Exactly. People are trained and licensed. If we trained people how to use mobile devices safely before allowing them one then none of this would be an issue, but we dont.
> System Integrity Protection is a security technology designed to help prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac. System Integrity Protection restricts the root user account and limits the actions that the root user can perform on protected parts of the Mac operating system.
Before System Integrity Protection, the root user had no permission restrictions, so it could access any system folder or app on your Mac. Software obtained root-level access when you entered your administrator name and password to install the software. That allowed the software to modify or overwrite any system file
Well I hear a lot of “silly boomer, don’t you know a computer is a computer and a phone is a phone” but many whippersnappers don’t know that Von Newman proved all computers are equivalent in theory and video game emulation proves they are in practice.
I think the barriers that exist depend on path dependence and other accidents of development. The laptop has a hinge and a trackpad that help you when you are flying on a plane. 2-in-1s drove stewardesses crazy because they couldn’t figure out if you had to stow them for takeoff. For that matter battery sizes are limited because of the needs of that industry which might seem justified if you live in NYC and can fly to London for what it less to costs to fly from my small town to NYC. Maybe if they’d invest in my community I’d care what they think but I think it’s unjust.
All the time I use a cheap plastic clip and a cheap Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and RDP into a monster computer from my tablet. If I have a real desk or table it’s fine, if you really have to put your laptop on your lap that hinge looks like genius. I’ll grant the 2-in-1 can be demoed at CES and the Bluetooth-based system can’t because they have too many devices in too small a space for Bluetooth to be reliable.
Even if I don’t have the mouse and keyboard I can still do a lot with the touchscreen.
The worst thing Win 8 revealed was that you could have the ‘windows’ keys on computer keyboards for almost 20 years and nobody noticed because…. It looks like an ad and people think anything that looks like an ad “just doesn’t work” (as opposed to “doesn’t just work”). If you were missing the start button you could just push that button but people treated that like putting their hand in the toilet.
Well Spanish is one of those “languages that I can’t read except that I can read it” together (in order of declining comprehension) with Dutch, German, French and (large gap) Chinese and Japanese.
Know what I miss about it? Having the satisfaction of doing a good job every couple days or week. Taking pride in jobs and regularly pleasing the people you are doing them for. Interacting with normal people who are grateful for you being there and helping, making you a cup of tea and a biscuit. These things are sorely missing from a career in development.
100%. A few months ago I walked away from a 5-year job in biotech programming a manufacturing execution system because I couldn't take interfacing with people thru a screen anymore. My boss was a chemist with an MBA, knew little about what I did, just how I had to follow regulations. I was so silo'd it was boring and lonely. The only highlight was working with the low-paid production staff on how to understand and improve their processes.
By the time you are 60 you are the one speaking to clients and getting the work in, planning it etc, then sending your workers out to do it instead of yourself.
To me this reads as naive as saying by the time you are 60 you should be a director or VP or whatever. The trades are just as much of a pyramid as white collar work is.
Anecdotally, I grew up in a very blue collar area and most of the 60 year old guys I knew were either medically retired (read: too fucked up to work anymore) or getting by through brute force and pain pills.
Agreed, My uncle worked as a tile setter for most of his life. Was very good at it, had his own company and contracted to other companies. I only ever heard good things about his work.
His knees were dead before he was 50. Never made it to "stable", has never owned a home, now living in a van in his 70s.
There were many other issues in his life which prevented things...don't get me wrong...but his case is more the norm from my observations of workers.
It is much easier to be a good "worker" than it is to be a successful one.
Also, Drug/alcohol use in the trades is incredibly common. As is the habit of planning your life around claiming unemployment every winter (at least in my area).
Growing up, my dad was really good friends with two general contractors.
They could not be different from one another, and that was the reason dad invested time in befriending both. When he needed something that only technically solved a problem by the barest of margins, he called the one guy. When he needed help patching the roof or any kind of visible finishing work, he called the other.
One was alright to have over for beers and roughly 100lbs over weight, the other was a formal dining room dinner kind of guy and was built like a model.
