Many people start learning blender with the donut tutorial. It’s pretty famous.
It’s a general beginner tutorial, but blender can be so weird that many skills don’t transfer (like how you move the camera in the viewport).
The tutorial takes you through pretty much everything blender has to offer. Modeling, texturing, painting, modifiers, compositing, geometry nodes, and rendering.
It’s a security feature, Apple does the same when you register a security key. You must register two.
If you’re using real yubikeys, it’s protection against losing one. If you had two from the start, you’re not at risk of losing your only way into your account when one goes missing or is stolen.
> I might be misremembering or misinterpreting, but it seems like you really need an LLC with a mail forwarding service and a cheap second phone line just to avoid the App Store sending the whole internet to your personal phone and address.
This specifically is due to EU trader laws. The Play Store has the exact same thing.
You can claim you don’t fall under the definition of “trader” to keep your personal information hidden, assuming you actually aren’t one. You may not be if you aren’t supporting yourself through your apps.
In my experience, Apple’s approach here is better than how Google does it. Play Store doesn’t even have the option to deny being a trader. They just always publish your personal information if you intend on selling anything. At least Google is up front about it, though.
And also the weights for GLM 5.2 are 1.5 TB. The only Studios Apple sells today are hard-capped to 64 GB (M4 Max) or 96 GB (M3 Ultra) only.
You'd need at least 24 new M4 Max Studios, or 16 new M3 Ultra Studios, or 3 used 512 GB M3 Ultra Studios just to power one GLM 5.2 instance. And even then, you're probably looking at < 5 tokens per second.
Personally, I think it makes way more sense to pay a model provider $3/1M tokens.
I am not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you can’t just slap an MIT or whatever else license on public code with an intentional trojan hidden in it and expect to not be held accountable for the damages caused by the trojan running.
If the damage resulted from an unexpected problem like a bug, then you’re probably fine. But this phrase was intentionally placed by the author and intended to inflict at least a little damage (destroy code) onto specific users.
Whether some words are legally equivalent to an actual virus, I couldn’t say.
The argument is "there is no significant evidence to support the claim that Apple has given up on the Vision Pro".
I don't think anybody is arguing that it's selling amazingly well or is a growing market.
And I agree with the argument. It seems a little premature to make this claim now, so close to WWDC.
If WWDC comes and goes with no major announcement for the future of visionOS or the Vision Pro, that would be a significant indicator of Apple having given up.
And I very much appreciate that feature, and hope it never changes.
However when I make comments here, I do it with the intention of reading what people have to say in response.
If I am making a comment with the intention to ignore the responses to it, then that’s a good signal for myself that what I am writing is likely not an appropriate comment for HN, and then delete it.
> Why do you speak about yourself in the third person?
When you submit a link to HN, there is an entry field for text in addition to the url.
It does not really describe what the text is used for. For links, the content of that field is simply added as the first comment.
Someone who is unfamiliar with the submission process may assume this field should describe what they are submitting, and not format it like a comment.
Then that text gets posted as the first comment and tons of people downvote it, jumping to the conclusion that the weird summary comment is from an AI, and not the submitter describing their own submission.
(I also assumed these comments were AI until someone else pointed this out)
I can't speak for this developer, but as someone who dabbles in App Store applications, EU trader laws require that the App Store publicly displays an address for the app developer if they want to make their apps available in the EU.
It's possible this developer didn't want to do that, so they chose to not publish in the EU.
I wonder if the reason why the screensaver process doesn’t exit has something to do with the live wallpapers they added to macOS a few versions ago.
The live wallpapers become your screensaver, playing the video. Then when you move your mouse, the video continues until it finds a “good” stopping point.
Might explain why the screensaver process lives on forever for seemingly no reason.
They laid off SDETs circa 2014 (I was one). I don’t think Windows ever had QA people, but it did have automated testing and dedicated people to write and monitor those tests, then file bugs if something broke. But not anymore since 2014.
These days, the only testing any release of Windows gets is from Microsoft employees (Dev/PM) and Windows Insiders.
They have rules of how many hours of self-hosting are required before they can release, but that’s the only requirement. That there exists telemetry of it running.
You might see a gap with that testing methodology, but it might also explain how things like this happen. If it’s a bug that doesn’t prevent boot, it’s easy to ignore.
(I knew a few devs who would just put builds of windows on one of their computers and play a 72 hour long video of a black screen on repeat to get self hosting hours. Then they would proceed with their feature release. And nobody saw any problem with that.)
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