I've been doing this for 20+ years, not with AI but just with code and taking time to understand the important parts of the processes. I still see many companies and especially educational institutions spending way too much manpower on payroll and accounts payable in particular. This is often because of unnecessary bespoke processes that people in the organization believe are necessary and are afraid to change.
I have these on all of my blinds and they are amazing. You can sometimes get them on sale for $50-60 each. They come with a solar panel that keeps them charged. You can add a hub that makes them work with HomeKit.
My Mac started telling me that I need to update Apple ID settings about 30 minutes ago, but when I click "Continue", System Settings freezes and can't be closed. I think it's because gsa.apple.com isn't responding. When I ping that address, it resolves to Akamai, which makes me wonder if this is an Apple outage or Akamai outage. Neither company's status dashboard reports any issues right now.
PING gsa.idms-apple.com.akadns.net (17.32.194.34): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
The Tesla interface reminds me of the iOS settings page. A huge list of options and you have to drill down multiple levels to find the setting you want to change. Definitely not easy to use while driving, IMO.
There have been lots of complaints because there are no physical controls for things such as windshield wiper speed on some Tesla models. They just put out a software update in response to complaints about that, but people don't seem to like the "fix".
I test drove a Model S but ended up buying a RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid instead. The controls are much better on the RAV4. There are physical buttons for almost everything.
> A huge list of options and you have to drill down multiple levels to find the setting you want to change.
I'm confused by your concept that there are multiple levels -There isn't. There is the car page with 10 tabs, all with only top-level information and the default tab has steering wheel and mirror controls, both are set-it-and-forget-it with driver profiles.
The wipers suck, for sure. I honestly think they could fix that in a software update or at least make more intuitive controls. Currently the wipe speed menu pops up if you hit the wipe button. That said, zero of the settings in the car menu should ever be used while driving. The auto-headlights work well enough and it has a traditional stalk for that anyways.
I assure you, attempt to find a way to turn off the interior ambient lighting on a VW. The Tesla design is organized - Controls, Steering, Autopilot, Safety, etc all clearly labeled on one menu. VW has two different menus for the car and hides some settings on weird pages with at least four levels deep. For all the settings that exist, Tesla is close to the most simple. Android Automotive on the Polestar 2 is about the same difficulty.,
What settings would you ever want to change there? The settings in the settings menu are something you setup when you buy the car and generally never touch again.
What I don't understand about both this and Twitter's dislike of third party apps is why they don't just require third party apps display the same ads as their own app, and maybe support whatever paid features they have. It seems like that would be a win-win for both them and the app developers.
More people use Reddit because of Apollo because the experience is so much better than their own app. They should take advantage of that by coming up with a mutually beneficial solution instead of killing it. They would make a lot more revenue by requiring that Apollo display ads than killing it and losing some percentage of users or traffic in the process. Are they that confident that all of the Apollo users are just going to switch to their own app on July 1st? (they won't)
I understand why the status-quo isn't sustainable. Reddit has to figure out how to be profitable eventually, but this seems like a tone deaf way to try to get there which probably won't have the intended result.
Yes, only one and it’s because it doesn’t “work” electronically. I re-subscribed to Games World of Puzzles a couple of years ago. It’s a high quality print magazine of clever puzzles that require writing the answers in the magazine. It has everything from many variations of crossword type puzzles to completely new genres they seem to invent every month. I was introduced to it my my elementary school gifted and talented teacher in the early 80’s. Back then I couldn’t wait for it to come in the mail, but stopped subscribing for about 30 years until a few months into the pandemic.
It’s not like the puzzle “magazines” that are in the magazine section of most stores now, it’s way more than that. It used to occasionally show up at my local Barnes and Noble, but I haven’t seen it there for a while.
I have experience trying to get a down-level job for a different employer. I think that might be even more difficult than staying with the same employer. I was trying to down-level for more or less the same reasons - burnout from 20+ years of 50-60 hour weeks managing an I.T. department with mission critical systems and too few staff.
I interviewed for several "down-level" positions, a couple where I subsequently found out that I was clearly the most qualified candidate. One HR person more or less told me that they didn't understand why I was willing to take a ~30% pay cut. I think they thought it seemed suspect... because who would do that?
This. My parents have several smart appliances but were completely unaware. Even if they were aware they wouldn't care. Regardless of one's opinion of the privacy aspect, none of the "smart" functionality their appliances have is worth the time it takes to set it up. It's mostly pointless.
I was setting up something on my daughter's laptop last weekend when I made a startling discovery. For context, she will graduate this year with a degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. When I added a URL to the Bookmarks in her browser, I noticed that it was the only thing in her Bookmarks. When I asked her why she didn't have any sites Bookmarked she said she keeps tabs open for everything she uses regularly (Gmail, Blackboard, and a few other things). I didn't know how to process this information. I guess she uses phone apps for just about everything and on the rare occasion that she needs to use a web site for something she finds it with Google.
I don't know if she is typical for people her age, but for her the answer to your question would be "none".
No bookmarks here either; I set up newsboat for RSS feeds a few weeks back and am very happy with the resulting batch-like interaction.
(it may not really be any less Skinner-boxy, but it sure feels less like it)
[Edit: to the original ask, I try to spend my net time in active browsing mode, pulling content according to my interests du jour, rather than letting it be pushed to me — another reason that batching the "push" content has been satisfying]
[Edit2: where do things live that I "might read someday"? Mostly in my browser history. A few in external files, depending upon whether I think someday is realistic enough to be worth backing up.]
People who keep tabs perpetually open are strange. I'd like to observe their browsing habits to find out they actually use the web. When i'm done with a website, I close the tab. I sometimes meet people who have 100+ tabs open and it's like meeting those people who claim they have no inner monologue, or people who don't like chocolate. Just total space alien behavior.
I'm early 40s and I don't use bookmarks, the only exception being when I find a random site I'm worried i won't remember that I can't look at right then. This happens <= 2x per year. Otherwise I do the same as your daughter. What do you use bookmarks for?
Mostly to keep up a digital backlog to rival the stack of books next to my desk.
Occasionally for reference in searching as they're sorted by topic and google search has steadily become wrestling with the algorithm for relevant results.
I use them for research. I've been doing a lot of work with NURBS lately for a side project and I often run across articles and papers that I don't yet understand enough of the math for, or I'm not at the stage of my project where the information will be useful yet. So I bookmark them for later.
My problem now is that I have so many bookmarks that it's becoming easier to re-Google the topic than to find that bookmark I swear I made 3 months ago...if only I could restrict a search engine to just my bookmarks...
One aspect of the Steam Deck that hasn't gotten as much attention as I think it deserves is that it costs about half as much as any competing device with comparable specs. Why? Valve is subsidizing the cost like Sony and Microsoft have done in the past. Sell the console at cost or even at a loss, because you're going to make a 30% commission on every game sold. Gabe Newell said that the pricing is "painful", especially for the 64GB model. I suspect this won't be an issue in the long run, if others' Steam purchasing habits are similar to mine since getting a Steam Deck.
I don't think they're subsidizing the cost. Gabe never said explicitly they were selling at a loss, and even if they were in the beginning, given their sales they probably aren't anymore.
The cost of the specs itself is likely to be very minor. I'd be surprised if they're paying more than 120$ for the APU. I imagine a lot of the cost came from it being so different from anything else.
