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As someone who has cellular in their work laptop, it is just that bit more seamless. Hotspotting also drains the battery on my device substantially.

Do people read the parent posts people comment on.

Even if that were the case, it doesn't point to there being a power supply shortage which is the point the original commenter was making.

I don't think it promised less work. In a vacuum of 10 people it now enables less than 10 people to do the same amount of work, assuming there is a limit to the amount of work to be done in a work day.

AI allows me to do more work within the same time, not less work given I work in a field where the amount of work doesn't seem to have a limit.

As someone who hit the PC gaming world in around 2008 online, we started with TeamSpeak and Ventrilo which were hosted platforms that allowed you to voice chat with your friends. They had cost money and weren't that great on audio quality (from that time).

Then we went to separate game specific voice chat platforms which were inconsistent, but meant you struggled to find a way to chat with mates outside of something like Skype at the time.

Discord was one of the first platforms that was firstly free and allowed you one place to chat with friends and communities about games AND had very good quality audio.

People use it for all sorts of things, however I use it fairly minimally and only to be able to voice chat with friends either when gaming together or playing separate games. I don't get understand some peoples problems with it, it works better than anything else out there for what I use it for.

Absolutely

The biggest thing that drove iPhones success was that it truly felt different. The interface, the touch screen.

I remember it just feeling so different, it was easy to use no complicated jammed in UI.

It felt like the next generation of mobile UI's was born as it didn't feel clunky like the others.

I don't understand how you can look at a Palm PDA from 2007 and say it felt like polished rock in your pocket, but the iPhone didn't.

Given that depending on the Palm you're talking about it had 90 degree angles on the chassis and the iPhone was completely rounded. Not only was it rounded everywhere but it was also Aluminum with a glass screen.

Mostly because they're driven by profit at all costs, which is often the downfall of a lot of things.

However I can't make any sort of judgement on such a generalised basis

Because it had only just been released, then it very quickly became a flagship mobile app store. Many other aspects of the device were a cut above the competition and very quickly took the lead with the 2nd Gen.

The touch screen was shocking on the Palm and the UI was an absolute mess.

Yes and no, the competition (Samsung, LG etc) still continued for over 5 years to release their flagship smartphones chassis made out of plastic. The iPhone was aluminum, which felt significantly better.

The Palm as it was in 2007 was made of plastic, the screen was resistive touch and also made of plastic. The iPhone was made of aluminum, the screen was capacitive and was made of glass.

The iPhone in your pocket should've felt more like a polished stone than the palm.

With all the jokes about consultants, they actually do quite important work and don't just create powerpoints or layoffs like people thing.

There are plenty of excellent engineering products that Apple have engineered themselves. Starting with the iPhone itself which was an enormous cut above the competition.

Yes Apple has "copied" or brought out its own version of particular products before, usually in a much better state.

You can do this, you can plug your Garmin device into your machine and pull all of the data off.

Mate you are only 25, those people getting married and having kids are doing it early. You have another 10+ years before you could even think about the childless uncle phase as a construct.

But I have a HomePod mini that I use for all of my Matter devices, why would I need a massive device with a screen just for that?

The only difference I can see is multiuser support of which Siri works just fine for me controlling the matter devices in the house that are on my partners Apple account. I can't justify buying a product just for multi user support and have another bulky device sitting in the house.

Apple would've been better off putting a FaceID camera in a Homepod mini or Homepod to get the same functionality.

Just purely based on the headline and its part in the article, it's an odd statement.

Milk is consumed almost everywhere in copious amounts, if it isn't produced properly it can create significant illness and potentially death in some. Washing machines can also kill when pets get put in them, or children climb themselves into them.

The reason they are regulated is based on decades of safety incidents.

AI hasn't reached that yet, or to the general public. Yes its has potential, but we just don't have the actual incidents occurring to require it.

But I do like his statement of "Let's start today" which I read that as, lets do it before we realised we should've, which is a good thing.

