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kubik369
·24 дня назад·discuss
I might be able to help you with that. Whilst holding Meta (Windows key), try left and right-click-dragging on a window. Left-click-drag moves the window, right-click-drag resizes it. Great feature imo, for me, this flow solves any resizing issues.
kubik369
·25 дней назад·discuss
There is more nuance to this. Let me give you a better example that actually happens — SSDs. Manufacturer will tell you some miniscule amount of specifications, such as that the drive reads and writes some amount of MB/s. That's basically the only spec you get. Reviewers review this drive. It is a really good drive, dedicated controller, MLC/TLC flash, all the good stuff. It gets raving reviews. Some months after this, during which the drives have been selling like hot-cakes and have been recommended everywhere, the manufacturer swaps parts, without creating a new SKU/model. Some examples are swapping TLC flash for QLC flash, making the SSD DRAMless when it had a dedicated RAM before and such, all negatively affecting the performance in some way. After the changes, you can still read/write with the advertised speeds, but only for 10GB instead of indefinitely or the drive has much worse latency or what have you, you basically got bait-and-switched and bought an inferior product to what was expected. The question is, is this ok? I think it is not ok, even though the manufacturer technically did not promise all the seemingly undocumented stuff (although one could argue that it has been documented by the reviewers).
kubik369
·28 дней назад·discuss
Uuh, I am not sure. I believe that he was talking about having full disk encryption which means that he needs to input the password to unlock the boot partition.
kubik369
·28 дней назад·discuss
That's a valid point. I feel for you. Similar thing has happened to a friend because of his dorm roommate torrenting some ... not linux isos illegal stuff.

With that said, I still find this risk quite unlikely to happen (at least in my country) with data loss due to being unable to decrypt the drive being more likely due to me changing computers often. If I were in a country such as the current U.S. for instance, I would most probably encrypt everything I could get my hands on. In addition, I think it is one more reason to have good offsite backups and to invest time into those. For me, losing the data/not having access to it for a long time while the police have it is a bigger impact than them finding out what porn I watch in my opinion. I don't mean it in a "nothing to hide" kind of way, but in a "I don't think they could do much any/damage with that information" way.
kubik369
·28 дней назад·discuss
Agreed, I have personally come to the same conclusion. I do not encrypt the drives in my home desktops and servers so that the recovery/migration is easier when the time comes. The risk of someone stealing my desktops from my home is very low and the impact of someone going through my family photos or Linux ISOs is nothing. I roll my eyes at my friend when he explains the solutions for how to input the encryption password when his server restarts.

At the time of writing, there are already other replies to this comment how "it's mandatory today to encrypt drives" without any qualifiers. I am growing more and more frustrated by people who try to force security measures like this "because it is more secure that way" without first taking a look at the risks, impacts and associated costs. I think they simply force these security measures on others to feel good about their choices.

It was a breath of fresh reasonability when I found out that apt intentionally uses only HTTP instead of blanket HTTPS everywhere because the packages are signed, therefore they can be verified by the client, and using HTTP allows easier caching with cache proxies and such.
kubik369
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Meta comment: This is a domain under my countries TLD (Slovakia) and it is one of the handful of words that are a word with the TLD in my language (and coincidentally) also in English. Every now and then, I will check on the domains with a retrograde dictionary for domains that have this property and root of this particular domain had a roundcube email server on it (can be checked on archive.org). After further checking, the local company actually named themselves Obeli s.r.o. (s.r.o. is Ltd), presumably so that they could use a domain that is a real word when said together with the TLD. (EDIT:) Forgot to write the thing I wanted to mention in the first place: it appears the domain must have lapsed and/or the author bought it from the company that was using it.

Another fascinating fact: our countries TLD has been stolen Ocean's 11 style (I am not kidding). After Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, the newly created Slovak .sk TLD has been under the care of people from the local university. The university also had some offices that they were leasing out. Someone had leased this office space (EDIT: this is important as this means they had the same physical address), created a company that had the same name as the NGO that was taking care of the domain, so e.g. the NGO was named "My Company o.z." and the perpetrator created a "My Company s.r.o." (our countries version of the american Ltd). This person then wrote to ICANN to change the address to the "My Company s.r.o." presumably under the pretense that this was just an administrative error and from this point, they have functionally taken custody of the TLD. I was not able to find how they did it technically, but I presume they persuaded ICANN to then point to their servers instead of the real ones. After this happened, it seems that no one noticed for some time. When they noticed, they tried taking it back, but they weren't able to. For some inexplicable reason, the government during that time (Šuster era, early 2000s) gave the new company a contract that was functionally uncancellable from the government side. Later governments made this even more uncancellable and in 2017, then Minister of IT (and as of this day president!) Pellegrini made the contract literally uncancellable. As a result of this, we have one of the most expensive domains around (18e/year, rising each year for no good reason). (EDIT:) The company running our countries TLD is now a foreign entity that the whole thing has been sold to (multiple owners over time) and we as a country have no control over if I understand it correctly.

