Thank you, this is a huge pet peeve of mine. I mis-click my airpod and suddenly this app I've never used and don't want launches

> this app I've never used and don't want launches

I'm by no way an Apple fan, but why not uninstall the app if you don't need it?

It cannot be uninstalled

I only recently discovered that not only can you not uninstall Apple's bloatware - you can't even hide it in a folder!

I just can't understand why I have to have my list of useful apps interspersed with cruft like Books.app or Journal.app.

You can disable the control that prevents deleting the app (SIP).

SIP is only one part of this, you also would need to disable SSV.

cough cough hey EU you hearing this shit?

If you for whatever reason do not want the security benefits offered by SIP, you can turn it off.

Of course, doing so just to get rid of Apple Music would tend to be a bit crazy.

I'd say having to turn off System Integrity Protection as a prerequisite to uninstalling a music player is crazy. Spoken as someone who likes MacOS and Apple Music.

The Apple Music thing bothers me and adds friction to my life every single day that I use MacOS.

We're on a tech forum where everyone here is aware (or at least can understand) how SIP is useful for the security model on MacOS. But for plenty of people with this problem, SIP is only the thing you learn can disable so you can immediately make your life a little better.

The crazy ones are Apple here, since this problem should not require disabling SIP to fix.

You can not do this on MacOS, at least on MacOS 26 on Apple Silicon without SIP disabled. I was:

- Unable to drag from the Applications drawer to Trash

- Unable to drag from the Spotlight search to Trash

- Unable to drag from Finder (in ~/Applications) to Trash

- Unable to delete (in Finder)

- Unable to delete (through rm in terminal).

This has been a bother for years across MacOS versions and I've tried variations of these, personally.

In the future, you might consider not denigrating others in this way. It is hard to save face when you are wrong. And it is hard for others to provide an avenue for you to save face while also pointing out that your statements are not true.

I hope this is a joke. You cannot delete it. It's considered "system" software.

That doesn't work on my machine. Maybe it worked back in the snow leopard days.

Now the app doesn't even have the "move to trash" item in the contextual menu like non-system apps do

^ How can you make such an obviously wrong statement

Go ahead and try. It's not like "any other app".

As a non power of Mac (only recently switched), I'll definitely try this.

My repeated attempts to remove from Dock and hide it all failed: half the time I remove my ear buds the Apple Music pops up in the middle of my screen and auto-enables itself in the Dock...

The Dock just contains a bunch of shortcuts. The app itself lives in the /Applications folder along with the rest of them that you can choose to add to your dock (by just dragging them down there and letting a spot open up for it).

Same! And there is no obvious close button etc on the overtop blocking modal dialog either. It’s a dark pattern.

Just chiming in for anyone else reading this and worried about their hair thinning, this is a thing men worry about much more than women. Bruce Willis, Patrick Stewart, Michael Jordan, Vin Diesel - there have been plenty of bald sex symbols and plenty of women who enjoy that look (and the look of many average men of various builds and ages)

The factors of attractiveness are by far more related to basic self care (hygine and being fit enough to care for yourself and others), kindness and the ability to share in others' joy, and passionate interest in something, and a lightness or humor in your manner.

I started balding at 18, shaved it all at 22. Its not an issue. Height, hair, etc might get immediate reaction and attention, but hardly matter for real connections.

I just want to add that I wholeheartedly agree with this, and I would hate for anyone who's losing their hair to conclude that it's the end of the road for their love life.

Good grooming, a good sense of humor, and most importantly, generally being a good person, are what really matter.

What's interesting is that in this article, the author describes making an understandable mistake (accidentally deleting Trunk aka main from source) and how their team was able to easily recover from that due to the nature of SVN.

The actual "AI deleted my database" story is really more of a "Railways' database 'backup' strategy is insane and opaque and Railway promoting AI infrastructure orchestration without guardrails is dangerous."

If removing Trunk had irrevocably deleted it from a single centralized server and also deleted any backups of it, there would have been an "SVN and the CLI destroyed our company" article back then.

As a Railway user, I appreciated that information and have changed my strategy when using them.

> "Railways' database 'backup' strategy is insane and opaque and Railway promoting AI infrastructure orchestration without guardrails is dangerous."

Yes. However, if you choose to build on their platform you bear the responsibility to understand how it works. You could have chosen a different platform, or no platform. Instead you chose Railway. Given that, it's your responsibility to know how to use it safely.

Meta-ignornance

Imo both share fault. Railway purports to be an abstraction anyone can use without expertise. Without expertise, how can a customer determine if Railway actually is an "expert".

In other areas like medicine, engineering, and trades the government or private entities step in with licensure or certification to act as an intermediary.

