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State of the art agents don't usually need such fixed guidance anymore. I've been using Opus 5.5 with Xcode and simply prompting things like "make sure all of our test Suites use the .dependencies modifier, but only if they use dependencies internally" or "make sure none of our test methods are @MainActor, just access the necessary state using standard concurrency constructs". For larger changes, providing the examples you want is often enough to get it most of the way, or even all the way, there. I've had simples prompts for things like "move all standalone SwiftUI view that seem reusable to our Design framework, and create a list of those which can't be moved without effort, listing by complexity".

Overall, there's much less need for prompt skills anymore. They're still very useful for things like best practices, or things you need to make as reproducible as possible, but big skill and planning sessions aren't nearly as necessary anymore.

Yet another thing to make illegal in '29. We're going to have to reform the whole notion of the executive.

Most of the Security framework still dates from OS 9.

I'd rather something tell me exactly why this popped up in the first place, as every new OS version seems to introduce more triggers. I have apps that now pop this up when I quit, which doesn't make much sense.

Once the OS and app hooks are in place, I think its biggest win is going to be plain language automation. Even if we don't have it write all of our emails and report, simply being able to say "show me the emails Bob sent about the project" or "did Bob ever say he was going to call Phil?" and get an accurate answer will be huge. We're approaching that in programming, when I can use general terms to automate operations within a codebase. The dream of "programming" with plain language may finally be realized.

You could certainly argue US pardons are supposed to work the same way too, it's just no one has standing to challenge the blanket pardons, but I don't think anyone has tried recently. And the current regime is happy to keep such things around so they can use it on the way out the door.

Biden did not pardon "everyone around him". He made specific, targeted pardons for people the GOP had already stated they were going to persecute, like his son and Fauci.

But yes, preemptive pardons shouldn't be possible, but we'll need an amendment to reform the power at all.

I imagine Faro would be fine taking advantage of Yellowstone were it not for the fact that Firebreak and Cyan were keeping it from erupting.

Really hope we get Horizon 3 sooner than later, I loved The Frozen Wilds and it would be great to get back up there.

More than ten years ago a coworker wrote a tool to generate Swift from iOS storyboards, to pass data through segues and give us typed access to identifiers. First version of it used XSLT to transform the storyboard XML. A powerful, if niche technology.

How was it better than an AppleTV playing ripped Blu-rays? With Infuse on the AppleTV I've been able to play every rip I have (4K HDR movies, dozens of TV episodes).

The MV3 API isn't enough to block YouTube ads on their own, but Safari ad blockers which also include web extension API blocking can see enough traffic to block YT ads. 1Blocker does this, and even StopTheMadness Pro's blocking have enough flexibility to do it.

I don't usually correct this, but in her iconic photo she's standing next to printed output of an Apollo simulator run, not the actual source code for the AGC or lunar module.

Edit: this may or may not be true. From what I can find it's probably a combination of both.

IIRC she was running the simulation side of the lab that produced the AGC and LEM guidance software at the time of Apollo 11, then the AGC side, then the unified lab when it was reorganized in 1970.

This is why I use Terminal as my primary terminal, and iTerm as my AI terminal. iTerm gets no permissions, I move specific things to Terminal to do it. Plus I can then style them to optimize for the different usages. And iTerm has better harness hooks anyway.

I would still like to see not only more granular permissions, but single use permissions. Once I grant iTerm access to Documents for whatever reason, it always has such permission. I would be nice to limit that to a single use, or a single harness session.

Eckert and Mauchly weren't reliable narrators of the history of their work, given how much they needed to claim in order to get the patents that were later invalidated. They claimed quite a few things that were later disproven in court or through historical study. At the least, Eniac was designed by the team at the Moore School.

von Neumann's "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" was both a summary of discussions by the Eniac team as well as von Neumann's own original work proving and expanding on various aspects of those discussions. It's called the von Neumann architecture because he was the author of the seminal paper, not because he laid any particular claim to the ideas. Eckert and Mauchly were mostly upset about the paper's existence, regardless of author, because it made it impossible for them to patent the stored program idea in general.

