Huh ... it mangled my URL for some reason. Facebook: Cambridge Analytica data scandal. That one.

Pretty unfair assessment, Joey. He also knows how to monetize the privacy of adults! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...â"Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

'k, but how 'bout txt comp? Just for the web, course. Qnty over qlty, 'k?

but perhaps I'm a bit jaded?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Sadly, I suspect the thinking is "Hey, we nabbed this rare book to use for training ... we can give it to the internet archive after we scan it, and all our competitors will soon have this knowledge that currently only we have ... or ..."

My understanding is that the system in question is a statistical 'choice of synonym' algorithm. I'm a little surprised we're not hearing about synonym randomization using local llm's to 'wash away' watermarks like this and ... Oh ... never mind â" https://github.com/guillaumeme....

Em dash intentional :-)

:-)
The student is enlightened. Very elegant; a bit like old-style thermostats.

We're all, here, aware of the right way to do backup stuff, but we're an unusual group (some of us hear likely that a lot :-).
I've been thinking lately about the complexity I'm faced with day-to-day. Dealing with a 401k, e.g. Totally trusting the advice of experts? Mostly. Diversify, low cost index funds, etc. And then doing some weird shit where I decide to put 10% of it in whatever pundit I heard last suggested. If I went to 'finance slashdot', whatever the hell that might be, they'd be saying the same thing about me. Used to work on my own car; now I don't know what half that stuff under the hood even *is* (where's my carburetor??). So I take my car to a local guy who seems good. Not entirely clear on how that little switch works to pop up my toast, but seems to be working ok for now.

It's so crazy easy to chastise the stupid people who don't know what I *do* know ... Geez, it's easy, moron, just use an initialization list to get the parameters to the base class ... no, fool, *first* you write the spec, then the tests, then the code (or the code, then the tests, and the tests *are* the spec, or whatever you feel like is the one true way this week).
You're special ... but most people get backups wrong. Ease up maybe?

Yeah, right with you on the Neo; it's a great value, and binned iPhone chips are just the thing to make that work cheaply. Plus they sip so lightly power-wise, you can keep a Neo going just about forever on a portable power brick. On brand contamination, you might be right; a price for snagging the segment of the market normally occupied by the carriers with their pay-over-time plans. Apple's problem before this, though, is folks like me who just cling to their old phones forever. I think they're hoping for more folks updating more often.

Fair point, though at least for me part of the value is "I don't have to check what the local prices are; just go to Costco" ... there's a certain amount of cognitive unloading in the getting gas at Costco script.

Lower-end MacBooks, leasing programs ... Apple can see the writing on the wall. The economy is splitting along an increasingly firm class divide, and they'd like a foot in each. They'd be fools not to pursue this. And they'll see subscription income from both ends. Because it's easier to stomach a payment than a lump sum.

My personal vote goest to an Our Man Flint reboot or a sequel to Buckaroo Banzai. The sort of gonzo our times require.

> Saved myself $1040. That was right before the price hikes.
Oof, bet that hurts. Think of how much you'd have saved if you'd waited until today ...

It's a pretty weird use case in an email client, replying to a message. Small wonder it was apparently left off of their automated regression suite, ja?