Yeah, Railway are clearly lying. You can't do software engineering without expertise, even with an LLM. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. As an engineer, you need to be able to check your vendors' claims. Signing up to use a vendor that straight up lies about what their product can do is incompetence. Both things are bad!

That comment seemed to revolve around consent. Willful, nonconsensual dosing of anyone with any drug is a violation, and yes doing it and bragging about it is reprehensible.

To be clear, as far as I am aware, there was nothing that I heard or saw that would be remotely considered non consensual dosing.

Fun, but the way they fly doesn't quite match my intuition. Why would an object curve when I send it out on the tangent? Wouldn't that be a straight line unless it's affected by a different gravity well?

Yes, you have to imagine a much bigger star beneath the viewport.

I imagine it as slingshotting my way up a tree.

Wooooow, I LOVED this site when it first came out and I still reference it when I talk about the early web and how it enabled me to learn things I never would have otherwise. I can still picture the animation of the wankel rotary engine from this site whenever I think about it.

This and howstuffworks.com made me so hopeful for the future of the web when I was young

This is so lovely! If the original author is here in the comments, some feature requests that would absolutely make my day, presumably from easiest to hardest :)

I love this so much, thank you for sharing!

* Slow down the motion to about .5 of what it is currently, with easing/acceleration on the speed to emulate the camera dolly and jib effects used in the film

* Add a random motion setting that allows me to run it full screen just sliding through the aisles, banking around turns, flying up and then back down the aisles.

* optionally lock the framerate to 24fps to give it a film feel

* optional shaders on the main viewport to emulate lens distortion, film grain, etc

* raytracing with reflectivity on the glass, refraction, diffusion, etc.

I think this is a good example of something you can vibe-code today. (though maybe not as good)

I went to gemini, picked "cavnas". used this prompt

> There's a famous CG scene in the movie Hackers where they "Hack the Gibson". It shows a bunch of translucnt cubes with glowing edges. The textures on the cubes are live computer text. The camera slowly flyies between the cubes tilting gracfully and it searches for the main one.

> Reproduce this scene in Javascript. Be sure to include each of those features

> 1. live computer text which you can simulate by drawing to a canvas offscreen and uploading to a texture, adding more output as it goes. You can even use "function.toString()" of the code you write as input

> 2. a post processing step so we get a glow

> You can probably use three.js for this

Here's the result.

https://codepen.io/greggman/pen/XJKPBZW

No, it's not as good as the site linked above and it's unlikely it would be. On other hand, it got this far on the first try. Maybe a few more iterations and it could get the stuff you want.

For anyone taking this comment seriously, please research and understand the potential long term impacts of GBL before going near it. It's neurotoxic and can cause brainfog and lowered cognitive ability. It's also lethal in the wrong dose, with a tiny margin for error.

It's by no means a safe alcohol replacement

Your response feels like a gut-level averse reaction, not an actual weighing of the harms against alcohol, which is about the most harmful drug ever for every system in your body, and also has a relatively small margin between lethality and and recreational doses.

> which is about the most harmful drug ever for every system in your body

I am not saying that alcohol is good for you or anything, but that is not even wrong. It’s trivial to find drugs that kill you or nuke your liver if you get a few milligrams.

> also has a relatively small margin between lethality and and recreational doses.

Unless by "recreational dose" you mean a whole bottle of 40% ABV spirits, not really. And even then. IIRC the lethal dose is around 7g/kg, which is more than a pint of pure ethanol for someone weighting 70kg, or twice the amount of alcohol in the bottle. This is not a particularly small margin of error, particularly considering that the hypotheses were conservative.

It is possible to kill oneself with alcohol. It is nowhere near the dose commonly taken for recreative purposes.

Awesome to see real UX experimentation, and this elicited a strong response from me at first "oh I haaaaate that".

On further reflection, this is very interesting and I understand where the drag and drop interaction breaks down on long lists. Some additional UI affordances to communicate what's happening may make it intuitive and clear.

Things I'd want to experiment with if I was implementing this:

* A "wheel" effect where the items in the list grow slightly as they near the chosen item which stays locked in the interface at the center, popping into place at at each 'click'. Somewhat like the Price Is Right wheel flipper

* Making the interaction entirely scroll based once I click. Setting the item in place can be done by any other click or keypress, and cancelled with the escape hotkey. My interaction is pick, scroll, click (without having to aim back at the thing I just placed by scrolling)

I believe this was a statement on cost per token to us as consumers of the service

Training cost-effectiveness doesn't matter for open models since someone else ate the cost. In this case, Chinese taxpayers.

Deepseek is a private corporation funded by a hedge fund (High-Flyer). I doubt much public money was spent by the Chinese state on this. Like with LLMs in the US, the people paying for it so far are mainly investors who are betting on a return in the long to medium term.