I guess it depends on what you're typing. For English text, it's probably fine. But I do a lot of programming and doubt that speech input would be effective for that.

This feature is great in an office that uses small cubicles. Even better for open-plan offices!

But seriously, apart from disabled users who might not be able to use a keyboard, I don't see a use case for this. The reason we use dictation on mobile devices is that they typically have poor keyboards. If you have a good keyboard, you can be far more efficient with it than with voice input.

I grew up in a country that adopted PAL rather than NTSC, so never saw the hue and saturation settings until my family relocated to Canada. I was baffled by how backwards NTSC was.

What percentage of coffee-brewing costs are from energy consumption? I would guess that most of the cost is the coffee itself.

To boil 500 mL of water that starts out at room temperature takes about 0.05 kWh, which costs very much less than one cent in pretty much any jurisdiction. Enough coffee to make two cups of coffee probably costs 5 to 25 cents. So I don't see the energy saving as being "very significant".

Seems to me it's the GOP that is obsessed with this issue and with what's in kids' pants. They're the ones constantly stoking the culture wars.

s/giraffe/drain/

Where are the usual "think of the kids!" politicians? I guess accepting kickbacks from Meta...

Requiring a drone license is reasonable; it's required here in Canada for any drone over 250 grams. You have to learn the regulations and pass a test to get your license.

But I don't see how forbidding buying or repairing drones in a specific city makes sense.

good news! if the point my post would have been a landmine, you'd still be alive you missed it by so much

Not for you, but for them to track your kids.

Indeed, because even if it's not user-repleaceable, any phone repair shop can do it. (It's also crazy to buy a $1k+ phone in the first place, goddamn, there are fine options for much much less.)

It's annoying, but adapters are cheap. I'm not going to lose sleep over $5.

They did, the whole industry uses USB-C now.

The point was that even in its infancy 15 years ago there were fairly reasonable options.

EVs are bigger sure, but tech has advanced considerably in 15 years.

The concept of warehousing should explain it to you.

You can 'store' 100 people in the space of 5-10 trailers. More if you go more than 1-2 floors up.

As long as all that usage is via an in house LLMs sure it's 'free'.

But the 'good' stuff is about to be financially choked out of most pipelines

Except this is laying landmines that will trigger in 20 years.

People will retire and there won't be anybody to replace them with at a macro level....because the "easy" stuff that new college grads used to write won't onboard those new college grads.

For added fun we've made building even marginally decent computers at home 4x as expensive so the 'self taught' route will also produce far fewer people to pull in.