Shouldn’t you have an adblocker to block those scripts?

Are you using the group policy editor?

Why would I leave windows if Linux isn’t offering anything better?

Because Linux offers an ad-free experience, whereas Windows offers a free ads experience.

Nah, sourcetree has annoying bugs that never get fixed.

Use Fork, it’s a better sourcetree.

It’s free the same way that Sublime Text is: They’ll ask for a payment once a month, but you can say you’re “evaluating it” and use it for free. If you like it enough, you can pay for it. I have.

I’m not sure what the downsides are here…

Another way of reading it is: “GitUI is unfinished, but the parts that are done are amazing”

I have yet to be given an example of something a “general” intelligence would be able to do that an LLM can’t do.

Presenting…

Something a general intelligence can do that an LLM can’t do:

Play chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvTs_nbc8Eg

Why can’t it play it? Because LLM’s don’t have memory, so they can’t work with logic. They are the same as the little “next word predictor” in your phone’s keyboard. It just says what it thinks is the most probable next word based on previous words, it’s not actually thinking or understanding anything. So instead, we get moves that don’t make sense or are completely invalid.

My long bet: The EU will force Google Search + Ads, to separate from Youtube within a decade.

Did you purge and update your filters?

Note: I’m not talking about turning filters off then back on, I’m talking about updating the version of each filter itself.

I’m curious why people would downvote a request for port forwarding?

• 50% of web developers: Chaotic Neutral
• Salespeople: Lawful Neutral
• Programmers (and the other 50% of web developers): Unaligned, we know how to use shortcuts.

Also, you can buy Tic Tacs from any newsagent or gas station.

What about OkLCH?

I’m confused and didn’t understand this point.

Both of the screenshots used in the article show the street names.

Every street is shown on the zoomed in screenshot, and every major street is shown on the zoomed out screenshot.

I wonder if they’re lying about this. Maybe the fans are super loud or something and they didn’t want the reporter to know.

That’s far too conspiratorial for me. Loud fans in an engineering sample aren’t a reason to break a fan.

A fast fan blade on a laptop would snap easily if it was handled, which is exactly what would be happening on both a laptop where assembling and disassembling it is a feature and a laptop being actively tested.

If it was a blade that broke, that wouldn’t stop the fan from working, so it was probably the servo, power, or bearings which is exactly what you’d expect to find broken in an engineering sample. Why? Because engineering samples almost always have issues in them. That’s the whole point of the samples, to find out what the issues are so they can be fixed before mass manufacture.

I can’t see your comment about heavy dev and testing.

I’m curious about what exactly is chewing up that much RAM. Do you have a ridiculous amount of containers running? Or a big ram disk or something?

What are you doing that makes having 64gb ram useful?

PBS Space Time is awesome. Also Sabine Hossenfelder, Fraiser Cain, Issac Arthur, Vintage Space, and Curious Droid.

E2E:

As far as I understand, Google wants to treat RCS similar to how it treats web:

1. Have a standard
2. experiment with some extensions
3. learn what works and what doesn’t
4. build what works into the standard
5. repeat

In that case, e2e encryption is coming to RCS.

I know Samsung is also experimenting with e2e encryption too.

Other:

iMessage itself also has more features than RCS. Built in e2ee would be a big one, and aome other more vain ones.

What other notable features (besides e2e which is discussed above) does iMessage have?

[…] Signal or even WhatsApp would still be superior.

(Besides e2e,) What features to Signal and/or WhatsApp provide?

You’re both right and wrong.

Right:

1. Google does have a management problem that incentivizes creating new messenger apps instead of supporting existing services, this has nothing to do with RCS though.
2. Google is trolling Apple.

Wrong:

1. RCS is not a downgrade to Apple’s proprietary protocol (unless you consider sending a laser show screen overlay animation as a specific feature, and not an easter egg)
2. Everyone inside only Apple or only RCS has the same features (message reactions, high quality media, x is typing, seen timestamps, etc…)
3. RCS is open, Apple’s protocols are proprietary. No one but Apple can access their own proprietary protocols. Apple could support RCS if they wanted to. Apple is entirely responsible for the friction between their own protocol and RCS.

Prediction:

Apple will continue trying to control their own bubble to force people to purchase iPhones as long as possible. They will attempt to stall any EU regulations on standardized messaging with deceptive rebuttable that will take politicians time to realise that they hold no real weight. Eventually those arguments will be pulled apart and Apple will be forced to include a future RCS version as a supported fallback. (just like how the EU is forcing apple to allow third-party app stores, and USB-C connections)