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Comment Pixel 9 | Without razors (Score 1) 34

How very promising the all-knowing designers decided to bevel the razor sharp edges of the cam module. Who could possibly have known outside nonbevelled edges would destroy pocket fabric, and inside nonbevelled corners would be impossible to keep clean.

I like my Pixel in most other aspects, but the sharp edges is such a product designer ego trip.

Comment Facebook Business is a minefield (Score 1) 69

Having a Facebook Business account trying to support communication with customers on Facebook is the most rediculous show of non-existing security.

Not only is Meta not able to filter out messages from scammers claiming to be meta representatives and using meta logos in their accounts, obvious scammer keywords doesn't trigger any filtering either.

As a result every business owner using Metas platform must every day carefully NOT click endless amounts of phishing and other scam links.

Maybe if they solved this problem first, fewer customers would be in need of personal support.

Comment Why not tie a logic checker to the head of the AI? (Score 2) 10

Solving mathematics problems requires logical reasoning, something that most current AI models aren't great at.

Why not ask the AI to output the reasoning in formal logic terms, feed this output to some standard deterministic logic-software to check for correct syntax and validity, and reject or perhaps highlight the faulty LLM-generated "logic" before the AI output is finally returned?

The correct AI answer would be: "Sorry I did my best, here is my idea, and here is where the argument fails. I did try 14,000,605 times, and this is my least wrong attempt.

Comment You pay for your own personal servant (Score 1) 316

Who else other than the customer pays for the personal servant scanning items at checkout?

Surely the current first-generation self checkouts can be improved, but here in Copenhagen the self checkout works like a charm. Its much much faster and one queue distributes into 10 or more self checkouts which evens out the wait for singular slower customers.

The technology is, in some cases, more trouble than it's worth.

Wow, name one technology which does not have this property.

Self checkout is just another step towards a more efficient production function, hence increased welfare.

Comment Take a look at the keyboard (Score 1) 48

For some reason most laptop vendors seem to think that arrows, page up/down, escape and delete are unimportant keys on the keyboard.

As a developer I want these keys on the keyboard as fully functional, full size, individual keys. No holding down fn, ctrl, alt, shift or any other modifier.

I want to be able to navigate code, web and the os with these keys.

As wonderful it is that many laptops are compatible with Ubuntu and similar linuxbased OSes, the actual usecase at least for coding crucially includes a keyboard with these important keys.

Comment Deceptive Slashed Title (Score 1) 20

The title: Launches a Productivity Suite To Take On Google Docs, Microsoft Office

The quote: We're not trying to compete head-to-head with Google Docs

It is a product that competes with one single product in the other office suites. Good luck on boarding multiple teams, clients and users on a stand alone platform for just an upgraded PowerPoint clone.

Comment Garmin the App Master (Score 1) 71

When Garmin has fixed the year old bug in their Android app, that forces non-dismissable ever-returning notifications in my face, whenever the watch is not connected to the phone, I will consider what they try to say about level of expectations for digital user experience. Having to force-quit an app to get rid of messages shows just how litte Garmin cares about the user experience.

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