Apple doesn't even do any AI, so I wonder what these AI companies are supposedly poaching.

It's not. Nature doesn't say anything.

The humidity drops during the day. The worst part is riding the subway during rush hour, crammed in with a bunch of other passengers on a workday all sweating, standing flesh to flesh.

August is the hot time in Seoul, when we wish a typhoon for the coolness.

Ductless mini split air conditioners are fine for old houses and don't hog windows.

You are right about floor units, and I'd add that they don't work very well. I had one for a few years and only kept it because I was too stingy to upgrade but it was wretchedly weak.

Ductless mini split air conditioners are very popular in Korea. If someone doesn't have that for some reason, they can hang out at the mall until late at night.

Something is wrong with you if you thought that was a gotcha. Fix yourself.

They promised to fix unicode (in particular the thorn) over a decade ago. Still waiting on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That's not really glamor, curing cancer is an important practical problem. It's a good thing that money and attention are directed towards that.

AI math proofs have been a thing for nearly half a century. There has been a LOT of work on it.

The work openAI is doing isn't just saying, "ChatGPT, solve this problem." They have combined their LLM (probably a custom LLM, with a math focus) with existing algorithms, and expert mathematicians working the prompt.

So this appears to be an incremental advance, but it's not that an LLM automatically understands math and can start proving things.

I don't think this is a change.

For example, Fermat's last theorem was easily produced, and the proving the answer took centuries.

on this exam, get an attorney (fast) and go after the school. 58,000 cheaters isn't something believable.

Not sure anyone is having to provide an incentive. While in small quantities, old models of Chromebook might cost as little as $200 on sale, chances are good that schools are spending more like $400 to $500 on average for their devices.

At just $600 for the Neo (the current educational price), the cost difference is minimal now. And if your teachers are already using Macs, that's one fewer platform to support. And if the hardware lasts longer (to be determined), then that could easily make up the remaining cost difference.

The “dashboard” isn’t publicly available so there is only the posted screenshot to go off of, but it literally looks like it converted a pdf into a set of slides and that’s it. The fact that these posts appear to be nothing more than an advertisement for Microsoft products, coupled with Satya not knowing what skill he was actually using (/grill-me not /drill-me) makes me think he asked the chatbot to design a dashboard, not build one. So it happily generated a bunch of buzz words (and a mock screenshot courtesy of the pdf) on slides and name dropped a bunch of Microsoft products just for the shareholder meeting. In other words the only actual work done here was the report generated by the, presumably human, Morgan Stanley analyst.

As someone else said, “The illusion of value.” On the other hand, consultants get paid millions to generate equally vacuous outputs, so maybe there is some value here, to the people who consume PowerPoint slides.

It really isn't complex. Google does it just fine. You have an account picker in the upper right corner, and you choose which account you're using to interact with that app. No big deal.

Having a mechanism to use one account for music and a different one for app stores? Now that's complex. That's adding special-casing for each app that needs to handle a separate account, instead of designing the auth system correctly to support multiple accounts to begin with. It's almost always easier to do it right than to add a bunch of special-case workarounds everywhere.

I also disagree with the claim that 99.9% of users only have one iCloud account — not because it isn't currently true, but because it is true only tautologically. If the system is designed so that no person can meaningfully use more than one account, then no one is ever going to create or attempt to use more than one account. What this means is that no businesses will ever use iCloud accounts for their internal messaging system, etc. Apple is basically shutting themselves out of the business ecosystem altogether by design.

They've designed the system in a way that makes what you're saying true, so of course it is true. But that doesn't mean that 99.9% of users would not *benefit* from it not being true. In an ideal world, iCloud would compete head-to-head with things like Office 365. They have the tech, but limiting it in ways that make it useless for business purposes means they aren't actually competing.

The root cause comes from these twelve words:

Authentication systems that allow only a single signed-in account are defective by design. Approximately 100% of all people have more than one account that they need to be signed in with.

I have half a dozen Google accounts for specific purposes — one for work, one for personal, one for electronic music tablets to which multiple people share physical access, a couple of old domain-specific accounts that got converted from free work profiles, and I'm probably forgetting some. Not all of these are useful, but if I could not have continuous access to work and personal, it would be a tremendous pain in the backside.

And encouraging people to merge profiles like that is nuts. It all but guarantees leaks. A confidentiality agreement typically protects things you learned in the scope of your employment, but after you are employed, if they continue to send you confidential information, there's a decent chance that you aren't under any legal obligation to keep that secret.

This is just a really bad way to do things, driven by a fundamental flaw in their architecture. And it doesn't just cause problems for Apple. It causes problems for their customers as well. I can't have a separate iCloud account for my work. I have to use a Google account. And more than that, when I hit the maximum number of AirTag devices (which I'm about to reach), I can't add additional iCloud accounts. I'm hard-capped at a single account.

While we're at it, the limitation of a single user per iPad stems from the same defective design process. All of those sorts of 1:1 mapping decisions between accounts, users, and devices need to be fundamentally rethought, because they were always a mistake. Maybe now that Apple is being bitten by it, they'll finally do the things that users have been asking them to do for the last decade. Bonus points if they lose their lawsuit because of a lack of a modicum of care on their part, because that just might be enough to wake the sleeping giant and get them to fix this mess.