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I don’t trust the accuracy of this prompt at all given the many examples of prior hallucinations. The typo in the first couple of lines doesn’t help either.

As a programmer, I've got a love for code but I have to accept that this is going to be the future for 90% of consumer-facing apps. The most common abstractions for the most common use-cases are already built and they're going to stay that way in my opinion. Once the "hard thinking" work is done building these abstractions, it's just a matter of connecting the dots to bring a product to market in <insert industry of choice>. While there's been no-code tools for a long time (Yahoo pipes being my earliest memory) there's no doubt they're improving every day.

I think in a few years (decades?), "developer" and "programmer" will mean something very different that they do today.

I’d guess Search is pretty well segregated from basically everything else because of how valuable it is - I’m logged into Google on Search and it works fine (unlike everything else)

All Mac portables with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that ensures the microphone is disabled whenever the lid is closed.

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On the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers with the T2 chip, and on the 15-inch MacBook Pro portables from 2019 or later, this disconnect is implemented in hardware alone.

Do these statements not contradict each other for the 15" 2018 MacBook Pro, for example, which includes a T2 chip? This would also contradict earlier documentation provided on the T2 chip by Apple themselves [1].

From [1]:

All Mac portables with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that ensures that the microphone is disabled whenever the lid is closed. This disconnect is implemented in hardware alone, and therefore prevents any software, even with root or kernel privileges in macOS, and even the software on the T2 chip, from engaging the microphone when the lid is closed.

[1] https://www.apple.com/euro/mac/shared/docs/Apple_T2_Security... (October 2018, page 13)

The main problem is really the heat/battery life—my laptop has a 6-core processor inside it with seriously inadequate cooling performance (with it being so thin). I guess the lifespan argument is technically be true but isn't the main reason I disable TB.

The 20% is worth it for me because the computer seems to be fast enough anyway.

There's likely a way to get root without having to read the password each time, this is just what I managed to hack together. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions I would be happy to fix this ASAP!

I assume the first script isn't the benchmarked program, but that it just generates it. The pure parsing of the second script would be the benchmark.

Having said that, the fact it takes 5 seconds is pretty arbitrary—we can't really say it's good or bad unless there is some basis for comparison.

iPad Pro 8 years ago

I think this essentially means the bezels are the same width the entire way round.

I’m at university and often find myself ignoring the lecturer and reading through the slides in my own time, making my own notes. The only reason I show up is because the lecturers often give extra information they don’t put on the slides, so I always keep an ear open.