There has to be a catch. Apple would never give in without malicious compliance to the hilt.

> surveillance security state

The only security is of those in power. For ordinary people it gets more unsafe with every measure.

The same article is available under “I read Arthur Whiteney's code and all I got was Mental Illness”, which is apt.

This parades all the reasons why you may want to avoid C like the plague, and then some. This stuff gives me nightmares.

With the Steam Deck included, I had no idea we are so few.

macOS even fewer, which I can understand. That Apple had to introduce a literal Game Mode in their OS, to make games viable at all, speaks volumes.

I was wondering why it isn’t flagged yet.

Disturbing is when I burn my scrambled eggs in the frying pan. This is state terrorism.

> Not according to immigration law

You overlooked the fact that ICE goons are breaking the law on a regular basis.

> We do ourselves a disservice by acting like there is some inherent flaw in it.

The inherent flaw is: It is despotic and only serves despots and their minions, at the cost of oppressing the majority of people.

The decimal digits clearly have a conspiracy going on.

That would work in any base, I even think we would find way more interesting coincidences in base 12 (as Sumerians preferred), because it's divisible by 2,3,4,6.

It's unfortunate that we have 5 fingers.

If you count the sections of your four fingers with your thumb, you can count up to 12 on one hand!

I have always counted to 20 on one hand. even as a kid. base, lower joint, upper joint, top. times 5 - including the thumb: my motor memory is trained so that i switch seamlessly from keeping the curse on top of the finger using my thumb, and then, once i cross 16, switch to using the index finger to "cursor" the thumb.

Same here. I have always counted 20 on one hand, so 40 with both. That's how my parents taught me to count when I was little. I used this method so often as a kid that, even though I don't count like this anymore, every number up to 40 still has its own place on my fingers.

It was only as an adult that I realised nobody around me counted this way. You are the first person I have found who talked about this method, so I am glad to find this comment of yours.

If you count with each finger as a binary digit you can count up to 15 on one hand!

255 if you use both hands!

More like 1023 if you also use thumbs but I prefer to use them as carry, overflow bits.

I trained myself to do this by default a very long time ago and I can't imagine counting any other way.

It's so natural, useful and lends well to certain numerical tricks. We should explicitly be teaching binary to children earlier.

I am French and we cont extending our fingers from a closed fist. Typically to 2x5=10.

When I was a kid I relized that I can count the fives on the right hand (1 finger for each 5 on the left), which brought me to 25.

It is only when I was traveling in Asia and watched people on markets that I realized that I can use my thumb to count my 12 other finger phalanges, which brought the total to 144. You just need to know your multiplication table of 12 :)

A system I read about uses the thumb for 5, so that each hand can count (thumb down) 0..4 (thumb up) 5..9.

This gives you the range 0..99. Sweeet.

No, the “AI” will just be used to trigger the launch. No more passwords, though. Instead, nuclear hallucinations.

theres no going back now .. its constant war at the AI level , yeah, and it makes a lot of mistakes