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> Only one specific device can ever login
That's entirely service dependent, and the standard doesn't mandate "Service must not allow multiple passkeys"
Unfortunately, given the laziness, incompetence, and cost-consciousness of organizations like traditional financial institutions, telcos, governments, etc., many of them have & will end up with that implementation.
Yeah - and as a user, I don't want my device manufacturer to have that level of influence or control over the authentication that I use for unrelated services.
Stronger than "don't care about" (at least if I and some friends I've discussed this with count as normal people): this is actively what I don't want! I want control over my authentication and I don't want it bound to device, browser, OS, etc.
Yeah - for sure I found it a bit strange... I guess the use cases (and maybe target users) are different:
Merlin - Use lots of data, storage, and analysis to help me identify what bird this is eBird - I can personally identify lots and lots of birds: keep track of all the ones that I and other have seen with maximum speed and efficiency
And their eBird app! A masterpiece of design for a user base that they deeply understand. Something of a learning curve, but extremely efficient and useful for advanced / expert users.
I spent around 20 minutes arguing with ChatGPT when I asked the question and we eventually came to this conclusion... It's a visa that's not a visa.
There are many examples of important paper records (property, birth/death, etc) being lost in fires or floods, so it's not the case that "everything worked perfectly fine" in those days either.
> The purpose of a college degree is NOT a job > If knowledge and prestige is all that matters
I disagree. The primary purpose of the college degree is the job. If you don't need a job (which derives from the signaling factor of the degree == the prestige), you can just study the same material and gain the knowledge by yourself without getting a degree.
When all the "simple solutions" are "not that simple," maybe it's a problem with the regulations, not the solutions...
Which is actually a good reason for entities subject to GDPR to forbid use of personal messaging apps on work devices... (And to forbid users to use work / official apps for personal messaging.)
So... I used to work in the "digital movie & TV selling" industry. Our product detail pages, like pretty much all our competitors, had language on the call-to-action buttons that said "purchase" (and also, as an alternative, "rent," for 48- or 72-hour viewing).
At one point, about 10 years ago, one of the major Hollywood studios came to us and required us to change that because they believed that exactly this sort of thing would happen and we would all be setting ourselves up for liability because consumers would rightfully assume that that meant they owned the movie "forever."
You can fit about 8,000 MacBook Pros into a 40-foot container in their retail packaging. If the cost of shipping a container went up by USD8,000 (a very large amount), that would be about USD1 per MBP. It's not the shipping that's driving the price increase.
Year Average Spot Rate (USD)
2006 $1,825
2007 $1,775
2008 $1,383
2009 $1,350
2010 $1,900
2011 $1,450
2012 $2,000
2013 $1,750
2014 $1,900
2015 $1,125
2016 $1,350
2017 $1,525
2018 $1,775
2019 $1,490
2020 $3,008
2021 $8,608
2022 $5,500
2023 $1,575
2024 $4,740
2025 $3,150
2026 (YTD) $3,835
A strategic reserve of a commodity that (historically) depreciates at ~50% per year is a terrible trade for occasionally avoiding demand-driven price spikes.
Is that relevant here,
given that Google was creating an official thing
quite close to his thing
at the same time?
(And why are we writing like this?)
Pretty sure that the agreement that Google employees sign (a "contract") when hired reflects exactly that. At least at did when I joined (I left > 3 years ago, speaking here only for myself...)
I mean, if you look at it that way, it's already named 100% after a single company...
> how can a general purpose robot perform them better
Better than what? It seems that as long as they perform the tasks "better" (cheaper / faster / lower-error) than the humans that are currently performing them, that is an improvement for the factory owner.
You could try SmugMug - I was a happy customer for almost 20 years
Sorry, but why is that a problem? If they didn't find someone, they closed the posting, then reopened it later, what is the issue?
Or, as in some cases, perhaps they did find someone? I've been at companies where we hired many engineers sequentially over time using the same job description. Should we just have arbitrarily changed the JD?
There's a story along these lines about all the scientists / physicists involved in the Manhattan Project, ending with the answer being John von Neumann.
While rocketry is older than Newton, even in 1920, it was widely believed that rockets would not work in space (and therefore couldn't get us to the moon).
https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-the-history-of-astronomy/...
Luckily, the Times did issue a correction - almost 50 years later, on July 17, 1969. The day after NASA launched the first mission to the moon.
I've seen plenty of waiters, taxi drivers, etc., be quite happy to receive tips in USD in many countries where USD is not the official currency. In fact, I can't think of a single time when I've seen such a tip be rejected because of its currency.
That's quite different from trying to pay a bill (invoice) in USD in those countries.
I'd say that a 2022 Subaru Outback is not a "big SUV" - the EPA classified it as a small SUV (medium starting 2026), and it had a crossover station wagon body style.
Now I do wonder about those people who buy a Chevy Tahoe, Ford Expedition, or Toyota Sequoia and then complain about gas consumption...
> I think you may need to think out your entire post before typing such contradictions.
Ships != Boats
I email images as attachments very, very frequently. I go through the browser's file picker and I pick out the photo by its filename. I would be surprised and angry if somewhere along the way the filename got changed to some random string without my knowledge and consent.
In fact, I often refer to the name of the photo in the body of the email (e.g., "front_before.jpg shows the front of the car when I picked it up, front_after.jpg shows it after the accident.")
I imagine this is an extremely common use case.
"Obviously"
There are plenty of use cases where the filename is relevant (and many, many people intentionally use the image name for sorting / cataloging).
If you're in the US, just send it unencrypted over the internet. The NSA will kindly archive it for you and then you can submit a FOIA request whenever you need access to it.
Kidding. Sort of...
There are something like 24 million millionaires in the United States... Estimates are that Americans spent $157 billion on pets in 2025.
There are a lot of people who could easily choose to spend $3,500 on a computer.
> So while a consumer photographer, may use their phone or compact or all-in-one camera, enthusiast photographer will probably spend $3000 - $5000 in camera gear.
It's interesting that you chose photographers as the example here. In many cases that I've seen, enthusiast photographers spend much more than professional photographers on their gear because the photographers make their money with their gear and therefore need to justify it, while the enthusiasts are often tech people, successful doctors, etc., who spend lots and lots on money on their hobbies...
In any case, your point stands, that "enthusiast" computer users would easily spend $3-4K or more on gear to play games, train models, etc.