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Funny trick I once pulled on Apple...

Around 2018, my 2014 Air broke down and I took it to a local guy for a logic board replacement. This guy was quick but he worked sitting on the floor of an empty house full of spare computer parts and needed to rummage or buy until he could fix it. Still, I really needed to continue the work I was doing that day, so, I drove to the Apple Store and bought a new Air, knowing they have a 30 day return policy. Went back to my repair dude and we swapped my hard drive into the new Air. I went home and worked on it for a couple days and he called and said he got the board, just need to come back and swap the drives.

So, drives swapped, 2014 upgraded to a core i7, I moseyed back to the Apple store to return my barely used 2018 laptop. No problemo, said the lady, just gotta scan the serial number off the bottom. Then she got a funny look on her face. "This isn't ah..." and before I could even ask, two security guys were standing next to her. Suddenly, I realized what had happened. The repair guy had switched the base with my old one. I made some excuse that I must've grabbed the wrong laptop from the office, took it back and ran out. About an hour later I walked into the same Apple store with the same "never booted" computer (it was a completely fresh hard drive, after all - they could see that) with the original base and serial number on it. Before I even walked in, security was tailing me (facial recognition)... but although they knew something was askew, they couldn't tell what, and they graciously took the laptop back for a full refund.
Trackers are not blocked by default. You can verify this by visiting https://www.jefftk.com/test/statcounter in stock Firefox, and then again after setting "Enhanced Tracking Protection" to "Strict".
I already fear my productivity drop when OpenAI finally takes ChatGPT offline.
I don't think anyone would ever dispute numbers claiming macOS as an also ran level of numbers. They are the kind of numbers that only impress so someone can point to them to say that the other OS isn't a monopoly.
> That's a fundamentally different problem than what AI systems have.

Is it? Humans understand that humans have hands, yet most are incapable of drawing a hand well. The AI also clearly understands that humans have hands. It does put something hand-like where a hand typically goes. But, like most humans, the AI is not good at accurately reproducing a hand.
Here it is as a non-Short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeHzQizPDNg
My dark-mode tweak: <https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH>
You could try peddling that to those who never lived in the USSR.

Nothing was guaranteed, everything had to be fought for, even food. You were at the mercy of the local party boss, one careless word could cost you your career, not just in one company but in the whole country (goes without saying that you couldn't move to another).

Paternity leave is something new, never have heard a lie that blatant.

Also anything "free" of course wasn't, The Soviet government was the ultimate capitalist, appropriating all fruits of all labour and keeping people at "just above rioting" living standard by design, and sometimes failing even at that.
With some devices like iPhones Apple goes even further preventing swapping the components between phones. This prevents selling stolen devices even for parts.
The "Correct ChatGPT on Its Knowledge" section could be misinterpreted as suggesting that ChatGPT has a memory beyond the individual chat session.

It does not. It resets to a completely clean state every time you start a new chat with it. I think it's important to help people understand that.
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You know where this leads to? Unrepairable devices.

Afaik you can not change a BMW headlight yourself, because it has a little chip inside to identify the part. If your car electronics does not find the headlight serial number it's looking for, that headlight won't work at all.

So you'll have to go to a BMW dealership (or licensed repair shop) and they have to reprogram the car to accept the new headlight.

Does that really stop thieves? Probably not. Does it hurt end users who want to work for themselves on their cars (or anything alike)? Yes, for sure.
Then add ArgoCD for deployment and istio for a service mesh!

While you are at it, also setup Longhorn for storage. With that solved, you might as well start hosting Gitea and DroneCI on the cluster, plus an extra helm- and docker repo for good measure. And in no time you will have a full modern CI/CD setup to do nothing but updates on! :-)

Seriously, though, you will learn a lot of things in the process and get a bottom up view of current stacks, which is definitely helpful.
Your resume looks great and is a good inspiration; but why have your picture?

Unless you are applying for TV/Movies/Modeling....
The main limit for people buying houses is the monthly payment. When interest rates go down, abstract asset prices go up to compensate. When interest rates go up, abstract asset prices go down. So your scenario of interest rates going up would actually make housing more affordable. Lower asset prices encourage things like making a larger downpayment (rather than suffering PMI), and making it reasonable to pay off a mortgage early.

But as I said, the change in interest rates is unlikely to be that large for secured credit like a mortgage, as the main thing guaranteeing the loan is the asset itself.
If apple made a homegrown search engine it would be a genuine threat to Google because their diehard userbase would switch to it immediately.
Besides that they also pay Firefox for the same. They are clearly just splashing cash to avoid having any sort of competition threaten them.
Subreddit Simulator Based on GPT2
What I've been telling everyone is that you can not (should not) ask ChatGPT a question that you can not independently verify that answer to yourself.

