OK, spoke too soon and without looking hard enough.
Found this nice plugin for Android Studio.

Anyone aware of a similar one for Xcode?

Apple's always harped on about empowering developers, and especially those new to development, to take up Xcode and create stuff.
Given how much I use ChatGPT side by side with both Android Studio and Xcode I'm now wondering when I can expect integration in the same way as git has been.
A chat window next to the code window and the LLM has the code I'm looking at, and even the whole project if I want it to, as context to the questions I'm asking of it.
Has someone done it already?
A quick google search just chucks up guides to writing ChatGPT Apps which isn't the same thing.

Final Q & A at the end had me LOL!

BILL GATES: Remind me what your first computer was?
SAM ALTMAN: (without hesitation) A Mac LC2
BILL GATES: (Gates can't hide his disappointment) Oh,.. nice choice.
SAM ALTMAN: It was a good one. Still have it. It still works.

Probably staged but best laugh I've had today!

I'm a Tier 4 paying customer/developer and this is news to me.
Seeing this article made me go and check my spam folder. Nope, nothing.
No link either?
Last update on OpenAi website was 14th Dec.

I've viewed the Hybrid car as the incumbent manufacturers way of paying lip service to the environmental issues of ICE vehicles while keeping the dealerships happy.
More than happy; Electric + ICE = more complexity than just ICE and thus more potential for something breaking and/or needing servicing. The dealers wet dream.

So I caught the end of the Twitch stream with Carmack and Romero.
John Romero said during the live stream that it was he who added the network support as a last minute thing when he realised it was still on their to do list.

Yeah.... Nah...
In 1993 I was working for Europes only Network Equipment manufacturer.
In the office we were using coaxal ethernet cables (10Mb/s) to hook up our x386/486 PCs and dumb terminals.
After Doom launched, and after it got the multiplayer network play update which came later, we'd use our lunch time for a blood and gore fest.
Carmack couldn't have read all those the networking books well because Doom initially used IPX multicast which meant that the little green RX LED on every single machine in the office was on solid during lunch time. It drew complaints for non players.
An awesome bit of revolutionary computer graphics software engineering.
They just didn't get the networking bit right at the start...

Sorry. I'm Scottish. Couldn't resist...

...these are a tempting "thermo nuclear" option for my offspring.
I get the advantage of them going to high school and having a phone we can keep in touch with.
I don't see the advantage of them being distracted during the school day by all the crap smart phones provide in addition to calls/messages.
They have laptops these days. That should cover anything a smart phone offers.
I'd also hope they are cheap enough so that when a phone "has an accident" or "is lost", pocket money covers the replacement.

Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it delays you getting them.

Since we're talking about this, I'm curious as to what plugins, browsers, software etc everyone is using?
I'll start.
I've been using a Safari plugin on my Mac's for a few years now called "Dynamo".
Seems to work by changing the video play speed to max which means the Ad finished more or less instantly.
Don't watch YouTube on anything else but my Macs.
So how will YouTube make the video unskipable?
I'm curious as to how they plan to fix the video play rate, assuming my guess is correct on how something like Dynamo works?

Vodafone NZ (now rebranded as "One NZ") made a joint press release with SpaceX just a few weeks ago.

No mention of this being for emergency use only. The wording of their announcement implies that it will be regular voice and data coverage everywhere.

What would be even better would be if they could lift images from the brain of someone recently murdered.
It seems like cool tech with good intentions but as is human nature some of us always seem to find ways of turning these things to great evil.

It's a cruise? As on a ship? Or just locked up in a VR simulation for a few days?
OK, well that makes sense from the employee retention perspective because reducing availability didn't seem feasible from the HR aspect of it.

Measuring experiential quality and potential success is also extremely tricky as I discovered when I attempted to use Pine & Gilmores model.
As is trying to find successful experiential offerings to use any model on to test it.
I focused on the "eatertainment" businessness.
Hard Rock Cafe being one such example and themed, "education" restaurants (e.g. an east European restaurant that had a medieval only menu, no food from the New World, colonies etc)

A better model for measuring experience offerings can be found in the other paper I referenced in my thesis which is "The Experience Economy and Commercial Experiences" by Poulsson & Kale (2004)

Without much to reference against and limited models I don't think the experience economy has really taken off the way Pine & Gilmore predicted 25 years ago.
I'd be interested if anyone can point me at successful commercial offerings which really embraces this economic concept (other than theme parks which pre-date those papers) ?

A couple of Harvard Academic published a paper in 1998 called "Welcome to the Experience Economy".
Their article begins with the example of a birthday cake for a kid but I find a better analogy is city transport.

There is the free option, walking there. (Bake your own cake in that paper)

Next option is to walk to a bus stop. The bus will get you near your final destination but you'll need to walk a bit more.
This is analogous to the commodities economy.

Then you have a taxi, which will pick you up where you are and drop you exactly where you need to be.
Cost a magnitude more than the bus (say 10x). This is analogous to the services economy.

Then at the top of that "transportation food chain" you have your limousine.
It'll cost another order of magnitude more than the taxi (100x the bus).
Getting from point A to point B becomes totally irrelevant because what you are paying for is the experience, not the transportation.
This is the experience economy.

The birthday cake analogy doesn't illustrate the size of the market and demand as well as the transportation analogy does.
How many limo's do you see with people just having a good time compared to taxi's and buses?
Disney seems to have over estimated the demand for their top end experiential services.

If you look on YouTube you'll see a lot of actors in costume being part of that experience they are selling.
I would imagine that this is where the highest cost is to disney in running that business venture.
Two voyages per week is only 2 working days a week for those employees.

I wrote my masters thesis based on that paper and the conclusion I came to in it was that it all hinges on your employees.
How well you recruit the right ones and how you keep them motiviated to provide the best experience for your customers.
A two day a week job doesn't sound great. How long before they run out of human resources to keep that ship afloat?