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> MacBook Neo features two USB-C ports for connecting accessories or an external display[5]. Both ports can be used for charging. MacBook Neo also includes a headphone jack for wired audio.

> [5] MacBook Neo features two USB-C ports — USB 3 (left) and USB 2 (right). External display connectivity supported on left USB 3 port only.

So, 1 display. Note that there’s probably already $100 of dongles on top of a Mac price, but at least this one would be an excellent fit for my father.


That is the joke, I think. The game is to touch anything and try to not make the rest fall down.

Not sure. It's not it being unstable, it's small bricks moving bigger stuff to the side and maybe even upward. If I missed the joke I just don't find it funny.

Simply clicking on the empty background already makes things fall down.

You’ve just resolved a problem I had. I had this problem on a search engine, but I made it as a “v2”. And I told customers to switch to v2. And you know the v2 problem: Discrepancies that customers like. So both versions have fans, but we really need to pull the plug on v1. You’ve just solved it: I should have indexed even records with v1, odd records with v2. Then only I would know which engine was used.

But when meeting friends, you’d have to agree in advance to a spot and time and wait aimlessly, so many times in the day. Then you’d pick up smoking or reading depending on your character.

Sounds wonderful.

Did you just try to illustrate his point? Not emphasizing with someone’s difficulty and trying to turn his difficulty into a flaw of his character is a good example of how society is destructuring itself.

> Volunteer at a youth group, sports camp, coding class, whatever. Or just be an "uncle" to some of your friends' kids.

I’d love to have had kids, but ew. That is creepy. When you’re a single man even just beyond 30, trying to be around other’s kids isn’t a good idea in today’s society. Besides, trying to play your part while the kid is in another education schema is inconvenient because any meaningful perspective on life might conflict with the parents’.


At the beginning of the internet, I used to save all webpages where I’d find info, just in case I would be stuck without a connection or if the website removed it. I had parts of the MDN.

The internet never fell. I bet it’ll be the same with AI. You will never not have AI.

The big difference is the internet was a liberation movement: Everything became open. And free. AI is the opposite: By design, everything is closed.


Not only that. AI will have increasingly diminishing returns as it relies on good quality human written code. As that starts being less and less true, quality of generated code will also suffer since at some point AI will train from AI generated content.

> Well, Privacy.com won that dispute and I got that money back.

Well, it seems like ChatGPT’s automated litigation resolution with Privacy.com got lazy. I wonder how a company with an AI can lose in a dispute instead of smokescreening the opponent with legitimate arguments and legalese.


It helps when you have a video posted on social media the day you cancelled and a video of talking to a clueless AI customer retention system that seems to not agree or understand how time works.

Also, chargeback dispute is limited to 3 rounds of back and fourth by Visa and MasterCard both. They don't get to endlessly come back etc.


Remember when LinkedIn was condemned because they copied Gmail’s login page saying “Log in with Google”, then you entered your password, then they retrieved all your contacts, even the bank, the mailing lists, your ex, and spammed the hell out of them, saying things in your name in the style of “You haven’t joined in 5 days, I want you to subscribe” ?


The original version of the LinkedIn mobile app uploaded your personal contacts stored on your smart phone and SIM to their server (to also "invite" them), without requesting user permission.

After that, I never installed it again (but too late), and I bought a second (non-smart) phone.


When I created an account on LinkedIn, a long time ago, I used the web. When it asked if I wanted to invite other people from my list of contacts, I clicked yes. I thought it would let me manually enter some contacts, or at worst, give me a list to choose from, with some kind of permissions prompt. Somehow, it accessed my entire Gmail contact list, and invited them all. My goodness, that was terrifying (I didn't even know it was possible) and embarrassing. Companies are not to be trusted, ever. Especially now, as they've proven for decades they have zero moral compass, and no qualms about abusing people for profit.


WhatsApp infamously did just that.

It vacuumed the contacts and spammed them with "Join me on WhatsApp". One of the reasons for their initial exponential growth.


Almost everything coming out of Silicon Valley has an unethical past(present?) if you look at it a bit more closely.


Venmo did this too


I don't know how they're still in business after that. They also had a massive data breach at one point.


Because super-majority doesn't really care if the product does what it's intended to in the end.


Do you have a reference with more information on that?



They used a legit google oauth but with broad rights. They did pull the contact and repeatedly spam them as personal emails. There were lawsuits.



I remember boycotting them for many years after that, yes.

Now lots of contact forms (not even necessarily job related!) are treating it as a required field. Pretty distasteful situation.


> the strangest part about this story was that the child’s mother was dating a convicted sex offender

70.6% of beaten children are beaten at the mother’s custody. Most often it turns out the choice of companion of the mother is inappropriate. While many see that as blaming the mother and it is a huge taboo in our society, it is such a huge humanitarian problem that it’s worth educating women better over that specific problem, and taking sanctions if necessary.

70.8% in the case of death. Source: CDC 2001-2006 if I remember. Incoming: Many ad-hominem about the source, it’s a problem that never gets addressed.


> While many see that as blaming the mother

Yes, that's how I see it.

> it is such a huge humanitarian problem that it’s worth educating women better over that specific problem, and taking sanctions if necessary.

"Sanctions"? This is an article about successful digital sleuthing, but your takeaway is that we need to punish the mother?


Not to mention we're talking about rape not beatings. Beatings wouldn't put DHS on the case.


A lot of evils cannot be eradicated with just more education. Sunshine I we as a society have to put our foot down.


There's been several cases of mothers being put in jail for child negligence in such situations in my country.


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