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This is pretty awesome man. I had zero insight into home automation and this really made me want to learn more. Well done

Just upload the pictures to a chatGPT chat and tell it what you want, My wife uses it for this all the time.

My wife designed our pool and our patio this exact way. She spent hours on it and it worked perfectly.

I can look out my window and see the exact scene she made in chatGPT.

Really impressive how useful it has become on some very general things

Fascinating that they just never accounted for that moment. Although I guess it is incredibly out of the ordinary.

Feel free to ignore this question but what have you noticed going about life without your head in the screen? It must be a genuinely different view on things and I would like to get your perspective

"a push to have users download their mobile app" This is the blocker for me, every vendor wants you to download a different mobile app.

I had to on the spot download a mobile app to pay to get my car back from valet parking at a really nice hotel the other day. They only accepted payment via the app which they did not disclose before taking the car. I had to stand there for 10 minutes installing the app and setting it up and I will likely never go back to that hotel (becuase of location, not the app).

No idea what would have happened if I just had an old fashioned flip phone

Gas stations near me already have a cash price and a card price per gallon

The issue with flock is pair it with a competent Ai system and you have full realtime surveilance of every civilian everywhere there are flock cameras. Press a button and you have "Bob Smith's" or very likely "Ex GF of legal figure" complete travel history on demand as well as current location. It's too much power to give a government let alone flawed individual humans

I don't think most people are going to grab lab grown out of the grocer fridge if normal beef is available for the same price. I know I would not. But if its 25% cheaper I'm happy to try it

Agree, as long as it's meat. Lab grown meat from cells is meat. The reason impossible never worked was becuase it wasn't meat. Very few people are going to trade meat for soy and vegetables

And there goes every single rational for having a security team at the disaster bunkers the billionaires are building

I have been thoroughly impressed with 4.8 the last couple weeks at work, they have not given us access to 5 yet.

yes. You see anyone speaking approvingly of Thomas Crooks after he tried to kill Trump the left's most hated man? Not even a mention. He's not attractive so they dont care about him. Heck the media even digitally manipulated Alex Pretti to make him more attractive after he was killed by ICE so people would care.

Be attractive Don't be unattractive

Cool so do I get to decide who's decisions I don't like and resulted in death or do only people like you and Mangione get to decide? And to be clear, you are advocting for vigilante justice so you are going to be celebrating when the following happen:

Abortion doctors and admins are gunned down

Gender change doctors and admins are gunned down

Judges who allowed for bail and the person killed after bonding out are gunned down

Regular killers and gang members are gunned down

Police are gunned down

Politicians on both sides are gunned down

Mayors that didn't prioritize for natural disasters are gunned down

Feel free to add to the list.

'professionals are sharing dreams of “disappearing” or “living on a farm somewhere” or “going off the grid.”'

This has been a meme in tech for decades. I seriously considered farming 20 years ago due to my dissatisfaction with tech, its nothing new.

I fall into the group of tech workers that never enjoyed their work, I still loathe it but it pays really well. Standups are the worst, every day its "what did you do yesterday". The number of hours worked are far above a normal 9 - 5.

Sections of sociery spent years telling people to learn to code and they did and they do. The issue is that for many people that just work to live and don't live to work, code is souless and there is nothing to show for it after decades of grind.

This negative outlook is not universal of couse, I am sure this site is full of people that love software and more power to them. For a good deal of us though, its just how we pay the bills and there is nothing else that will come close to paying them as well.

Now to add to the general malaise we see companies laying off tens of thousands of engineers to justify their token spend. The feeling of living on borrowed time is prevelant especially for those that never got RSU's or SF salaries

Authorities believe it was a stroke, he had been complaining of headaches for several days prior.

Its expensive out there. I used to judge people for not being able to stand on their own but now my mindset is if someone is working 40+ hours a week and sticking to a reasonable budget and not driving a new car then not sure what else we can ask them to do.

Most of these people that are getting help aren't saving for retirement either so its just a long game of desperation. Easy to say get a better job but not everyone has the skills or mental acuity to do that. With that said there are aboslutely a lot of people that have no concept of budgeting and are their own worst enemy

But they aren't jumping off bridges are they? They are all having a good time playing together on Roblox. Are you honestly saying that playing on Roblox is as bad as mass suicide?

Sure except none of them are playing minecraft so its not really the same thing.

Me siting down and explaining how government or corp. issued age verification is bad is really not going to make him feel better about sitting alone in his room night after night while all of his friends are online having a good time.

Thats obviously fine to do but it is very much going to have consequences for some kids. My kids spend hours a week playing roblox with their IRL friends. 10 - 15 kids on a group call on speaker phone all logged into the same code laughing and yelling for a couple hours a night. If I was to suddenly tell them that they can't play those games with their friends it would have very real effects on their social life. My kids spend a ton of time outside with friends but to ignore that they also spend time gaming with them is not an option.

Reading through these threads is cursed. This site supposedly attracts the brightest of us but its all just a bunch of people ignoring the article and screaming that Musk is evil so everything he does must be ignored and villified.

Just really dissapointing hysteria on display here.

All of them do, there are humans in the loop. Speak to Claude about it, it will freely admit to a leftward bias due to human interaction and intentional training bias.

If I don't allow Green Eggs and Ham in my house does it belong in a museam of banned books?

I can pick one up at the corner store or order it online but its not allowed to sit in the libraries of US elementary schools so would you consider it to still be banned in the US?

its not strange. Books represent knowledge and ideas. Ways of thinking. An attempt to ban a book is an attempt to restrict freedom of thought and the exchange of ideas. It has a historical context and a ban is generally considered on a societal level, not building specific. Some books are not allowed in school buildings, they are not banned.

Banning books for example has a very different context than banning cocaine. Cocaine use in the United States is banned, Hustler magazine is not. I can swing by the store tomorrow and pick one up legally, I can't get cocaine legally.

Restricting Hustler from a school full of kids is not banning it. Thus the quirk.

If I don't allow Green Eggs and Ham in my house does it belong in a museam of banned books?

In your opinion is Hustler magazine a banned book becuase its not allowed in schools?

They are banned in the US in the same way playboy magazine is, they are not allowed in certain places. Would you say that Playboy Magazine is a banned book becuase its not allowed in schools and prisons?

I legit love the gym, if I couldn't go anymore I don't know what I would do with my time, that's my only hobby.

I have never worked there and I am likely very unqualified to ever work there and Zuck has more money than I could dream of so take my comment with that in mind.

Meta sounds like a cluster-F of a place to work. Massive reorgs around wild ideas like the metaverse and everything Ai all the time. Employees terrified of being fired. Incentivizing token spending and then cutting it off. While the overall company may be fine, the dev department sounds rudderless and absolutely miserable.

I cant even ask it to review my vitamin stack without it flagging it and switching to OPUS. It is insanely nerfed and limited. Its so bad that its made me realize that unless one goes open source the frontier labs will gatekeep everything. Determine who can use it and future versions for biology, cyber security, any number of realms. The winners and losers of the future are actively being chosen as we speak. I'm going to install open source models this weekend for the first time as a desperate attempt to escape the permanent underclass.