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A slight advantage, sure, but apple is trapped by the same thing. Neither of their products actually required full buy in of the ecosystem to exploit until now. It was just nice (eg airpods have a nicer pairing experience than other bluetooth devices—infuriating, but ultimately ignorable)

Edit: thank you!

Man I get gestures have been embraced by the community, but this is emphatically not what I meant. The only gesture that makes sense to me is pinch-to-zoom and maybe swiping on cards that appear to be floating.

There's no way to discover this functionality outside of googling documentation and it often doesn't work with one hand.

> You can shake iPhones to get an Undo/Redo dialog, for example.

When are they gonna add a proper UI for this? I look like a moron using the phone this way, and shaking only works to trigger the undo about half the time.

83 vs 84 percent doesn't seem too difficult to present as "essentially the same". I also don't think this matters much—the result is impressive regardless of alleged rate of change.

Presumably management would also be highly regional. Functionality in san francisco doesn't imply anything about functionality in oakland, etc.

> but Gemini helps you with all the data in your life

None of my data is in google's cloud (for obvious reasons) except gmail, which contains far less of my life than you might think. Most of my friends outside of work use icloud. google will need to figure out how to access other silos if they want their chatbot to move forward.

Google has no access to what music I like, what movies I like, what books I read, who I am friends with and why, what values I have and why I pursue them. That's a rough place to start as this is the center of my personality.

Gmail is google's ace in the hole. If they can't figure out how to exploit that gemini will just be the android version of siri (which is already the case, right?)

I'm assuming they've filled the app with ads by now?

I would hope so! Are these rides actually cheaper? Assumably this is orders of magnitude less expensive than hiring a human and the driver is what you pay for. I don't see myself ever getting in a car if my safety is actually a concern.

I don't see myself using any of these any time soon, I tend to drive and walk everywhere and don't see much point to paying someone else to drive barring extenuating circumstances. But assuming actual cost benefits are delivered to customers this might be pretty exciting.

Rocket development seems more of a matter of capital than anything so it's hard to take this critique seriously. Good for them.

> useful workers is straight from a totalitarian planned economy

I'd still strongly prefer a totalitarian, planned economy. Hell it sounds like a straight-up pollyannish fantasy at this point. Watching people expect the chaos of building our country around the right-to-be-a-dick-to-others to result in a functional country makes me want to burn everything down.

But making your own labor force pay for their education? Straight suicidal.

How do you figure? Chatbots don't cite their sources (unless you explicitly set up an RAG); search engines do. What value does the former have?

Chatbots seem more useful for stuff like generating filler and changing tone.

Wherever people think their justice system hasn't failed them so completely. So, this includes many people in the developed world. Approximation of justice was always a matter of degree, not a boolean.

Certainly a common enough concern in people critiquing use of ChatGPT here. I'm more worried about "softer" problems, though—morality, values, persuasion, including deciding which of two arguments is more convincing and why.

But these have always been issues that humans commonly struggle with so idk.

> In most times and places, this is true.

Thankfully most of the instances of it not being true exist right now. Let's stay grounded in current reality or just agree not to discuss the topic. Saying "welp what do you expect" is downright worse than ignoring it entirely.

Let's just Europe does not send its best to represent itself on social media (a curse we all share, frankly). You talk to enough confidently-ignorant assholes and any desire to be polite vanishes. The number of europeans who think preservatives are illegal in the EU is pretty befuddling.

Let's not forget how the Massachusetts AG (Carmen Ortiz) (hopefully) unintentionally drove Aaron Schwartz to suicide to protect the sanctity of elsevier's IP. Even our most obviously rotten institutions are placed on a higher pedestal than human life and recognizable justice.

I read ebooks, but it's not very difficult to determine why people like purpose-crafted goods. Especially when you pay about the same amount for an ebook. Vinyl at least has great arguments why digital copies are straight-up better. Ebooks still have a long way to go to get to that point.

I will however argue that textbooks are straight-up better in the apple books thing. Graphics and footnotes handle like crap in comparison on the kindle. I don't know why as it doesn't appear to be a technical limitation—maybe it's a format thing? Regardless, You'd get like 95% of the benefit with a pdf, though.

I mean that excludes swift too, it can't use the C++ ABI any more than other languages can. Excepting super-specialty languages

Sure, if you're trying to have a good time it works great! No hate here.

> This allows legit users to get what they need.

Of course they could have just used the site directly.

This doesn't imply the decision is any less jaw-dropping.

Besides, polling enjoyment is not exactly what I would describe as a pragmatic approach.

Hell of a decision.

You'd think if we were returning to western roots there would be a lot more slavery and reading of bird livers on live tv. And just an astounding amount of male-on-male competitive anal sex (which, tbf, you can definitely still find if you look in the right place).

> It is more like not reacting to the thoughts that arise.

Surely this is as close an approximation to not thinking as conscious humans are capable of. Anyway, words get useless pretty quickly describing internal phenomenon. I just think "mindfulness" is itself simply so vague and so widely applied it could apply to basically any kind of mental therapy.

What I want is less mindfulness, please, I want an empty head.

Sure, but you can also describe monkey brain as being mindful of the wrong thing. There are surely more apt words out there. Midnfullness... of what?

Or we could just say "breathwork" and probably get 95% of the utility without sounding like you're pitching a team yoga class at work.

I strongly associate mindfulness with marketing and corporate bullshit. Surely we can find a better term.

Anyway it's a bit of a misnomer if the whole point is to not think.

Redwoods are impressive, but I'm not exactly sure a trunk passing out of the photo is the peak of tree aesthetics. I'd imagine the northeast or the northwest or parts of the south have the strongest claims.

I really detest wireless charging. It doesn't work very well in, for instance, an un-airconditioned car.

> And if you’re not adjusting to it, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

What does this even mean? AI is mostly forced in situations where it can't actually improve on the output, like at the top of a google search.

> So this is my thesis now - if you’re a senior who neglects this new tool, you’re going to be out of a job soon-ish.

If your job mostly consisted of writing api clients maybe, but that's a pretty odd job.

> If it's legal and economically beneficial to them, they'll fire people.

More importantly, if they can imagine some economic benefit. Very plausible an executive might think a chatbot is as capable as an engineer when they don't know how to evaluate either.