These appliances are grossly overpriced to begin with. Then they added a tablet for reasons which entirely escape me (as a consumer). But the business idiot reigns supreme and they “saw a market opportunity”.
I’d like to think nobody would ever buy a second Samsung “smart” fridge but unfortunately I don’t think this will register for most people.
There is scarcity - resources aren’t evenly distributed. You can’t have a fruit farm on the tundra, and you can’t mine uranium on Hawai‘i. It’s not possible to locally sustain a city in Arizona (ie food and water). A significant adjustment of the lifestyle to which we’ve become accustomed would be required.
More locally, I live on some prime farmland, with (usually) ample water and some pretty decent climate for a wide variety of crops. Our country is busy converting this into poorly built housing and warehouse space. There are also large portions of the country wholly inhospitable to farming, which are disdained. A similar concept is the ongoing market gardening of vegetables in the California desert. Some people are big on urban gardening and that’s fantastic, but it’s not going to supply the caloric needs even if it’s all potatoes. Vertical farms conveniently leave out the massive energy inputs (not just light and heat and water, but fertilizer and pest control too).
If we continue to abuse the resources which we have available, humanity is doomed.
You need a comprehensive detox. Both those substances are depressants. When you’re off the drugs, you’re not so much sober as hung over. It takes a while for the effects to wear off. The hangover is a bad time but it takes a lot longer than a day for your body to fully recover.
“Dissociative drugs make me happy.” Perhaps you have anxiety, depression, etc. Yeah, life sucks right now too. But always being high isn’t really a solution. Therapy, antidepressants, friends, and family can help but I can’t begin to guess what your situation is.
I have 20/15 with glasses and astigmatism correction has eliminated the starbursting issue, so my (difficult) decision was that unnecessary surgery that could leave me with some combination of still needing glasses, poor night vision, starbursting, and especially dry eyes led me to decide to just settle for glasses.
I’m up to about $700 a pair these days (high fashion frames ain’t cheap, and they match my sweatpants) every two years or so, but it’s almost 100% insurance covered and they’d only cover 10% of my eventual laser bill.
Same. “If you get laser surgery you might get a starburst” but that’s what I see already, I don’t know what you mean. It took a while to get the rotation properly tuned in too.
(Since they tuned in the astigmatism and with the risk of side effects I decided no laser.)
Conceptually, enterprise knowledge is precisely that intangible information that is not written down. AI isn’t going to be helpful.
What they’re offering is contextual responses incorporating existing data within the organization. Which I thought was the whole point of copilot, so I guess I’m out of the loop there.
I’ve tried chat prompt coding two ways. One, with a language I know well. It didn’t go well; it insisted that an api existed that had been deprecated since before and removed around 2020, but I didn’t know that and I lost a lot of time. I also lost a lot of time because the code was generally good, but it wasn’t mine so I didn’t have a great understanding of how it flowed. I’m not a professional dev so I’m not really used to reading and expanding on others’ code. However, the real problem is that it did some stuff that was just not real, and it wasn’t obvious. I got it to write tests (something I have been meaning to learn to do) and every test failed; I’m not sure if it’s the test or the code because the priority for me at the time was getting code out, not the tests. I know, I should be better.
I’ve also used it with a language I don’t know well to accomplish a simple task - basically vibe coding. That went OK as far as functionality but based on my other experience it is illegible, questionably written, and not very stable code.
The idea that it’ll replace coders in a meaningful way is not realistic in the current level. My understanding of how LLMs work is incomplete, but i don’t think the hallucinations are easily overcome.
I just saw that they’re bringing back local controls but I bet it’s going to time out if the service is down for more than X time to refresh your license.
Well, yes, except not for executives because they’re special. And they have golden parachutes.
But wow if I was to take over some of the VP roles I’ve seen with the risk they accept, there would be years of work just patching shit.