This is not anything new. I found the same pattern when I started working at a company which heavily relied on an IDE and intellisense for embedded development. Naming and code organization best practices can be ignored if you have "go to definition" available to navigate the code for you. The code base can be messier - up to a point - because you can offset the messiness with tooling.
LLMs are the next logical progression of this trend.
Not sure what parent was referring to, but for me iMessage frequently gets confused when dealing with devices that don't have a phone number or when moving SIMs between phones. Sometimes messages silently get routed to other devices or seem to disappear into the void in these cases which can be extremely frustrating. Since it's Apple, there's no way to tell when this is happening and try to correct it either. In theory iMessages tells me I'm sending a message to John Smith, but am I sending it to johnsmith@icloud.com or 555-122-4455 or some other alias associated with that Apple user? No way to tell until you get some error in iMessage that the message could not be delivered and no way to explicitly select which alias is going to receive it as far as I can tell.
Edit: Admittedly, I have a poor mental model of what is even happening in these cases. Are these "aliases" or something else? Unfortunately, Apple doesn't help elucidate the problems/mechanisms here. The only insights I have into what's happening is from mysterious errors and failure to deliver messages.
If you have malware that can read the keyboard, can't it just inject code via the keyboard to add their own authorized key to whatever server you're connecting to?
Seems like a total non-sequitur considering the Canadian obsession with real-estate is not that old. Real-estate was pretty affordable and not a good investment in the 90s, for example.
> Vancouver’s first housing bubble burst in 1981, the second declined gradually in 1994.[39] Otherwise, Canadian housing prices from 1980 to 2001 stayed within a steady and narrow range of 3 to 4 times provincial annual median income,[40] with little effect anywhere outside of these two cities.[39]
As one of many millions who got on the property ladder in Canada in the early 90s and retired in their thirties, I disagree. Interest rates dropped in the early 90s and in Toronto and Vancouver house prices took off.
Has anyone checked that "disabled" actually means disabled? The last 20 years of surveillance creep in computing tells us that these check boxes are often meaningless.
The Claude plans are probably still heavily subsidized. Expect prices to increase, especially after the IPO. Self-hosting models for personal use is probably overkill, but I can see companies doing it pretty soon since they can probably run 24/7 workloads and fully utilize the hardware.
Great point. And, 3 years ago, a 4090 cost $1600, so maybe that will happen again some day. (Same/similar card, or a future card. I remember when GPUs used to get better every few years instead of staying roughly the same but costing several times the original amount!)
> If you spend years (correctly) telling people the current cronyism and open corruption is destroying our democracy, you have to act like it really was when you regain power and that means investigating and punishing those who took advantage of it, where just and applicable.
So the investigation into Nancy Pelosi's fortuitous stock trades is starting next week?
> So the investigation into Nancy Pelosi's fortuitous stock trades is starting next week?
I'd support it.
By the same token, if Bill Clinton gets damaged by a full release of the Epstein files? Good. Fuck 'em then. I'm not a team booster. Investigate likely wrongdoing and punish the guilty, regardless of their politics.
Though of course... Nancy Pelosi isn't remotely the only one who likely benefited from insider knowledge, there are long lists of people from both parties who are in the same boat. Pelosi just gets elevated as a figurehead here because of her high profile (and despite not being a big Pelosi fan myself I still think, if we're being honest, at least a smidge of misogyny)
We should also just ban trading for all elected officials during their terms in office.
POTUS graduated from pumping and dumping crypto shitcoins to pumping and dumping the American Economy with Iran announcements and then lining up his billionaire friends to brag about how much money they made insider trading it on public television.
Against this backdrop, it takes some truly extraordinary selective attention to be scandalized by the Pelosis managing to beat QQQ by one percentage point last time I checked.
Sure, like LeBron James and I are both good at basketball.
The disparity is so large it's dishonest to "both sides" this one. Because with orders of magnitude to separate the severity, it really isn't both sides.
It makes sense to start with the biggest offenders though? Pelosi’s net worth is peanuts compared to what Mango Mussolini and his friends and family made in the last couple of years.
I think the main breakthrough was cost-engineering: glued on panels, cast-aluminum frame, "metal" accelerator pedal glued onto a plastic component. Which is ironic considering how expensive the thing was.
I blame Tesla and their "giant iPad" interiors for many of the cost-cutting trends we see in cars today.
A lot of modern remakes become "demakes". Often a remake focuses on surface level improvements, like graphics, but damages the underlying game systems that made the original beloved in the first place. Another common problem is lazy graphics upscaling that improves the resolution but makes the result look cheap or incongruous with the game's original style (GTA3 remastered is a great example[1]). I think there are a handful of truly great remakes a bunch of mediocre ones and a surprising number of total disasters like Warcraft 3.
But probably the worst trend with modern remakes is taking the original games off of online stores or "upgrading" them to the remake thus making the original unavailable. Combined with the "demakes" trend above and it seems like we're actively destroying many historical games with these "remakes".
Cats definitely don't help. I really don't understand why it's socially acceptable to let a pet cat run around the neighborhood killing things and pooping in other people's yards when doing the same with a dog (even a small one) would result in a call to animal control.
LLMs are the next logical progression of this trend.
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