Your parenthetical really describes my experience with AI searches. 5+ years ago I could find most things within one or two quick searches, now it takes so many that of course I'm going to reach for AI because that's the only way to get back to my baseline efficiency.
For those who grew up in a time and place where you were able to wander without supervision, how far away were your friends? Follow up, how much traveling did you do on your own?
For me growing up in 2000's suburbia, the closest kids around my age that I knew of were about one mile and major road crossing away, but to get to a friend it could be a lot more. I think kids out in a group doesn't feel like a safety concern to most people even now, but if they have to travel 5+ miles solo just to meet up with one other person, that's where the issue might lie.
Learned that App Store does this too during a recent MFA rollout.
What really surprised me was that when instructed to install Google Authenticator, a significant portion of people (I'd estimate close to 50%) would search the exact name and then proceed to reach to install the sponsored top result with a completely different name until I stopped them.
I actually think that llms could be good for human-focused websites.
When the average user is only going to AI for their information, it frees the rest of the web from worrying about SSO, advertisements, etc. The only people writing websites will be those who truly want to create a website (such as the author, based on the clear effort put into this site), and not those with alternate incentives (namely making money from page views).
Gianmarco Soresi discussed this on an episode of his podcast.
He says how there used to be a number of nationally known comedians who could make jokes that appealed to everyone's shared cultural experience, but now that's effectively impossible because a) culture isn't tied to geography / location, and b) niches are much more prevalent. I loved the example that huge venues can now often be sold out for artists you've never heard of.
On one hand it's not neccessarily a bad thing since individuals are getting more of what truly appeals to them, but I also think that the result could be increasing the barrier to connect with others because it decreases the chances that you'll have interests in common.
I'm currently in my last semester of college, getting a BS in Computing and Information Technologies from RIT. I started this degree planning to go into sysadmin, but have been gravitating towards devops / SRE skills. I'm a very enthusiastic learner, exploring with my Docker-focused homelab for the past 6 years, including running some custom services which I've come to rely on daily.
As someone who has woken up to looking a bear in the face while camping, I can say with 100% confidence that on a physiological level these are not the same thing.
Much better legislation would be requiring that the firmware/software source be released at EOL, so that users can maintain the hardware they purchased for as long as they like.
I'm a 4th year Computing and Information Technology student at RIT, looking for a summer job / internship before I head in to my final semester. Ideally looking to explore DevOps as I've had a ton of fun running containers at home for the past 5 years, and I'm currently taking RIT's first ever DevOps course. I am also open to build on my prior experiences in systems administration, or try web development which I've been highly successful with at school.
I got a 2019 Mazda3 sedan a few months ago and I'm very happy so far. It has a few more features than I wanted, but I was reassured by a family member who is a mechanic for a Mazda dealer that everything is very reliable.
I really like that all the auto stuff can be turned off if you want, and all the capability of the screen but still having physical buttons. Plus I got 36mpg on my first road trip with cruise control set at 85.
I think the ideal solution here would be if companies were required to ship an open source driver, and then optionally offer a proprietary driver for an extra fee which includes whatever 'special sauce' (as another comment put it) that they don't want to release.
The example I'm thinking of is Nvidia's newer GPUs and DLSS. The hardware would come with open drivers, but if you want the upscaling that's an additional fee. While maintaining additional drivers is more work for companies, I think they'd actually benefit from this because it could be a recurring revenue stream for older hardware.
Since you're going into your freshman year I'll offer my college advice as a current senior. The moment that you feel a class will be covering something you already know, reach out to your advisor and the professor. I personally wasted far too much time in intro classes that could've been easily bypassed. While easy A's are great for the GPA, it's better to spend your time and money actually learning.
This looks like something I've been wanting to see for a while.
I currently have a google home and I'm getting increasingly fed up with it. Besides the privacy concerns, it seems like it's getting worse at being an assistant. I'll want my light turned on by saying "light 100" (for light to 100 percent) and it works about 80% of the time, but the others it starts playing a song with a similar name.
I'd be great if this allows limiting / customizing what words and actions you want.
This article makes no mention of the power required for a process like this. A few days ago there was a post describing the older seawater method which stated that to remove as much carbon from the ocean as we are putting in would require ~70% of current global electricity production.
Unless the improvements made here are really significant, I don't see how this actually solves anything until we have moved to truly clean energy production.
I used to do this a lot and still catch myself doing it sometimes.
Personally I think it comes from not being exposed to a lot of music growing up (my mom is hard of hearing), and just assuming that almost all songs were 2-3 minutes. I'd say that the thought process behind it also has something to do with longer songs requiring more time or dedication to learn all the lyrics, so it feels more special when you know and really enjoy a longer song.
My high school had a whole push for teachers to try flipped classes. I found them to be really nice, skipping through the video when they're repeating something I already got, or re-watching something if it didn't make sense. Despite this, general sentiment of my school seemed to be that they were terrible. I heard complaints such as not being able to ask questions immediately, or feeling disengaged compared to being taught live.
All and all I wish my college did them, I struggle to sit through lectures.
I didn't read the comments after trying it out yesterday so I was surprised by the change, but it definitely feels better to keep going.