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Thank you I will check that out, I am a bit annoyed I have a shelf of cookbooks but most are kinda crap. But happy to spend money on a good book that quickly pays for itself after a meal or 2.

When I first read your message I was honestly crafting a very different response, glad you went with that.

Honestly the issues I have had with online recipes is before ChatGPT. But recently I do have to wonder. So honestly just staying away from it has been a better option.

Unless I am looking for something very specific from a specific country, I found I have to avoid online recipes now.

I rarely have good results and it feels like they were done once and then "we make this recipe all the time" or some crap like that.

I even went on a buying spree for cookbooks and it seems like much of what comes out today is just crap. Either the recipes are clearly untested or they are some gimmick like "5 recipe meals" that for some reason just decides that 1 or 2 ingredients are not counted towards that 5.

Honesly the best purchase I have made in a long time was finally just getting Julia Child's books. They may not be flashy with a ton of pictures, and you can for sure get a bit of information overload going through them.

But every time I have made something from that book it either came out perfect or I made a clear mistake like burning something or something like that, that a cookbook won't fix.

TBH I think the problem with Clippy was more a problem with its implementation than the core idea.

It just wasn't helpful and we lacked the tech at the time to really make it helpful. My impression was that it was basically a glorified AIM Chatbot with some hooks into Office to get some context.

Correction, you own my (if we are talking near your device) data if you are using this.

That is the problem here.

Acknowledge the problem?

Build in functionality so it only recognizes your voice and everything else is removed?

Don't hide behind "privacy" promises or "your data is secure" when that doesn't fix the issue.

Just because we can admit that the reality is the problem is not going away doesn't mean that we just give up and not talk about it.

I flat out refuse to let an app go through my contacts, there is just no reason for it. Photos is always what I select and never full access. etc.

So when one of the social media sites recommends someone I may know, have no other contacts with this person and I recently shared my number with them. I get angry.

I will never understand how we got to the point that someone else can consent to a company gathering up my data just because it happens to be on their phone.

I don't think it's overlooked, some people talk about it. But a lot of companies try to push it away because they take "privacy" seriously while ignoring the consent problem.

I can no doubt see the value in this, even being a big skeptic of AI the ability for a computer to just pull up details from throughout the day or interject is genuinely a powerful idea (if it works in practice is another question).

However, I find it very frustrating that all of the tools that just record your mic or sell a pin or whatever never think about privacy. They seem to take the Google approach that the person who owns the device is allows to consent for everyone else around them (or any data they share with certain people) when that is not ok.

That is before talking about the major concern of people doing this at work without their company knowing, bringing it into a meeting and potentially leaking sensitive information.

I realize that unfortunately there is nothing that can be done at this point to stop this technology from being used by people, but I just wish the people that were making these tools thought about the fact that you are not asking for the consent of people around you.

I am honestly surprised the fine is not more. We need to see more of these come out as AI is shoved dangerously into places thanks to the ability to use it with little to no technical knowledge.

Especially when you are really just shoving data into an LLM and expecting a response to do some job, you are not training it to do a specific task.

Like the home buying AI that was on HN yesterday.

Neither of those things are happening here.

Microsoft is charging higher license costs for Windows server on competing cloud providers (but not all competing providers) than on Azure.

For the exact same software.

This isn’t an axe to grind with Microsoft, it’s clearly anti competitive.

True, I was mostly trying to tie it into what the OP had said then really a valid example. Maybe should have added "and s3 was software that was generally available outside of the cloud" or something like that.

Mostly trying to point out why S3 is not an example of this.

Not the same in the slightest, this would be like AWS allowing you to run S3 on Azure but charging you 4 times the same licensing cost in Azure as you would pay in AWS.

A cloud having exclusive software and features is expected.

Am I misremembering or did Oracle do this exact same thing to try to get people to use their cloud? Struggling to find anything on it now, but were they sued?

I don't think the booty shorts phase with gay men has ended yet, still very much see it in places like ptown. (however I do acknowledge that ptown is a bit of a bubble...)

Personally I am waiting for the long earings to catch on outside of gay men.

I fully expect that our first alien life will likely be microscopic life on a nearby planet. Followed by some simple organisms and/or plant life.

The likelihood of anything we would consider 'intelligent' being first contact is likely fairly low.

As much as saying that does make me sad, evidence of alien life is honestly the one big thing that I am sad about living when I am living since I would love that to be a reality before I die.

I am struggling a bit to find information about BIMI that isn't some marketing crap. But from what I can tell most major email providers (except Microsoft for some reason) are on board.

But are other providers adding this checkmark? I am curious why they seem to have chosen the same style as Twitter given the complete lack of trust that has eroded with that, so if others are going to use this checkmark was this an agreed to style or did Google just choose this?

I guess I can kinda see the value of this, especially since I could see telling my parents that unless it has this checkmark don't trust it for anything serious. But that only works if this is something that they all agreed to do across the board regardless of what platform you are using to read your email.

I was confused by that wording as well and had go to back and forth a couple times and still confused. I would think that them needing to press the button themselves would be enough to distinguish between euthanasia and suicide?