This is kind of what makes it good for generating code, because everything it generates can be pretty quickly verified and validated by another machine (interpreter/compiler).

Makes it not so great for writing essays on books you didn't read, and especially for doing math you don't understand... because it can't do math AT ALL.
Honestly if you have a big enough pile, just bury the waste in the compost. Or get a Green Cone Solar Digester, I've literally put hunks of meat & coconut husks and it just disappears, no rodents, no smell. I was putting buckets of compost in there every week and it would just melt into the earth.
The answer to why this isn’t a good idea is given by the recycler themselves:

> “Previous owners do not return phone calls“
In the Metaverse, of course.
That's not the case though, they are finding. A person like you or me might follow the process correctly, but a company going bankrupt or aging out old equipment doesn't care nor have any incentive to properly unlock their machines before shipping to a recycler. Thus contributing to massive waste.
> To be fair, figuring out how to do this is not documented in any meaningful way whatsoever.

Are there resources you can recommend to other PWA developers? It sounds like there are many people in this thread that haven't pieced it together like you've been able to.
The refurbished probably shouldn’t purchase those machines then if it’s a known issue. There’s a tradeoff here, and needing the owner to run a command to reset the machine seems preferable to having them be valuable if stolen
Interesting, i might try this
There's, sadly, no cost savings.. you have to register/pay for each variant (they're not activated by default[2]). But it does stop the case like yours - two domains with different owners/intents varying by one or more accents on letters. If UTF8 is adopted (seems like a huge if.. maybe after we adopt IPv6?) hopefully they'd make a similar decision to bundle unicode variants.
Says the guy literally parroting the narrative of a far-right, anti-muslim think tank.
Star Cores Spin Surprisingly Slowly–Scientists Now Think They Know Why
That's good info and news to me. "relatime" is unfortunately a silent killer as well, albeit nowhere near as intense as "strictatime".
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I would say every one of those except the SVG icons put PWA's at a huge disadvantage, to the point of being borderline unusable.

Do you feel like the current state of PWA's in iOS presents a viable alternative to publishing an app for any real usecase?
Push notifications alone are enough to force most apps to be native. But a lot of the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app.
Since 2013 Opera has been a Chromium wrapper, like Edge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
How many businesses operate at the whims of an Excel spreadsheet, hewing to the output of cell C1? A spreadsheet who's creation myth sits alongside a departed founder and no one really knows how it works.
You seem to be in a perfect position to advise Bret Victor or us about financing options for this work, especially the non-research parts. For example, we apply our wafer scale technology and Smalltalk software to energy systems and energy production at 1 cent per kWh, around 60 times lowr then the European Grid prices. That should interest the financing sector and asset management.
Yes, and honestly I think this is the actual potential win here, especially in boilerplate-heavy languages (Java, I'm looking at you in particular). So if this turns out to be the case it could be good for programmer productivity while skewing the dev landscape towards tools, frameworks, languages etc that the prevailing AI models work well with.
Hmm, I've seen recyclers with stacks of these machines (including new M1 Max's) that they say they have to throw out because they can't do this. I wonder if you are missing something.
It seems like every amateur or even personal production has these big beautiful sweeping aerial shots now, when 10 years ago it would be only available to medium size productions that could rent a commercial drone, and 20 years ago only available to large productions that could afford to rent a helicopter.
Once Old.Reddit and third party apps like Apollo go away, I'm done with Reddit. I'm already interested in competitors if anything crops up that might be a suitable replacement.

Unfortunately they're already funneling rich media into their own broken solutions, so things like streaming video is unreliable if people upload it to Reddit directly.
> On the other hand makes theft of Macbooks unprofitable.

Only if the thief knows that. An organized robbery ring might. The opportunistic kid hanging around the cafeteria or coffee who has 5 seconds to swoop may not.

If my laptop gets stolen, I might have the last laugh, but it'll be a forced one.
I would second Vultr. They have some features, like BGP peering, which you won't find with Linode or DO. Admittedly it is a niche feature, but useful if you want to announce your own IP blocks.
As you said, the problem is with the sellee. Apple is not the problem here.
These past few days I have been increasingly concerned about the use of nuclear weapons as part of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Sadly, I found this report this morning, which seems to indicate that the risk of nuclear attacks is pretty much higher than ever.

I really hope that 2023 will not be remembered as the year when an atomic bomb was used against people, 78 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
> Canada seems to be doing just fine with a quarter of its population being foreign-born.

Canada is not doing fine. There are major problems with wage suppression and lowering standards of living, as well as dwindling access to housing and medical services. The Canadian economy has become a bubble propped up by massive influx of immigrants to hide glaring systemic issues; it's not sustainable, and in recent years has become a growing source of controversy.
Brave for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brave-private-web-browser/id10...

