Huh? Both hover to focus and click button in background work in macOS, though hover to focus usually requires an external application. There used to be a focus follows mouse that you could enable via a terminal command, but Apple removed it.

The top menu bar kind of seems to be more of a result of historical happenstance, and maybe some different philosophies regarding Fitts law.

Bill Atkinson, who designed the UX for the Apple Lisa recounts that part of the decision was to avoid the problem of menu items being possibly obscured. If the window of some application is near the bottom or partially off the desktop, the menu bar of individual windows can become obscured and inaccessible.

Historically the menu bar would’ve been easier for normal people to learn due to consistency, and also helped with limited screen estate.

Memories of Lisa - CHM - https://computerhistory.org/blog/memories-of-lisa/

It’s janky AF mess.

Internally the copilot key is hard coded to be meta + shift + f23. If you don’t recognise what the f23 key is, that’s because it was last featured over four decades ago on the IBM model M.

The fact that Microsoft has decreed that the Copilot key must send this exact shortcut of three different keys makes it very difficult to remap consistently.

Most keyboard remapping software (SharpKeys) work best at remapping single keys, not shortcuts. Windows users can use PowerToys to remap this three key shortcut, if you try to use it normally as a right ctrl, e.g. rctrl lshift p it doesn’t work consistently.

I suspect it might be because you’re essentially trying to send a whopping five keycodes for a shortcut, when most programs already struggle to handle 4.

Linux users were similarly out of luck until early last year, when most desktop environments fixed up the key codes.

Copilot key is based on a button you probably haven’t seen since IBM’s Model M - Ars Technica - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/shoehorned-windows-copilot-key-is-just-a-reprogrammable-macro-journalist-shows/

Microsoft Copilot Key : r/olkb - https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/193b5id/comment/kxqj1ve/

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops - Phoronix - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-Input

IIRC there were some polls for how helpful LLMs were by language/professions, and data science languages/workflows consistently rated LLMs very highly. Which makes sense, because the main steps of 1) data cleaning, 2) estimation and 3) presenting results all have lots of boilerplate.

Data cleaning really just revolves around a few core functions such as filter, select, and join; joins in particular can get very complicated to keep track of for big data.

For estimation, the more complicated models all require lots of hyperparameters, all of which need to be set up (instantiated if you use an OOP implementation like Python) and looped over some validation set. Even with dedicated high level libraries like scikit, there is still a lot of boilerplate.

Presentation usually consists of visualisation and cleaning up results for tables. Professional visualisations require titles, axis labels, reformatted axis labels etc, which is 4-5 lines of boilerplate minimum. Tables are usually catted out to HTML or LaTeX, both of which are notorious for boilerplate. This isn’t even getting into fancier frontends/dashboards, which is its own can of worms.

The fact that these steps tend to be quite bespoke for every dataset also means that they couldn’t be easily automated by existing autocomplete, e.g. formatting SYS_BP to “Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)” for the graphs/tables.

The peak of a music career isn’t a Grammy, it’s getting parodied by Weird Al Yankovic

Side note, the restaurant analogy is exactly why I hate the seemingly American style of service where the waiter asks how the food is halfway through.

I guess that’s a good analogy for how creepy surveillance capitalism is, it’s like a waiter judging and recording your every move and reaction throughout the entire meal.

Unfortunately I find even prompts like this insufficient for accuracy, because even when directly you directly ask them for information directly supported by sources, they are still prone to hallucination. The use of super blunt language as a result of the prompt may even further lull you into a false sense of security.

Instead, I always ask the LLM to provide a confidence score appended to all responses. Something like

For all responses, append a confidence score in percentages to denote the accuracy of the information, e.g. (CS: 80%). It is OK to be uncertain, but only if this is due to lack of and/or conflicting sources. It is UNACCEPTABLE to provide responses that are incorrect, or do not convey the uncertainty of the response.

Even then, due to how LLM training works, the LLM is still prone to just hallucinating the CS score. Still, it is a bit better than nothing.

Renaissance Technologies is arguably the world’s best hedge fund, and supposedly only uses AI based strategies.

High Flyer are the founders of DeepSeek, and are also all in on AI, though their performance is more volatile.

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Scientists too busy writing grant proposals to realise that the developers of RStudio have made Positron, which is VS Code based and generally better

Immich users flag Google sites as dangerous

Not sure of your specific needs, but I feel that self hosting (i.e. setting up a proper server) is unnecessary. Just pick a local first program and use it with syncthing.

The usual trio (which may be overkill) are Obsidian (admittedly not open source), Trillium, and logseq.

“Mary was teenager”, conservatives defending child rapist republicans, probably actually

Roy Moore, Republican US Senate candidate, accused of sexual assault on 14yo girl - ABC News - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-10/roy-moore-republican-senate-candidate-sexual-assault-allegation/9136922

Microsoft’s Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users

You can try to make an additional “user” that the TV uses, and set user specific transcode options.

You could try to convert it to a “headless” laptop.

Some cash savvy people have been buying M1 macbooks with broken screens and converting them into headless laptops. For the price of a broken MacBook and some tinkering, you can get what is essentially a Mac mini with a touchpad and keyboard.

https://youtu.be/uOigVjqW7hc