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Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by GrinningFool »

fooker wrote: post #49
twodave wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?

If it meant that my code wouldn't make other people sick...

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by fooker »

viscanti wrote: post #50
fooker wrote: post #49

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Sounds dystopian. Would you want to be forced to wear a heavy headset that nagged you to comment your code and write unit tests?

If it means that I get to work with well commented and tested code, that might be worth it.

It's an interesting philosophical dilemma.

What else would you be willing to force on everyone to improve (in your opinion) your circumstances?

We clearly do this a bit (taxes, vaccines, etc), but finding the threshold is very tricky, and can lead to pretty authoritarian environments.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

#53

Post by 0x457 »

twodave wrote: post #47
azinman2 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want instead?

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

> Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

Where did you see that? I've seen people not change gloves before touching the register, but definitely change gloves after.

Seems a horrible use case.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by pulvinar »

bombcar wrote: post #31
dewey wrote: post #29

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Personally for me: A real smart assistant that knows all the context, calendar invites, messages, photos from using Apple products for many years. Alternatively: Siri that can reliably turn lights on and off again.

At this point I'd be satisfied with a Siri is that just a literal link to a command line. It's horribly useless as it is now, 80% or less accuracy on basic things.

I want that too, but it'll have to be a lot more secure, as now it would be trivial to record me saying Hey Siri and play that back.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by hhshhhhjjjd »

fooker wrote: post #52
viscanti wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it means that I get to work with well commented and tested code, that might be worth it.

It's an interesting philosophical dilemma. What else would you be willing to force on everyone to improve (in your opinion) your circumstances? We clearly do this a bit (taxes, vaccines, etc), but finding the threshold is very tricky, and can lead to pretty authoritarian environments.

Well, as someone living in the United States, I live with the saddening understanding that our military spending indicates that we're willing to immiserate large swaths of the world's population for increasingly diminishing returns.

It's authoritarian enough that I have no choice but to support our military decisions through the taxes I pay.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by EasyMark »

twodave wrote: post #47
azinman2 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want instead?

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

this seems like micromanagement taken to the next level and I hope if any such thing becomes "normal" that legislation will stop it. We aren't robots meant to react to green and red spots on an AR headset.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by EasyMark »

orangepanda wrote: post #28
azinman2 wrote: post #23

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What do you want instead?

I want a mini game as I chop cucumbers. And a wall of my achievements that’s shared with anyone in proximity.

This sounds like a great way to chop off fingertips. Take it from someone who has done "just the tip" once, a sharp knife will do it with almost no effort, just like slicing through a tomato

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by supportengineer »

twodave wrote: post #47
azinman2 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want instead?

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

This joke gets made a lot, but I really don't want to live on this planet any more.

I've spent a lifetime in software and what I want more than anything is to shut it all off.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by fooker »

hhshhhhjjjd wrote: post #55
fooker wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an interesting philosophical dilemma. What else would you be willing to force on everyone to improve (in your opinion) your circumstances? We clearly do this a bit (taxes, vaccines, etc), but finding the threshold is very tricky, and can lead to pretty authoritarian environments.

Well, as someone living in the United States, I live with the saddening understanding that our military spending indicates that we're willing to immiserate large swaths of the world's population for increasingly diminishing returns. It's authoritarian enough that I have no choice but to support our military decisions through the taxes I pay.

It's colonialism without the responsibility of administering large populations.

I don't know if there's a solution though, there are other sharks vying to do far worse.

Re: Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab

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Post by elsonrodriguez »

twodave wrote: post #47
azinman2 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want instead?

I want to force kitchen staff to wear this and have it remind them to change gloves based on what they’ve touched either being a potential allergen or contaminant. Makes me cringe when I see people who work with food also working the register, for instance. Too easy to get lazy and not change the gloves.

You might want to read Manna.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

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