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My take, is that this effect has removed a lot of the micro communications we make - not necessarily random conversations. It’s taken away random moments that may trigger a short small conversation with strangers.

In part it’s taking away the shared experience in public and making it “my” experience.

A misconception is that chess is all memory. If you look at some of the research, it’s learning to remember patterns, not all the moves.

Eg when they tested good chess players on random board positions they were just as good as people that did not play chess.

The mesh in version one lasted just over 12 months.

Repair bill at Apple was 90% of the cost of a new pair.

Truly the worst built product I’ve bought from Apple.

Never again.

If his son had half a brain he wouldn’t be trading in this quasi derivative

My thousand dollar iPhone can't even add a contact from a business card.

Singapore to a tea. Spooky that I had a similar path, Sydney -> HK -> New York -> Singapore. Crescendo-ing up to New York, then off a cliff into a full blow school-like world (but great trains).

Super strange when there are several on the front page, older, with less votes and less comments. To say it’s off topic is a little narrow minded given the current environment

Anecdata- I did this as a 13 year old in the 90s. My old man came upon it after I was repeatedly ending up in hospital in Australia with asthma as a kid. I think there was a presentation in a local scout hall!

I didn’t understand the history at the time - but it stopped me going to hospital, I ended up being able to do a controlled hold (no discomfort) of around 1:30 min and a max hold of just shy of 5 mins.

So for me it had a big impact.

I stopped in my 20s and now I am no where near able to get those numbers.

The App Store is an absolute sh!t hole of an experience. Irrelevant ads, impossible to find anything decent. It’s the internet of 1998 pre google.

I have benn beating ths drum for yrs

It’s crazy you can pay for premium, which is not cheap, and you can’t disable shorts.

The number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts.

The big problem is that it’s shit and terrible UX. We should stop complicating feedback :)

possible, seems this is done in other modes.

quote - google ai mode:

"DuckDB offers robust capabilities for querying data stored partially on S3, particularly when dealing with Parquet files. This is achieved through several optimization techniques:

Predicate Pushdown: When you apply a WHERE clause to filter data, DuckDB can "push down" this filter directly into the Parquet file scan. If the Parquet file contains zonemaps (metadata about value ranges within columns), DuckDB can use this information to skip reading entire sections of the file that do not contain relevant data, significantly reducing the amount of data transferred from S3.

Projection Pushdown: When you select only specific columns in your SELECT statement, DuckDB automatically reads only those required columns from the Parquet file. This means you avoid downloading and processing unnecessary data, leading to faster queries and reduced S3 transfer costs.

HTTP Range Reads: DuckDB leverages HTTP range headers when interacting with S3 (or other object storage supporting range reads). This allows it to fetch only the necessary parts of the Parquet file, such as metadata or specific column chunks, rather than downloading the entire file."

started with overland (was great, but hurt the battery a lot) - there was an iOS app for it. I then just moved on to PSObserver as it was self contained, I could export off my phone. I also augmented with running google maps background for a few years as well. Think I have over 5m data points now. I user Kepler.gl originally + with iPhone photos as well overlayed.

Don’t know if you have seen the work DuckDB is doing on ducklake. Maybe there is an overlap in vision for versioning data across multiple data sources - and similar to SQLite it’s not proprietary and easily drilled down on. I’m sorry, don’t have technical knowledge :/

I have been recording my gps every few mins for the past 10years for this exact product.

Looks interesting.

Working on an AI/Governance and compliance system that also integrates with the cli for teams developing the actual code and the systems that are commonly used, GitHub, bitbucket, open policy agent, collibra etc..

Used by enterprises for compliance, reporting and answering questions like, who owns this ai model, whats the monitoring plans, where is it running, what approvals does it have, what policies are applicable (geographic etc).

I replay liked the design of NLM, and thought it was a great implementation of using LLMs beyond a simple chat. Well done.

I use them too for similar uses. Brilliant. I also use zero AI. I don’t care. I totally understand ppl not buying them because they are meta. I get it.

Been using iPhone for years and I swear the keyboards accuracy has turned to absolute shit. I am convinced through my experience that they have definitely changed something and made it terrible. It’s making me consider getting an android cos that’s how we use our phones - with a keyboard.

I just use infuse or vid hub app and an SMB share.

Wouldn’t duckdb be a good fit for this?

I pay for Apple TV and I’d still pirate so I don’t have to sit through their shit “look at our new tv show” crap ad at the beginning.

Australian politics is very much in favour of throwing around a lot of Red herrings. Eg get the conversation, media and public focussed on unimportant issues as a way to distract from the fact they are incompetent to deal with big issues.

Grew up in NSW for 25 years. Nothing has changed. A few extra toll roads.

Apple Photos has fallen into this trap as well.

As a user, you have no way to see if a photo has been "scanned" with smart features and what it has detected (e,g found person x, found dog, blue sky, beach etc).

Trips features, has this algorithm finished scanning your library? You have no idea, it's just hidden.

Faces, detection, has this completely scanned your library? You don't know. Photos that don't seem to have faces detect, was it scanned or failed or did it not scan yet?

The list is nearly endless - but in line with the rest of the direction of MacOS, getting worse.

I agree that in principle, it's great that spending is being checked and payments "audited" (I have no clue if thats actually what is happening, I assume it's no KPMNG audit). However, are they really being audited? Is this the manner in which this should be done?

I am not a Trump voter. I agree with the outcome they have stated - reduce stupid spending - but I have no idea thats the true motivation, the true goal and I disagree with the manner in which they are doing it. Just because you agree with the dictator doesn't make it right?

In Singapore it’s a lot higher than this. There are government mandates that roles must be advertised - so companies planning on hiring internally will advertise roles, interview candidates then justify why no candidates are good fit then hire the original internal candidate.

It’s laughable.

had a instance with them where I need the bare minimum of customer service. There was none. Won't fly again.

The tech industry bodies need to look in the mirror at themselves rather ferociously. These usb, smart, hdmi bodies are failing the consumers, failing sustainable practices and just smell like poorly run bodies.

Have gone this route and exposed a variety of manufacturers devices to HomeKit through HA. Been surprised by the reliability. 3 years in.