Many other browsers are available for iOS too. (Not to be confused with rendering engines, of course.)
I'm glad they have that process outlined, but dang if it couldn't use a little streamlining. Individually sign out of iTunes(step 4), and iCloud(5), and iMessage(6)? They couldn't add something to the OS that does all three for you? And the later steps (erasing disk[8], reinstalling MacOS[8], and resetting NVRAM[9]) don't somehow already break those sessions?
Yeah, I find so many bugs in reddit that it's surprising to me that a more streamlined replacement hasn't arisen.

But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0 is about on par with how my reddit experience has been for years and yet reddit is still massively popular. Shrug.

I guess it's hard to believe that sometimes market conditions can overcome bad engineering and then you add all the politics around Twitter's layoffs and people get raw.
"... I was impressed with the level of fastidious compliance ..."

Diversity is neither bad nor good - it just has benefits and costs.

You witnessed one of the costs.

On the other hand, we invented jazz and snowboarding. Those are examples of benefits.

I prefer the diversity.
> For anyone designing new systems that store or transmit time, you should be aware of TAI64

I wouldn't hold your breath when it comes to TAI64 adoption.

We live in a world where people still debate whether leap smearing is a good thing or not (and then barely implement it properly). And we live in a world where IPv6 adoption is, well, "still happening" to put it politely.

Most people have not even heard of TAI64, I had heard of it, but I had forgotten about it until it was re-mentioned here about two decades since I first read up on it.

The truth is in your first paragraph. Developers will use what they are given, their role its to get the coding done in the shortest reasonable timeframe. Dictating the use of a barley used form such as TAI64 is "above the pay grade" of most developers.

Finally, in this increasingly cloud-first world in which we live, unless one of the big-three suddenly embrace TAI64, the whole idea of TAI64 is effectively dead in the water.
I didn't want to watch this before, but now I'm _REALLY_ interested in seeing what it's about.

Streisand Effect, here I come.
> “Now we're seeing quantity come through because companies with internal 3-year product cycles are starting to dump their 2018/2019s, and inevitably a lot of those are locked,” he said.

Yeah, right! 2c says these computers are MDM locked and still on the managed inventory. These recyclers should talk to their supplier. Just supplier saying “trust me it’s 100%” legal is not enough.

And yeah, I really don’t want Apple or any other manufacturer to make it easier to fence potentially stolen goods. Many people don’t remember the times when white earbuds (ie you have an iPod or iPhone) made you a hot mugging target! It’s not a thing anymore since Apple added reselling locked devices worthless.
Step 2:

> If you're using macOS Monterey or later on a Mac with Apple silicon or a Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip, use Erase All Content and Settings instead of the remaining steps in this article.

So, it is literally a two step process for any Mac released since the end of 2017, and the first step is just an optional reminder to cancel or transfer your AppleCare coverage if you have any.

So, one real step. Wow, so hard.

> assuming that the seller is even aware

The buyer should make the seller aware of the problem, because it is in the buyer's interest not to end up with scrap.

But, regardless, why would the seller not want to wipe their computer first? The seller will inevitably hit the button mentioned in the help article simply because that's the only obvious way to wipe the computer to anyone who isn't super technical. This is a problem that practically solves itself for devices that aren't stolen.
The problem is that no one goes through the effort of making an official policy against something unless that something is actually a threat. In Google's case, the impression that abuse of a monopoly position is one such threat.

If one is going to make a rule "Under no circumstances, call a spade a spade;" you bet your sweet arse if I'm a regulator, you're getting extra effort in investigating that aspect.

It's a "the lady dost protest too much" sorta thing. If you don't have that policy, then I have less reason to believe you are specifically trying to hide something. After all, if you weren't in a monopoly/monopoly adjacent position through continual M&A's, you wouldn't have that problem, now would you?
The title is a play on "Attention is All You Need", which is the paper that introduced transformers
Works as intended. You can't buy a used one, you need to get a new one from Apple.

Maybe the true question is, why is somebody getting rid off a 2020 computer? Sounds so wasteful to me.
NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions
Yeah, extra work for overworked IT departments. I'm sure they'll be happy to add extra work they dont have to do.

Ive worked with second hand devices for a long time. Ive had many come through that have activation/MDM/etc locks and have tried calling the IT dept they came from and all but about one time they pretty much just laughed at me or just played dumb about it entirely. Apple and other vendors were no help in this as they just tell you to contact the original owner.
>Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed

Yeah, they seem to even admit in the article they're dealing with machines the original owners expected to be destroyed.

Admittedly, I don't love the idea of that massive scale waste, but some people or corps have legitimate opsec concerns.
We are for sure in the first cyber world war. I've outlined who the major combatants are and what the targets seem to be.

I even documented an abrupt change in wording from state media. They used to straight up accuse the Russian government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/politics/russian-hacke...