No, you very much can criticize something that is diverse because there are aspects outside of that. Like Concord.

You could even criticize how it’s diverse. If it’s done in an insensitive manner for example. Maybe they changed a character after they were established, (as a gay man myself I hate when they change a characters sexuality). Could complain that something is too sexual for the target audience(hint, gay couples existing and showing affection isn’t “sexual” when a straight couple can do it and no one bats an eye).

But if your criticism is the existence of diversity, you’re a racist bigot and you should be called out for that. There is zero valid criticism on the mere existence of someone different than you in media.

So educate me.

What exactly is the critics definition of “woke” that somehow is anything other than diverse?

I guarantee you that was not the actual problem with this game. The more inclusive part of this game was barely talked about because most don’t care and have realized they the world is bigger than their narrow view.

Most games today are diverse, some more than others. Including many Sony games that sell incredibly well.

While I have noticed an issue with certain voices seemingly being amplified a bit more.

It is hard to argue that Twitter is still where many of these conversations are happening. People already have their followers there and unless you have a big name that can easily get people to move over to something, it is going to be pretty hard to move.

Personally I have tried to rebuild on other platforms but the engagement keeps happening on twitter even when I make the same posts on the new alternatives.

Don't get me wrong, a better battery would be great. But the only time I ever run into issues with my apple watch dying is when I am traveling and my routine is messed up anyways.

Otherwise I am just in the habit of waking up, sticking it on the charger, getting ready for my day and putting it back on. Doesn't take long to get to a full charge.

I get access to all of the features and just loose it for 30 minutes to an hour.

If it was purely a business one, they would not have put it on the Apple Watch 9 which is no longer available. Putting it on the 9 doesn't do anything for sales.

There must have been some hardware difference.

I do see a possible downside of being able to re-use parts from a broken iPhone. So parts that were never able to be unlinked while the phone worked.

Unless since it sounds like this is a remote database (and not something stored on the parts themselves) that maybe there could be a way to address this problem but that runs the risk of making a loophole to get around this.

Outside of that, I think doing this is great. Making a stolen device less and less valuable obviously won't stop everyone from stealing iPhones it should cut down on it happening.

I am curious about Apple's incentive to do this outside of just the above. Technically they would get less sales from people replacing their phones, but would also possibly reduce the cost of operating the "theft and loss" iPhone AppleCare+.

I think there is a middleground that to me it seems like this over simplifies both sides of this.

For many of the "complex" things like lambdas there are frameworks like Serverless that makes managing and deploying it as easy (if not easier frankly) than static code on a VM.

Not every workload also scales at the same time, we have seen new things that got very successful and crashed right out the door because it could not properly scale up.

I agree that you don't need an over engineered "perfect" infrastructure, but just saying stick it on a VM also seems like it is too far of a swing in the other direction.

That ignores the cost side of running several VM's vs the cost of smaller containers or lambdas that only run when there is actual use.

Plus there is something to be said about easier local development which some things like Serverless and containers give you.

You may not need to setup a full k8s cluster, but if you are going with containers why would you run your own servers vs sticking the container in something managed like ECS.

Tastes better but also has a better texture. For me it got to the point that I would rather have deli meat less than get more of some cheaper brand.

How is it "wishful thinking" when they have said they are doing it?

As more has come out about this, it is quite disappointing. I used to swear by Boars Head and would choose the store I am going too based on if they carried it.

A mistake happening and causing a serious problem is still obviously bad, but is one thing. But from what they are describing I have no idea how this was able to continue running.

I know right now it is stopping me from getting basically any deli meat or similar products from any brand.

I get the concern over what using the word hallucination implies, I also think it is a fairly fitting word.

We need something easy to explain when these systems are straight up wrong. Something that a normal non technical user will understand. Sure saying "wrong" could be easy enough, I think "Hallucination" also has a simplicity too it.

Part of the problem is that these models will appear to confidently be wrong. Hallucinate to me kinda goes along with this, it isn't just wrong things are being made up.

But regardless of that, people are used to calling it hallucinating. We are also up against an effort to downplay any concern over this fundamental problem with the technology and already trying to push it as a general AI (And we have to recognize there is a ton of money on pushing this exact narrative), that I would be worried about confusing the topic by pushing for an alternative term giving leeway to further downplay the problem.

> however eventually XBox hardware will be a revamped version of Windows Media Center, and that will be as welcomed as XBox ONE original design as multimedia box was.

I don't see any indication that they are going down that path. The decisions that made the Xbox One a media center instead of a focus on gaming was made by leaders that are not there. Phil Spensor came in to fix that problem. Nothing they have done recent seems to be pointing in this direction except for doom and gloom speculation about Xbox.

> By the way, Dave Cuttler at the end of his interview on Dave's Garage mentions Microsoft is running XBoxes on Azure with Linux for Microsoft's AI purposes, that is how much they care about XBox hardware and cloud gaming.

I will have to look this up but that doesn't sound like a bad thing? Hardware having multiple purposes just incentivizes the creation of the hardware in the first place. We see this with how Apple is operating right now.