davidt84

Thank you for your insightful comment that adds great depth to the debate.

Did you actually read the article?

Doesn't matter what you're working on, burnout doesn't help anyone.

It still is. Complaining on the Microsoft "support" site for an MVP saying you should just stick to outlook classic and new outlook was only for home users.

They didn't respond when I pointed out the official notification that classic outlook was intended to be deprecated (and apparently now is)

Combining the user input with the model weights to produce the output is still an algorithm.

If you're going to engage in pedantry, at least be technically correct.

I know nothing about how Cursor is implemented, so this may be wildly off base, but...

Perhaps it is written using some kind of JavaScript framework that doesn't allow access to the process environment by default, but this lets them work around that to access the environment like a native app?

One reason you'd want an IDE to have access to your environment is to enable any tools/compilers/whatever you launch from the IDE to inherit the environment (say, to access SSH_AGENT_SOCK, or whatever).

I'm very confused here, the argument is just JavaScript code... What is passing that argument?

Assuming that JavaScript is evaluated but the launched process, that will serialise the entire environment -- which is passed to every process anyway.

Bad news for Tesla?

The user needed no encouragement to switch it off.

They'd spent the last 10 minutes swearing at windows for taking forever to shutdown and were about 10 seconds from saying screw it, and turning it off anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/cfpb-vought-s...

They're all subject to FOIA...

What am I supposed to say in response to a comment conveying the message "be a good customer" with no further elaboration and the source "believe me"?

Perhaps you could say something concrete, rather than vague waffle and assertions?

I read "no file size restrictions" and assume I can create a file as large as the storage space I can afford.

What else would I assume?

If there's a 1TB limit I would expect that to be described as "create files up to 1TB in size".

No, this is fascism.

According to the article, you are wrong.

Start anew with what?

What would replace the orgs you are shutting down?

Issue a warning or otherwise make it clear before sending when a contact name differs from the email's official sender name.

An email [address] does not have an "official sender name", so it is impossible for anyone to do what the author is suggesting Google should do.

The behaviour is potentially unintuitive, but also an almost inevitable result of how email has always worked.

If you're not trying to pass them off as authentic, I think they're just called replicas, not fakes.

Or they die.

No, not everyone is as lacking in empathy as you.

Without knowingly being infected with COVID is probably a better way to phrase that.

He also said "I believe both those things".

Why would Sam Altman be incentivised to compete with OpenAI? I don't understand what you're trying to say.

But in the end your conclusion is the exact opposite of what he said, and I don't see what justifies that interpretation.

As that's pretty much spying on the user, I don't think browsers make it easy to do that.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Nevertheless, https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/program/getenv

Hmm, I'm apparently correct for C++11, where calling getenv only is thread safe, but that's not guaranteed by earlier standards (or, as far as I can tell, by C or POSIX).

But it is possible to safely use it in a single threaded program.

There's no way to use it safely in a multi threaded application that may use setenv (unless you add your own synchronisation, and ensure everything uses it, even third party libraries).

That isn't thread safe, it's safER.

I am also quite technical, thanks.