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I got lost investigating the battery claim of a week because this seemed quite low for such minimum specs. But then noticed it has a range of Wifi features? If you're selling a product focused on privacy, isn't it a bit weird that it has WiFi?

The whole story around needing to know the time sounds like feature creep. If I wanted a clock in my bathroom it's trivial to hone, and I'd only have to charge it once a year. If I want a device that detect my literal movements during movements, then I'd really not want it to be hooked up to my Wifi? Worse, be burning power (and increased BoM) to have a wifi-radio and screen to do so.

If this was _just_ a motion detecting device that played nice music it'd likely be an easier sell?

For the people awaiting the singularity, lines like this written almost straight from science fiction:

> By suggesting modifications in the standard language of chip designers, AlphaEvolve promotes a collaborative approach between AI and hardware engineers to accelerate the design of future specialized chips."

Love the immediate protest votes of Horn after we missed the turn.

USB over QI wireless would be great.

Yep, same. AI is the next form of interaction with the Internet. With websites serving as books did previously.

Oh, it was just because it didn't matter to the conversation. It was about Bernie Jordan who left his nursing home to attend a D-Day event. I created the article because both films imply the nursing home prevented him, but in actuality they went to great lengths to help him.

"When you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says 'You are here'."

I created a page, it got declined because the guy who two films have been made about didn't count as important enough. I kind of get it, but still, did kill the energy slightly.

Isn't it weird how "We don't have a full list of non-verbal [commands]". Like, I can imagine why, but it's wild we're at a point where we don't know what our code can do.

Hey, we don't argue like that here. I didn't say that. I said there isn't a business model yet that supports a phone with privacy. There are a few, and they'd force you to be creative on how you interact with certain apps, but you'd have what you wanted at a cost. Hell, I'm sure a Linux Phone with a bunch of crypto apps would work fine, suck for other reasons, but there you go.

Hey, you're right. When I said nothing will change them I guess I should have said "nothing will change the goals of a company" apart from your money. The practicalities are hugely affected by law. Maybe I should have originally said "Vote with your money, lobby with your voice"?

Completely agree that this kind of behaviour should be illegal. My thoughts are products should work from purchase with their offered feature-set (or be forced to recall), have a factory reset mode, and an opt-out of updates.

Wow, this was not a "smug corpo" opinion? I renovated a house recently, and had a plethora of choices for cheap smart options, instead after research I found some expensive options with MQTT support for HomeAssistant, they got my money.

I wanted to buy an etablet but Remarkable has a subscription, so I bought a smaller brand, it's worse, but they got my money.

You want a phone that respects your privacy? There isn't a business model that supports that, so don't support it. Yes you can't have your banking app, but that's the deal, you just dont like it. If no one bought it, there would be a market for alternatives.

Nothing will change these companies apart from market forces.

Vote with your wallet.

Google+ by any other name and four years earlier would have been an incredible platform. Circles were so neat.

True, and worth appreciating how Humans hit some pretty blunt local maxima that machines have long since suppassed such as land speed or operations per second.

Really should read the article if you choose to comment on it. Especially given they joke about how "It’s a cliché that every other policy problem in Britain resolves to a housing problem,"

That's a very pessimistic view on the role of work. Whilst possibly true, it's equally possible that his decent choices allowed Samsung to succeed in areas, and in turn recently employ more people, who in turn could live safe, stable fulfilling lives. I think people forget how bad a chaotic life without safety nets is for most people.

Of course, this is all a hunch, I hear Samsung is quite a good company.

Just for what it's worth, the whole speech is a fairly insightful and approachable talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9BZz71yQE, were it not the gaffe it'd have been viewed very positively.

I guess I'm that predictable. Here I was in 2014 running what I now believe would be called a price fix on Eve (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154142396180554&set=a...).

Okay, I actually found the presentation, if you want a laugh (/ be impressed at game that's >20 years old), here you go https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vR18QhznFBRK....

Fun fact, when I was like... 12, I made a presentation to my parents based off the Demo of this game as to why they should buy it. I sold them on it when one slide was just a photo of a single perfectly rendered missile being fired, traveling across space.

Those content creators could send the raw files to their fans,along with all the functionality YouTube provides to get those fans in the first place.

Do you have Enhanced Tracking Protection on? It often blocks this kind of third party content

I have Firefox for normal use and then Chrome for Web development. Simple enough.

There's a brutal difference between a few nerds saying they have the coolest demo, and actually shipping it as something. It's a lesson we all go through, but the marketing and "release" of an idea is an important skill to perfect.

I've had a hunch it's about the shrinking width of pages. The text-width is about 11-13 words (at a max-width of 728) and the author seems to have written around this.

Because it's so thin, anything longer than 12 words becomes a paragraph which "slows" the reader, so there are a lot of punchy short sentences. This style would look silly if it was written on a wider left-aligned blog.

"We didn’t qualify for the standard prizes — perhaps spending only 30 seconds on our presentation and lacking a live-demo setup had killed our chances."

Shouldn't this be "Render Doom on Google Sheets", given the processing is done in GScript? I'm sure there is a way to actually run frame-by-frame Doom with only cell equations.

Really impressed this site is still running. They'll have what you want https://formats.kaitai.io/