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?

Cashless bail: you are conflating two things: wealth (cash) and bail (freedom while awaiting trial). Making sure only people with access to money can be free while awaiting findings of guilt or innocence is unjust. Putting the average person away for 6 months means losing apartment, possessions, job, everything. Keeping people under lock and key who seem likely to offend or flee seems reasonable. I'd suggest splitting the two ideas, rather than just furthering the preservation of an underclass. I don't think a reasonable person could put himself in a judge's shoes and answer "should this person be released?" with "is it OJ or just some schmuck?"

WAPO offers "a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation."
Translation: stop worrying about the power bill you can no longer afford and go buy a car you can no longer afford so that we can improve AI enough to make literally everything "something you can't afford". Now *that's* innovation.

Anybody remember where we put those damned pitchforks? Democracy Dies in Darkness; who knew it was a mission statement?

Also ...
- Battery drain (maybe you can turn it off?),
- Expense (it's a Mac; it doesn't need to be *more* expensive),
- Screen replacement gets somehow even more costly,
And finally,
- Remember Windows 8? Metro UI? Remember when a major OS maker tried to converge on touch last time?

While it's easy to see Dell has chasing Apple here, I think there's a larger sense in which both companies are chasing our emerging K-shaped economy. Apple has a 17e iPhone line that is really quite surprisingly good for the price point, while at the same time introducing a foldable phone that'll likely come in at about 2K. Their laptops likewise are now split into high and low end. It's an effective way to draw a broad swath of folks at the growing lower SES tier to cover their bread-and-butter basic subscriptions revenue, while still capturing the whales.