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Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:03PM (#44871544)
Emacs is the unholiest of them all.
No need to retype manually. If you upload a screenshot of the error to ChatGPT, it will transcribe it for you and even give you some hints on how to resolve it.
As mentioned by another person in this thread [0], it is likely that it was Ilya's work that was getting replicated by another "secret" team, and the "different opinions on the same person" was Sam's opinions of Ilya. Perhaps Sam saw him as an unstable element and a single point of failure in the company, and wanted to make sure that OpenAI would be able to continue without Ilya?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=38357843

Re:We moved our servers to Iceland on Saturday March 30, 2019 @06:21AM (#19528716)
I believe the point here is that they claim that they care about security, while their Icelandic VPS hosting provider can just dump the host server memory, which would include the encryption keys.