@dan In *this* economy??

@siracusa @dimsumthinking As a thought exercise, is this a security measure to protect the user whose data is already being sent off device OR is it to protect Apple who is doing something wonky when processing AI questions? Thinking about this only very briefly, I can’t come up with anything unique to AI processing to explain this limitation (that wouldn’t also apply to running macOS off an external drive in general).

@joesteel (In case it’s not obvious, I’m not accusing YOU of being a snob here. Your original point is perfectly valid!)

@joesteel As someone who uses npm, I’m always curious if people pick on it just because of anti-front-end snobbery or if their package management system is legitimately superior. :)

@joesteel I don’t like install-time scripts, either, so I disable them. However, as soon as a dependency is referenced as part of app development or testing, any malicious code it has could run, so I’m not sure this is a meaningful security difference. Your point about the large number of dependencies feels much more relevant to me. However, I’m not sure that’s a design problem with npm as much as a culture in the JavaScript ecosystem.

@joesteel Is npm bad because it’s badly designed? Or is it bad simply because it is very popular? Is there an analogue that is less bad?

@siracusa It’s hard to tell from the pictures, but it looks like maybe they DID change the wheels and tires? To be clear, I agree with your thesis and I’m not here to defend these folks, but they seem to have a significant concern about fuel efficiency for their EV line and so they’re not being entirely inconsistent by messing with the door handles. :)

@siracusa To be fair, it seems there are a couple other structural changes between those two images that are also likely to produce better fuel economy for the EV.

@zkat @andrewnez @kevin The release notes offer a bit more context: https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/releases/tag/1.10.0

@matt_birchler Hey, I’m not making you do *anything*!! :)