Just another reason
to not rush into a service offered online as soon as it opens.
Wait a few years, to see if it is viable. Because, if you don't, you stand a good chance of being disappointed and losing money.
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Kudos to Grab for a momentous job, and special points if they do open-source their app sizer. I'm sure many other developers will find that extremely useful.
But there is one thing I don't understand : the multiple font issue. Why does it even exist ? Why didn't Grab specify the working font at the beginning of its project, and stick to it ?
I would have thought brand identity would be a consideration, but apparently Grab has multiple teams and each team made its own UI decisions.
That doesn't strike me as a good idea.
Doctors. You used to have the village doctor, an aged, experienced man who knew everybody and treated everyone with equal care and attention.
Now, you have young wolves who are more interested in the number of patients they see per hour than actually solving problems.
I live in a small French village. My doctor of reference (because, in France, you now have to declare your preferred doctor - viva la Revoluçion) retired during COVID, handing her patient record over to a young male doctor. I recently learned that she had taken back her practice, and was, once again, treating patients, although she kept herself to patients that already had on record.
I can understand that. She's over 70. She doesn't need more stress.
In any case, I recently had occasion to reserve a time slot (an interview ? an exam ?) with my old preferred doctor. I returned to her as soon as I knew she was once again consulting. She knows me, she knows everything about me, and I trust her.
That's more than I can say about her "replacement".
And when I got to her practice, a quarter of an hour early - as usual, I got another confirmation of how right I was. There was a young man waiting (disclaimer : I'm 58 this year - he was no more than 30). We exchanged some polite pleasantries, and he said that he much preferrend waiting an hour in her waiting room rather than going to her younger replacement.
He told me that her replacement had given him a stay in hospital for his lack of proper diagnostic, and he would never see that one again.
I fear the loss of the the village doctor's experience. The doctor who could accurately predict the date of birth of a pregnant woman. The doctor who never failed to visit at 11 P.M. in case of emergency. The doctor who always seemed wise and reassuring, and whose prescriptions were bound to help you.
I fear we have collectively lost that to the commercialization of health care. To doctors who care more about seeing as many patients in an hour as they can, rather that the doctor who actually wants to get to know you, and better prescribe what you need.
I don't know what the solution is.
Yeah. Well, making the Founding Fathers black is really going to rock the boat on that score.
The real question is : how much other information is going to be biased and transformed with Google AI ?
After all, bias can go both ways. Either you show the truth, or you don't.
And if you don't, you can't be trusted. Cleopatra wasn't black, however much some people in Hollywood would like to think.
They are a species that is in dire need of becoming endangered.
So you spent a few hundred hours preparing and presenting a case ? That does not justify $300K/hour in any way, shape or form. You did your fucking job, and for that you should be paid no more than your already exorbitant $1000/hour fee.
This is ambulance chasing at its finest. I certainly do not support His Muskiness in any way, but these scum need to be put down. Period.
I really wonder how that will work reliably. I imagine that some kind of watermark will be visible on the video, likely not in the middle. So, if it is at the bottom or along a side, anyone who cares can just crop the watermark out and republish the video without it. If the watermark is on the top, that would likely risk cropping the person's head and that would rather severely impact the efficiency of the deepfake, so maybe the watermark should be on the top.
But, given that I have no idea what the identifiers are supposed to be, I might just be spouting nonsense.
"Les Services BETA peuvent être modifiés, suspendus ou définitivement interrompus par SCALEWAY sans préavis et sans que ceci ne donne le droit au Client à une quelconque indemnité."
Meaning the service can be suspended or cancelled without warning and without penality for Scaleway.
So you've got it only as long as Scaleway can be arsed to let you have it, and if it fails, it's your problem.
And to think that there are numpties who will really think they're getting a good deal for their production environment.
Oh, so that's all you need ? Requests ? Not even many requests, just requests.
Okay then, here's another request : make your smartphone batteries user-replaceable, please.
There, you've got the request. When will that happen ? Never ? So there's more to it than just requests. Probably the fact that shutting down an entire continent of a market might make your money pile grow a bit slower.
Methinks that is more likely to be the cause.
But Borkzilla, Chipzilla & co need to sell AI PCs on the understanding that more cores, more GHz and more pixels is soo last millenium, so the only thing that marketing can think of to lure in the bait customer is now AI.
I'm sure that, by the time AI has tired itself out in marketing eyes, quantum will be the Next Best ThingTM.
But what will come after that ? I'm guessing marketing will have an apocalypse moment then.
Yes. I'm sure that is quite reassuring for the people who do become victims of such errors.
They undoubtedly console themselves by thinking how absolutely infrequent such errors are.
Especially when the error is brought to light, and police forces continue to confuse them for months afterwards.
And that will continue in inverse relation with just how much Stack Overflow considers itself a money-making tool versus a public utility.
The more Stack orients itself towards making money and locking down its content, the less people will go to it.
Tek Tips is a site that has never changed its objective : being useful to the public. It has competent people in every one of its forums, and I have never had a bad experience on that site.
Stack, on the other hand, has form in restricting its content unless you pay, thereby declaring its basic intent. Stack is not my first choice destination to solve a problem I might have.
Sure. It's called hindsight.
Once the project is rolling in production, it's easy to know what resources you need after a while.
It's a lot more difficult to forecast what you need before the project is started, especially when you have no experience managing projects in the cloud.
Companies will adjust their resources soon enough - the beancounters will see to that.
So have I.
It would have been so much more reasonable to build fabs in the area of the Great Lakes. You know, where there's water ?
Yeah, but the tax breaks were not as good, apparently.
Fine. I'll just wait for the day where you have to shut down your precious fabs because the Colorado River is dry and you can't continue production. At the rythm it's being drained, that won't take so long.
And, at that point, you can kiss your tax breaks, and your ass, good bye.
And you deserve that.
Entirely agree. It is very rich to hear this coming from the White House, when the US is a country which has already been subject to privacy treaties and addendums, just to try and keep the data slurping slightly in check.
If it wasn't for Max Schrems, the US would still be the black hole hoovering every single bit of data it wants to be. And I'm not sure that the valiant efforts of Schrems and company have really put any sort of dent into that practice.
Those things that were litterally created by and for automotive companies to limit their responsibility for people on foot getting run over by carelesss people in cars . . .
Thankfully, here in France (and in most of Europe, unless I'm mistaken), jaywaling laws have been repealed. It's the person on foot who has priority, always, whatever the conditions.
I'm sure he does. He's an electrical engineer, not a programmer. Obviously, he thinks that, as long as you can find some code on the Web, you don't need a programmer.
Unfortunately, there is no pseudo-AI that is going to code Salesforce, or SAS, or an ERP. I don't care that there are now "prompt engineers", you still have to know where to place the prompt in the code.
Programmers are not going away any time soon.
Ooh, burn. So, Borkzilla wanted to one-up Google, found out the hard way that it's not so easy, and is now stuck with something it can't kill because it integrated the damn thing into every part of its OS.
Sounds like schadenfreude to me . . .
Um, like the pen I have in front of me on the table ?
I am willing to believe that a laptop has more power than a AR ski goggles, but you're not walking around with a laptop, so interaction with physical objects is pretty much going to be limited to, oh, my coffee cup is behind my screen, <reach out and grab it>.
Pff. Marketing. I never stop being amazed at what nonsense they think of to make us spend our hard-earned.