...during work hours with full finding.

Sounds pretty brilliant to me

Scientists: There is no god.

Also scientists: There is likely a god, and he lives in his mom's basement.

This is a great idea but there are areas like where I am in southern California that electricity is simply too expensive to make this viable. In the summer when it's extremely hot our combined utility bill runs over $800, and this is for a small house with pretty decent insulation. We get a break in winter when we can heat with gas which is cheap here. If heat pumps are mandated, then there needs to be massive amounts of work done to make electricity cheaper at the same time. Otherwise it's simply not economically viable in some areas.

Let's see how this incarnation of a "god app" goes for them \_()_/

The ones with actual users ...

These are the sort of self-generating monopolies I've seen in the past 25 years of the internet.

Effectively, everyone goes there because everyone goes there.

A bit more than herd mentality, but makes any startup something which requires large amounts of energy to succeed and then keep going. Never stop.

Twitter has self-inflicted wounds, thanks Elon, but continues to limp along. I find myself less likely to visit because -- not everyone is there any more.

Not all Venture Capital are angels, some come in and kill the fledgling company and take it's IP, others wring it dry over months or years while skimming money off the top. Never occurs to some investors a company could be the next Alphabet or Meta.

So if you ask it to turn off the lights in another room, or adjust the thermostat that you're not directly looking at, or lock the front door when you're in bed, you can see that it did what you asked?

Also I realize your comment about not being disabled is a dig about being lazy, but it also comes off as extremely ableist. I have several friends with different degrees of physical disability who use IoT lights and such in their house and for them it's an absolute godsend.

...where every computer understands your voice command perfectly every time, there are never network problems, and nothing ever requires confirmation.

Sorry but the rest of us don't live in that universe. There are very good reasons computers give confirmations when we ask them to do something, and even more so when it's not in the same room as us. If their Google speaker is yelling at them at night, maybe they should just learn to turn it the fuck down? Or make the volume setting part of the night routine? ðY

For me it just kept getting buggier and buggier, and the word suggestions and private dictionary would keep being reset every time I changed phones. I got tired of it sucking and moved. And bonus that GBoard actually has most medical and technical words in it, though some of those may not show up in swipe typing by default until you use them once.

I tried going back to the Samsung keyboard after Swiftkey became hot garbage but it was awful, which makes sense as it's literally just a clone of Google's default keyboard. I ended up switching to the actual GBoard keyboard and have been extremely happy with it ever since.

I remember when they bought SwiftKey, but shortly after that it just languished and seemed to be abandoned. It became more and more buggy and felt like abandonware that MS had acquired just to occupy the market space and then left to die. I ended up switching to GBoard and have had a MUCH better experience since then, and it's frequently updated as well. But of course now that there's an opportunity to occupy a market segment again with *New Shiny* (tm) they can dust it off and tack on some glorified autocomplete garbage so they can ride the publicity wave. :rolleyes:

This would then block the future as depicted in Minority Report.

"Hi there! Would you like to buy another [highly personal and embarrassing item]?"

There's a relief.

I visited Activision in the mid 1980s, when it was a shoe-string operation. Games for the C64 were coming along and quite impressive, including Little Computer People, which was running on a desk over a weekend to check for stability.

Seems it's all about IP these days.

So, you are saying that long-term studies (say five years) have actually been done in the last year?

So, if you want to find out the effects of a fall on the human body, you throw a person off of a 20 story building. You examine them after 15 stories and they are still healthy. So you extrapolate that a 20 story fall is safe.

Sorry, but baking cookies for 12 minutes at 350 F does not mean that you can cook them for two minutes at 2,100 F.

I REALLY want to know what the LONG TERM effects of a vaccine are before I take it. Yes, the most likely outcome is that there are no long term effects. But I want to know for sure.

I am not anti-vaccine at all. I have had lots of vaccines. However, every on that I have ever taken has had decades of history behind it.

But I thank you for being part of the largest medical study project in history. I hope that things turn out well for you. Thank you for calling me an idiot for just wanting PROOF that this vaccine is safe. I appreciate your careless disregard for my health.

Remember: "Keep your laws off of my body." "My body, my choice."

So how many long-term studies (over two years) have been done in the last year?

Yeah, nine women can't make a baby in a month. Long-term studies take time.