Libcat99

So responding to you and the parent post both...

I have my own thought and also one in response to the "taking a photo" type tasks.

I'd like a drop down of some tasks I predefined, so I can answer with one of those.

Things like "answering a message" that I can choose instead of entering one. There is occasionally one message with 3 choices, I think, about how this aligns with my goals. So something like that but user defined.

Second thing, maybe a couple of those options could be tied to app launch so clicking it takes you to the common task. For example, "Taking a photo" could drop me right back into the camera app.

Great app, I've been using it all day and just doing so is insightful. And glad this comment chain led me to the "cooldown" function.

I reread the part about speakers 3 times and still don't understand. He says it has speakers but then implies it doesn't? I'm lost.

I don't disagree IF they make tooling available for reuse.

Of course, I'd prefer they do that all along.

Love this concept :)

I have not yet done this. None of the code is complicated, however the setup is a bit (needs an asterisk server, a trunk with a voip provider, an openai account, a text to voice service).

The actual code is quite simple. It's all just glue on the above.

I'll start a repo for the script and some instruction, though.

Not when you open the app store.

The typical app store workflow for me is I visit the store to download a specific app I'd like to install. That app will then have to download and install while I wait.

That "while I wait" is an ideal time to ask me to rate other recently installed apps, or an app I haven't used in a while.

A Ai bot that lives on a phone number. You can call the number to talk to it and ask it questions, however all of it's answers are sandwich related and it attempts to solve any problem presented using sandwiches.

I hate the argument of "you cannot be a competitive company without being a scumbag."

It's a bad argument through and through.

All teachers should be well paid and well vetted. Teaching shouldn't be a self sacrifial social justice position, it should be an honored and well rewarded position.

Those lazy employees and their 12 hour shifts...

If long shifts impact production quality (and they do) run shorter shifts.

No one will rent to you if your rent would be 80% of your income anyway.

The physical media doesn't matter if shutting down the service makes it unplayable.

This has also led to the preservation of many of the games I grew up with. There's still a market for NES and Atari consoles and a market for the cartridges because you can still play and use them.

It's going to be a very different story for modern consoles.

I also have a hard time imagining Lego didn't inspire Minecraft and similar games, at least a little. An even more sustainable resource.

Lack of a pointer stick is a 100% a showstopper for me.

I can't stand using a trackpad.

The trouble is "truth" and math are different.

You can verify a mathematical result. You can run the calculations a second time on a separate calculator (in fact some computers do this) to verify the result, or use a built in check like ecc.

There's no such mathematical test for truth for an ai to run.

Imagine you have a calculator that outputs a result that is off by one percent. That's ai right now.

If you use the results of each calculation in additional calculations, the result will skew further and further from reality with each error. That's ai training on itself.

My son takes ADHD meds and it would be great if we could do the med checks (which are almost entirely questions for the parents) remotely, instead of taking him out of school and one of us out of work for several hours.

I'd go further and not pay the bill, document why (failed to provide the agreed service?) and send them a notice of it. At least.

It's effectively a scam, don't give in to scammers.

We get calls at work when people can't reach our services while their power is out, so yes, I do.

At some point you also need resources. A lot of the invention necessity + nothing can lead to already exists.

You can "invent" a lever or pulley out of random objects that you already have. It may make your task easier, but it won't be world changing.

Necessity (read, pending starvation) may lead to a desperate search for Other People's Money to bring a concept to fruition, but it's not quite the same thing.

I think they'd be unlikely to since you are not the one purchasing shipping, the shipper is.

I had video of them pulling into the driveway and leaving without getting out of the vehicle and saying "no one was home."

I'm also in the video.

I wish the battery layout/ amp hours was more obvious in UPS sales listings. The watts/VA are always front and center, but generally I want to know runtime which is harder to find and compare.

When you post to Craigslist you ultimately are going to enter into a negotiation where you and the other party agree to price, date of exchange, product condition, etc.

With Uber you are making a one-sided negotiation in which the other party doesn't know what terms you'd like. You can pay more to potentially get better terms, but you don't know how much more to pay or how much better it will make those terms.

It's closer to bribery than not.

Or gambling? It's the lootbox of food...

With usps you are paying more for a guaranteed service. There are standards they'll hold that delivery to. You are paying for something specific and real.

A higher pre-tip on the other hand is paying for a hope and a prayer that you get what you paid for on time and in good working order. It's not the same thing at all.

If you paid a fee for priority Uber that let you jump the queue it'd be closer to not a bribe.

Regular cat5 is only rated at 100mbit.

5e will handle gigabit, and I've seen 5 work for short runs too.

One frustrating point is that the kids have school provided electronics as well these days.

While I'm not against that, it does prevent a challenge to screen time. They have homework to do and will be doing it until you look away, then suddenly they're back on youtube.

We had to restrict even the school devices to public areas of the home, which is unfortunate.

It's becoming a lot harder to push a love for reading. The modern world has a lot more competing for my kids time and attention than I feel like I had as a kid. For me, reading was a natural way to pass the time (and I caries a book everywhere I went!) while I feel like for them it's the last thing on their minds.