You could be in the finest school in the world and the phone would still win.
Also, France started doing this a few years ago already and has seen improvement across every metric. Better grades, more socializing, 80% less bullying, less anxious kids. They only downside they found? Parents complaining they were unable to call the kids at any moment.
America was safest under Clinton with budget surpluses to boot.
In my career I’ve learned there is a difference between what they ask for, and what they’ll accept. If a NASA engineer with some crazy specific knowledge and skills offers their services, these rules might suddenly not apply.
My wife wanted a switch for her birthday since my son is getting older and wants to spend more time playing games. So we waited on the Switch 2 Direct announcement and it was clearly just a cash grab. Even the hardware demo “game” is a digital purchase. The Chat button only works with a subscription. €90,- for a Mario Kart game and expensive upgrades for games you already own.
So Steamdeck it is, the OLED model is a bit pricey, but i’ve only been hearing good things. And it wil run emulators which is an added boon.
Just hire your own crew, undo their work, send them the bill and the fine.
A lot of biodegradable plastics were only biodegradable in industrial composters. Meaning it would still last in a natural environment for years or even decades. So seeing this just dissolve under natural circumstances seems like a game changer.
Starbucks coffee sucking is by design. Because more important than the coffee being any good is the coffee being consistent. But it’s very difficult to make really good coffee consistently with minimum wage chain store staff. So they use dark roasts and automation to make sure a Starbucks frappocino oatmilk shake tastes the same in Amsterdam as it does in New York.
This goes for almost any chain store. McDonalds is the same, food is not bad, but not good either. But it’s never awful because it’s always the same.
They knew instagram was leading mainly teenage girls to commit suicide. But sat on that for years instead of acting on it. I would not be surprised if they targeted sleeping pill ads to users who appear suicidal.
They have these values tied to their identity, their ego. It’s hard to change that. Hard to admit you were wrong if being wrong means having to become someone else.
This is also a problem on the left though.
Long long time ago someone wrote on Reddit that the best post-apocalyptic place to stay would just be a small town. With a dentist, a doctor, farmers and builders. Where everybody knows each other. The interdependence of skill and need for cooperation would keep the peace.
https://www.hetregentbijnanooit.nl/site/totaaloverzicht-van-10-meetjaren-het-is-volbracht/
Though it seems I’ve got my numbers mixed. Must’ve read 7% before instead of 7 times.
I’ve had limited success. The best thing I’ve found is asking to generate example texts using certain vocab or context.
None of the countries is going to back down. Because the all know the minute they do, the more shit Trump is going to pull. At this point it’s basically extortion.
But it only rains about 7 times a year during normal commuting hours. Most rain the Netherlands falls at night.
English is too engrained. Even if the US falls down to some impoverished dictatorship. English will remain. The cost of switching now is just too great.
Other examples are drone deliveries. Was supposed to be the next big thing, but even more than 15 years later most companies are gone. And mainstream drone delivery is not a thing.
Or take AR/VR glasses. Supposed to revolutionize how we work. But in practice it’s mostly used to play games. First Google Glass and then the Apple Vision Pro gathered quite some attention but is already mostly forgotten. The VR space is still thriving, it’s just not the paradigm shifting technology the early investors wanted it to be. Facebook’s Metaverse cost 36 billion dollars and was a complete flop.
My feeling is that it’s an AI bubble right now. The value seems apparent and money is being trucked in. But the uptake is lagging. Humans don’t need a piece of software that can write an essay for them. I want an AI that can find this obscure comic I read 10 years ago. That can order tickets for me. Find me the cheapest flights/connections to get from A to B. Summarize a text for me. My feeling is that it’s generative features are the least important.
It’s very telling that smart speakers are also in a very different place now. They were supposed to make shopping easier. That was how they were going to make money. But people just used them for music, asking for the weather and setting timers.
Wait, isn’t this just extortion? Smashing in a shop’s windows and telling the owner if he wants to put in new ones he needs to pay the guy with the bat first.
A large part of this can be avoided by giving campers an entry time based on the location they have on the campsite. Now it’s a free-for-all which means pushing and shoving until it all stagnates.