mike eggleston

When Chrome removes its' Keystone updater, then I might give it another shot. Until then, I will stick to Brave for my Chromium-based browsing.

For information as to why this is bad, there is a website called https://chromeisbad.com/ that describes the problem in full, and I can attest just how much of a difference this causes.

I have used ChatGPT for development (usually creating boilerplate code or just asking it a question that I would normally Google). I would say its current accuracy is about 50%. So it is truly hit or miss. If Apple could get that to where it is closer to 80 - 90% they would have a major contender there. AI by itself isn't going to be able to be creative; that is the role of the programmer. However, if the nuance, boilerplate, and simple syntax correction can be dealt by AI, that would improve my productivity by leaps and bounds!

williamh said:

AppleInsider said:

So where Apple's virtual keyboard for the Vision Pro is not practical for long typing sessions, it could be that a user's desk is turned into a keyboard.  That would still make for a stunted typing experience, as there would be no travel on the keys. But there are already keyboard projectors that use lasers to display a QWERTY layout directly onto a flat surface. 

I think you COULD have key travel by overlaying a virtual keyboard on a real keyboard.  It wouldn't matter if the keyboard was plugged in or not.  You could type on the real keyboard and the Vision Pro would read the virtual one occupying the same space.

I won't lie, that seems like it could be an AWESOME alternative.

danox said:

Microsoft, please complete the deal, please….

What a waste Microsoft just pissed $69 billion dollars down the drain, exceeding, Google, and HP in one shot, this waste of money means don’t expect any significant hardware development for Microsoft in the future.

The Microsoft boneyard gets bigger

* The big Acquisition losers of Microsoft Over the years…..

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Vizio $1.4 billion dollars.
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*Git hub $7.2 billion dollars.

I would say the purchase of GitHub was not a loser at all. Most of all open-source software development uses GitHub as their Git repository in the cloud. And they "gave away" the ability for users to have Private Repos, a paid subscription service. Also, their purchase of Vizio hasn't been unprofitable at all. It hasn't been a significant cash cow for them, but it also hasn't been a loser by any standard.  I agree that almost everything else hasn't panned out for them.

I think the most damning part of the article is right here:

Large companies have complex financial systems, so it isn't going to be clear how the money saved from laying off those employees will be used. However, it is damning when a $70 billion stock buyback program was announced in one week, then SEC filings show the CEO got a raise in the next.

This is the smoking gun right here. A CEO knows that if they do layoffs, stock prices usually rise because the P/E ratio rises; then on top of that, a stock buyback means that Google (read: Sundar) knows that the price per share for that stock will skyrocket because there are fewer shares in the wild. As a result, the number of shares he gets (usually a fixed number of shares, depending on how well their stock is doing) will be worth substantially more.

In summary, I think the SEC should investigate his ass and see if insider trading laws can be applied to him.