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I've actually created a business model based on it.

The vhs rental stores were dying left and right. The one i looked into got most of its money from snacks and drinks. The subscription moddel was 75 cent, renting a movie would drop from 3-4 euro to 75 cent. (only 1 at a time) You could keep it for a week, then you would get a call if you could please return it.

The existing customers knew vhs rental was not really a thing anymore. Many visited just for a chat.

I figured one could guilt people into keeping the sub. I wasnt looking to make a profit, just curuous about the puzzle.

Im not even ashamed. haha

Random Animations 3 years ago

Send in the LLMs!

I want to be able to say single words at it and see a visualization of: disco tango banana reptillian

Looking at uvb there use to be several afordable manufacturers with good test data but they all closed shop. What is left either doesnt work or is scarry expensive.

The lamps are cheap the coating is hard to develop. Im not sure but it seems if you want to produce it you have to redo the rnd to figure out how.

If pages arent fast or links are broken i move the url to a different file checked less frequently, when checking those i move what fails to the next file and check that on an even lower frequency (if at all)

Yacy is also fun be it a tad weird.

In my experience we wouldnt need them if we were capable of doing their few simpel tasks. For some absurd reason people would rather argue needlesly.

My gut says half can be automated away and the other half needs a strictly defined job description free from any opportunity for freestyling. You could probably hire 2 or 3 extra for a while to hammer out the spec.

Gemini AI 3 years ago

It needs to be repeated endlessly.

Im sure they will deliver a great api for this ai then change it in a way that breaks everything.

You will fix yours I will delete mine. I will feel dumb. You will improve your life again and again basically 20+ times. Enjoy!

Gemini AI 3 years ago

Im a user, no way my life was improved! If anything they made me sad and miserable. It gives all these nice looking things that you really should not use, you want to but cant, you make the mistake anyway, it is nice for a while then taken away.

It would be funny if it only happened 10 or 20 times.

There is or was a British inventor who build an odd contraption with 2 vibrating plates with grinded garbage flowing between them suspended in ferrofluid. Along the track the paeticles sort themselves by density. Innitially a silly idea as ferrofluid is expensive but he wanted to see how well it worked and possibly try better fluids. It turned out to produce much more ferrofluid than was consumed. The story ends with: no one was interested enough to spend money on it.

People Who forget their phone are perhaps more likely to not configure anything.

I can think of a number of ways to improve the finders experience. Give the provider something to configure. Say a dedicated helpdesk number where I report finding your phone and you can report losing it. Perhaps with a pin matched to the phone.

Say the finder manages to unlock it (0000) they can create a facinating phone bill. If reported as lost the provider can at least cap the bill at something more usual until your id is fully validated.

Could create an app for registered lost and found spots. Then can do all kinds of magic.

Having 1000$ bricks sitting on shelves looks kinda..dumb?

I know, great in theory but i havent seen one where it was configured. You can also configure a phone number to call. No one apparently does that.

The solution needs to not require any configuration.

You can call your own phone of course but then i have to keep it charged. If it dies the sim locks.

In my job I regularly wonder how to get a found phone laptop or notebook back to their owner. The notebook is the easiest. The apple laptop the most stupid. I have the locked laptop i have my iphone you would think, with the closed eco-system, there to be some magic ritual i can perform for the laptop to register on the owners "find my device"???? Or at least let me type a number for them to call?

Sometimes, (if i charge the phone) eventually contacts real names appear on the home screen. This seems just the information one shouldn't be sharing?

It is really odd how garbage the tech is here.

Was Rust Worth It? 3 years ago

I think the correct approach is to do full-real-name_good-package-name it might not be practical but it would be legendary.