The moment two people are looking in the same general direction, who's specific pricing gets displayed? What happens if a price tag doesn't update in time and the total at the register doesn't match the listed price? Short of making shoppers wear AR glasses that overlay prices specific to them I don't see any way per-person bespoke pricing is doable in this setting.

Glad I can keep using it, it's been my default font in outlook the past two years.

The best sugar substitute I've found is Allumonk, it's monkfruit sweetened allulose (a rare sugar that is largely indigestible in the human body). It has a rather unfortunate side effect in some people, in larger quantities, of causing a bit of bubbly gut, but the sweets I've made with it, ice cream for example, are so close to the real thing that no one I've served it to could tell it was "sugar free".

I think maybe one time out of a couple dozen has ChatGPT spit out code that was useable, in every other case it is confidently incorrect even after multiple revisions when I feed errors back into it. Do I need to add some keywords like "no errors", "good code", "useable", "no bugs" or what?

Nah, I listened to the sample on the actual product page, two characters are talking to each other and I couldn't tell them apart, they sound the same. I could barely even catch when the ai was shifting from narrative/description to character talking. Even with a first-person perspective book you want to be able to tell when the POV character is speaking vs when you are 'hearing their monologue'.

Compare this: https://books.apple.com/us/aud...
To this: https://www.audible.com/pd/Hea...

The difference is monumental. At best this use of "AI" is good for accessibility, but it's very far off from approaching human narrators. Much like how generative artwork has weird glitches such as misformed limbs and missing features and take churning out many iterations to cherry pick the best results, this tech is usable but only in a "look what we can do" way not a "this is going to replace an industry" way.

The problem with machine narration is that listeners don't want "neutral", the best audio books are more like Patrick Stewart performing a one-man Christmas Carol than Alexa reading out words at you. Great audio book performances give each character their own voice, not just a pitch or accent but tone, inflection, nuance, improvised subtleties that give them life. There's a reason someone like R.C. Bray is in such high demand as a narrator, the top tier of the profession are up there with the likes of Mel Blanc and Tress MacNeille when it comes to voicework. Truly supplanting human narrators will take not just the best speech synthesis software ever created, but an entire markup language to assign meaning to every word that is spoken and having someone fine tune an entire books worth of synthesis. Listening to Apple's samples I think we are still some ways off of that.

It's one angle of attack, people do all kinds of petty illegal stuff every day (just look at an american freeway), but imo a more appropriate way to handle this is that connecting with a hacked client to the server is a violation of your license to access that server at minimum and possible breaking some unauthorized/anti-hacking law at worst. Of course these kinds of client-interactive cheats are not going to last too much longer as improvements in machine learning and vision mean there's a rising tide of cheating by ai, where software that may not even be running on the same computer as the game is able to play perfectly with reaction times faster than any human: https://arstechnica.com/gaming...

I am shocked, but probably not as shocked as the middle-managers at google who thought removing the list of permissions and trusting every single dev to not be naughty was a good idea!

At this point it's probably moot, the whole collection has surely been downloaded many times and will live forever floating around the internet even if the Archive version gets c&d'd

The road is a component of public infrastructure, it is owned by the city and so when private industry wishes to increase utilization it they may have to contribute to improvements. The networks that interconnect service providers such as Netflix and consumers such as yourself are private entities and generate revenue to cover their costs and derive profit. If one end of the equation is not generating enough revenue to cover costs then they are not charging enough and should charge more, but they should be charging their customers, not the services their customers utilize. Suppose that I am a baker and sell loaves to my neighbors, then one day the farmer who grows the wheat decides he is not earning enough to cover his costs and so demands that *my* customers also pay him a surcharge even though they are already paying me for their bread and I already paid the miller for the flour who already paid the farmer for the wheat, this is the absurdity of the situation ISP's are demanding.

I'll only live until (checks family history) 84 instead of 86, the horror.

It's an okay way to pass 600 miles, I have some issues with exactly how loosely it plays with the basic physical laws from the beginning such as overcoming the need to eat / being able to regen as a result of simple genetic tinkering since that would require generating matter and energy out of nothing. There's a lot I can accept as 'future tech' where it covers theoretical or imaginary science, but this was rooted in things that are quite well covered by modern science and presented without any additional magic to make them work as the author wrote them. The author tries to hand-wave away too much in general in the name of telling a compelling story but all the little nitpicks add up enough to be annoying throughout the whole book, issues which are reflected in many reviews by readers.

Just waiting for the first Sanctuary District to open, seems inevitable as city blocks continue to empty out.

So you never seen a movie and watch someone pretend instead of work in an office, or never gone to a sports arena and watched someone play a game instead of collect shopping carts from a parking lot, you've certainly never been to a concert where thousands are paying good money to watch someone make noise and dance about instead of a proper job like driving a truck down the highway? Tell me, what counts as "real work" to you? Clearly those who provide entertainment and cultural interest don't count, so let's hear your take on it then.

I seen this same comment on another thread, I think it's a bot or something, maybe some GPT-3 nonsense masquerading as human for a study or lulz.