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- Playing music - Playing audiobooks - Telling the time - Setting timers for cooking. - Giving the day's weather.

Alexa beats Google solidly in kid-friendly material.

I subscribe to the Amazon PrimeFancyMusic thing, and that works well for my Echo Studio.

I would agree that a GPT driven voice controlled system might be great.

What I would actually prefer would be a speaker system that I could drive with a command line tool _or_ voice. Arguably, a tidy enough installation on a RPi Zero connected to a dumb speaker would be sufficient for the CLI...

A "smart" speaker that simply did the above 5 tasks reliably and was driven off of music/audiobook subscriptions would be fantastic. It wouldn't shoot for the moon, but it would be a workhorse.

Clearly the problem was that Alexa was taking too much space/runtime, thereby inhibiting profit.

I'm not sure the right approach. Rigorous testing and sorting from an early age into silos of tracking kids has its own major flaws.

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If you have an ambiguous problem and you need it solved in Linux on the cloud, call me up. I can design, build, deploy, operate; the whole kit and caboodle. Front end and mobile aren't my specialty, but I can work that through (see - ambiguity management). And I did my Master's in embedded systems.

I'd like full time work.

But, I'd take short term consulting work, e.g., advising for starting up cloud work, doing digital transformation, setting up your infra as a contract.

Happy to get on a 15m call to talk! - I have a Google scheduling widget set up here at this link - https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedu...

(And if it is relevant, I'm a US citizen)

This analysis misses a LOT of economic factors.

As well as corporate control factors.

I am reminded of the Hebrew Lech lecha, which occupies a certain amount of commentary space and has some alignments.

There is something to be said for being normie. But also it should be a choice, and moxie points out that it... often isn't, really.

The spe, btw, I think has gotten much more popularly discredited since 2013.

The art world is a _thing_, with tastes that can vary quite a bit from mid-brow average consumers. Its sensitive in its own way to "PC" and lobbying, but is distinct to a degree (albeit entangled, naturally).

One interesting question is: why is one hospital's rate for procedure X different than another? how can providers work at different hospitals? The answer lies somewhere in the "it's a maze of subcontractor relationships", "it's a maze of one off insurance contracts"...

It's a very good example of why vertical integration beats subcontracting. :)

Asterisk: if you want a permissive license, our salespeople are _right around the corner_, and they will take you to a steak dinner with our professional services lead, and you will have a fantastic white glove onboarding, and it will be absolutely lovely for everyone's bottom line.

thanks for submitting it.

I usually go with as little graphs as possible and prefer to write text; it can capture more, better, faster, and be more iterable. For specific areas like state machines or packet sequences I will drill into graphical representations more but otherwise... eh. Text wins.

I've often thought about offering a similar service, but the abuse potential has always stopped me.

I've noodled with a blockchain type system which allows blob uploads as part of the chain, but I haven't really deployed it and publicized it, because of the abuse potential.

A related question might be: why no Chinese or Indian (subcontinent) industrial revolution? Those societies are rightly called great civilizations, and they were _no_ fools. Why no industrial revolution?

I'm very, ah, midwit about bikes. I like using them - zipping around in the city -, and doing minor repair, but I am not a real gearhead.

mmmm... the Windows kernel? Amazon Firecracker (the AWS Lambda engine, afaik)?

I have used Rust off and on for a decade, and in the last 5 years Rust has really moved from hobbyist to making inroads at big tech firms. It is good to be skeptical though. Language boosters can be annoying. :)

I've been doing more Rust hacking at home and I genuinely think that this next decade will be just gangbusters for Rust; its gotten a lot of early adoption, and the next wave is going to be wild.

one of these days I'll work at a Rust shop, and I am hyped for that possibility. it'll be NICE.

quite correct!

The Uber/Lyft "package", as it were, is easily worth a full 20% over conventional taxi systems circa 2010ish.

Since using Lyft, I have since only used traditional taxis when Lyft/Uber was not available. Because the old model was bad.

I can appreciate the _desire_ to have a linked app to deal with the electronic internals of an ebike. We have a Yuba cargo and a Rad, and it'd be cool to "open up the insides and tweak". Yet. Yet.

Honestly, I got a non-ebike very recently (I've been wanting a particular set of features for about 5 years now), and it has been very, very nice to use. No concerns about battery, speed limiting, etc. No cloud servers connecting to an app, either. I can't say I'd recommend an non-ebike to everyone, but it does simplify certain elements of the experience.

Both have a claim on the total value of the company. Neither can survive without the other.

I thoroughly believe there are several win-win outcomes possible that address all parties' publicized concerns. I am not sure that there are technical good faith solutions being looked for right now though.

Not gonna lie, if reddit strips our moderation, once the automod rules get figured out by the spammers, the value that particular subreddit will collapse into trash and spam.

so, sure, aim that footgun and start pulling the trigger... go on then.

This is particularly notable when looking for recipes.

I have a 15 minute walk to my kids' school - not a bad one either, a 30 second walk to the bus stop, a 3 minute walk to the grocery store, a 7 minute walk to the fancy grocery store near the hardware store. My religious group is a 2.5 mile drive/bike. We are approximately one hour from grandparents.

I have an old house with a small backyard and gardens, a neighborhood stuffed with kids and a community that values kids. In addition, I can save money.

Absolutely none of that is possible for my (quite decent) income in Seattle (closest tech hub).

To move me to a par Seattle house with par livability, par neighborhood, and par mortgage cost (but further away from grandparents), would be on the order of a +1M outlay - maybe +750K (but I haven't checked recently). (Wedgewood, Ravenna, or Magnolia neighborhoods, if you're curious).

In short: moving to a tech hub would be a radical downgrade to the quality of life.

As another posted:

> ... There is one side that is unambiguously pro-family, pro-environment, pro-church involvement, pro-bowling league, pro-parents in kids lives, pro-marriage, pro-divorced child raising. ...

concur.

I would also note, pointedly, that if you're a bigshot in a major tech company in a metro hub, you should be having very serious discussions with the city government about workforce housing for the > 30 set. It is actually possible to have a good metro life - if the city is designed for it.

(regardless of what the crisis says on the tin, or the response formally says on the tin, this is a thing and the wingnuts aren't... entirely wrong in noticing that there's something off about the world)