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This is more so a business error than a technical one. They needed to take more baby steps up to an event of this magnitude.

Personally I wish they sold a version without the camera and speakers. I already have those. A ultra wide would be nice too. I can’t imagine using two of them side by side, especially because it seems incredibly wasteful to have a duplicate speaker / camera set up.

My security system (Abode) just sent me an email telling me they’ll be putting ads in the app unless I pony up for a yearly subscription to their premium services.

I’m curious to see the implementation. If there’s a break in do I have to sit through a 30sec ad before I can interact with the app to see what’s going on?

Can you elaborate on the connection you’re drawing here?

Yes but the amount of plastic in use has increased dramatically. Also there’s evidence that the process of recycling plastic is what creates a lot of the problematic microplastics. We only very recently started recycling plastic.

Very few people understand the law and just opt to defensively throw a cookie banner up on the site. Usually a 3rd party service.

At this point I’ve even had clients ask for it, thinking it makes their site more professional and credible, since everyone else does it.

The argument should be brought up every single time. Each major technological jump is a unique event completely different from the last.

AI is nothing like anything we’ve seen, and is truly unique in the dangers it poses to the world.

I’ve always liked Apple ITunes store model. (So did Steve Jobs that’s why they were so late to music subscriptions)

Just give me a giant catalogue of every show, movie, and album known to man and let me buy or rent a-la-carte for a fair price.

At the moment I’ve dropped all streaming platforms and am back to Apple. If I want to watch something I just buy it and don’t have to worry about subscribing to yet another service.

My pharmacist can even prescribe a month’s supply if I’m running out. Stopping an SSRI cold turkey is a really bad idea.

I was also very unhappy to see that notice. However, If you tap “learn more”, it sounds like creating an account is optional. You’ll only need an account to opt-in to certain features, like controlling your lights when away from home, etc.

I’m not convinced of that yet. Visual UI builders have been a thing for decades and this is more or less the same thing except the input mechanism has changed. Instead of point and click you’re prompting it with text.

I think there are a lot of problems, but mainly I just don’t think it’s ever going to be practical to write and maintain software (front or backend) using conversational text prompts. It’s a very imprecise tool for the job.

Interesting. As long as the limitation in power is self-imposed by the omnipotent being, I don’t find it logically inconstant at all.

The “why” question is a good one. I’m not well versed in theology, but I thought the general idea was that God’s goal was to create independant beings with agency and free will. And in order to accomplish that God (an omnipotent being) would by necessity have to limit their own power. Without doing so it would be logically impossible for other free beings to exist.

> If there is a "god", we are still nothing special, just more stardust...

How did you arrive at that conclusion? With or without a god, and barring any new evidence, sentient life seems to stand out as mind-blowing special and amazing.

> looking at the sheer size of the universe, supposing that we have any special place in it is sheerest hubris.

I don’t think it logically follows that our physical size relative to the size of the universe can tell us anything meaningful at all.

It seems to me that an omnipotent being could, in theory, create some environment or scenario in which events can unfold outside of their own control? Otherwise they wouldn’t truly be omnipotent?

There’s really no reason to use jQuery at this point. It made sense when the native APIs were lacking and inconsistent between browsers. That’s not the case anymore. Just use vanilla JavaScript.

Identity can’t be stolen. You can be impersonated. I think the point they’re making is that it’s not the victims fault if someone is impersonating them. I would agree. It makes zero sense for the victim of impersonation to be held accountable in any way for the actions of the criminal.

If the code works let it go? That’s an incredibly low bar to set. Unless you’re working on an all-star team, that approach will quickly get your codebase in a really bad place with incredible amounts of technical debt.

> That's the content of news articles. They were scraping content for republication and now they're not.

That content is provided by the publisher, via meta tags, specifically designed for that purpose. The publisher has full control.

It’s trivial for a publisher to even opt of search engine indexing entirely if they choose.

In the past what I did was I created a Work iCloud account and then added that account as my “family member”, which gave me access to Music etc.

I’m talking about self reporting by people I know, as well as what I hear in public online. I think it’s quite obvious I don’t literally look at anyone else’s Twitter feed.

> Right now my For You tab is filled with content I wouldn't have dreamed of a year or two ago, fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war, you name it.

I don’t know anyone with a “For you” tab like that. What’s the explanation? Are you engaging with that kind of content?

Yelling fire in a crowded theatre is only illegal when you know for sure there is no fire and are intentionally trying to cause panic and death.

Yep, exactly. I ask things that I know the answer to, or at least know enough to understand what the right answer is going to look like. I just can’t recall the specifics or am busy thinking through something else. It’s basically just an assistant, saving me the time of digging through official docs, searching previous project code, my own notes, etc.

It’s not really an issue for me because I generally know very quickly if it’s wrong or hallucinating and can easily get it back on track.

And in general I find it’s more accurate and far more concise than anything that’s going to show up in a Google search.

I mean, there’s no way I’m taking what it says at face value or copy / pasting code from its response, but that goes for stack overflow, or any other source too. (maybe sans official docs)

I was job hunting about a year ago and got rejected several times for this reason. The worst part? Each one was a small startup just trying to get a new product off the ground.

In one interview the engineer interviewing me explained how they didn’t have any paying customers, and then went on to describe an elaborate over-engineered micro-service based architecture he was working on.

The real kicker was that instead of asking me about my 20 years building products, or our infrastructure at my last gig that handled millions of customers across the globe, he instead wanted to watch me code some goofy coding quiz he had prepared.

> I really don't understand this one. I turn down clients with projects I don't want to do all the time

Yup. The key word here is “projects”.

The web designer technically isn’t turning down the client they’re turning down the project. It’s an important distinction.

I’ve been looking to get off gmail, and fast mail was a main contender, but this is rather alarming.

No I’m Canadian, and those are American. I subscribe to Apple News for access to some Canadian sources, including my local newspaper. Though I don’t think it’s very good.

The data they cache and display is explicitly provided by the publishers for the sole purpose of being used that way. They are free to stop providing that data, or even opt out of indexing all together.

These News orgs haven’t adapted. They’re sitting around publishing long winded, biased stories on their shitty Wordpress implementation with sketchy ads wondering why they’re failing.

I’d happily pay good money for high quality news / journalism presented appropriately for the medium. That means a lot of concise real time information, coupled with long form discussion and debate. All packaged up in a modern, high quality web app, with auxiliary mobile applications.