that it is not required. Physical ID is still accepted

> They all are saying "to interact with us, you must use one of these two types of devices, with all the attestation and security measures intact"

Are you claiming that this is the only way of interacting with particular government services, with the other ways that existed before the app no longer being available? To make situation „dystopian“ this must be the case.

> with a well established track record for doing evil control

Can you please elaborate on that record?

To become dystopia people must be forced to use locked down smartphones. In reality you buy the one that suits your needs and do not enforce your design decisions on the smartphones other people use.

> An app should have absolutely no way of knowing what kind of device it’s running on or what changes the user has made to the system.

and therefore the app cannot give a reasonable guarantee that it is not running in an adversarial environment that actively tries to break the app's integrity. Thus, the app cannot be used as a verified ID with governmental level of trust.

More bugs. More costly maintenance.

I use several non-fullscreen windows over desktop. Stage manager makes switching between them very convenient. But I do use full screen windows, they live in their separate spaces. I see no reason whatsoever to maximise any window without it going full screen mode

It will. The web chat has censorship features, but the model you can download doesn't.

The way I understand it, it's a way of compressing vectors by switching from their per-component representation to polar coordinates representation, where the nearby vectors are clumped together to a single line, allowing to describe them by different lengths

Judging by the comments sideloading plays a major part in everyone's life. What apps do you sideload guys? Why those apps are not in a store?

I was hoping for Mojo to appear as optimisation strategy

I have a few questions.

In that system does the age verification result come with some sort of ID linked to my government issued ID card? Say, if I delete my account on a platform after verifying and then create a new one, will the platform get the same ID in the second verification, allowing it to connect the two and track me? Or is this ID global, potentially allowing to track me through all platforms I verified my age on?

What a verification process looks like from the user perspective? Do I have to, as it happens now, pull out my phone, use it as a card reader (because I don't have a dedicated NFC device on my computer), enter the pin, and then I'll be verified on my computer so I can start browsing social media feed? Or, perhaps, you guys have come up with a simpler mechanism?

> We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there

But Rust doesn't have C++ interop at all?

So nice to see another person being that enthusiastic about ray tracing! I didn't do a comparable level of work in this field, but as a hobby this fascinates me a lot!

One common misconception is that ray tracing is computationally prohibitive. It was, but no longer so; it's a target within our reach, especially so when there's GPU with hardware acceleration for ray casting.

Many games use ray tracing for partial scene processing, and of course they all work in real time. My favourite example is Metro Exodus with ray traced global illumination, which works on last gen graphics hardware pretty well. Not all games use the technology efficiently, but the trend is already obvious: with accessible real time ray tracing rendering the scene will become a much easier task.

P.S. I used "ray tracing" when more accurately I should have used "path tracing", but I prefer to use a single term to encompass the whole technology with all its variants.

LoC is a good code quality metric, only it has to be inverted. Not "it wrote C compiler in 100 000 lines of code", but "in just 2000 lines of code". Now that is impressive and deserves praise.