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I can barely stand getting my hands off the keyboard to grab the mouse - lifting them off the keyboard to touch the screen is not something I’d ever use

In fact, I do everything I can to avoid having to move my hands off the keyboard - I have a stream deck that touches my keyboard so that I can quickly press a button with my hand barely moving for “advanced” shortcuts that I don’t feel like contorting my hand for, on top of all the usual shortcuts

I wish they’d devote resources to figuring out a better keyboard experience vs this also ran feature that I know for a fact almost no one uses

I thought for sure you’d be exaggerating or just being sensationalist

Much to my dismay this is real

I just looked this up and all I can say is wow. Legit reminds me of some of the stuff I read about as a kid about the Cold War, communism, etc

Wild that this stuff doesn’t even make the news anymore

These were cool back when you could also use them as monitors - outside of that, I’d rather have a laptop and a nice monitor - way better bang for your buck imo

The Bay Area are the biggest hypocrites in the planet

They know how to present themselves in a way that not only they appear liberal, but appear liberal under scrutiny

They are rolling out versions of this but doing it in poor neighborhoods of course - heaven forbid they roll anything like this out in the Berkeley hills

Obviously im over generalizing for dramatic effect, but if this stuff can get passed in the Bay Area, I hold little hope we will successfully challenge it elsewhere

In interviews I sort of bit the bullet and do pair ai coding interviews - you just have to change with the times

My guess based on my experience as a math major is that they just stop giving homework and the in class tests become more rigorous (can’t imagine how much harder they could have made these at my school at least)

My point is that no matter what tool you’re using, at some point you have to stretch your brain and the exams/screenings/etc just haven’t caught up to how to stretch someone’s brain in this new world and I’ve found just embracing the thing to be a better approach than any sort of pearl clutching

I’m with you and always the first to point out an alternative explanation

But having to do with this subject specifically, the pattern is so common and the behavior so blatant, the amount of looking out for each other is so absurd, that I’d reject any claim that gives them the benefit of the doubt that doesn’t come with convincing evidence

It’s called out in the macrumors article linked in the submission fyi

For all the apologists and people saying it’s not a big deal:

The problem is that this is the entry point to do more nefarious things later

Companies love to boil the frog - introduce something and later jack up the price or take something else away or something like that

I at least am always weary of new stuff like this

Yes, the most grounded take I’ve read on HN so far

How I wish I could divulge details of what we’ve built, nay, shipped in the last 6 months - it would sound completely unbelievable to this audience and come with a host of accusations

But it’s true - the tide hasn’t risen all ships the same though. Some engineers have become absolute monsters - things that used to take a month get done in days. Features that used to be prioritized on the order of weeks are done way faster.

Some engineers though? Even high performance ones have gone productive to bottom 25% by some measures

Why? Because it is a skill and it doesn’t come naturally to everyone

So many may sayers everywhere talking about more code less software, mistakes by ai with disastrous consequences- yet I’ve seen some remarkable stuff with my own two eyes. It’s a crazy time to be in this business, it’s awesome to be wowed everyday by what someone was able to do

I'll tell you what i wouldn't get - if you have an asus router, i'd steer clear of merlin

They leave a bunch of data sharing options built in and on by default with no warning, acknowledgement, etc and I suspect it's why asus lets the project continue to run

What a joke. Meanwhile I'm selling shares and have have to give up almost 50% on numbers that are, quite literally, a drop in the ocean by comparison

I'd be less disgruntled about it if a) i feel like i got my money's worth and most importantly b) everyone paid their fair share

These are all a joke anyway

If you've ever worked at a startup, you're probably familiar with the fact that no one gives a crap about this type of stuff early on

The hell with pretty much anything, the only thing that matters is revenue

People only start to care about this after the fact if you've grown to large enough size

If you think stuff like this or right to be deleted stuff is moving the needle anywhere but at the biggest companies, you've been misled

That's the real painful truth of this stuff, most of the time it's just lip service anyway

Wth is anyone going to do anyway? Go through a resource-draining lawsuit against a 20 person company where it will take a year of discovery just to maybe-sort-of prove they've been mishandling your data?

It's going to take some pretty radical new laws for this type of stuff to ever have any meaningful impact

Meant fable*

100%

I use a personal Claude account for personal projects and can let rabl run for an hour and barely make a dent into my usage

On the enterprise I have to be a lot more careful or I can burn through 2k in a week

The excuse they give is the guarantees you get with enterprise plans that they won’t look at your data

Dude I saw sleep specialists at Stanford here in Palo Alto and we still don’t know a lot about it, regardless of what you might read

The whole sleep hygiene things been sort of discredited and doctors just follow a script with like 5 things they will prescribe you for sleep problems and after those 5 things it’s like oh well we tried

I once showed them a study I found online in a reputable journal (at least the study was conducted by someone from a well regarded university in a journal that wasn’t obviously bad)

The doctor didn’t even look at the study, he just saw where it came from and said “yeah we don’t use that journal”

I would have much more appreciated an answer if I don’t have time to read your bullshit vs what he gave me