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Maybe a little off the topic, but I was thinking just the other day that Alexa/Google Home/Siri could be made significantly better if it accepted instructions the way ChatGPT does.…

Your statement made me wonder if someone else had done this, and sure enough I found something -- https://www.cloudcomparisontool.com/ Look for "Object Storange" for instance and i…

> "Scalable" no idea what it means. Generally refers to the idea that a microservice should be designed to scale horizontally (with more instances) vs. vertically (more compute pow…

In firefox, if I put something in the search box, press enter, it will search. If I press enter a second time (taking no other action) it will display json.

Kind of a tangent, but I was traveling in Portugal last year, and one day as I was headed to a train station I felt my phone buzz. I picked it up and it had a failed Bluetooth file…

For what it's worth, my banks have these features other than Daily Cash. That feature is something I don't think I've seen before. > It just looks like an Apple branded version of …

Well, for what it's worth, they rent their own scooters as well as license out their platform. Perhaps some of the value comes from that. https://www.bird.co/platform/

> It seems that everybody knows everything. I think about this from time to time -- how people build up this sense of personality related to a forum or site. I think what tends to …

Wouldn't this be true for any open source application you don't compile from the source?

I agree and was curious why they picked it. I guess their reasoning is as good as any. > Steem is a form of esteem, which means to prize or value. Steem is also a homophone for ste…

I don't, sorry. I'm seem to recall that he worked with a state government.

Not that this is really any help, but an acquaintance of mine works for HPE and notified he was being laid off yesterday, and his last day is today. He was with HP (now HPE) for ma…

It's interesting to say that $8B of new value was created, since no one could supply that money if anyone asked for it. How did the cryptocurrency markets handle that, anyway?

Is there any reason why people were (seemingly) expecting this, or was it just an idea that gained momentum that AMD never actually suggested or considered?

> They also appear to have plagiarized the terms of use from other sites. Well, if so, they have a lot of company: https://goo.gl/zfz0pp The entire document is all over the web. If…

It seems it's more nuanced. Try the following searches: how long does it take to caramelize onions how long does it take to caramelise onions (note the typo) how long to caramelize…

There was a very good documentary on the NatGeo channel here in the US just this week that did an excellent job of explaining all of it to me. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com…

Nothing in my department yet, but we actually have a guy actively looking for a reason to implement some kind of ML so we can say our product "has it" I guess.

Oof... like, 9/12 of those describe my team. I don't kid myself into thinking I'm doing anything meaningful here, but to have so much of process put so bluntly is eye opening. I su…

Just for fun, have a look at the comments about the iPod announcement: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.50... There's always people with something to say.

I'm afraid I won't be a lot of help in terms of gaining traction, but I can say that here at Big Corp this is a regular problem I have as a team lead. I don't know if the size of t…