I just bought a house in March. Any listing where the home was already vacated (95% in my case) the listing was AI-augmented with furniture that would not exist when I went to tour the home.
This has nothing to do w/renting; it's everywhere.
Does it make more work than it saves, or will it replace character artists and level designers?
I have a Honda with an obsolete "infotainment" system, but at least it has an Aux In next to a USB port that provides power, so I can plug in an $11 UGreen dongle and listen to whatever I feel like. If I cared there are some nice 7" 1080p screens for cheap in the Raspberry Pi space that could be shoehorned in and run at 12V. But I'd rather have no screen at all.
Funny thing is that UGreen pairs faster than any other bluetooth device I have and never doesn't work. For eleven bucks.
With the fickleness of Google and Apple there's no chance they'll even support the current CarPlay and Android Auto in 20 years. I like to keep my vehicles 15-30 years, depending on how well they handle rust.
Maybe Crutchfield will make bypass harnesses for these systems in ten years when absolutely nothing works but the screen and speakers are still useful.
We really should be looking for standards at that level, so the compute modules could be upgraded after the manufacturer abandons their platforms.
As Louis says, you shouldn't be a felon for disabling ads on your refrigerator that you never agreed to.
Heliboard is its modern replacement that gets updates.
Install Obtanium.
Install Heliboard.
Install Futo voice typing.
Jettison the Google input stealers.
I was playing on a 53K USR Courier at 185 ping and that was a bit laggy when compared to the LAN at college (even if it was 4xT1s for 25K students). I really want to know how the hell you were able to do anything useful at 500+ms.
I agree. The functions provided by this bed do not require internet connectivity AT ALL, let alone some ridiculous cloud based architecture. $5000 is enough to include a $200 miniPC to monitor temp and positional sensors.
> Why? Absolutely no idea
This isn't surprising to anybody who's studied the psychology of political science.
Those who identify as 'conservative' value maintenance much higher than those who identify as 'progressive'. You're more likely to see them in their driveway changing their oil and measuring their tire tread depth. It's just different kinds of people with different time-preference mindsets.
Note that with a limited budget maintenance spending is money that cannot be spent on immediate benefits.
You need to allocate some of the benefits money to upgrading the IT systems so there's less to hand out. "How could you possibly cut their benefits?" is the kind of misplaced empathy that undercuts the system that they feel is valuable.
Of course there's usually a Federal bailout in the wings for people who don't plan ahead so the incentive systems are all completely misaligned for good governance. Since the Lockdowns we've seen the weaponization of the Dollar through sanctions and tariffs that have pushed world oil markets to the Yuan and cross-border settlements in sovereign currency exchanges, so the Dollar is in freefall compared to commodities which means those bailouts are going to end very soon.
As this reckoning becomes too real to ignore the populations will move strongly to vote for candidates who seem to understand the value of maintenance.
Yeah, and Healthcare is 20% of GDP.
According to Keynesian economists, if we were all much healthier the economy would be worse off.
I'm not sure how much more evidence you need that the entire economic school is a bunch of self-styled money-priests making excuses for government spending.
Keynes did some really good early work but then he got caught diddling kids and after that the King's spending was all the best thing anybody could do.
An early version of "trust the experts".
So the code was written by people who aren't familiar with the idea of "fail-safe"?
I might have gone to school for software engineering but I never equated it with building a bridge at 4000' over a canyon. Those are different things.
But none of my classmates would have thought about building a stack that fails into random or dangerous conditions. We always built from the ground up and verified states as new functionality was added with test evaluation of the possible error states.
And those classes were in C++89 without the advantages of proper exception handling like Java or Python provide.
I think if I were in the market for a $5000 IoT mattress I'd want to see something like a UL label on it. I guess the hardware guys put in a thermal switch so the heating elements shut off at 110*F? Thank goodness a runaway fire wasn't a failure mode.
I wouldn't personally ever spend that kind of money on something like that but if I were rich and disabled maybe there would be use cases.
Doesn't the Nissan Leaf get about 60 miles?
I was looking at a cheap used one that was down to 45 miles, I think.
30 miles gets me to town and back so it would only last a few years at that rate.
Hanford announced last week that their spent fuel vitrification plant is officially in operation, converting nuclear waste into glass ingots that can be safely stored for millenia. If they keep going for about a century they might be able to vitrify the spent fuel we already have. But we still have no place to store the ingots.
All these small modular reactors have the same deficits. They require high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) produced only in Russia. They're a proliferation risk. They require a substantial footprint with passive and active defenses, 24/7 armed security, security clearances for all the highly paid professionals involved. They're slow to approve, finance, build. They're more costly even than classic nuclear reactors to build and operate, and those are the slowest building and most costly form of energy which means high energy costs when (if) they are finally built. Traditional nuclear reactor projects have a 95% failure rate from proposal to generation so 19 times of 20 they never deliver a single watt hour. Those times the money is just spent and lost. The one time in 20 that the generation comes online to produce the world's most costly power doesn't even include those costs.
At Hanford cold war nuclear waste continues to seep gradually toward the mighty Columbia river. Inch by inch.
Somewhere in America just now a homeowner just plugged his DIY solar panels into the inverter and battery he bought on Amazon for the first time. It will give power 24/7 for 30 years at no additional cost. It was quick and cheap. He didn't even need permission. It won't kill his family, nor yours, nor mine. There is no chance that his solar panels will result in radioactive salmon or other seafood.
> The law "undermines the basis of the cost savings and will lead to bulk billing being phased out," the group said.
Good; it's monopolistic, predatory, and ultimately unnecessary. The entire practice is aimed at driving consistency and forced adoption rates, not anything else.
Yes, the job market is just that bad. But I'm trying to learn GenAI.
...as Peter Gabriel naming his first three solo albums "Peter Gabriel."
10 to the 6th power Bicycles = 2 megacycles
