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There's a difference between "I am the creator of this content [that I actually didn't create]" and "I am enjoying this content that I did not create." One could argue that it matters, in the latter case, whether you are enjoying the content in a manner with the creator's intention of how you enjoyed it, but, to state one among many possible responses, it is far from clear when I consume media through approved channels that that accurately represents how the creator would prefer I enjoy it.

> This weird command is presented with such a benevolent innocence as if it's the simplest thing in the world.

I think it's a question of context and familiarity. To a vim user, like me and, I assume, ahmedfromtunis, their examples do indeed seem simple and natural. Presumably, to an emacs user, the example you quote (if it's quoted literally—I don't use emacs and can't even tell) is just as natural, and assuming some comfort with emacs is presumably OK in a manual for the software!


> assuming some comfort with emacs is presumably OK in a manual for the software!

How do you get familiar with the software, if the manual expects you to be an expert in it already?


Not sure if it did at the time, but today emacs comes with a tutorial. You’re not expected to learn it by starting on page 1 of the manual.

Why not? I expect to learn how to use a software by reading its manual.

Surely you can still do that, but starting with the tutorial will be easier and more efficient.

I got familiar with vi by reading a book that had the main vi commands listed out. First learnt how to quit without saving changes, the rest was just practice.

> How do you get familiar with the software, if the manual expects you to be an expert in it already?

It's surely to the detriment of the manual if the first sentence on the first page assumes you already know the software, but, if nowhere in the manual can it address expert users, then the manual isn't going to be very useful for expert users—and it should be!


By reading introductory material.

The example confusingly includes some weird markup. It's just saying press `ESC-?` then type "window" to search for window commands. These isn't even valid in modern Emacs. The equivalent is `C-h` followed by `a` then type "window".

> Same thing as using a word processor and printer rather than handwriting a note. Inexcusable.

There is no confusion, when in receipt of something written using a word processor, that it was so written, and people are free to respond accordingly (though, of course, most of us don't care). There is no such certainty with products generated by AI, so it is appropriate responsibly to disclose it.


You can find the answers to both of your questions on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clanker


> To the extent the author’s point relies on the incorrect definition, it cannot be consistent or correct.

I don't think that a point based on an incorrect definition is automatically inconsistent or itself incorrect. It might be, of course, or it might just be insufficiently justified. And, to the extent that it is a philosophical point rather than a historical one, the truth or falsity of a philosophical claim doesn't depend on whether someone actually said it, or it is a mistranslation of something someone actually said.


> Why is clipboard on every OS/tool I've used single item?

The wonderful Flycut (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flycut-clipboard-manager/id442...) fixes this on macOS.


> Unfortunately it's kind of random what makes it to the front page.

Sounds fortunate to me. If it were predictable then it woud be predicted, and then gamed.


In case they hallucinate? There's no point having content in a wide variety of languages if it's unpredictably different from the original-language content.


I think my favorite part of that comment is "documenting" that 10^(-15) is not negative by appealing to Wolfram Alpha.


> Even MacOS is still pretty bad at it.

What problems do you see with multiple users on macOS? I don't use it intensively, but I've never noticed issues.


As a very simple example, airdrop to macOS with multiple logged in users will frequently pop up the confirmation notification in the user account that is not active.


Facetime too. I shared a laptop with my wife for like 2 years, so it was an ok experience, but we noticed those little things.


I wonder if this was a design choice, so if I’m on the computer and a call comes in for them, I can let them know and maybe hand it off?

The alternative would be they would have to answer on their phone (assuming they have an iPhone, which may not always be the case), then use handoff to get it on the Mac.


Could be, but I've never wanted that. I just answer it on my iPhone or my desktop Mac.


Perhaps I don't understand it but the encryption security model for MacOS/iPadOS/iOS currently doesn't allow multiple different encryption keys for each user. So any user can decrypt the whole drive and while it does enforce user permissions, the security model can't support true multiuser.

I actually don't know if Windows or ChromeOS support this either but this is certainly something Linux can with LUKS et. al.


Yep on ChromeOS each user's home dir is separately encrypted with their own password.


USB security prompt disappears when multiple MacOS accounts signed in

Still a problem for me, and has been for years, but I may be holding it wrong. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255929514?sortBy=rank

The solution posted in the discussion is not really secure.


For me quitting preview, or maybe it is settings, resolves it.


Non-admins getting prompts for system and app upgrades is mildly annoying. The bigger one in a family setting is the clunky sharing. There's no good way to share a photo library or music library between users. The Unix version of making a folder shared by a group doesn't usually work for Apple apps.


Switching users while changing displays often results in an incorrect resolution. That’s such a basic thing: different users have different preferences for their displays and keyboards attached to the displays. Yet this doesn’t work reliably, as if during some moments the login window just doesn’t want to adjust resolutions.


As soon as I added a 2nd user, my Samba share totally broke and days later I still don't have it working. It was fine for over a year and now I'm close to deleting my 2nd user just so I can access my Mac Mini across the network again.


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