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I know OpenAI is working on some sort of hardware integration with it (designed by Jony Ive). I almost think it’ll compete with HomePod, Nest, and Alexa.

I’m using ChatGPT 4 and love what’s coming back from it. Aside from limitations and some minor inaccuracies, it’s been great.

The mobile app on my iPhone was great on my last road trip. I told it was driving alone and I needed company and if could help me. Sure enough it offered to make small talk with me for about an hour before I got bored trying to push it more to keep me entertained. The entire time I kept thinking of the movie Her and how close this was to reality.

Something tells me Apple is going down this path by the next WWDC.

I took a Cruise for the first time a month ago. It arrived and it sat there for almost ten minutes. It kept telling me that my ride was getting ready. Someone from the operations center also called into the car and asked if I was ok and reassured me the ride would start soon.

This was at night with zero traffic. I have no idea why it took so long.

When the CPUC was set to vote on expanding Cruise’s operations several months ago, SF first responders and other residents spoke out against expanding operations. CPUC ignored all the feedback and concerns and voted to expand. I believe the press pointed out the CPUC people that voted to expand Cruise operations would benefit off the expansion (can’t recall if they were former employees or tied to the driverless industry). But despite emergency responders giving numerous examples of how dangerous the cars were in emergency situations, they were ignored.

He’s out of touch. I imagine he’s like Mr Burns taking money out of the ATM: https://youtu.be/oWJlPhZP6lc

I don’t think united lets you pick your seat like Southwest does. You’re assigned a seat.

Something doesn’t sound right.

I’ve had the same phone number of mine connected to different Apple IDs over the years. Based on different places that I’ve worked I’ve been able to tie my phone number to different Apple IDs with different email addresses.

The other thing that the author should’ve done is physically, walked into an Apple Store and asked them to remove the lock. I’ve had this removed a couple of times for clients of mine with no issue. You just have to show a receipt and someone at the store will go in the back and come out in 2030 minutes later at the machine unlocked.

This makes no sense this article

The world is getting to a point where the only way you’re going to be able to do business or any type of transaction is through a smart phone. If you don’t have a smart phone, it’s gonna be very difficult for you to function in the world at some point.

I agree. I was convinced I need to move from an iPhone 14 to iPhone 15.

My reasoning was better camera.

I honestly was going to skip upgrading but the camera and some other minor features were enough for me to make the upgrade happen.

I feel if these companies worked together to cut back on the waste of yearly release cycles, there’d be better environmental results. But every year we have a new feature because tech has caught up with demand.

Not sure what the middle ground is.

Ah yes. SF attempted to float this idea but critics argued it disenfranchises those that don’t have access to payment cards or access to technology that can provide terminal payments.

I tend to agree that physical cash should always be a viable option. Using a card or phone to pay at a terminal is a choice.

If you say, “but cash should be removed for <reason X>”, look at the Square outage a few weeks ago. About a day and a half of no ability to use mobile ordering or paying for goods and services. What happened? DNS issues. If DNS issues can cripple an economy and business livelihoods then there should be a backup.

What does breaking up Amazon look like? I’m genuinely curious because half the comments I see in here are “break up Amazon!” or “break up FAANG!”

What does that look like? What would Amazon look like if broken up?

In the end we all know lobbyists from Amazon will somehow influence their outcome.

Airbnb was fun when they were new and small. It took a few smart people to make money from this and essentially sell their method to others through places like Bigger Pockets.

Now that every blue collar worker is following this method, there are too many renters on Airbnb and they’ve essentially priced themselves out of business.

I know a few people who rented from an owner and sub-leased to long term renters (traveling nurses, tech consultants) and they’re hurting lately because there’s too much competition. They don’t want to lower prices because they are already on the hook for rent to the owner and they don’t want to lower their profit. So it’s this “who blinks first” situation or renters breaking leases because their Airbnb model doesn’t work anymore.

I followed this process for almost a year but had to break lease for unrelated reasons.

This is the correct answer. Many Windows 11 machines and vms I’ve setup using this method.

I was convinced the smaller one they were about to release was something I wanted to try.

Height of the communal electric scooter rental phase, I thought this would be a great way to get around downtown where I worked. Paid the deposit and couldn’t wait.

As time went on the excitement wore off because it seemed more dangerous when I would see existing riders going around. I eventually cancelled the pre-order.

Here we are years later and three or four people have died. Just like my instinct told me.

There was general strike in Oakland today with all the local businesses closed down and they organized a rally. People got up, admitted they were Progressives and that they were wrong about the ideals of rehabilitation instead of punishment.

I think Trump polarizing left vs right caused this knee jerk reaction of Progressives to push harder on no cash bail policies, restorative justice, etc.. Being tough on crime does not equal being a fan of Trump. It means you want people to take responsibility for their actions by being removed from society for a predetermined time.