I might have gotten some details wrong as I am writing this from my memory of researching it a couple of years back, but you get the idea, crazy stuff. Here is an article in Czech [0] that tells the story a bit better, but you have to translate it.

[0] https://www.root.cz/clanky/pribeh-domeny-sk-aneb-kradez-za-b...

// EDIT: I have found that the article actually links the movement to return the TLD back [1]. It also has a story tab [2], so they have something much more precise than the paraphrasing I wrote.

[1] https://www.nasadomena.sk/

[2] https://www.nasadomena.sk/historia/
kubik369
·2 месяца назад·discuss
The chat interface has the disclaimer "AI responses may include mistakes." and that appears to be enough to relieve them of any responsibility for the responses. In a similar manner, wouldn't it be enough to add a disclaimer that says "AI responses may include sponsored content."?
kubik369
·2 месяца назад·discuss
It is not very encouraging that most of the marketing materials on the website show the Googlebook having filleted (rounded) edges similar to Macbook Neo, but the video shows the laptop having a bevelled profile similar to framework 13. Seems like a hastily put together attempt at a response to the acclaimed Macbook Neo. Literally zero information on the page apart from the "fall" release window.
kubik369
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Your comment was surely well meant, but you could have plainly stated that the article author is a seasoned reporter instead of the snarky reply.

GP might be incorrect in stating that the author is parroting Anthropic's marketing, but the author certainly does not go out of his way to specify that these are only Anthropic's claims. It is actually a bit ironic as the article linked[0] from the quoted part (by another author) uses the correct phrasing when dealing with such claims:

> Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company that recently fought the Pentagon over the use of its technology, has built a new A.I. model that it claims is too powerful to be released to the public.

[0] https://archive.ph/GC6WP#selection-4713.0-4713.200
kubik369
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Both can be right, unfortunately. People do not report stuff, but when they do, it tends to get ignored. I have personally stopped reporting feedback to Apple because my tens of bug reports with detailed reproduction steps were simply ignored. This was both on beta and stable releases. One of them was especially egregious — I had an M1 Macbook Air at work and 11.2 update made charging with any dock, USB-C or Thunderbolt, not work, i.e. everything was working, but the laptop was not charging. I had to plug in a separate charger for 3 months until they fixed it in either 11.3 or 11.4. Rolling back did not work because the update updated the controller firmware. There was no mention of this in the release notes.

Apple's "It just works." sometimes gets in the way by obscuring details. Simple example, Airdrop. You share a file, select the person, and it gets stuck displaying sending on the bubble. What is happening? No one knows, because it should "just work". But when it doesn't, you usually have literally no recourse and you are told to wipe your device and try again. From GP's example, the synchronisation. I don't know about iMessage, but synchronising Photos is a nightmare because there is no button to force a sync. You have to connect your phone to power and pray that it will sync. If it doesn't, you have no way to force it. Same thing with AirPods firmware, how do you update it? You don't, it should happen automagically. It didn't? Sucks to suck. You hopefully get the idea by this point :)
kubik369
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I think this practice is rather blatantly what you say. The same thing with HDMI forum folding HDMI 2.0 into HDMI 2.1. They made the new 2.1 features optional, therefore manufacturers were able to call their 2.0 devices 2.1 without actually supporting the 2.1 features. AMD has been recently doing similar things, releasing “new” generation of mobile processors where half of them are just rebrands of the older generation.
kubik369
·3 месяца назад·discuss
1. Yes, you hit the nail on the head. It basically requires people to be more cognisant of this. However, I think telling people to break stuff out into intermediary variables is much easier to argue for than whether the function is getting a bit too long.

2. Yes, easy filterings usually don't need to be broken down/named, but it really depends. At the very least, if the culture is to name intermediary values, you might accidentally get useful information from the variable names even if people weren't diligently writing explanatory why comments.

3. This isn't Kotlin related, it is just that if you do not have a language/codebase with branded types (or some type system property I don't know the name of), the type system might only infer the base primitives of the result, ending up with stuff like the type I mentioned.
kubik369
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I whole-heartedly sympathise with the problem author is trying to describe. He does not introduce it very well, but if you read through the whole thing, you should be able to get the gist of it.

For me, the problems with chaining from the point of mostly maintaining existing software are:

1. Harder to impossible to reason about.

As the author alludes to, 1-2 chains are fine, but it starts getting impossible when you get into a territory where you have a longer chain which has a deeper call tree. This happens over time where you start with a smaller chain and people start lengthening it, adding helper functions which grow into large call trees, etc. This makes it so that you have sort of a blackbox pipeline that is, at the very least, annoying and time-consuming to inspect.

2. Harder to debug

Author tries to mention this but he seems to fail/stop short of pointing out what is wrong with the example he provides. For me, I work with Kotlin. In Kotlin, you cannot put a breakpoint in the middle of the chain! As far as I know, you can only put a breakpoint inside of the chained function calls and do step-into/step-over and such, but you cannot put a breakpoint in-between chain function calls. This means that debugger is basically useless if your codebase looks as described in my previous point. The solution is to write a bit more code at the start, naming each variable. This makes it much easier to debug the code/logic (because you can put a breakpoint on the specific variable/step you are interested in) and, more importantly, to understand, because you explain the steps with the variable names and optionally also with comments.

