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Comment Re:Sleep monitor? (Score 1) 40

I have a few-years-old Garmin, in my setup the charge lasts about 10 days. It warns you when you have roughly 2 days of charge left, so you can plan a charge session. It takes 2 hours to charge, slow charging only. I usually do it when I am at work in front of my computer: I've got the time on the screen and nothing important is happening (like sleeping) that I would want stats on. Yeah, I started wearing it during sleep when I got it, due to some medical issues I would like to keep tabs on. Usually the overnight HRV (heart rate variability, which you can read up on if unfamiliar) scores are my best indicator that I should slack off a bit and give the body more leeway to recover, that an infection or other issue may come to the surface, etc. (Sleep scores don't tell me much that I don't already know.) I about just take it off when showering; if the shower is post-workout, it goes along in the shower to get cleaned of sweat.

Comment Re: Focus (Score 1) 61

At least someone can walk "into" your office. For many, it is open office, with constant chitchat and video calls, people movement, billboards outside the window flashing, air conditioning never reaching a comfortable level and staying at it, and the incessant "fun" or "educational" activities to presumably sweeten the return to office roster. In our "modern" office they even played "relaxing" background music over the speakers, but on loop - day in, day out; thankfully that has now stopped. I'm grateful I'm on a hybrid roster, on office days we have all but given up to get anything urgent or deep done, and we go with the flow of having lots of coffee with colleagues and "networking" and "collaborating".

Comment Re: This is just so cool (Score 3, Funny) 40

Yeah, till they create a black hole and we are all spaghettified.

While another comment mentions The Italian Institute of National Physics (I don't know why them specifically), I believe it is just as plausible that we will be spätzleified, kartoffelpuffer-mit-apfelmusified, or even racletted.

Comment Re:What about 'new' stuff (Score 1) 116

Wait, new "stuff" will come with documentation??? That is actually informative??? I thought the way these days is to make a long winded and rambling Udemy course that only touches the most basic and common theoretical use cases.

On a more serious note, LLMs will probably be able to take said material, either written or audiovisual, as training input.

But I guess in the end it will be just machines talking to each other, so they will make up their own "stuff".

Comment Re:Not a bad move (Score 1) 244

Glad for you that your solar panels still work after someone used them for shooting/rock throwing targets. Also glad that in your locale, the populace is so well behaved that they won't see all those nice panels exposed overhead for everyone to admire as an invitation to help themselves to some when they are cold, dark and hungry.

Comment Re:What does "privacy" mean in a public space? (Score 1) 34

Every person you interact with has two always-on cameras pointed right at you. They're called eyes. They’re HD, low-latency, context-aware, and paired with a memory system that’s a lot harder to erase than a flash card. They’re backed by wetware that’s constantly observing, remembering, and retelling the story—accurately or not.

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You call it surveillance. I call it receipt generation. Timestamped. Indexed. Searchable. Immutable.

I'd say the wetware recording is a lot more flaky and less searchable than the new data center version. And that is what I prefer. Especially, I don't want every moment of my life recorded for marketing purposes (because most lowest-cost/maximum-profit products suck these days), let alone for the class prefect to surveil me so as to keep me in whatever line he (or his headmaster, or the education department) feels is the appropriate flavour of the day.

I'm happy to be called out to my face if I lie or misbehave - society is about human interaction, give and take, negotiation, arbitration and adaption, after all - which I intensely dislike being automated to someone else's parameters.

Comment I have more of a hate relationship with it (Score 2) 208

I already got irritated with previous iterations that started of their answers with something like "that is a very insightful question", or perhaps "you are absolutely right that ..." when I corrected one of its hallucinations.

Maybe we can leverage these chatbots as a new tool for previously undiagnosed mental illness?

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