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Post by api »

ac29 wrote: post #421
schrodinger wrote: post #360

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dev machines are their bread and butter though! if they were going to have done this and merge iOS and macOS, I think they'd (stupidly) have done so.

Mac isnt even 10% of their revenue, and my guess is developers on Mac are maybe a percent or two at most.

Microsoft figured out long ago that having developers use your platform is a small direct source of revenue but a massive indirect one, not to mention the thing that keeps your platform relevant.

Driving them off Mac would be a gigantic mistake that over time would lead to the fading of the whole Apple ecosystem.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by hcaz »

_lvbh wrote: post #475
lapcat wrote: post #172

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"Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers with a T2 Security Chip. Requires that your iPhone and Mac are signed in with the same Apple ID using two-factor authentication" https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia/

Ah that sucks. No wonder it isn’t available in the EU

Been using it in the UK for a while on the beta, works fine

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by josephd79 »

deergomoo wrote: post #258
sunny_sigara wrote: post #209

Most annoying problems so far.. 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? 2. No more sudo spctl —master-disable. Alternative way is bit complicated. 2. No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper. 3. Why tcutil reset Accessibility not working for a specific app? It works for “All” . 4. Script to convert NSURL node ref url to posix url not working. 5. Normal usb Mouse pointer acceleration is not smooth. May be…

I’m having difficulties with the keyboard shortcuts for the new window snapping stuff. My desk keyboard doesn’t have a Globe key (like most non-Apple keyboards), but the shortcuts don’t work with Caps Lock remapped to Globe. It doesn’t work with the MacBook’s built-in keyboard either, so I think it’s a bug rather than an issue with my keyboard.

aerospace tiling app is the bees knees.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by Filligree »

mikepurvis wrote: post #146
Filligree wrote: post #133

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There's no specific reason why LLMs couldn't be trained to say "Don't know" when they don't know. Indeed, some close examination shows separate calculation patterns when it's telling the truth, when it's making a mistake and when it's deliberately bullshitting, with the latter being painfully common. The problem is we don't train them that way. They're trained on what data is on the internet, and people... people rea…

Do you think it's really a training set problem? I don't think you learn to say that you don't understand by observing people say it, you learn to say it by being introspective about how much you have actually comprehended, understanding when your thinking is going in multiple conflicting directions and you don't know which is correct, etc. Kids learn to express confusion and uncertainty in an environment where their…

> Do you think it's really a training set problem? I don't think you learn to say that you don't understand by observing people say it, you learn to say it by being introspective about how much you have actually comprehended, understanding when your thinking is going in multiple conflicting directions and you don't know which is correct, etc.

I really do think it's a training set problem. It's been amply proven that the models often do know when they lie.

Sure, that's not how children learn to do this... is it? I think in some cases, and to some degree, it is. They also learn by valuing consistency and separately learning morals. LLMs also seem to learn morals to some degree, but to the degree they're even able to reason about consistency, it certainly doesn't feed back into their training.

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So yeah, I think it's a training set issue, and the reason children don't need this is because they have capabilities the LLMs lack. This would be a workaround.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by e40 »

gorkish wrote: post #339
kemayo wrote: post #288

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> 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? Every month. (Which is still annoying, but not the raw level of frustration that weekly would be.)

Do you still have to quit and restart the entire application after you give the permission? Holy shit mac users are gonna become a meme in meetings. MacOS is turning into quite the poo log lately. I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh, but they are slow playing it so that it's just a little bit better than the alternatives. The end result is my life gets just a little…

And how are our parents going to do this without us being there? It once took be 3 hours to accomplish it with my father. He’s 3000 miles away but it was only marginally better than a plane trip.

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Post by raxxorraxor »

kcb wrote: post #420
conradev wrote: post #316

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> They could have made the override still clear but much easier to access. The level of difficulty is absolutely intentional. For you, it's a small speed bump. For the guy on the phone with my grandma trying to hack her computer, it's more of a hill to climb.

Yea, i too want my pro device designed around my grandmas use case. Make sure we think about the children too.

And it is not even true and pure FUD. The most widely spread attack surfaces are different today, people wouldn't try to install malware on your machine.

And even if, we had issue with malware infecting iPhones like Pegasus. Locking down environments with these specific mechanisms isn't improving security.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by yochem »

sylens wrote: post #322

Is it possible to set a custom keyboard shortcut for the native window tiling commands?

Yes, System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts > App Shortcuts > All Applications [0]. Pretty cumbersome, and I only get it to remap to "Top Left" and friends, but not just "Left" and "Right". Very frustrating.

[0]: https://www.pocket-lint.com/how-to-use-window-tiling-customi...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by agys »

setopt wrote: post #549
agys wrote: post #500

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opt-cmd-v for move vs cmd-v for copy? Pretty usable imho!

If it worked like that in other Mac apps, I wouldn’t mind. Then you would just adjust to “this is how MacOS does cut-and-paste” and after an initial adjustment it would make complete sense. But in every other Mac app, even in TextEdit, you would Cmd-X to cut a piece of text and Cmd-V to then paste it somewhere else. The same logic is used to e.g. move an image within a note or email, which is also a file. So Finder i…

I think the issue is if you do cmd-x on a file and then don’t paste it will it be deleted…?

cmd-c & cmd-opt-v is a different, “safer” operation.

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Post by jonathanyc »

pornel wrote: post #448
mdaniel wrote: post #441

> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14] > 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account. what an extraordinarily specific feature to put into Home…

New Maps features launch only in Bay Area. CarPlay EV integration works only with Porsche Taycan. Are they implementing things just for Tim?

The way Apple product management works is that everyone is always demoing stuff up the chain and ultimately to Tim. They’re reverentially referred to as “Tim demos” internally. If Tim likes it, you get tons of resources.

The downside may be that in the pathological case you’re implementing stuff just for Tim. Another downside is you can’t really demo e.g. high-quality backwards-compatible SDKs to an exec.

The upside is you end up with a pretty coherent and un-fickle set of products. Unlike Google, Apple doesn’t have a roster of five (?) competing chat apps that it constantly changes.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by kstrauser »

thund wrote: post #377

nice, but still many things to be improved: - iphone mirroring keeps going into "paused" mode, showing a "resume" button - iphone mirroring doesn't unblock apps that need face Id, e.g. whatsapp says "passcode required" without prompting for some form of auth (auto auth is enabled, but no luck) - iphone mirroring is not really "mirroring": one cannot use both app and phone at the same time, and see what is going on. -…

“Uoia” is in reverse alphabetical order. That’s how I figured out to spell it without peeking at a dictionary each time to be sure.
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