Buying used is great and all, but so many more products and product features have become cloud and subscription reliant across all industries. They'll be able to get you profiled and locked into a dynamically priced subscription eventually.
I'm sure someone is working on an AI powered toaster though, and we'll be able to achieve the ultimate goal of a talking toaster as they had in the TV show Red Dwarf. Hopefully it'll use Claude tokens while it engages intelligently with us.
We've been losing our importance in the election cycles. We did have a pair of very long tenured senators who definitely gave us an outsized representation for decades, helping to establish many of the ag friendly policies we have in place today (Senators Harkin and Grassley).
I went to school for industrial engineering and have worked in manufacturing the last decade or so.
Bus production would be an entire refactoring of an auto factory. Tons of equipment would need to move around, electrical conduit would need to be re-run to different places, much of the existing equipment would be too small. The equipment would need to be ordered from suppliers who already have the next couple months to years of business booked, new suppliers sourced and contracts signed, etc. On an American timeline, I can't imagine it being done in under a year if you threw money at every problem aggressively.
We did change some auto plants to manufacturing airplanes and airplane components for WWII, but there was a lot more human labor involved, manufacturing tolerances were more loose, and we had widespread support of the American public to do what we needed to make things happen. It'd be incredible to see the War Powers Act implemented to publicly fund bus transportation, but I cannot fathom that occurring with this administration.
The desperation for feedback is grating. You have a monopoly position, you know I cannot switch from this, why waste my time with this dialogue? Not like you take user opinions seriously anyway.
There probably is a second order effect - designers who have heard this, are more likely to add survey/feedback form into an app. (Even if first order effect is not real)
>It makes me wanna write an AI browser assistant that can take my comments and stylize them randomly to make it harder to use these sorts of forensics against me
The old trick years ago was to translate from English to different language and back (possibly repeating). I'd be curious how helpful it is against stylometry detection?
The old trick years ago was to translate from English to different language and back (possibly repeating). I'd be curious how helpful it is against stylometry detection?
If you want to be grouped with foreigners who don't know English, it might work well, although word choices may still be distinctive enough to differentiate even when translated.
Assuming the source language is English, going to a romance language and back wouldn't be too hard grammar wise, but could easily wipe out a lot of non-Latin-descended words if you use the right approach to translation.
This reminds me of a neat piece of computer keyboard -> audio software I found on what had to be an "old internet" site 15-20 years ago. For lack of a better phrase, it was relative tone keyboard. I've looked but have not been able to find the software, not remembering any hint of the name, but it was fun to play with.
It worked one of two ways, I'm not positive which.
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You stared with musical note C. One note could be played at a time. G would go down a half note, H up a half note. F down a whole note, J up a whole note. Repeatedly pressing G would go down the chromatic scale. Playing a Diatonic scale up would be a combination of pressing H and J.
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Pretend the keyboard letter G is the base note, mapped to C in music. F would give a half note lower, H a half note higher, and so on across the home row of the keyboard. Then you could adjust the base note (perhaps T to go down a half note, Y to go up a half note).
In essence, you could transpose a song from the key of C to D by doing a modifier, and your fingers could complete the exact same sequence. In a jazz application, something on Spiral Synth like "FSA, GDS, HFD, K" might have been
Jeskola Relativion does exactly what you describe. Relatively obscure because it's exclusively a Buzz plugin and it's not documented anywhere. I believe it comes with Buzz, it's mentioned in the changelog here: https://jeskola.net/buzz/beta/files/changelog.txt
That said, it's a fairly simple thing to develop, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch of other implementations.
What struck me about the big island is that it has 8 of the 13 climate zones, and you can go around the perimeter of the island in about 5 hours.
I loved going up Mauna Kea visitor center and stargazing. At ~11,000 feet, it's one of the best places in the world for naked eye stargazing. You're literally above the clouds, the island has strict rules about exterior lights at night to minimize light pollution, and you're above the thickest air. I wasn't expecting to see the Milky Way so easily.
I worked with some supply chain consultants who mentioned "internal suppliers are often worse suppliers than external".
Their point was that service levels are often not as stringently tracked, SLA's become internal money shuffling, but the company as a whole paid the price in lower output/profit. The internal partner being the default allows an amount of complacency, and if you shopped around for a comparable level of service to what's being provided, you can often find it for a better price.
>This is one of the reasons I am so skeptical of the current AI hype cycle. There are boring, well-behaved classical solutions for many of the use-cases where fancy ML is pushed today.
In 2013 my statistics professor warned that once we are in the real world, "people will come up to you trying to sell fancy machine learning models for big money, though the simple truth is that many problems can be solved better by applying straightforward statistical methods".
There has always been the ML hype, but the last couple years are a whole different level.
Yes, this works very well. The element zapper interface is a little challenging or I intuitive, but just using a default block list is so much better than using the internet without any ad blocking.
I'm sure someone is working on an AI powered toaster though, and we'll be able to achieve the ultimate goal of a talking toaster as they had in the TV show Red Dwarf. Hopefully it'll use Claude tokens while it engages intelligently with us.