Friedduck

I can’t believe they didn’t start with this model before attempting what seems like self-driving cars level of difficulty for shopping.

Use carts like IKEA that hang your reusable bag. Scan as you pick up items. Walk out.

Oh grow up. It’s so naive to think there’s no time, effort or money in building what they have. That there’s no ongoing costs. That it doesn’t take thought.

They should build it and you should just get it for free.

Is 30% reasonable? Should there be some taper once your app is in maintenance mode? No, and yes.

I don’t see any reason from either side of this argument frankly. They’ve built a wonderful think that provides immense value, and we all benefit.

They should be more flexible in their pricing model, and you should understand that actual people spent hundreds of thousands of hours of their lives to deliver it to you, and charging for that isn’t stealing.

We spent years moving to forced encryption and multi-factor authentication for this? Microsoft could answer questions like:

Which of my employees is leaking info to a competitor? Looking for a new job?

I’m buying a property. What’s the level of interest from other buyers?

A client is applying for life insurance. Does he have any serious health issues?

Far-fetched or not, someone will be selling insights that would surprise you

This is what I fail to understand. It’s a cool hack but ad-free YouTube is a few dollars a month. Spend that creative time elsewhere!

I haven’t kept up with it but UE is still the most functional editor I’ve used. I’ve dabbled in Sublime, BBEdit, VIM and others but UE had some tricks none other have matched.

How long is this model sustainable? How long before they have a reputation of a firm to be avoided? This isn’t the first we’ve heard and I’d wager we all know it by now.

So how long before the non-technical general population shuns the brand? I can’t believe that this strategy wins for them in the long run.

I’ll add my lament. We use nest cameras, a nest thermostat and google WiFi. As part of their recent forced account merge our WiFi controls no longer work.

Their apps are buggy and freeze-prone, and ironically continually trying to sell more product when the existing ones don’t work well.

I’m regrettably having to replace everything to get off this treadmill. Lesson learned.

My takeaway is how tone-deaf automakers are. Do they actually need clients with fire and pitchforks to listen?

Touchscreens are the wrong UI choice for cars. Full stop.

There’s a larger story about consolidation on the web and longstanding franchises getting folded into others are going dark.

The economics of cameras have changed but I fear that the market for independent reviews has cratered and made it much more difficult get honest unbiased information.

I checked: I’ve been active on DPreview for 19 years.

I fully recognize that media is a business like any other, subject to pressures and the biases of its participants. (It’s a product, said a CNN producer friend.)

With that said, is it any wonder, with certain politicians demonizing media at every opportunity, and certain outlets actively seeking to misinform, that confidence has fallen?

I wish I knew the answer. We’re at a dangerous point in the US and also the world where we need to be able to discern the truth and act to pull back from what feels like a precipice.

I’m on day two of converting from LastPass to another service (Keeper in my case.) Canceled auto-renewal, deleted the account, and exported/imported within a half-hour. That part was painless.

Resetting passwords, however, is something that’s going to take days. Too, you need to track what’s been changed or not, what’s no longer needed and so on.

Further if you’re being prudent you need to notify corporate partners of any credentials they own that may need to change. It’s an enormous waste of time.

The lesson: choose your vendors carefully. Take the extra time to make sure you never need to go through this.

My mother-in-law, also from Waco, took a bus alone to Fort Worth, changed buses, and continued on to Witchita Falls. All at age five.

For all of our nation’s ills, a child walking on his own block outside is a crime that warrants this extraordinary attention? I can’t believe the family didn’t sue the county.

We need a BT manifesto of how phones, cars, etc should behave: 1. Don’t start any program/activity unless directed. 2. Don’t switch output devices without confirmation.

My biggest complaints are my car taking over a call mid-conversation (I pull in driveway and my wife is on the phone in the house) and now I’m hearing her call; or switching between 2 BT devices when I didn’t ask for it.

Democratically? I hope you’re kidding. This court doesn’t have the thinnest of veneers to hide behind. They have a pretty obvious agenda (e.g., Thomas’s concurring opinion) and show no deference to either precedent or the Constitution.

