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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help.

1730 points, 1045 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114



Link to the study, in Brazilian Portuguese: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/2025/09/apple-ecosystem-...


Article fails to mention that the study was sponsored by Apple, not just "highlighted".


Can't read Portuguese, so can you provide the citation for this?


In the end of the first page:

> Apoio financeiro e dados para este estudo foram fornecidos pela Apple.

> As conclusões e opiniões expressas são exclusivamente do autor.

Translates to

> Financial support and data for this study were provided by Apple.

> The conclusions and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.


Yes, you can see the site announcement here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415962/new-official... (Feb. 2022)


Probably. In the FAQ, for example, there is a repetition that is usually generated by LLMs:

> What is the current status of the investigation into the missing Ghent Altarpiece panel?

> The current investigation status of the missing Ghent Altarpiece panel (...)

> Is there any information about the security measures that were in place at the Mohamed Khalil Museum during the thefts of Poppy Flowers?

> Regarding the security measures at the Mohamed Khalil Museum during the theft of Poppy Flowers by Vincent van Gogh (...)

> What is the value of The Storm on the Sea of Galilee today?

> The value of The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt, if it were to be sold today, is challenging to estimate (...)


Later in the same thread:

> ROCm is a brand name for ROCm™ open software platform (for software) or the ROCm™ open platform ecosystem (includes hardware like FPGAs or other CPU architectures).

> Note, ROCm no longer functions as an acronym.


>> Note, ROCm no longer functions as an acronym.

That is really dumb. Like LLVM.


A problem with the floor selector in the hall is when some people enter the elevator together without selecting a floor. The system thinks that there is still space in the elevator, but in fact it is full, so it stops at different floors without anyone being able to enter. I've seen this happen quite often in a corporate building during the end of business hours and lunch hours.


At Twitter/X HQ they have these, and you can "trick" it into going express to your floor by pressing the button in the hall repeatedly so the car then thinks it is full and won't stop at other floors.


I've had the same experience, it's terrible.

Having said that, the default system is also ignorant to the current weigh of the elevator so it is still subject to stopping on floors without there being any space left.


Trying to figure out space available from the number of people seems unreliable, but I wonder if you can use a set of heuristics such as having a max weight at which point the elevator is assumed full and if it stops to let someone on but the weight doesn't increase assume the elevator is full (maybe require this to happen twice in a row?, IDK, false positives probably aren't too expensive.)


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The first book I read was Angels & Demons, illustrated edition[0]. I was ~11 years old and my professor took my class to an used bookstore and we had to choose a book and summarize it. Oh God, how lucky I was to have this book recommended to me and to find the illustrated edition. The book's plot and illustrations complemented each other in such a way that I was entertained as children are entertained today with a smartphone.

I don't remember if I read the last book in the Robert Langdon series, but I have to say that after reading Inferno, I had to read Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Nowadays I'm always reading something. This first experience was important and the books I chose evolved as I matured in reading.

  0: https://www.ebay.com/itm/184865824842


The first "grown up" novel I can remember reading at the age of 12 or so was "Catch-22" - I'm pretty sure this has had a long term effect on me...


Good pick! Nothing like a little light literature to get you started off properly on the path to literacy... Sarcasm aside, I first read it when I was in my 20's for the first time (and again recently) and it definitely changed the way I look at the world. Heller is an absolute master.


They did not discountinue it. They are uploading June data dump and it's expected that the automatic data dumps are re-enabled by end of day Friday: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/390200


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