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Comment BMW voice control is very good (Score 1) 47

Mazdas isn't. I've driven recent models of both makes and the mazda voice control is next to useless - unless you speak slowly and carefully one of a limited set of phrases it understands (preferably while the car is stationary as noise kills the system dead) which means you have to memorise them, then you'll get nowhere. BMW meanwhile is a lot more freeform and usually gets it correct.

Comment Voice is slow and often doesn't work (Score 1) 47

"Hey mazda" (or whatever) "turn the temporature up to 20 centigrade on the drivers side"

[boop]

"Hey mazda, temperature up"

[boop]

"F*&&^^&^ sake turn the %$%$£ temp up!"

[pause]

"Would you like to navigate to ... Tempup?"

The mazda dial works well, their voice control however sucks rocks and then some, it truly is abysmal, so unless they've improved it in the new CX5 then there are going to be lots of unhappy drivers.

Comment Very naive of Anthropic (Score 3, Insightful) 151

Dear Anthropic - You develop AI and get into bed with the worlds largest defense - sorry "war" - agency so what exactly did you expect they'd ask you for - rifles and bullets?? Of course they're going to want hands off munitiions, thats the whole damn point of involving AI in the first place!

Its amazing how some people who are so smart in one area can be so moronically naive in others.

Comment An interesting project (Score 1) 157

And useful if you want to dual boot something other than windows, but if all you want is a version if *nix just stick with MacOS. It has its quirks and the use of objective C for a lot of system calls is royal PITA if you're a C/C++ dev like me, but other than that it has little benefit over linux if you just want a nix enviroment and I write as someone who uses and develops on both in a daily basis.

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