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I'm going to reword my Terms of Service this second to add "any military operation" next to "acts of war". But I'm sure we'll then have to demonstrate whether paramilitary are assimilated to the military.

I was just reading an insurance policy and it said "any war, including undeclared wars"

The insurers always know how to weasel out of it.


Yes. It's super hard to answer interviews or customer demos. Every sentence you say should include all preconditions that were said in previous answers, within the same context, because you may be quoted. You should think in live about all possible contexts in which your app might be used, and your speech should be as detailed as a contract.

Obviously here, he should have mentionned that they can recover a hit on a single data center, provided the customer chose multi-AZ hosting. That's probably why companies run their ads on "This watch is a legacy for your children" rather than any material claim.


What do you think of Atlassian?

Terrible, I'd argue the vast majority of modern big tech offerings are extremely poor quality where the need for surveillance in the form of constant monitoring/advertising metrics deliberately makes these types of services more costly to maintain and repair over time.

Sure there are like 3 or 5 decent services out there (like S3) but the vast majority are over engineered to be user hostile while extracting out whatever resources they can from their customers.


I've deactivated every single type of data in Spotlight except Applications. It goes out of its way to still suggest files like C system files or header files, like "system_library.c". It didn't wait for AI to turn against us.

Don't they perform user testing?

- Do "normies" perform better with this behavior?

- Or is the goal to disturb the user and make something impractical like in Google, so that people click on ads? Software has turned into a curse. The machines have risen.


It's transformative. Not aimed at exact reproduction, so not in the scope of copyright law.

They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers. Their use of the BitTorrent protocol to acquire these files would not have been transformative.

> They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers.

Not necessarily. You can literally turn uploads off and leech torrents.


> They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers.

Did they?

Are you sure?


Meta argued in court that yes, they did upload when torrenting

> Meta’s reasoning is straightforward. Anyone who uses BitTorrent to transfer files automatically uploads content to other people, as it is inherent to the protocol. In other words, the uploading wasn’t a choice, it was simply how the technology works.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorr...


I wonder which murderer will use that argument: "it wasn't my choice to shoot the person, it's just intrinsic to the technology that when pulling the trigger, the pistol fires"

Alec Baldwin

Almost a good reply, but Baldwin tried saying he did not pull the trigger. ( Nobody believed him. )

Didn’t follow that shit-show at all - I…don’t think I believe him either!

SUPER interesting!

Especially since it ISN’T an inherent part of a the protocol - just the default of most clients.

Wonder if TF skipping pointing that out was intentional!


Here’s the buried nuance, thanks Tom’s Hardware for picking up the (unusual) slack:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...


constantly using tech to launder responsibility. it's disgusting, really.

No, only in some instances maybe, they were mostly leechers.


I think you misread. There is nothing transformative about bittorrent automatically sharing parts of a file you're downloading with your peers.

I'm all for compassion, but engineers knew the NE was empty when it sat idle for 10 years on our computers.

- when you're given no usecase for your engineering piece, apart from "detour characters in pictures". It's an exageration but AI's contributions in iOS aren't visible; Meanwhile Google has features that people actually notice like removing tourists from your holidays photos — worse: it's mostly a simple collage feature working on the main CPU, and it has the same social effect as green bubbles in iMessage ("ah. Tourists on your photos. iPhone user?")

- and you tout it as "16 Neural Engine cores" during the sales, with no associated software, no listed material feature, just hand-waving,

- Siri maxxes out at "There is no contact named 'What's the weather today' in your agenda",

Then can't really claim that Apple engineers' problem was really the bad luck that ML wasn't the determining part of the future. It's more like misreading the room for 5 to 10 years straight.

Apple engineering's excellence on vertical integration and supply chain control gave them absolute power over our world (with merit), it just failed at that particular project. Which occupies 40% of our CPUs.


The ANE hasn't been sitting empty for 10 years. All those Photos features like face recognition and auto classification run on ANE.

Some features using the Neural Engine:

* Face ID since the iPhone X released in 2017

* fall and crash detection

* Live captions in videos, calls, and spoken audio

* facial recognition in the Photos app

* voice isolation in calls

There's more, but I'll stop there.


Dictation, text to speech, some of that computational photography, etc too!

> an exageration but AI's contributions in iOS aren't visible

If you want to ignore them, that’s right. In the real world, they’ve been talking about ML and how it’s making pictures or such-and-such aspect of the OS better for about a decade now. It might not be flashy, but it is used throughout the OS.

> Meanwhile Google has features that people actually notice like removing tourists from your holidays photos — worse: it's mostly a simple collage feature working on the main CPU, and it has the same social effect as green bubbles in iMessage ("ah. Tourists on your photos. iPhone user?")

The feature to do this has been in the Photos application for years, what are you talking about?


How many upvotes do you have? I'll assume that will be representative of the prevalence of your case.

Sorry for you situation and stay strong.


Don't. Large iPhones are the deadweight of a ball and chain, and fits in no pockets. Next one will be the SE, and even if I buy an external battery, it's still lighter than the ingot Pro Max. Also you can buy one every 1.5 years.

— "Start my chronometer"

— "There is no contact named 'Chronometer'"

Maybe if we mock the iPhone enough, they'll stop autocorrecting words with other words that are on the opposite side of the keyboard. Or mistype letters with the letters just next to them.

iPhone is laughing stock. A neverending comedy of "There is no track named 'Call Mom' in your Apple Music library."


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