One lost his kid in the divorce and is still working today if he's not passed. The other built himself a grand house full of custom hardwood, beautiful hand-built spiral staircase in the foyer, all at the head of the neighborhood he built, and retired about 15 years ago.
Purely in terms of "can they do the job I expect them to do", both were perfectly competent. But the actual trade itself isn't what set them apart. Neither could understand the mentality of the other. "Why do all the extra work to make it look nice if all it's got to do is work" vs "If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right".
Their approach to the trade work showed in everything they did; one did verbal contracts, the other made sure every permit was pulled and gave you a receipt detailing the number of nails used. So, when the city put out for bids, only one of them was in any position to submit and win the contracts. He didn't win all of them because there's a multi-generational contractor with family in government but it'd be crass of the city to award all the contracts to that company, but the point remains that only one of these two had positioned themselves such that they could take and profit from larger jobs.
I like to say that the greatest cook in the world could be an ass of a restaurateur, and the world's finest restaurateur will need to hire fine chefs.
We all know brilliant techs that could never hack it in corporate, and people sailing through corporate without a lick of technical ability. While both are "in tech", they have very different goals that lead to very different daily work, very different career paths, and very different retirements.
I think every category of work has a spectrum of success, and it will be determined by a mix of ones ability, goals, and market forces.
Can you copyright things like this now that LLMs exist? I mean, up until now if a small startup has a great idea they will get bought out by big tech which will integrate (or kill) their tech. But now with LLMs can the likes of OpenAI just tell their model to make something that works similar to X (such as this project) and then get round copying laws and negate being behind the curve?
EDIT: switched to the correct spelling of copyright.
Copyrights protect the literal text of your program and binaries. Not the design and functionality. Getting Sherlocked is having your functionality duplicated, independent of the code itself.
No one thinks Apple violated Sherlock copyright. They just made it (nearly) functionally redundant.
I don't see why LLMs should make the legal part different. It's like saying if you can copyright a book considering LLMs now can copy / write a new one in just one hour. Making it faster doesn't change the legal aspect / ownership of something.
ianal but copyright law has nothing to say about being sherlocked. it's happening - virtually any software you can think of has some shit slop clone out there already
Threads attract people with an opinion about the topic, so it's more like HN contains lots of subsets of sensitive people waiting in the wings. But of course, per Marvin Gaye, we're all sensitive people.
Edit: rather oddly I just posted an innocuous comment (a couple of Wikipedia links) and it was immediately dead on arrival. What's going on there? Wild auto-modding.
To be fair to HN, I mean, your comment kind of indicates your own political sensitivity as well right?
I, personally, don't mind political content. I find it interesting. That said, I'm not going to get on fellow HN'ers when they downvote or flag it. That, in and of itself, would be a political act rooted in sensitivities.
If you have reasons, in particular, that posts or comments should not be flagged, I'd personally encourage you to outline them. Then let the chips fall where they may. Getting emotional only decreases the overall quality of the conversation. And, presumably, outlining your own ideas would get whatever viewpoint it is that you wish to push, into the thread.
No I dont think so, Im not being sensitive to anything other than censorship? I believe on total free speech so I think every comment should be visible and I am happy to take offence. I see so many dead comments that are not even rude or offensive, its hard to see why anyone would censor them.
Chinese can't fight themselves. So I'm pretty sure everyone is in on this one.
One side wants the dam gone.
The other wants the dam generating electricity.
Will be fascinating to see which group of puppet masters wins. It'll tell us a lot about how the global power hierarchies are shaping up in the twenty-first century.
I do feel horrible for the innocent people of Ethiopia, who only wanted lights so their kids could study at night. Instead, they'll get killed. That's what sucks about the activity of global powers in Africa for the past, what? 500 years? Probably longer.
Excuse my ignorance, but what dam? TFA doesn't mention either a dam or the Chinese, in fact it does an analysis of "Ethiopian wars of choice" completely unrelated to either thing.
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