They introduce a feature that excites the designers but makes it harder to use, then have to tone it down to make it usable again. I'd hoped that this sort of thing would stop with the departure of thinness-fetishist Jonathan Ive ("you can put your macbook air in a large envelope because it's thin at the edges"), but apparently not.
There is no quantum threat yet, but if someday there is there will be hoards of stolen pre-quantum data to decrypt, some of which will contain information that still matters. For example, the encrypted data of a well-known password manager was stolen last year; no-one can decrypt it now, but perhaps they will be able to in the future.
"People are used to giving consent for everything" - are there really people who accept non-essential cookies?
"So in order to teach an LLM Taarof you have to teach it to lie". No, just as we don't currently teach them the truth. LLMs are models of text, not the world. They say things that resemble what they have been trained on, without any connection to the facts of the world.
Yours perhaps. I have never even considered my protein intake.
What does this word mean in the Microsoft world?
.. of the IBM Microdrive, which fit in a Compact Flash slot and contained an actual spinning magnetic disk.
"300C, less than half the usual operating temperature"
If you're going to add editorial comments, get an editor who knows some physics.
... that they put an AirTag in the packaging.
Whoever controls the first super-intelligence controls the world.
Of course they should take cryptocurrency holding into account. I would never consider lending money to someone who had substantial cryptocurrency "assets".
A term meaning nothing more than paying extra to show off.
And this is a particularly stupid example.
... the people they ban will form a new splinter group, who will in time start banning another subset. They're really all just as mad as each other.
It's not vehicle owners they should be compensating, it's all the pedestrians who were ever passed by one of their cars.
In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis
