That's alotta sheckles!

My whole job is screening and hiring, my employer often works with some of the best known blue chip tech companies in the world, and this totally jives with the patterns I've personally observed around working in and around the tech sector. As a whole, it's really hard for me to see what's happening right now as anything other than a protracted attempt to stop long-term wage growth and reduce salaries, primarily by opening certain fields to outsourcing and cheaper immigrant workers—i.e., H1B visa abuse, etc.

Can you recommend a resource to learn how to write queries/prompts more effectively?

Is there a limit to the length of a query?

I played with it a little bit and the output was all very similar to the SEO-maximized articles you'd see from a content farm.

How so? The IT managers at these companies can easily disable activation lock when resetting the MacBooks, thus allowing them to be resold or donated to be used by others.

It’s not Apple’s fault that they didn’t do their jobs properly

This is not Apple’s fault. In order for Activation Lock to be an effective security measure and theft deterrent, it must be strict. If it could just be bypassed, then thieves would know how to do it.

The IT managers of these companies can easily unlock the devices when wiping them so they can be resold, donated and generally used by others. They’re the ones at fault here

I think it’s Jewish slang for ‘oh my goodness’.

I’ll be surprised if the status quo holds once doctors and lawyers start losing their jobs. I think that will be the tipping point. That group still holds some wealth and political power.

Ah, the noblesse oblige argument.

Why would you remote wipe a mac? Either they send it back to their IT department for wiping or the laptop is being declared lost.

Hell you don’t remote wipe macs at all cause if the user isn’t an admin, incompetent or something going wrong with partitioning theres nothing anyone can do cause I can’t remote into the computer.

Named "Not PRC Official Company To Buy Microchips".

It's barely harder, it's just a hassle. They can literally make a company in the next country over called "Literally Not China" and have them shipped there then re-ship. And nobody would care.

I’ve always heard that there were less parts in an EV and the drivetrains were less complicated. So why do they cost more than an ICE vehicle?

This article says 2020 macs, if your scrubbing the hard drive properly M1’s allow bypass cause your reinstalling the computer.

Intel macs will give you a hassle which yeah your e-wasting them regardless cause butterfly clip keyboards suck

I mean they could have just had them sent to an Amazon drop box the next country over.

Depending on your MDM (Mobile Device management) environment or lack of thereof you can either grab the .dmg and install things manually or preload software on the mac through a process known as “imaging” since every company requires a specific set up for employee computers UNLESS your a small company where you don’t have a dedicated IT department then everything changes.

Now there are 2 popular MDM solutions for Mac (Windows is a different beast) which is either JAMF or Kandji which can help preload software onto the computer through “0 touch” which preassigns the admin account and allows the computer to download everything the user will need a base level or loading the MDM profile manually, which will be required at some point.

With these 2 MDM solutions you can also disable app store cause you should never be signing into apple ID on company property unless your the CEO… which at that point i don’t care.

Corporate IT works differently from local store side IT, a lot more back doors or direct connections to apple to solve these issues. And i can go into detail about Kandji and JAMF but I’m not JAMF certified and only demo’ed Kandji

I have two others for you which have become my primary use cases:

• I have a word on the tip of my tongue, and I don’t know a synonym, but I can describe the meaning and connotations

• I have a hunch about a technical subject but it’s hard to google the details based on my knowledge, e.g. “can I split a high current load between two MOSFETs in parallel?” I don’t trust ChatGPT’s answer at face value, but it’ll give me stuff to look up.

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Ok China you can buy all the articles you want i still want you’re shitty data stealer banned

“To be fair to Apple”? No, how about fuck Apple for doing this. Seriously. Fuck Apple. They know exactly what they are doing.

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Wouldn't the issues caused to the society by removing white collar jobs be a nifty task for the AI to solve? And if said AI is trained by collective output of humanity, wouldn't we be assisting it in coming up with solution?

So now it's $136,000? Oy vey.

Mmm TIKOFF they are

I work in R&D in this space. There is a cost associated with training and running inference on these things. With data curation, and with the human resource funding for research. But the latter is also funded in large part by the public.

The data itself is entirely produced by the collective output of humanity. In the next 5-10 years these tools will begin to eliminate white collar professional jobs - it will happen. And as it does, dealing with that at a societal level will become a matter of great import.

Recognizing our collective contribution and actively directing these achievements towards a better shared future - sharing the benefits - will either make or break us IMO.

My 6 year old son will come of age in a radically different world. And I believe that we the creators have a responsibility to ensure that that world promotes better equity for all.

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