More the opposite. macOS is a veneer of nix, but underneath it is the XNU microkernel. Lots more nuance since Apple took over and added a lot of their own performance and API improvements to
Just to nit pick a bit, that link is for Android Studio and downloads from the "Google for Developers" website, then instructs how to install and manage the the command line tools using the GUI
Not certain if this answers the question, but it seemed like you're generally expected to install Android Studio to get the correct build versions of all of the tools and libraries. I guess theoretically you could repackage them yourself, but also not entirely clear why you would—other than perhaps download size. The tools can be driven externally, once installed, but so could XCode projects (with `xcodebuild`).
This is not an expectation, no. Libraries are managed via Gradle or whatever build system you use. Android-specific host tools are Gradle-managed, installed via the sdkmanager tool, or managed via other means; I maintain a repository to install them via Nix [0], and many Linux distributions package them. The Android Studio IDE is not required, and doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup.
I’ve been noticing (because of user bug reports) that the security policies are now AI driven. If you haven’t use a feature in x-days or y-reboots or other heuristic, it becomes an application crash the next time an application tries to use that OS feature (such as loading dlls or usb drivers)
The IRS rules on AMT for that transaction might have you thinking it was generally booked. Though any sensible accounting seems like it wouldn’t book it.
We like to pretend we have rule of law, but every part of the government is inherently a political animal.
Old money deferring capital gains forever? No prob. Some nerds who built something but mostly don't have a sophisticated understanding of finance or an organized political machine? Haha screw those guys.
I dug into this more. It's disabled by default, and it's a cost/token-usage optimization.
The logic is:
1. Anthropic's API has a server-side prompt cache with a 1-hour TTL
2. When you're actively using a session, each API call reuses the cached prefix — you only pay
for new tokens
3. After 1 hour idle, that cache is guaranteed expired
4. Your next message will re-send and re-process the entire conversation from scratch — every
token, full price
5. So if you have 150K tokens of old Grep/Read/Bash outputs sitting in the conversation, you're
paying to re-ingest all of that even though it's stale context the model probably doesn't need
The microcompact says: "since we're paying full price anyway, let's shrink the bill by clearing
the bulky stuff."
What's preserved vs lost:
- The tool_use blocks (what tool was called, with what arguments) — kept
- The tool_result content (the actual output) — replaced with [Old tool result content cleared]
- The most recent 5 tool results — kept
So Claude can still see "I ran Grep for foo in src/" but not the 500-line grep output from 2
hours ago.
Does it affect quality? Yes, somewhat — but the tradeoff is that without it, you're paying
potentially tens of thousands of tokens to re-ingest stale tool outputs that the model already
acted on. And remember, if the conversation is long enough, full compaction would have summarized
those messages anyway.
And critically: this is disabled by default (enabled: false in timeBasedMCConfig.ts:31). It's
behind a GrowthBook feature flag that Anthropic controls server-side. So unless they've flipped
it on for your account, it's not happening to you.
That’s true on most systems (modern or not), but actually never been true on Windows due to PE/COFF format limitations. But also, that system doesn’t/can’t do effective ASLR because of the binary slide being part of the object file spec.
The second question seems legally interesting, since trademarks generally aren’t copyrightable, but are an entirely different protected class, which prohibits using in any form to deceive the consumer. But a photograph of a hologram which is obviously not holographic doesn’t seem like an attempt to deceive the consumer, so it could be legal
Though overshadowed by your larger point that unauthorized reproduction of the rest of the creative work seems to be simple copyright infringement
Trademarks can be copyrightable, if the mark is sufficiently complex and original. A simple wordmark like the FedEx logo is under the threshold of originality, but a complex logo like the Starbucks mermaid is absolutely copyrightable.
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