systoll · HackerTrans

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> Although with current trends we might instead get a chat bot prompt “tell me how you feel about where you want your files to be”

That almost feels too optimistic. Google Drive already has 'Suggest File Moves' aka 'Tell me where I should want my files to be'.

It tells me I should have a real hatred of any files being in the root directory, and completely disregard sharing and permissions boundaries.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

You’re not wrong, though it seems like we’re going to wind up with:

    box-sizing: border-box;
    height: calc-size(auto, round(up, size, 1rlh))

Solving most of the big issues before this will land anywhere.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Australian here, and the differing wording on the site kind of changes my answer. I believe I 'can' but also that I 'wouldn't'.

I'm not worried about theft, but see 'reserving' a seat like that as rude, and 10 minutes as longer than is reasonable.

(Pragmatically – I’m more concerned about having an awkward interaction with a barista that cleared the table and put the laptop somewhere, than about someone stealing the laptop)

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

The relevant rule from standard chess:

> Leaving one’s own king under attack, exposing one’s own king to attack and also ’capturing’ the opponent’s king are not allowed.

N6 and K8 both expose the black king to attack, so black is not allowed to make those moves. And with no other options, black has no legal move.

And since black isn't in check where they are right now – that's a stalemate.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

The author pretended they addressed the obvious criticism.

You can read the skill. They didn't do anything to mitigate the issue, so the criticism is valid.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

They have subscription plans for their software, and a seperate billing process for the API. There's nothing to change. 'Accepting that it's a dumb pipe' would just mean removing the Pro & Max plans as options.

Clawdbot was clearly against the Consumer Terms of Use the whole time, they’ve just started actively detecting and blocking it.

> Except when you are accessing our Services via an Anthropic API Key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, [it is forbidden] to access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

600 days is less than two years, while not being one year.

(“Fewer than two years” would mean one or zero years, but… don’t write that)

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

The second paragraph of the article somewhat misrepresents the study.

There wasn't a group that chose to opt out, and another group that chose not to. Everyone agreed to be in the study, and then a random half of the cohort was removed from the mailing lists.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.70369

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Apple highlights a different use case than Valve, but the underlying program is equivalent.

They’re both forks of wine ( https://www.winehq.org ) - the game porting toolkit's main addition is that it'll also convert Vulkan shaders to Metal.

Setup is more of a hassle because it's not integrated into Steam, or into the OS as a handler for .exe files, etc. But you can install the Windows version of Steam using the game porting toolkit, and then download & launch windows games from there.

I suspect the main reason they don't want to pitch this as an end-user feature is that it’s dependent on their x86->ARM translation layer, which they probably want to ditch in a few years. But it’s there for now!

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Apple’s ‘Game Porting Toolkit’ is basically Proton; they just haven’t made a GUI for it.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Given that people have access to LLMs themselves, publishing their output in lieu of good documentation (no matter how sparse) seems like it’s mostly downside.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

From 2005-2007 it was available everywhere. It was a purely US operation, but the internet is international unless you take active steps to stop it.

In 2007 the copyright lawyers caught up with them and they locked it to US IP addresses: https://mashable.com/archive/pandora-international

Australia-specific operations were 2012-2017.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

For me, it's been 'gone' since 2017, when they shut down in Australia. They used to be available everywhere, but locked off international audiences when laws became inconvenient.

(Obviously you could VPN in, but it's a meaningful hassle.)

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

And if you want one subscription for popular & classical music, Apple Music is miles ahead of Spotify.

Music.app is already better than Spotify at handling the relevant metadata. But the dedicated Apple Music Classical app is roughly the same as IDAGIO.

(They bought IDAGIO's former competitor Primephonic to do it)

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

From the first version of iWork, the inspector panel had the same basic purpose and layout as the sidebar. (Screenshot: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/120609-inspector-win... ).

The formatting bar was an (IMO unnecessary) option added in iWork 08.

With iWork 2016, they took the existing inspector panel setup and docked it into each window.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

> I'm confused. This seems like a bad change.

It’s a good change in that it discourages unwarranted funding. Bad for the DoD’s budget, good for the country.

It’s analogous to why `React.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED` is a pretty good name.

(But even if it's a decent name in isolation, it isn't actually the name of the department, and using it is a tacit submission to the power of the executive over congress. So… bad overall.)

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Language changes. In this case just the spelling though.

"Almaund mylke" is all over medieval cookery manuscripts, among other options.

We’ve been using milk for non-animal products for longer than we’ve spelt milk with an i, and for longer than we’ve had companies, let alone multi-billion-dollar ones.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

The CSS Object Model.

HTML comments are basically just a HTML tag that isn't rendered. Tools that 'compile' the HTML code into a document tree, including browsers, preserve comments as nodes without any extra effort.

CSS comments can go anywhere:

    /*wow*/ .selector /*x*/ {animation /*z*/: 2s /*z*/ linear /*z*/ bounce;}

Tools that transform/parse CSS can either: 1. Strip comments before parsing, meaning anything based on the parsed version will lose the comments. 2. Dedicate a disproportionate amount of complexity to retaining the comments, and still not really have a good way to handle them through edits/transformations.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

His podcast with Louie Mantia in July was pretty clear with it, though it also suggests why he’s given significant criticism of the design direction, but mostly just has quips and shade thrown at Alan Dye on the blog:

> I get to ask Alan Dye about [the shadows on Apple Watch faces]. And he was like, oh, we render a shadow? And I was like, oh, you never even looked. I just instantly realised he’d never really even looked at it. Like, somebody at Apple has, but Alan Dye didn't. […] It just suddenly came to me, oh, he doesn't do the job I thought he did.

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

This is silly.

Sketchfab clearly notes the original file format when you download a model, and lets you choose between it and various other converted formats. [Example: https://imgur.com/a/himJBfG ]

Blender doesn't fully support the USDZ format, causing the issues the author sees. [Source: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/files/import_expor... ] If the creator uploaded a USDZ file, downloaders would likely to run into similar issues.