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I thought it was gonna relate Airpods to Christopher McCandless. But that's Into The Wild. So thanks for clearing that up for me. :)
The title relates to Into Thin Air which Jon Krakauer also wrote about the 1996 Everest disaster (of which he was part).
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What would you have done?
Our reasoning was simple: even if the stolen car was parked in an underground garage, devoid of mobile network, satellite, or even GPS access, an occasional passerby with an iPhone might be sufficient to log the device's ID and subsequently relay it to Apple's central system.
However, in our practical tests, the positioning and tracking proved to be somewhat unreliable and riddled with glitches — a sentiment that resonates with the author's experience with her misplaced AirPods.
Despite this, I firmly believe the Find My network is a technological marvel teeming with potential. I hope Apple continues to refine it and finds more seamless ways to incorporate it into CarPlay and other products
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Why use few words when you can use a bazillion words. BTW, the text is too long for GPT4 to summarise, I wonder if that's a tactic sites use against AI tools? :D Just make the text so long and full of purple prose that the AI models choke.
The purpose of this story is for the author to recount their experience in an entertaining way that's pleasant to read. Why would you want to use an LLM to summarize it? That'd be like finding an interesting-looking novel to read at the bookstore, then buying the Cliff's Notes instead. I've thus far kept myself mostly isolated from and ambivalent about the GPT hype, but this comment, even if it's somewhat tongue-in-c…
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wait, wasn't the moral here that the airpods find my feature is faulty and she was getting fake locations.
Find My works incredibly well for AirTags so I hope that some day they just take an AirTag and stick it inside an AirPods case and call it a day.
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Why use few words when you can use a bazillion words. BTW, the text is too long for GPT4 to summarise, I wonder if that's a tactic sites use against AI tools? :D Just make the text so long and full of purple prose that the AI models choke.
The purpose of this story is for the author to recount their experience in an entertaining way that's pleasant to read. Why would you want to use an LLM to summarize it? That'd be like finding an interesting-looking novel to read at the bookstore, then buying the Cliff's Notes instead. I've thus far kept myself mostly isolated from and ambivalent about the GPT hype, but this comment, even if it's somewhat tongue-in-c…
I expected some technical insights because it was posted to HackerNews, but nope.
I'm glad I'm old enough so I can browse text pretty fast, didn't take me too long to skip to the end.
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> Casey Johnston is a writer who lives in Los Angeles.
It's not about the AirPods (other than.. obviously it's 'about' the AirPods) - they're just an experience she happened to draw on (or made up) to do some story-telling.
It's not for me either, but I don't think it's weird like you suggest, it's not really a 'blog post' so much as a short story (serialised in magazine/newspaper style), it's not someone keeping a web log or diary and going off the rails on one annoying but fairly insignificant experience.