We’re in uncharted waters here. I can’t think of a parallel in our short history where SCOTUS has shown such complete disregard for anything but their own political and religious beliefs. I think what’s getting lost in this is that Roe doesn’t just apply to abortion but the broader right to privacy. Others have pointed out the logical implications of what the government can and will do with these powers.

Why would you connect a smart appliance to begin with? It doesn’t have the credentials unless you provide them?

Went through this same expedition with similar results. Two conclusions: I won’t buy a laptop with only usb-c again; and searching for thunderbolt hubs instead of usb-c hubs led to the real hardware others have mentioned (CalDigit, et al.)

A laptop isn’t light/convenient if I’m forced to carry an armload of adapters.

Are you saying every tomtom, garmin, etc used Bluetooth and cell services for navigation all those years?

Not to be argumentative but dedicated GPS devices didn’t always have that option. Also I’m curious: it uses triangulation off cell towers to help. I don’t see how Bluetooth helps improve accuracy. Do they map WiFi spots accurately?

I’ll add one: if you pair AirPods with one of your devices, it adds them to all devices attached to your AppleID. Remove them from one removes them from all.

This removes one possible solution to unwanted switching between devices.

I know you can turn off automatic switching, which makes connecting cumbersome.

Finally, if you have them in, iPhone will occasionally start a video, or music, at the conclusion of a call even if you weren’t actively listening to it before. Add to that the unremovable Lock Screen play controls and it’s a recipe for not doing what I want.

How is this not considered PII and subject to all of the disclosure and control requirements we all must abide by? May an employer opt out?

Lower-Case use of mm in accounting and finance is incredibly common. If you worked in those industries it’s understandable you’d think everyone followed that convention.

If you haven’t, I urge you to watch The Crime Of The Century on HBO. The title is not hyperbolic, and this outcome speaks to just how unequal justice is for the wealthy.

Inept judge, or certainly one not steeped in the ways of finance. People make wire errors all the time. Fraud occurs, things happen. I haven’t read the statute but as written the exception doesn’t even apply (Citibank being an agent and not the lender.)

The answer is because it’s a pretty narrow market. Anyone wanting good quality has purchased a camera (or has one), external mic, and cobbled it together themselves.

Or they buy a laptop with a decent camera and add a mic.

So your market is the niche between those groups, and those who make do with their laptop.

Not a large enough opportunity to pursue, I don’t think.

I’ll take it and I’ve already had and recovered from COVID. We know virtually nothing about the viruses long-term effects. Anecdotally there’s quite a bit to be fearful of.

At least with the Pfizer vaccine there were only 2 in 10,000, reported to have serious side effects. Much better odds.

I experienced a dramatic positive impact changing my home work environment from a dark, cramped area to a bright, sunlit room. Similarly I found that my productivity is significantly better standing (queue standing desk.) What’s remarkable in this story is how long it took me to realize how important the environment is to how successful you are.

Perhaps it’s elsewhere in the comments but these same programmers build models that are as capable as a person at diagnosing illness, or identifying relevant case law in litigation.

If you look at it from a value perspective the very best programmers are capable of generating an incredible amount. We’re dealing with a shortfall at least in part due to the rapid evolution of the industry, and the immaturity of the discipline.

I can see a future where there’s balance and incomes are lower but not in the near future.

This nicely illustrates my experience with Google fiber. Even though I happily use some of their nest products I’d hesitate purchasing anything from Google I couldn’t just walk away from.

They don’t even attempt to be competent at customer service.

It didn’t affect any of the 3 orgs within our firm. It was limited to firms who’ve deployed Pardot so a much smaller audience.

Still, epic screw-up.

Knowing what we know it astonishes me that people take devices with anything of value over an international border.

Save everything to the cloud, or use a burner device like a It’s not worth the hassle.

(And yes, I’ve read that this antagonizes border security to a certain extent, if they believe you’ve done just this.)

I haven’t heard: if you replace your phone number will they maintain the association with your historical one? It’d be trivial to get a Google Voice number or burner to replace yours.