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> Their inability to devise a system to meet a threat they fully anticipated argues against their much-heralded "genius".

It's like byzantine faults, no system can protect you if you don't have some minimum of correctly functioning legislators, judges, and executives.

AFAIK, green-screen, a.k.a. "chroma key" replaces the green colored parts of the video with some other background image/video. However, you've noticed it works poorly around the edges, depending on the lighting and other things. This is software containing a machine learning model that produces more a accurate "key" (mask) than simple chroma-matching.

FDE uses a key derivation function to limit the rate at which offline password attempts can be made. Not as limited as a TPM can be but not unlimited either and you can adjust it depending on how long you want to wait every time you unlock.

> If you need to list things ordered by creation time very often, it’s useful if the primary index gives that behavior, removing the need for another index.

I thought the main reason UUIDv7 was created with a time component is to keep temporally related rows together in the index pages. Randomly distributed row ids seem OK until the entire index no longer fits in RAM.

> Well-regulated militia is the National Guard. Note the term well-regulated. They’re military personnel that belong to the states, but still operate alongside the regular force.

That is wrong, see DC v. Heller, """ the “militia” in colonial America consisted of a subset of “the people”—those who were male, able bodied, and within a certain age range. Reading the Second Amendment as protecting only the right to “keep and bear Arms” in an organized militia therefore fits poorly with the operative clause’s description of the holder of that right as “the people.” """

> Unless you are really on top of your agents, they inevitably end up writing an absolute mess.

It's like the magic broomsticks from Fantasia's Sorceror's Apprentice sequence. Great at hauling buckets but if you don't keep a close eye on them they will fill your workshop with water.

How do you know Apple has not interviewed a broad and representative sample of real users and found that their #1 desire in a laptop is thinner and lighter than what is currently available?

I would bet that is what real users have been asking for, for decades now. They aren't asking for swappable batteries or headphone jacks.

Swift (2014) and Kotlin (2011) are huge because of iOS and Android, respectively. C# came out in July 2000, does that count? However there are post-2000 languages in real use that aren't developed or annointed by huge companies, some started as solo dev projects or academic projects.

There is a lot of news right now about AI writing proofs in Lean (2013.) Lots of people rely on Elixir (2012) and Gleam (2016) is up and coming. I wouldn't give up on Scala (2004) just yet, it's really one of the best languages out there with some great libraries and runs on the JVM. You could argue that Reason (2016) and ReScript (2020) are just dialects of OCaml but they are industrial strength tools that people rely on in production.

...and don't even try to take Clojure (2007) away from any hands that are not truly cold and dead.

We still call it "machine learning"

For a second I thought this would be about the style of org chart used at the last big company I worked for.

Part of Rust's schtick is also cost free abstractions.

The DOJ used to have independence but no longer. The AG is now Trump's personal lawyer and if Trump says no prosecutions of AI companies then there will be no prosecutions. If the AG doesn't play ball they get fired.

The article doesn't mention it but in the USA it may be because the Department of Justice has lost a lot of talent and the ones left are busy going after Trump's enemies and negotiating the other side in Trump's own lawsuit against the USA for Trump's family to be immune from IRS audits and arranging for multi-billion dollar compensation funds for Trump's henchmen.