3. Related problem - return chaining

Another issue I have in codebases I inherited is what I would describe as return chaining. It is what happens when you have code which returns a function call and the called function does the same thing and so on and so on. Minimalistic example:

  foo() {
     return x
        .map()
  }


  baz() {
     return foo()
        .map()
  }

  fbaz() {
      return baz()
        .map()
  }

This way, there is usually no good place to inspect the values and it is hard to reason about what even is the return type/value. Yes, the type system can take it, but good luck figuring out what is Map<Map<String,String>,List<String>>. Do this instead even though it looks "less clean"/uses a supposedly useless variable:

  foo() {
     const helpfulName = x.map()
     
     return helpfulName
  }


  baz() {
     const anotherHelpfulName = foo.map()
     
     return anotherHelpfulName
  }

  fbaz() {
      const superHelpfulName = baz.map()
      
      return superHelpfulName
  }
In summary: please, for the love of all that is holy, resist the urge to write function chains, always store meaningful intermediary values in named variables with "why" comments in relevant places and do so especially with return values.
kubik369
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I think your take is overly negative. Regardless of what they think, sharing ones experiences with others is how we advance, both as individuals and as a community/mankind. Talking about AI workflows, I am personally interested in how the people who are happy working with AI work, so that I could also be happier with my work. If they write their workflow, I can either learn from it and improve my work, or learn that they are doing something completely different from what I do, which might explain the disparity between people's experiences with AI, or learn that they are spouting nonsense, reaffirming that it might really be mostly hype. Either way, each one of these is a net positive information for me.
kubik369
·3 месяца назад·discuss
> "Balanced" always seems to mean "give equal time and space to each side". I agree with you that this seems to be the idea people have when "balanced" is mentioned. I don't think this is correct. You can easily have a balanced article which has lots of evidence pointing one way or the other. I think that this article is like that. Boatload of pointers towards Altman being a sly person with reporters asking him about those exchanges and him basically shrugging each time.

The journalists credibility is doing quite a bit of lifting here as we have to trust that they put in the effort. One such example is the molesting accusations which the reporters say they heavily looked into and were not able to find any corroborating evidence.

> You never actually get a real picture of the facts. Yes, it is a fundamental impossibility in lots of cases. That's why we trust the reporters that they did as good a job as they could to present all pertinent information.

> That title is an editorial ... I do not perceive it to be editorialised. It states an arguably real possibility that Altman may/does have lots of real power. I am guessing that you believe that the "can he be trusted" is an editorialisation that points towards him being untrustworthy. If that is the case, I think those would be your biases knowing that he is probably not trustworthy. I see it just as an objective question.

Imagine a different situation: you have local elections into your small town. There is a new mayor candidate and during the next term, there will be some money to be given to residents for renovations and such, but not enough for everyone. You don't know this candidate. A local reporter, whom you trust, writes an article "New mayor candidate favoured in polls - will he be fair with the renovation money?". It is a piece trying to shed light on who this candidate is as a person, what was his life before moving into your village, etc. so that voters like you can decide whether to give him your vote. It is not editorialised, as it does not point either way.
kubik369
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I think you are misunderstanding the point of journalism. It can be debated whether the title should be such a question. Nevertheless, the article should just present information, ideally in a balanced way, without author's bias, so that you can decide for yourself. You can see the attempts at the balanced part in the article where an allegation/statement is made about Altman followed by parentheses saying that Altman recalls the exchange differently/does not remember.
kubik369
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I don't really see your point. The chips mentioned do not have enough bandwidth on display outputs to support the monitor at 6K@120Hz. If anything, I find it surprising that Apple supports running the display in 60Hz mode instead of telling people to go pound sand and buy new Macs.
kubik369
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I recall that the official setting was everything grouped or everything ungrouped. What GP is referring to is probably the ability to break out a single window from a group.
kubik369
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
> is the regular PLA limit of ~55 degrees Celsius not okay for a desktop accessory?

Not the author, but PLA has a glass transition temperature of around 60 degrees, which in layman's terms is when it starts to melt. However, depending on the quality of the printing process, layers start separating/the print is pliable significantly lower, at around 35-40 degrees. This means that in countries where you get 30+ degree summers, PLA is not really suitable for anything which experiences any kind of stress. I would hazard a guess that the standing laptop can cause quite a bit of stress when the train starts/stops.
kubik369
·в прошлом году·discuss
You must have had a bad luck/small sample size as majority of consumer routers can be flashed to OpenWRT by selecting the firmware file on the admin page and letting do its thing the exact same way as the original manufacturer update, or by using a TFTP recovery. From the top of my head, I recall only Xiaomi routers needing to be rooted/exploited.