Doesn’t Globestar still have more satellites in orbit? With Apple supporting them, hoping there will be some consumer choice. This looking like regular cellular will become the new landline company.
Empirically a monkey did already creat the works of Shakespeare in a mere 13billion years. This is the time it took for the universe to form, earth to evolve to create a monkey that could write all those words down. The entire process from start to finish is way more complicated and random than anyone typing 26 character randomly into the keyboard. But I guess we are talking about uniform distributions here.
I’m skeptical that the entities that created this problem - first world countries, industries, politicians all supported by scientific advances can/will solve the problem they created.
The industry will look for a profit motive to solve this. The scientists will look for a publication and fame motive. The politicians will try to grab more power. The poor animals and other third world country people who had nothing to do with this will bear the brunt. Only time will tell.
More than the money, they were able to attract top talent and avoid regulations and senate hearings by calling themselves OpenAI. Genius move even by scamster standards.
> You need to trust the community in general to uncover issues
My point is that this community could just be your friendly CIA operatives running the show with a veneer of open source. Also this “community” has no liability unlike the closed platform companies.
I am amazed at the low quality comments here. Encryption really doesn’t matter as much as the trust of the app here. Any malicious app author can 100% secure encrypt everything in wire and yet leak 100% of your data to some state actor. Anything you type into the chat box is only encrypted by the app after you type and probably storing it in the clear in some local SQLite db. It gives them a whole bunch of options to mess with that plain text data. Even if the app source code is published as you don’t know if they backdoored it before they submitted to App Store.
1. My 33.6Kbps modem dialing my local ISP making those sounds
2. Me using Lynx, Pine and restricted shell on my ISP to browse the internet on a terminal.
3. Me finding a Pine exploit to breakout of the restricted shell to run Slirp to get full TCP/IP access to the internet to browse with Netscape Navigator.
4. Visiting Yahoo and Geocities in full 640x480 VGA color!
5. ICQ
VCs have a lot of vested interest in getting more engineers out of companies like Google for working on their own startups. It might well be true the productivity rate is low for Google employees, but they also need to look at how much money the company is making per engineer and that number is very high - much higher than any pre/post IPO startup.
Safari seems to be doing better than Chrome for memory consumption, I don't know any other browsers that are better here - root cause is that the websites have to fix their excessive memory consumption. The reloading behavior that I've seen on iPhone Safari a lot seems to be due to websites consuming excessive memory that triggers the tab to get closed. You are right, this is not sufficient carrot/stick for website developers to fix their software.
I wouldn’t buy a machine with 8gb and the MBAs are just extracting value from their customers.
However as an engineer interested in efficient software, I support what Apple is doing here. If there is a significant number more of machines with just 8gb, it forces the software developers to think and consider these folks to keep their software less bloated. I’m not talking about professional apps like photoshop, but regular things like email clients and browsers. I feel browsers and bloated websites can optimize their memory consumption here.
I use CarPlay but it is very clunky - I need to plug in the device etc. I've been working on using and old iPhone and keep it connected in the car all the time. I plan on using wifi hotspot for connectivity and since the device can sign-in using my ApplID, it can have access to my calendar or Messages as needed. Sharing the routing address from another Apple device can be done easily from Maps.
This seems like a missed opportunity for Apple - they can release a screen less device bundled with a cheap 4g connection and smooth out other integration issues for sharing / setup etc.
Had there been any scientific studies into why the elements are perfect and there are are all apparent to perfect replicas with not defect rates? It’s hard to make perfect replicas at scales higher than the atomic scale but at the lowest levels, everything seems to be identical.
Given, how many concerns this technology has posed, what type of testing did Google do before releasing it to the public? This seems like such a basic issue and should have been caught in internal dogfooding and testing.
I am one of the disappointed owners. It is incredible to see how badly this has been designed and implemented. When I use the cruise control with collision avoidance, what I’m looking for is a system that can smoothly follow the traffic without sudden jerky braking and acceleration. Instead what I get is a system that keeps accelerating until it is really close to the car in front and suddenly brakes to avoid collision. What we need is a system that estimates the speed of the vehicle in front and matches that speed. Also, maintaining fixed distance is a really bad parameter design choice. What is more effective is if it can keep 3-10 second distance away - this works for lower as well as higher speeds instead of say keeping 10ft distance that fails when there is slow moving traffic or very high speed traffic.
I’m just curious how this will work in restrictive places like North Korea or China? Can the government jam the signals or will users be able to bypass local firewalls to access all the internet?
California has a big budget shortfall this year and this should be the first thing Newson should cut. Looking at the past decade, the more money you pump into it, the worse the problem is getting. Maybe pulling funding will make the problem shrink.
EPA should require all hazardous things to have RFID chips. That way, these can be detected very early in the garbage pickup process and appropriate actions can be taken.
The normal spectrogram technique was already invented by Phillips prior to Shazam. What Shazam did was to hash things combinatorial to reduce false positives.
US wanted to desperately win the Cold War and winning China over was seen as a key goal by Henry Kissinger. That objective was achieved and diminished the USSR to a puppet. US lost other things as a consequence. This is a complicated geopolitical 4D chess game played by powerful white men. The rest of us are pawns and slaves to them.
You need to look up k at the labor cost and time taken to building a brick house in addition to material cost. My GC took a week to get the concrete foundation but did the sub floor and framing in a weeks time. It is incredibly fast to build and very efficient use of labor. The homeowner benefits as the labor cost is lower.
We don’t appreciate the maintainers much. Look at Linux, Git or any other open source project. The initial inspiration was absolutely needed but continued maintenance culture is what made them successful and have lasted decades.