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How was the person incorrect that speed increases won't continue forever? Pentium 4 was 3.8GHz and Ryzen 7 has 4.7Ghz some 20 odd years later?

Behind paywall, is there another link to the article?

As an engineering challenge, I love it.

Other than that, I would've understood this notion better in the 90's when we were all on dialups. Maybe my perception is skewed growing up and seeing in real-time a picture loading on a website?

Now, even with outdated hardware on an ok connection, even larger sites like WAPO (3MB) loads what I feel like instantly (within 5-10 seconds). If it loaded in 2 seconds or 1 second, I really don't know how that would impact my life in any way.

As long as a site isn't sluggish while you browse around.

I disagree that literacy is all about reading fictional books and I wish we could broaden it a little bit more, even at school.

This might be an odd take, but I never liked reading books and have read very few books in my whole life. I do love to read news articles, forum posts, magazines etc. because the format fits me.

Judging myself by my education level and career I'd say I did just fine without opening a single book.

It's a generational thing as well as what sites you frequent.

The term clanker is used very frequently on social media as well as different chat tools, especially as responses to obvious AI Agents and Bots.

It's more of an oligopoly than a cartel to be honest. It's more like how the telco industry operates. High barriers to entry with generous subsidies and incentives for the existing few providers.

What an amazing way of showcasing development, each with excerpts and notes highlighting expansion decisions.

Are there other examples of this?

Amazing!

I think they meant join in the sense of yet another study performed on mice with promising results without any indication if it will work in humans.

Come back after clinical trials.

Breakthroughs in Alzheimer's seems like the medical equivalent of breakthroughs in battery tech.

Local AI?

Why stop there? They should expand it to blockchain, 3d printing, VR and quantum computing to make sure it really tickles the executives' imagination...

They are all chords (C, F, G, Am).

C/Am, F, G are adjacent in the circle of fifths so they will all play nice in a progression.

That's hilarious. I'm imagining CRISPR as a tool to scramble your DNA every so often.

Wow, this is great advice. I never thought about it this way.

I put on my engineering hat and saw a "problem" to be solved and a "solution" being a finished game...

And it's mutual, I want to spend time with him on something he's passionate about, but I made it into a problem I can solve.

Thank you!

Thank you. Will look into Roblox studio

His vision is a “survival zombie game where you have to find and repair cars to escape the zombies”

Yeah I know, that’s how I started as well. Got some old 8086 and zero instructions on how to use it.

But he’s not curious in the same way I was, maybe it’s the time right now. Kids expect immediate gratification, or maybe he needs a bit of a push.

I looked at Roblox studio, that looks promising. Thanks!

Completely agree, I'm waiting for the article on "Why you need a business-oriented co-founder and how technical founders can recruit one"...

If you can clear a medical debt with 0.7 cents on the dollar, how is this system nothing more than a big scam?

Looking at my shelf, I feel personally attacked.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I see this more of an issue of User Experience / Service Design than anything else.

Physical check-in means you provide your ID / Passport, and a boarding pass is printed by the check-in staff. Most of the work is hidden from you (the employee enters all numbers, clicks all boxes, etc.) so from a service design perspective it's a simple process. However, it's costly, and requires you to stand in line.

Digital check-in is not on the same level, there's no standard across airlines, not one app to do it all. And the process hasn't been simplified at all, all the work has just been delegated to the user. This is not an issue for tech-savvy people who're used of entering forms and using digital tools, but I still believe it's a poor user experience.

Ideally, you'd want a unified digital solution where all you have to do is click one button, scan the RFD chip in your passport and click check-in.

The solution is NOT to bring back cash and manual check-in counters, but to look at it purely from a service design perspective to make it simple and inclusive. Which I'm sure will benefit everyone in the end.

That's not a fair comparison, it would be more like if they run out of samples you can't demand more, or if you've already had 10 you might have to expect them to say no, or if you don't like the toppings, you can't really ask for substitutions.

Is it the French again?

I know (some) French, still use ChatGPT or Google Translate a lot to get me started if I want to send a note to someone in French. I still do some hand-waving afterwards to ensure it's correct but that's about it.

I'd argue that this process applies to any GPT-type generator, it serves a starting point so you're not staring at a blank piece of paper, but it won't give you the final result.

I’m sorry but networking for me is part of why I go to conferences. Being able to hit speakers and people up for conversations is what generates more value for me than the talks themselves.

Virtual conferences are not comparable to a live one, they’re as valuable as mandatory corporate e-learnings in my opinion.

Maybe it’s just me.

I'd like to add to this; I believe it's more based in the fear of the unknown. People are generally very resistant to change, good or bad, "better the devil you know" and so on.

That's why some people stay in abusive relationships, dysfunctional families and lousy corporations.

Sometimes resisting change in a community, a startup or organization is more a case of very strong risk-aversion than anything else.

Same with products, most people say that their favorite brand of a consumer product is what they're currently using, this is why telco's incentivizes switching carriers, because people stick around...

My assumption is that it's there's not really a business case to invest in Siri:

* Bringing Siri up to speed with expectations AND keep it maintained and updated is probably orders of magnitude more expensive than whatever budget they have now

* Siri shipped for free with no apparent revenue streams - Apple haven't found a good way to monetize the service, (ads, partnerships, subscriptions, etc.)

* Siri is most likely a nice to have and probably not a deal-breaker for consumers when deciding what phone to buy

Cost either have to go down, or it has to become a deal-breaker or they need to monetize it somehow.

My guess...

Can you please use an ADA compliant color palette generator, I don't want to have to squint or copy text to notepad to use a website...

Is Reddit offline today?

That's gotta be a Hacker News bingo if I've ever seen one.

Correct, AI has always been a catch-all for many different algorithms and models for statistical analysis. One definition from the 50's is "the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without explicitly being programmed.”

I believe you have to be more specific what kind of AI you refer to.

Machine Learning algorithms, which include some really straight-forward ones like decision trees, linear regression, support vector machines, etc. are pretty ubiquitous.

If you mean generative AI models (e.g. what powers ChatGPT, Dall-E, etc.) then it's a different story.

Quality Assurance is a first reality-check.

Please shield her from doing UAT with unreasonable business stakeholders as long as you can