I'm pretty sure Kay's not quite correct about the Eniac not being a stored program computer. In it's original form it obviously was not, as it had to physically reconfigured to solve different problems. However, after the war it was rebuilt to operate like any other stored program (von Neumann architecture) computer, as it was the first recipient of the design philosophy seen in the EDVAC report. It operated in that mode from '48 to '55, when it was decommissioned.

ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer is an excellent summary of the initial design and redesign of the Eniac.

Even if the Democrats take the House and the Senate this year, and pass a new Voting Rights Act, there's no reason to believe it will have any effect, since it will be immediately vetoed by the President. So I'm not sure your expectations are in line with reality here.

26 - 28 I expect the Democrats to investigate, write reports, block nominees, and occasionally pass legislation they know will be vetoed but otherwise have no effect. I hope everyone is ready for reality here.

Which was always pretty stupid. At best it means the Cylons can't hack the whole ship, just whichever part they exploited to gain access remotely in the first place. But really the Cylons would've needed exploits for each individual system anyway, since simply connecting them with wires shouldn't just do that. And unless those other systems are completely air gapped with no wireless or other access, it would be trivial for them to still gain remote access, or have one of their infiltrators provide a local connection of some kind. AFAIR that was never a plot point, which was odd.

Until the first unlock after a reboot, no, like I said. Given how rarely iOS devices are rebooted it's not an issue.

After the first unlock after a reboot yes, except for those items with very high security (usually just keychain items) that require an unlock for every access. Lock screen items can be locked every time you lock the phone, or set to allow access while locked (after first unlock). Unfortunately this is an all or nothing setting, unless the widget specifically uses the redaction views to hide content.

Oddly, I find the weather widget refreshes much more often than the app. I'll tap on the widget, which is up to date, which launches the weather app, which could be from yesterday, and have to wait while it refreshes. Apparently the app doesn't implement any background refresh at all, which is really weird.

There are, watch the "Strike a pose with adaptive layouts" video they posed yesterday (https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/). High level components like split views will adapt automatically, while things like scroll views won't, so there are new adaptive views (AdaptiveView, UIArrangementViewController) to help you move things around.

You can use the weather widget on the lock screen, and as long as you have lock screen content when locked enabled, you can see the current area's weather just fine. Or do you want the whole app experience?

It's also because, until Apple's C-series models, they would've had to use Qualcomm modems which had a percentage-based royalty, and Apple would likely need a new contract for usage in Macs, so may had to pay even more. Even with their own modems they still have to pay Qualcomm's patent royalties, so it's likely just don't want to do that on devices which can cost over $10k today.

That may actually be what I need, I'll give it try.

I'm describing a hypothetical feature that I want. Essentially an automatic version of mkv-renamer that can identify series, episodes, and special content based on the signature of the ripped files. For whatever reason, such a service doesn't even exist.

Also a lifetime pass Plex user, I'll leave as soon as someone has a good solution for identifying raw Bluray rips automatically. Why do I have to manually name the episodes? We had CDDB last century, why isn't there an equivalent for raw video rips? The ripped data should be identical, a simple hash should uniquely identify it.

5G the cellular connection, or 5GHz bands for wifi? GP was talking about wifi.

Seems like we'd need a modern version that's less susceptible to jamming, otherwise aren't we just replacing one jammable service with another?

Now if only they hadn't discontinued the Mac Pro. Could be quite the AI machine with multiple compute GPUs at higher bandwidth than an external Thunderbolt enclosure.

That's the Sign in with Apple domain, not the Hide My Email domain. HME is remaining at icloud.com instead of moving to private.icloud.com as well. From the linked article:

> After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com.

Making animations faster is one of the main reasons why, despite all the glass effect rendering, the 26 Apple OSes can feel faster than their previous versions. (Not always, of course.) They simply shortened the animations. The 27 versions do the same thing. Of course, this doesn't help all interactions, but it definitely improves the first impression.