t_von_doom

Here in the UK some stores offer a handheld wireless scanner at the entrance to the store (and some chains offer an app so you can use your phone too)

You then scan items as you pick them off the shelf - if you're really prepared you put the item directly into a bag you brought with you.

Payment is then a case of walking up to the till - human or machine - and scanning one final barcode. Your order is presented to you for a final review then you tap your card and leave.

Arriving at the till and paying instantly means my entire queuing experience is over within 5-10 seconds

(Unless you get subjected to an infrequent random poll of your items but these are worth the occasional hassle)

Hopefully you get something similar implemented!

From the UK here:

Yes we all have a credit score - it's mainly used to measure your ability to borrow and repay debt and will influence whether a company loans to you and the interest rate on said loan.

It's not (yet) as aggressive as the social scoring system in China if that is what you were alluding to...

Do you not have a similar system where you are from? How would the above be decided for you?

Just to follow up - as I think the person above was a bit harsh:

I am a Bowers and Wilkins user and have the same pain points as you, it's a recurring and daily issue that I'll listen to audio from a home based device (laptop, iPad) and then have to unpair/re-pair to my phone when I leave the house.

As a seamless wireless experience it falls short as it would be faster to have a wired set and simply plug it in to the device.

Same again when I come home and want to switch back. Apple cleanly solves this.

Whether that is worth a £200 premium on top of what I paid for my current cans is debatable, however if they can match or outperform the current NC family (PX, Bose QC, Sony MX4) I will be seriously considering them as my next pair

For the sideways/upsidedown: The iPad Pro can be unlocked from any orientation with FaceId. It seems they intentionally don't want you to do that on the phone

Here in the UK (at least in my experience) we use CV and resume interchangeably

On Chrome you can directly search YouTube from the searchbar by tabbing after typing "YouTube"

Personally I think it depends on how you view your job with respect to the remainder of your daily life.

To some, their job is the main source of fulfilment + a good proportion of their social circle. For others it's a means to an end so that they can fulfill their needs elsewhere in their own time.

The pros you listed are fantastic if you sit on the latter side of the spectrum, but if you really view your work as part of your identity then just being satisfied won't be enough

I think the idea here is that symbolic language is the tool with which we forge our ideas.

To continue with the GPT example, the ideas are not rendered into symbolic language only at the point of writing - the ideas are formed in the mind using symbols and then expressed afterwards

I see it like this: With no way to represent my thoughts and the context around them succinctly, I would not be able to string various complex ideas together coherently

I'm fairly certain that people are indeed working on a treatment, but until it's ready what do you propose?

> assume it means 1 blog article

I'd like to play devils advocate here.

Given one blog article in a foreign language: Would a human be able to write coherent future articles?

With no teacher or context whatsoever how many articles would one have to read before they could write something that would 'fool' a native speaker? 1000, 100,000?

I have no idea how to measure the quantity/quality of contextual and sensory data we are constantly processing from just existing in the real world, however, it is vital to solving these tasks in a human way - yet it is a dataset that no machine has access to

I would argue comparing 'like for like' disregards the rich data we swim amongst as humans, making it an unfair comparison

Could you tell me a bit more about how your beacons work? I’d love to do something similar tracking where/how I spend time around the house

I don't think the user was unfamiliar with a pipette, but rather didn't know what was meant by pipetting 'right'.

As someone who also isn't a SWE first, what are the changes you'd make and where can one learn to code in a more SWE way?

While negatively charged particles are real, the 'negative' charge is a way to distinguish them from a 'positive' charge. It's a naming convention more than it is an actual negative value.

We could easily call them 'black' and 'white' particles and the system itself would stay the same