I fully expect Windows to ask permission, then just send the data anyway.
Windows telemetry has 2 options when you first install. Full telemetry, or minimal. Notice there isn't a "no" option.
I can't find the source, but I remember someone comparing full telemetry to minimal telemetry, and found that minimal was about 90% of full. So not exactly minimal.
Alternate dimensions involved, but one is a hologram and they're a married couple.
They keep bickering, and at one point, it turns out that Garak just really enjoys bickering and will pick an opposing point even if that's not what he wants.
a vehicle inspection to prove the vehicle is safe to use
different (more expensive) car registration to register the car as a rideshare vehicle
increase in compulsory third party insurance to match the registration
increase in car insurance for have a vehicle used for commercial purposes
In total, it was over $2,000 AUD and more than 1 month before I was permitted to take my first trip. With no training, no income guarantee, and no guarantee that I wouldn't be immediately fired banned without cause.
Uber takes a 30%* cut first, then out of the remainder I had to pay 10% GST, then all car maintenance and fuel.It was many hours of driving to break even. Adding the cost of food eaten while taking lunch away from home, I'm not sure I ever actually broke even. I certainly didn't earn anything close to a living wage.
*number is out of date and from (poor) memory. Do not quote this number.
They have very predatory and anti human behaviors built in - like making sure drivers have no good way to communicate with other driver so they can't form a union.
Real contractors can negotiate their pay and working conditions, and real employees get training and usually know who their co-workers are.
Uber deliberately picks the worst of both categories when dealing with their drivers. Drivers are required to manage and pay for their own licence, vehicle, registration, maintenance, and fuel, while also having no training, no contact with other drivers, and no ability to negotiate pay or working conditions. Drivers can also be removed (fired) at any time without reason.
It took me over 6 months to break even on setup costs, not including the cost of the car I already had. No-one is using Uber as a way to get slightly more money when commuting with setup costs like that, and Uber knows it. "Uber" was always going to be a taxi service; just one that treats its drivers worse, pushes most costs onto the drivers, and funnels money to shareholders as fast as possibly while providing the minimum possible service.
Uber is a corporation with no empathy, and will happily crush all of its workers for slightly more profit. I will never again work for them or use any of their services.
I often use LLMs to give me code snippets in a language I don't know.
When I started programming (back in the dark days when StackOverflow was helpful), it took me months to learn a language well enough to do what I wanted, and I had several weeks where I would be frustrated that I just couldn't find what I was doing wrong, or what was the name for what I wanted so I could search for it.
AI has allowed me to drastically speed up my learning time for new languages, at the expense of me not really understanding much. I'll accept that compromise if I just want one script, but it's a hard habbit to drop when actual understanding is needed.
Aside from telling me what language features exist, or showing me the correct syntax (exactly what a language model is designed for), I have found AI is mostly just confidently wrong.
One of the main problems I found was that AI would sometimes write code that looked good, was well documented and even worked flawlessly. But it would take 15-20 complicated lines to perform a task that happened to be a language feature and could have been done with a single function call.
Other times it would write code that appeared to work at first glance, and after a reasonable inspection also seemed good. Only after trying to re-write that task myself did I realize the AI had missed a critical but subtle edge case. I wouldn't have even thought to test for that edge case if I hadn't tried to design the function myself.
I've also heard someone else mention that AI will often rewrite code (often with subtle differences) instead of writing a function once and calling it several times. The AI code may look clean, but it's not nearly as maintainable as well written code by humans.I do have to admit that it is significantly better than poorly written code by overworked and underpaid humans.
All of this is ignoring the many times the code just didn't compile, or had basic logic errors that were easy to find, but very difficult to get the AI to fix. It was often quicker to write everything myself than try to fix AI code.
You could even afford to turn off the orphan crushing machine for a few minutes.