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I want a laptop form factor that is basically a briefcase with the display, computer and battery with space for a keyboard and mouse of some kind. I basically hate laptop keyboards/trackpads but want a portable computer. Plan on building my own at some point using frame.work components as the base but I haven't started on it yet. One day.

I want something like the huawei matebook fold but with a stand to raise the screen to an ergonomic height.

could this not be solved by just getting a laptop and also carrying external kb and mouse?

I'd like it in a setup that makes usable as a portable without a lot of setup. IMO it is feasibly to disable the keyboard/trackpad and just put my keyboard on top but it isn't ideal.

At least the AI was self-aware enough not to add a LICENSE file.


Remember that the 2000 numbers are also out of a much smaller pool and the graph uses absolute numbers. So even if they were the same numbers in 2000 as 2020 it would have been a much, much larger percentage of all jobs.

Supervision is only one of many factors that impact a child's development. Good genes alone can make up for a lot of crappy parenting.

Could this be the chain of events that finally pops the AI bubble? If OpenAI's reputation hit slows growth enough to scare off investors and Anthropic's growth stalls due to this government attack...

I think it's a good chance tbh. It would take the S&P down with it too

Of course it's going to be this government that goes and pokes the bubble that's propping up the economy, despite all the government's other shenanigans.

No way to remove the most annoying thing.. how Copy takes the top spot away from the back arrow when you've highlighted text of any sort. I don't mind the Copy option but don't change the standard menu, add it to the bottom.

Sounds like an inverse Peter Principle... the people who are best at their jobs will stay in that job while people who care enough about promotions to sabotage their work will get promoted out of a position to do damage.

You can use hosted versions of Qwen or any other of the smaller models w/o having to invest in a LLM rig today... I plan to use the cheap hosted models until hardware advances enough to host locally in method that is more cost effective than the API costs. A couple of the hosting providers I'm looking at are https://synthetic.new and https://openrouter.ai .. I'm sure there are tons more.

What would you use for remote mounting filesystems? I don't know of any that are simply superior (w/o caveats/tradeoffs).

> Their pscp implementation is a better drop-in replacement than the OpenSSH solutions.

What makes it a better drop in replacement?


Several reasons.

-PuTTY pscp allows raw passwords on the command line, or from a file. OpenSSH is unreasonable in refusing to do this.

-Scripting can adapt to a .netrc easily; OpenSSH will never do this.

-Modern OpenSSH is a nightmare when using legacy crypto, while pscp is fluid. There is nothing wrong with hmac-md5, and no reason to refuse it. I will take PuTTY or dropbear in a heartbeat over these burned bridges and workarounds.

https://www.openssh.org/legacy.html

-pscp does not link to dozens of libraries as ssh/scp does, so it is easier to build with less dependency. The ldd output of ssh and scp on rhel9 is 23 libraries, while PuTTY is 3 [package obtained from EPEL].

-pscp strongly leans to SFTP on the backend and can be directed to use it exclusively, so there is no ambiguity.

-Using pscp with a retry on fail is much easier than sftp -b.

-The wacky cipher control on rhel8 does not impact the PuTTY tools.

That is an extensive list.


> -PuTTY pscp allows raw passwords on the command line, or from a file. OpenSSH is unreasonable in refusing to do this.

You can use `sshpass` to force it through a command line argument. However, arguments can be viewed by any process through `/proc`, `ps`, etc. It's pretty reasonable to not support exposure of the password like that, especially since you can force it through using another tool if you really, really need to.


Both pscp and psftp have -pwfile.

It is not reasonable to insist on keys for batch use.

Not at all.


It's completely crazy to use passwords when you needn't. Passwords are a human readable shared secret, they were already obsolete when SSHv1 was invented last century.

From the outset SecSH (SSHv2, the thing you actually use today and if you're younger, likely the only thing you ever have used) has public key authentication as a Mandatory To Implement feature. Implementations where that doesn't work aren't even SSH, they're garbage.


I am forced by external vendors and internal security to use password authentication for SFTP.

I do not have a choice!

This grew out of FTP less than a decade ago. Everyone has always known password auth; it cannot die.

Are you on the same planet as the rest of us?


If our vendor required a password auth, I want three sandboxes between it and anything production. Its an explosion waiting to happen.

It can die once we stop letting it keep living with this kind of defeatist attitude

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