As an artist its totally pointless, no hashtags mean no discoverability. Intagram itself is overrun with pointless AI so forget anyone seeing your work. there. This seems barely a WIP anyway, they only released it because of Twitter imploding.
I wonder how many people are working on this barebones implementation.
Velocity is based on calculating exact numbers from wild ass guesses. Estimating story points is not an exact science; implementing things you've never done before adds more variability; pressure to go faster creates mistakes that take time to repair; then add everyone on the team up and call it team velocity. The average of 100 coin flips is likely close to 50% heads, the average time to drive across the country is unlikely to converge on anything useful.
I was on a commercial plane where the pilots could not tell if the gear was completely down and locked and got someone on the ground to look as we flew by slowly at low altitude. It appeared to be down, but they still landed very gingerly. Thankfully it was fine.
In the 1980's, the About box of most applications (Mac and DOS primarily) often listed most of the people who worked on them. Many of the people were also known to others; I usually met many at the precursor to WWDC. It was cool to see your name on something you worked on (I worked on three apps over my two startups, Trapeze, Persuasion, and Deltagraph). Some people got to be pretty rockstar-like (I remember at the first WWDC (not called that yet) in 1986 sitting on a boat with what felt like all the Mac programmers in the world, a whole bunch of us aptly listening to Silicon Beach's Charlie Jackson on how he recorded a cricket for their first game). Because apps and programmers were rare compared to today and something new, you had more of a connection to the people who built things. Today you have no clue and probably don't want to know.
Once your chat voice listener can access your private information like bank accounts, etc., I imagine things will listen to you everywhere. Perhaps every phone or device will be listening like Find My Devices except being Take My Money.
The CEO of SABRE (biggest airline res company) went in 15 years from Software Engineer to CEO. He was then forced out when he objected to the company becoming public again (owned by Hedge Fund). I am sure its not common though.
I did WO/EO for several years until 2001 including the USPS Postmaster app, and it was incredibly productive. This was before JS took over everything, but I can't ever recall being able to do so many client/server web apps with so little effort. Sure the tooling was sometimes lame (ProjectBuilder was a precursor to Xcode) but Objective-C at the time was amazing compared to all other web programming languages. I think WO was far easier to develop in than today's complex web stack, but clearly serving the simpler need of that time. It wouldn't be useful today.
I don't want spaces where people talk about one thing in a bubble, and then have to manually jump from space to space. Reddit is both cesspool and useful resource, but I can easily move from space to space or combine them all into a bigger space of my choosing. Being able to build a multi-space of things that interest me and leave out (at least some) of what I don't like or care for is necessary. Mastodon isn't that. Reddit is, or was. Can both ideas be combined? I am not sure yet.
It's not out yet, anyway. Dismissing something that won't ship for another 8 months is not useful. The Dvorak article was likewise before shipping. I've heard this for everything Apple ever did since the Bondi iMac.
I don't look at it as a headset but as a new kind of computer-like device with included display, and it's not even 1.0 yet. The cost seems crazy, but my Mac Studio+Display cost me more. If you think of it as equivalent to that, it's not all that out of line.
Now imagine what it will become, similar to how the iPhone changed massively over the years.
The hardest thing to realize starting a company is realizing when you are no longer sufficient to run the company. It's a big difference from starting something small to running something huge. It took Steve Jobs 10 years from being forced out from Apple to returning wiser. Some people can adapt and learn but from what I have seen, most people can only be good at small or large, but not both.
And TikTok has no influencers, sure? At least on Youtube, you can see who is paying them to shill you. Every video online is potentially there to convince you to buy something, believe something, or motivate you to do something to make the creator money.
I could use Photoshop in my art creation, but I refuse to. Affinity Photo is good enough and doesn't cost a lot. I might miss a few features but my life is more pleasant without Adobe.
In high school, college, and in my 20's a wrote a lot, but I didn't like it enough to do it as a career. Instead I spent my life writing code and wrote a programming blog for almost 15 years that used to appear some on Hacker News (https://thecodist.com). I recently revived it because I like writing and now have time. I never tried to make money on it; it's just fun writing about programming and technology. Writing for a living would have been much less fun than doing programming for all those years and paying a lot less.
I read a lot so I am glad there are people who still write for a living. Sadly the internet started off free, and now we are stuck with ads everywhere and paying writers a decent wage is becoming harder.
In my city a couple of miles from me is a new housing community with $1M houses; only a few different models are available, featuring minimal paint color options, all on zero lot line spaces, any closer together they would be one giant condo. A friend toured the model and reported how cheaply it was built. Yet they sold out. The average price of a house nearby is closer to $400k. I bet the developer made a fortune.
She acts as if she has dissociative identity disorder and that the other person was not actually her. Looks more like she was just a good actor and still has the ability to fool people into thinking she is something else, like she did to the author.
Most contracts between an OTA and a hotel chain included language requiring no lower price when I worked for an OTA 10 years ago. Not sure about today, but would not surprise me that nothing changed. OTA's are useful as a comparison but you are always better off going direct. Other than TripAdvisor, most OTA brands are either owned by Expedia or Priceline, but they never let you know.
Any new technology will generate new opportunities to create new products. Doesn't mean all of them are useful, or even used. Only later do you discover all the things you never considered turn out to make them less than revolutionary. The web changed the world in myriads of unexpected ways. Now we are inundated by ads everywhere. It's still progress, just not what we thought it could be.
It's not that that argument has no reason, it's that it is suddenly dumped on people without any ability to adjust. Similar to a car slowing to 0 from 60 mph over a minute is no problem, going from 60 to 0 in zero time is.
Sorry, this image should not have won any prize. The hands are terrible, there are odd things around the back person's nose, and the highlights in the eyes are wrong, there is a reddish blob on the front person's head, and these are especially obvious when you look at it blown up a little. Whoever judged this contest is pretty clueless about the current quality of AI art generation and was easily fooled. I make digital art, not photography, but these jumped out at me.
The subject matter is probably what "won" the contest, it's pretty well composed.
Clearly, the point is to look good to some prospective voters that likely won't get legally rejected because it applies to no one. You can claim to have done something without worrying about a messy reality.
Stories like this make me wonder why anyone lives in Australia, since virtually everything seems to want to kill you. Or perhaps Aussies are tougher than the rest of us.