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FWIW HDR works fine in Linux. Steam Deck (which runs it) has HDR support, both for its interface and for games. Bit confused by your comment, honestly.

Your bank sucks. The few times I've done a chargeback, it's been totally pain free. I do advise trying to get a refund informally first as that is expected by the CC networks.

Usually it's the Phillipines or an African country or something, but so very many times.

Nope. Look at the flight track. They went all the way back.

Good point, I was thinking they were over the ocean and that was naturally the closest airport, but it looks like they could have landed in e.g. Nova Scotia in a shorter time period.

Isn't that what they did?

I thought the same thing but it's still not a good look. The big tech companies offering this sort of thing should probably find ways to give better guarantees about data isolation, even if that requires e.g. clients paying additional fees.

Heya Tom, it's Bob, from the office down the hall

As of right now, it says Pro includes Code and Cowork. (At least, for me. There could always be A/B testing going on.)

While this is true, very often that is the impact of a third party vote in a federal election. See the election of one George W. Bush and the impact of Mr. Nader.

The product isn't Facebook, Quest, or Instagram. The product isn't advertising. The product isn't even people.

The product is the stock price.

Viewed through that lens, keeping the hype going at all costs makes sense.

Realistically, if it in fact did take 5 minutes to do the cleanroom reimplementation, you could just process updates from the OSS source in realtime.

I love that this was ostensibly written by Vint Cerf.

Good lord, I can only imagine the wasted electricity.

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Everybody will slowly move to "web only" as 30% would kill their ability to compete with anybody else.

Frankly, yes, please. I mean, I'm biased as my whole career is in web app development, but there are so many things these days that do not need a whole native app. They're just communicating with a server backend somewhere, using none of the unique native functionality of the phone (much of which is available in browser APIs these days anyway). I can block ads in a web app much more easily. It's much harder to do customer-hostile things like block screenshots in a web app.

Native apps definitely have a place, but I think they're very overused, mostly for reasons that benefit the business at the expense of the customer.

AI doesn't need to drive a tractor. It needs to orchestrate the systems and people who do.

I've been rather expecting AI to start acting as a manager with people as its arms in the real world. It reminds me of the Manna short story[1], where it acts as a people manager with perfect intelligence at all times, interconnected not only with every system but also with other instances in other companies (e.g. for competitive wage data to minimize opex / pay).

1. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Big companies would outsource this position within a year, I guarantee it. It's highly measurable which means it can be "optimized".

It's not that simple. I'll point you at this Harvard Law Review article[1] to start but shareholder value is not the only consideration for executives and doesn't even need to override.

1. https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/will-the-real-sha...

I dread the day that Logitech kills the servers for Harmony. If they don't release the IR code database, they're going to have a lot of people (myself included) pretty annoyed.

(To be clear, they still work today if you can get a second hand remote / hub.)

Heck, we could just snatch people off the street and declare they cannot prove they are a citizen therefore they have no Constitutional protections.

I'm not sure if you intended this as a joke, but this is happening now, even if you do have proof of citizenship on you[1]:

Congressman Bennie Thompson, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, reported that “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a “definitive” determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate” when the app says a person is undocumented.

1. https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-face-recogn...

Anecdotally as someone in a large tech company, fairly common and much easier to get than a lot of visa classes. But then, you have to be Canadian or Mexican (and the Canadian one is generally easier).

Also keep in mind that it's a non-immigrant, non-dual intent visa, so if you end up wanting to stay, you'll need to adjust to another class at some point.

I'm assuming good faith debate against my own judgment, but in case anyone is confused, here's your sign:

1st Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Read that carefully and note that the word "citizen" is nowhere to be found.

Next, some may argue that "the people" inherently represents only citizens. Jurisprudence has generally accepted that phrase to mean everyone, including illegal immigrants, but it depends on the surrounding context[1]. The idea that the Bill of Rights applies only to citizens, though, doesn't match any court interpretation of which I'm aware.

1. https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/aliens/

Thanks for the detailed answer, I think that'll be a relief for many. However, would you say this still is a volatile situation for people who are facing this issue? Are the rulings _final_ on this? Or is there chance of people getting stuck in limbo?

No, rulings are not final. SCOTUS could and very well may disagree with more than a hundred years of jurisprudence and overrule e.g. US v. Wong Kim Ark[1], enabling much easier denaturalization by the federal government. Here's an example article from a right-wing think tank about why they believe SCOTUS should overrule Ark[2].

1. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/169us649

2. https://americanmind.org/features/the-case-against-birthrigh...

Executive orders cannot overrule the Constitution.

14th Amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

There are rumblings about "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" somehow excluding folks based on their immigration status, but frankly, the meaning is clear, and jurisprudence recognizes this. The jurisdiction carveout is for international diplomats, i.e. people who are literally not subject to US law. Immigrants, even illegal immigrants, are subject to US law. Stating otherwise would have vast repercussions.

Wouldn't that, uh, make your own headlights invisible to you?

You could additionally use encryption at rest where the key is only ever on the client.

To be fair, a handful of large companies have explicitly said[1][2] that their layoffs were largely about individual performance. All my experience as a manager in a large tech company says that that's almost certainly not the whole story, and unfair to many of the folks getting let go, but official word from the companies say otherwise.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/14/meta-targeting-lowest-perfor...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/microsoft-confirms-performan...

Receiving government assistance? Some kinds are taxable, some aren’t.

One would think that the government should know what government assistance you're getting. In any case, taxable benefits get reported to the IRS automatically on form 1099-G.

Moved states? You have multiple state filings now.

Arguably irrelevant. You can change how filings work federally without changing how state filings work. Perfect is the enemy of good, etc.

Got married? divorced? Splitting custody or property? Special tax forms to fill.

Sure. Sometimes you have life events that happen where you'll need to make adjustments. Such possible events can be mentioned in the letter / email you get from the IRS, with details as to how to adjust the filing. This is typically how it's been done in other countries with automatic filing.

Native American? Veteran with disability? Senior? Student with loans? Bankruptcy? Freelance income? Etc.

Income typically gets reported to the IRS on a 1099 or a W-2.

Loan interest gets reported to the IRS on 1098-E, so the deduction could be automatically calculated.

Presumably the IRS would know if you previously filed a tax exemption and could assume that hasn't changed if it's based on things like having registered membership in a federally recognized tribe. Even if you haven't filed that exemption before, presumably the government would know that you registered the membership.

The government knows your birth date so presumably they'd be able to calculate when you become a senior, where that's relevant.

Bankruptcy is one of those special cases that I'd expect would be an exception case where you'd need to adjust the filing (and your trustee would probably help with that).

Most people don't have special cases that require changes. The IRS already has a shockingly large amount of data on people. I encourage you to try getting your tax transcript some time[1], it should be illuminating.

1. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript

Redis had (may still have?) a billboard on the 101 saying something along the lines of, "my boss really wants to you know we're an AI company", which I thought was pretty funny. Hope this bubble pops soon and we can go back to making products that solve problems for people.

Oops, forgot the URL: https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_starte...