I think I had read the three letter agency is storing this kind of data somewhere in a database for later technologies to decipher.

So I’d assume they could snoop packets and store that data elsewhere. Whenever they harness quantum computing I could assume they put that stored data of yours through it and decrypt it all.

My high school had so many classrooms running everything with HyperCard. The most intriguing were decks connected to VCRs to play videos. My computer science teacher had his laserdisc connected to some of his decks. It was amazing what HyperCard was.

Weird Food History had an excellent video on 80s cereals

https://youtu.be/usdP5c_z9T8

> It demands the companies help fund recovery efforts related to California's extreme weather events, from rising sea levels to drought and wildfires, that have been supercharged by human-caused climate change.

This is a money grab pure and simple. It’s been evident for years that California knows they need to clear brush to prevent wildfires but environmentalist won’t let it happen

https://californiapolicycenter.org/environmentalists-destroy...

I don’t know what I read, but someone said weed before all of the legalization in the last ten years was 5% THC. The stuff being sold in dispensaries now is 80-95% THC. Weed went commercial and so did the potency.

Corporate America got a hold of the industry for pure profits.

I knew the guy who answered the phone at that Starbucks. He worked with my ex there and it was funny hearing the story from his end.

According to this https://www.cultofmac.com/790897/today-in-apple-history-ligh... it was supposed to be USB 3.0 but there was only one device that utilized USB3.0 speeds:

"Apple’s connector supported USB 3.0 host, but the only accessory that fully supported this feature was the camera adapter that includes a USB-A port. Most Lightning cables to this day support only USB 2.0, with a maximum data transfer speed of 60MBps."

I seem to recall when lightning was announced, someone (probably Steve) said it was faster than the 30 pin. Then again Steve was known to blow smoke of products (remember, FaceTime was open source according to Steve when announced).

Lightning connector was introduced in 2012. Probably sat in the lab being developed for a year or two before publicly announced. It made it easy for someone to plug in no matter which way the cable was seated. It also provided phones, iPads, and iPods quicker speeds.

USB-C was published and finalized in August 2014.

Sort of related question.

Many years ago I was friend with a middle manager at Google that told me Larry or Sergei wanted to turn the roof on one of the buildings into a helipad. The intent was to never have to walk onto the campus but just land the helicopter, get out, go down and elevator to a conference room, reverse path to the helicopter and leave. Apparently the building they wanted to do it on wasn’t structurally sound to facilitate a helipad.

Anyone from Google know this story?

Nobody wants to talk about the elephant in the room? China and India causing the dramatic increase in CO2 levels?

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

This would explain why I applied for my dream job and never heard back.

The closest I saw was on ios. It was on the Apollo app for Reddit. I think they were called Pixel Pets.

I went to a SF Giants game the other day with StubHub tickets ready to scan. I entered the bridge side of the park ready to go through metal detectors. I walked through and there were no detectors but cameras at the gate. I was confused and just kept walking and then someone scanned my tickets. I literally felt like I could have walked in with contraband and nobody would stop me. Were those cameras that looked at me on the way in doing some sort of scanning to see if I looked like I was nervous or suspicious? Genuinely curious because that seemed really dangerous.

Yes. I do this. I commute via mass transit when possible. My gas powered car is for weekend or many errands being run on short time.

I considered switching to electric but the article pretty much sums it up. Also not a fan of the cobalt slave labor that’s going on in Africa and the vast amount of resources it takes to make an electric car just to sit on my garage and use it for weekends or many errands in a short timeframe.

Unrelated but does anyone remember QuickTime VR? I worked somewhere that had a copy of the software and it was amazing to make a 360 QuickTime file using a Sony Mavica on a tripod.

I’m wondering if it’s related to the recent recommendations New Yorkers start masking up again (https://www.the-express.com/news/health/110540/new-york-ncov...)

Remember during lockdowns they didn’t want large crowds for fear of super spreading events? I know we’re not in lockdown but wondering if the drones have some new tech on them to a) determine party sizes, and b) determine if masks are being worn.

What better way to train a new AI drone system for crowd gatherings and masking use than Labor Day weekend.

Far fetched yes, but we live in weird times where that theory isn’t too far off of the world we live in.

That’s not a relevant comparison. The article is about Cruise cars that stop dead in their tracks with nobody able to physically move the car and blocking an exit path (several minutes +} You’re bringing up a comparison of someone who may delay the responders from getting to their destination by seconds. A human in a car can and will often move within seconds. Autonomous cars are stopping dead in their tracks. A first responder should be able to take control of that vehicle and move it. But they can’t. So they’re stuck.