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Google did the same bullshit on Android. With Google Assistant (old assistant) I could say "Hey Google, play daft punk" and it would start playing Daft Punk on Spotify. With Gemini…

This breaks down when someone goes on holiday to Greece for a week, and the RTT over the airbnb wifi is 5 seconds. Optimistic updates on the frontend are probably simpler too.

The best box cutter is the Moby Safety Knife. I used it when I was working in a supermarket 20 years ago, and I haven't found anything even remotely comparable. The short blade on …

I think it's more a consequence of pushing for the biggest valuation/IPO. Rumoured profits on inference are north of 70%. Taking SpaceX as an example, they have increased prices ac…

Reolink has always been like that, but at least they aren't a random no-name brand that could disappear at any minute.

Don't forget the fan controllers to try to make it silent and the neon lights. I still have that machine at my parents house, used it a couple of years ago to rip all my teenage CD…

Netflix has the same problem. Downloaded some TV shows for my daughter to watch while we were travelling. Worked fine on the plane, arrived to the hotel, connected to WiFi "This co…

My agent has access to my email, my messages, my work, my finances, my life. But thank god it doesn't have access to root on my machine.

> we like all the dopamine hijacking garbage I basically don't use Facebook any more because of this. Opening the app shows me the most sensationalist, fearmongering and outrage ba…

This also perfectly describes the career change from software engineer to engineering manager. Instead of solving things yourself, you need to learn how to describe them in a way o…

Better to outsource, then if something goes wrong, the execs don't have to take the blame themselves.

There are enough big banks in Europe that want to use AI, but almost all of them have very terrible software engineering (sorry to anyone who works there), so it's not like they ar…

If training robots doesn't pan out, they could always pivot and use the data to train AI to control humans instead. Some industries such as Amazon warehouse pickers and drivers are…

This is why they are pushing more for non-tech folks to use their products with desktop apps. They are not going to switch on a whim.

You mean a team of humans who are labelling datasets?

I run some numbers, how much would it cost to build MaltaGPT - sovereign hosted ChatGPT. Malta has a population of 500k. Let's assume 100k people use MaltaGPT daily, and they send …

Is there any progress being made on cars so they are less susceptible to rust? In my country that's the main reason why vehicles are scrapped, engines can be repaired easily enough…

I'm in the early phases of working on a game that explores that. The backstory is that in the late 2050s when AI has its hands in everything, humans loose trust of it. There are a …

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Is there a good alternative available in the EU? Anthropic announced it was available in the EU last month, but it seems now that they've changed their mind. https://www.anthropic.…

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I haven't seen any of OPs comments, but I remember when Checkly (also in this space) first launched the founder of that was posting a lot here and on Reddit. I wouldn't say their c…

That's the wholesale price paid to producers. Consumers are paying around 23c/kWh, however that (as with most European countries) has been subsided by the government - the real pri…

It's probably worth noting why cars are finally scrapped. It's usually not because of problems with the engine, but other issues that EVs also have. Rust (in Northern Europe this i…