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I would pay $500bn to get siri to distinguish between a 13 minute timer and a 30 minute timer.

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I am very resourceful so I got around this by setting a 14 minute timer to outsmart the Ai.

"Your 40 minute timer starts now".

Workarounds: 781 seconds timer, or 29/31 minute timer.

I’m serious, that’s what I use.

When I put in timers -- for some reason my timer frequently/randomly just sets to 79 hours and a random assortment of minutes and seconds. I have no clue why. I always have to double check otherwise I might be waiting awhile.

It feels like it was a residual timer or something but I have never set anything like that - it is quite strange.

I solve this by asking for a 31, 41, or 51 minute timer.

How does this help me se a 13, 14, or 15 minute timer?

Could you ask to set a 780 second timer?

You can, and it works.

"10 minute timer" + "add 4 minutes"

I don't know if this is an actual problem you have, but since Siri appears to be composed of independent voice-to-text and text-to-action systems, you can say "start a one three minute timer".

The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming, but skilled creative professionals is a/the core userbase for Apple products.

Apple is stuck and it’s AI will never be good enough until those creatives embrace it. Right now it’s disdain when mentioned.

Uhh

> The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming

By “best” do you mean “marketable?”

Seems weird to see a bunch of creatives and creative professionals “disdain” a tool and still say it’s “best” for them…

An oft-cited quote goes something like this: "we wanted robots/AI to automate boring, routine, meaningless jobs to let people be free to pursue arts, music, creativity. It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"

> It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"

So far it’s not though.

Oh. It already is. Artists are already saying that a lot of commission work is drying out (e.g. illustrations).

> skilled creative professionals is a/the core userbase for Apple products.

Then why doesn't it have a professional CAD application?

It does.

AutoCAD came to the Mac when Intel was shitting the bed (with aggressive OEM contracts for first party system integrators that prevented AMD adoption across HP/Dell/Lenovo-lines) and Windows 11 was being forced on users.

WINTEL played the monopoly game too hard and is starting to lose ground.

You love to see it.

Even Apple doesn't do CAD on OSX. They run Siemens NX on Windows.

But your statement isn't quite right. Fusion 360 runs fine in mac. I'm ex-Apple btw.

Ok, that's good to know, but my colleagues all use SolidWorks so it doesn't change much for me.

> The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming

This is where it’s being pushed and marketed but I’m not actually sure it’s the best use case.

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