My thoughts are similarly to SOC 2 type 2, which is that you can do different types of independent audits, whether it be financial, internal controls, cyber security.

But you still need to build the bounds of what you want and what the expectations are.

If you're going to audit software, you need to know what the expectations were when building the software.

Also, AI Assurance is becoming a large field in where these issues are being addressed and it is being performed by independent people.

Part of this auditing story is that it has also introduced lines of defense, so large companies have line 1, line 2 and line 3, all being different degrees of independence.

Basically this article is simply reminding us that you need independent review and verification and you can't trust the product to verify itself. It's nothing new, you need to review the outputs and the mechanics of everything that is important to the organisation. You must trust but verify all outputs and the tools should be able to provide you with that information AND someone must check it.

Some vulnerabilities are incredibly complex and are identified not through the code itself but through various attack chains being strung together.

Also there are likely a lot of vulnerabilities identified but the work required to fix them vs the complexity to exploit them means they don't get fixed.

I'd wager we don't have an issue with identifying vulnerabilities but the ability to fix them.

I work in security consulting and identifying vulnerabilities isn't the difficult part its actually fixing them and fixing the ones that have valid exploitable attack chains that matter

Yes and no, many people don't have models review the code the same way many humans don't review their own code in depth for security vulnerabilities.

Furthermore, you need to make sure the model you use is capable enough to review your code comprehensively enough. That includes for both basic vulnerabilities but also attack chain related vulnerabilities.

Well being able to serve in the military at 18 around weapons that potentially kill but you can't have a bear for another 3 years does sound a bit contradictory.

You're telling me I have to switch to using my brains tokens now?

That's an odd take in my opinion.

Is driving a car on your own ok at age 15? why 16 and not 15? Why not 14? It's ok to drink in Australia at 18 age, why not 17, or 16? Legal drinking age in the US is 21, why not 18 like it is in Australia? Why not allow 20 year olds to smoke, not just 21 year olds.

Its because it is the legal age in which we have established people as adults where they're given more liberty as opposed to safety.

> “We need to stop treating kids as if they’re idiots”

There is a balance here, yes kids are smarter than we probably give them credit for. But they're also more vulnerable when it comes to their social circles, as well as addictive habits.

Social media causes issues with us adults, let alone our young kids who also get caught up in the same messes.

You can throw all sorts of arbitrary "perhaps this is why" topics at it to potentially explain why kids have been struggling with their mental health and its decline. Its likely not one thing but a combination of things, of which social media is thought to be the predominant reason.

> not even a meaningful correlation between the amount of time kids are on social media or on smartphones and their mental health

There have been a large number of studies and meta-analysis that show detrimental impacts of short form video content on people in general not just kids. Across their attention spans, their reward centers and also its algorithmic ability to push content to minds who struggle to ignore it, or which creates false anxieties through content which generalises mental health or relationship issues.

There is something I find strange about buying a display and as a feature to put that on the back of another display (Phone) for the purposes of reading. I'd rather have a separate device with a larger screen and take advantage of that.

We're pretty crap in a capitalist society to think about those things ahead of time. Firstly, the idea that AI could "runaway" was simply a concept or a thought it wasn't baked into a real product that could do that. We're now getting close or perhaps we are at that point of where you can't race at speed for investors without now considering a real kill switch.

You could say this in hindsight for many times in which disasters or engineering issues have occurred.

Eventually like most things in tech it will become cheaper and the average person will have these capabilities. Right now they can't but they will.

Why don't you therefore just wait until indexing is done?

Tide pod challenge

Well no you get up to 256kbps and I've had my Airpods for over 4 years now with now issue in battery.

Relax.

Its interesting though because I have a car with excellent speakers and I am extremely glad that I can plug my phone into my car and play music through the Lightning port, it sounds drastically different between that and playing it through the Bluetooth connection.

I am looking to purchase a new car and through test driving it has a better sound system on paper with more speakers and a subwoofer and the sound is limited by the performance of the Bluetooth connection.

And so do you, its not a big deal