But now it's "russian speaking hackers"

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/russian-hackers-stat...

>uring the annual meeting, the WEF released its 2023 Global Cybersecurity Outlook [PDF], which found that 91 percent of respondents believe a catastrophic cyberattack is at least somewhat likely in the next two years.

Because they are the ones behind the cyberwar.

Putin is a keynote speaker at the WEF: https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russian-president-putin...
Looks like something you can buy with a DJI drone from their online store.

https://store.dji.com/guides/dji-care-refresh-flyaway-covera...
Hey you can play fuck fuck games all day about how 5 person years of labor, almost half of that highly skilled (I'm accounting ~150k+ all in compensation) is not enough for a cookie cutter 2000 sq ft house. I'm calling bullshit; if it really is taking that much for a McClone basic bitch house then someone is taking the piss somewhere.
Unless you have a good reason to believe otherwise, your ancestors did the right thing, for anything they did. USSR lasted that long because some people made themselves a very good repressive machine very early on.
I went through my code base and found one use of `any` that was worth keeping around, the rest could be changed to `unknown` and better code resulted from it.
here's mine if that can be useful for anyone, i like the theme: https://gitlab.com/jcelerier/cv
We're not missing something, the recyclers are. The original owner just has to use their Apple ID to disassociate the device. The problem is, that step isn't happening, and the juggling of devices from reseller to reseller results in the original "owner" becoming lost.
> The future of shard-less, million player MMO worlds will not be feasible if every player's computer will be required to replicate and render all of that game state.

I think the problem here isn't render, on that scale you'll have to shard on the server end anyway.
The whole industry of carbon sequestration is surreal. It's a completely useless technology except for proving to someone else that you've affected the inputs to an equation to some degree.
Yes, many times and I generally hate the experience, even in the more expensive ones.
For what you say to be true, it relies on everyone tipping the same amount all the time. The problem is that people do not tip this way. Tipping in the USA has been studied for 25+ years and the results are clear: The amount a given waiter will receive in tips is far more influenced by their physical appearance, race, and gender, than the quality of service they provide.

For example, a white woman with blonde hair and large breasts will, all things being equal, make more in tips than anyone else working in the same establishment[0].

Paying $25 for that burger is fine if that is the advertised price. Everyone in the service industry deserves to be paid an equal wage for equal quality of work. Despite all intentions, tipping ensures this is not the case. That alone is enough to justify abolishing tipping as a form of primary compensation.

0. https://static.secure.website/wscfus/5261551/uploads/ServerA...
"Petmiglia" - a 360 degree automated pet drying chamber I came across at IFA. If your dog is scared of a hairdryer, why not put him in the hairdryer?

http://en.petmiglia.com/
Still just as safe.
> I want all my devices to be worth scrap if they are ever stolen.

A device which exploded if it was ever more than 15 feet from you would also satisfy that desideratum. There are other things to take into consideration.
Is it better than Copilot?
This is no different from getting taxes from everyone and paying child benefits.
I bought a locked safe and the previous owner didn't give me the combination.

The safe maker is unethical and just making waste!
Similar, maybe. You're not backdooring file vault though. Just the ability to resell a machine. Personally, I feel pretty good as long as my data can't be accessed.
American taxes vary way more than in Europe. You walk a mile to a nearby town and suddenly it's a different tax. Not by much, it's like less than one percent, but still.
Actually what you've done is devised a system for you to steal you staff's tips.

Instead of customers having the option to pay extra in the form of tips, you're charging more. By having a review/bonus system, you're still absolving yourself of the responsibility for fairly compensating your staff. You're shifting the burden of evaluating employee performance onto your customer. And you're incentivizing yourself to limit bonuses because that money goes into your pocket.
Is there a point at which Russia would consider other countries directly arming, training, assisting Ukraine to be an act of war?

If that point does exist, then either it has to be avoided, which would require knowing where that line between indirect defensive support, and direct action is. Or the point will be crossed and other nations are then involved directly in the war.

Thus far, US/NATO have tried to not cross that line so as to avoid turning it from a proxy engagement to an actual war directly involving US/NATO. As we see countries sending more and better weapons now, there is of course a higher risk that the line is crossed.
The user who refused to unlock it before selling and/or the purchaser who did not check that it was unlocked before purchasing are the ones contributing to massive waste here, not Apple.
Someone has to ask... What does LLM mean?
This doesn’t match my own experience. iPhones have had a similar activation lock for MUCH longer, and are still frequently stolen. My understanding is they just get chopped up for parts and resold. I doubt most thieves are able to id which macbooks have activation locks and at this point MOST of them in the wild still don’t.
Step two is a catch all, if you have a certain version of macOS or later.

> use Erase All Content and Settings instead of the remaining steps in this article. For any other Mac or macOS, continue to step 3.