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Seems pretty simple in your analogy.
You can be proud of having commissioned a thing… be it landscaping or software… just not for making anything you didn’t.
And of course there are shades of grey in between, depending on how critical you were to the doing.
By end of decade, no? Seems like domestic fab will always be two steps behind. I assume by design.
No, it does not.
More like "probably", "yes", and "probably not."
Yes, sometimes a healthy company will eventually have their business undermined by some future technology.
Except that's not what we were discussing.
Wow. I just tried it and it worked like magic. Thanks for mentioning that.
What does that mean to be "transformative", as a defense?
I thought that was explicitly disallowed use... like turning someone else's book into an audiobook and selling streaming access to it.
Or writing a film adaptation and selling the film.
Clearly I was thinking about it all wrong. Those wouldn't be allowed, even if you legally aquire the book from a store or library.
Nah.
We know what good looks like in financial results and reputation. It's really not that complicated.
The rest of that bullshit isn't about evaluating a working company, it's about gamblers gambling on non-companies before they become real companies.
They spend 18 rounds over six months vetting a developer with silly puzzles that must be solved from memory, with an audience. It's about as far from the job as possible.
This happened by trying to find capable people that didn't come to you through nepotism and paper mills and such.
The strange thing is that nobody has developed a hiring battery for the naturally hyperconfident employee you met through the grapevine, who costs you millions, and as often as not, irreparably damages the company.
Everywhere.
Though I think you can buy them if you prefer.
For years before LLMs got big a comment I would often see was, "Google search is worthless now. I basically solve all my problems by searching reddit."
They bundled existing apps in a subscription.
The company can provide secure enclave and allow the architecture to be audited by third parties.
Which apple does.
It's largely academic though, as almost nobody opts-in to escalated e2e posture in apple services unless they're a high risk person (journalist, dissident, etc).
The headaches that come from e2e everything are too great for most people.
Anywhere you move it, it's executive branch stuff.
I'm not sure what a bureaucratic shuffle would buy you in today's environment.
Sorry, it went right over my head!
It's telling that these come from people trying to implement tracking and high visibility into user behavior, and complaining that Apple won't let them even though Apple conceptually could.
Except ublock, which can't do what it does the way it normally does, for the same reason you can't have any plugin inspecting realtime activity and doing scriptlet injection.
You can have ad blocking. You can't have plugins with that kind of low level access to your browser activity.
You can prefer something that allows dangerous behavior as a trade-off for greater capabilities, but you can't deny it's a safety trade-off where Apple picked what's safer.
really light (lite?) on
Light. Lite is product marketing seepage.
I did a build from their repo and pushed it to the Apple TV, just to try out the rewrite changes. It's considerably improved, and plenty nice for my purposes. I didn't feel like I had to, though. I'll delete it and use the app store version when they cut a release.
I think a lot of people are doing stuff that's well beyond what I use it for. I just have my blurays and dvds on there, so it's possible I don't know I'm missing some important stuff that other people need.
I had some issues with it too, though not as bad as you seem to have experienced. Good new is they're reworking it, heavily, and seem to be near a new release.
For my own purposes I cloned it and pushed the build to my AppleTV... and it's considerably better than the last app store release (quite a while ago).
I'm not suggesting anyone do the same, but just saying your problems might be about to solve themselves.
I haven't touched a media server setup since like XBMC and earlier tuner board + dvr era stuff, but recently did a Jellyfin setup for all my purchased physical media.
It was crazy smooth for me. TMDB stuff just worked. Movies, TV, extras organization just worked. Apple TV, Roku, and iOS devices as clients just worked. The Apple TV client isn't great, but they're rewriting a big chunk of it now.
It doesn't do the sharing scenario that people are solving with Plex, but for my purposes it has been perfect.
It feels wasteful, but I do it too. Could definitely be an ignorance problem where I don't really know what the alternative is.
Also mentioned was Apple, who gets to shrug and carry on... now with fewer manufacturing issues.
Microsoft has to be shaking. For the first time in three-or-so decades they were finally involved in something big when it happened instead of being years behind everyone else. If this crashes they're going to have people jumping out of windows.
Yeah... like, does watching an Attenborough documentary or two offset many hours of marvel movies? Asking for a friend.
...while proving their technology has finally reduced these questions down to what's best, instead of "how much effort will it take to be good enough".
If you have unlimited access to the magical development tool, then why would you not?
But they haven't.
Sounds like amazing fun. Good luck with it.
These things have been "good" for a while now. And yet, companies like Amazon and Microsoft aren't showing significant improvement in their most visible products.
If it's not obviously showing for the all-in, AI-selling companies, I simply don't expect serious improvement for everyone else.
They're undeniably neat tools, but so far there's no observable evidence that they're transformative.
That’s awesome. I did some low budget hobby ones in the late 90s/early 00s… back when we had to rent time on real hardware for editing. Nothing that’s even online.
I’ll check that one out.
OpenAIs annoys me. In the “can’t be unseen” way.
The lines don’t actually work. Like they asked their bot to make a solomons knot style logo and it flubbed it.
But apparently it was good enough for purpose.
It’s the NES Game Genie.
Unlimited lives and the ability to walk through walls is great fun for a bit. But also, you never actually played the game and it kinda ruined it for you, for all time.
You’ve seen the outcome, you solved nothing, learned nothing, and there’s zero reason for you to ever be proud of it.
The outcome isn’t yours, it’s the chatbots. Maybe you lie to yourself a bit… but you were barely necessary.
Must be nice for all six of them.
What movie did you make? Anything we’d know?