I could see the current admin using this as some sort of sick workaround to ethics. Not that they seem to care in the first place

Keep in mind that this is an Australian startup, and they already have some publications out on the ethics of doing this.

If you have any of those publication details handy, a link or citation would be helpful.

because most americans do not want war, at least id hope, so calling it that seems pretty short sited (maybe until you continually do that 'war' thing), if you want the citizens to look positively on your spending it should probably be for defense not war, again, at least i should hope. im just a dumb "lib" whatever that means

On the other hand calling it "Department of Defense" seems quite whitewashing of what it actually does.

It spends the defence budget...

Which is used primarily for offense anyway

I'm pretty sure the amount the money spent on offensive actions is significantly less than the defense

When was America last invaded by a foreign adversary?

This resembles anti-vax logic. We haven’t been invaded because our military maintains a strong deterrence and strategic depth.

Yeah, otherwise the USA would have been invaded by Cuba, Iraq, Vietnam, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and a hundred more, and they all would have a fight over who can have it. Thank god the US defended themselves against those terrible guys. Especially the WMDs were quite the close call, the Iraqis were minutes away from nuking the land of the mart.

Cuba's an odd rhetorical choice given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

> otherwise the USA would have been invaded

Yes, invading Hawaii was part of imperial Japanese planning. If you don’t understand that defense spending is still worthwhile even if you don’t blow anything up with it, I’m not sure how we connect.

Maybe.

I was just saying that the purpose of the Department of Defence is to spend the "defence budget".

But you can't distribute whatever you build legally as far as im aware. The apple sdks prevent you from shipping legally.

The only way atm is installing homebrew and using a gnu tool chain if I understand the license of the official sdks correctly?

Tangible thing versus conceptual thing. License never stood a chance.

The whole sdk has a restriction that you can't use it off platform. The code signing thing is just a tax on ios devs

You need an apple ID. You cannot create one without using an apple device.

You can absolutely make an appleID without an Apple device. You can make one in-browser right now. https://account.apple.com/account?create

Have you actually tried it? Because I did some months ago to setup an AppleTV and it just does not work. It just hangs at the last step without telling you anything. If you inspect the server response it just says "Your account cannot be created at this time.".

What ultimately helped after weeks of trying and tinkering was installing VMware Workstation, patching it to enable macOS support, create a VM with the specific hardware configuration of an older MacBook, install an old version of macOS and do the 2FA from in there.

Use the link in my comment, it takes you straight to their signup page.

Think of it this way: if you required an apple device in order to make an Apple ID, then literally every single podcaster on Apple podcasts (which is still the dominant app for podcasts) must own an Apple device.

Did you even read what I wrote? It did not work. Apple even has an FAQ page for that error (without any useful solution). The suggestion to create an account via Apple Music app is useless since all it does is create an account which must be migrated via browser first (with the same problem). You can also find large threads on Reddit about the problem. Of course the availability of such a sign-up flow suggests it should be possibly, but having it broken for months is not a good look.

I stand corrected.

that wasnt really microsoft massive though.

It didn't happen by Microsoft fault. It reached all of Microsoft... and every other company that sells software or computers to the US government.

The fantasy is that's it's caused by migrants and going to be fixed by deporting them.

'cause feelings

I'm not entirely sure but could it be predictive branching?

No, it needs to read the entire executable in order to be correct, it can't skip anything. Therefore the time for the IO must be a lower bound, predictive branching can't help that.

individuals also means corporations in the US

This only seems to be an issue for wishy washy types that insist gpt is alive.