al_borland

If we’re going to have a network of underground tunnels in a city, wouldn’t it make more to fill them with subway trains, rather than thousands of autonomous cars?

The others are in the low single-digits. There isn’t anywhere to go, except off the list entirely.

The Robotaxi just started rolling out beyond Austin a few months ago. You think they threw together a flying car on a whim in a matter of weeks?

Rockstar better get to work adding this car to the game.

The biggest hurdle might be if the public would be tolerant of such extreme angles. It would feel like a slow roller coaster.

All the dust around it on the floor would end up airborne again.

When presenting the world with a flying car, one doesn't need much extra charisma, the demo does it all. I think most people would be pretty excited (or full of themselves) knowing what they were about to show.

They said there is a compressor to re-pressurize the tanks while driving. It made it sound like a power-up in a video game. You can't use it all the time, but if you wait for it to charge up, use it as many times as you want.

I think the bigger issue with be making it street legal. Kickflipping over traffic, and refusing visibility for everyone to 0 in the process, can't be good.

For closed courses, movies, etc it's really cool.

I guess it’s also supposed to be the shared job to control a smart home. Given the context of the launch, that’s probably the main use.

In that sense, some of it is playing catch up, or rounding out the ecosystem… but it’s an area I think most people don’t care about. People are disillusioned with smart devices that don’t add much utility, but cost more, break more, and spy on them. On top of that, most of this smart home stuff seems really finicky. A light switch just works, every time. With this new LG stuff solve that… I doubt it. Do people trust LG after the video on their TV’s recording everything said around them? I doubt it even more.

I think all these companies want the smart home to become a thing, because it would mean a nearly endless supply of new products to sell people. Until Apple starts making the actual security cameras, a home server to store the videos, door bells, plugs, etc… this space still feels more like a hobby for them.

The collectibles market is already one I avoid, as the greater fool theory runs the show.

A digital collectible just felt like a straight-up scam from day one. Eventually everyone else was able to take a step back from their FOMO and see it as well.

They really need to start making laws and putting people in jail for all these virtual rug pulls.

They can often be found with a web search, there are some websites that catalog them.

It looks like HPE has a form to contact the executive team as well, which is worth a shot.

https://h41388.www4.hpe.com/contact/connect-with-hpe.html

Those 327 were arrested over 6,000 times. They are professional shoplifters. Get the high-frequency shoplifters off the streets, and stop making it look like a viable career. With nearly 20 arrests per year, there is ample opportunity to cut this issue by 30%.

6,000 catch and release arrests is a massive waste of resources. Not arresting them at all with effectively legalize shoplifting, which is the end of retail, so it seems like the logical solution is to stop slapping these people on the wrist who clearly don’t care about another meaningless arrest on their record.

Doing nothing and continuing to release these people to do it again, is quite silly.

This is where themes come in.

Some level of skeuomorphic design is quite nice, like what we saw from Apple during the Forstall era. It seemed to strike a good balance.

Something like Microsoft BOB takes the metaphor too far and gets weird.

I think this project leans on it a little too hard, but a balanced approach can make the systems quite charming and provide a nice juxtaposition to the very austere hardware we have these days.

I think it only makes sense for people with kids who don’t have their own devices. It gives them a locked down portal in a “public” space of the home where they can ask questions, check the weather, or whatever else, without it all having to funnel through someone with a device.

The hope maybe also to get everyone’s nose out of their own devices.

Recidivism rates for those committing violent crimes are over 60%[0]… and those are just the ones who got caught.

Less violent crimes still erode public trust. Do I really need to dig up a study on this, when we have to show our receipts to someone at the door at Costco and Walmart, have Flock cameras going up everywhere, extra cameras in your face when in front of certain grocery items, personal care items behind lock and key, etc. These are all signs of a lower-trust society. When it gets bad enough we see retail stores simply closing, food deserts, etc… we have seen all these things in high-crime areas for a long time.

Companies wouldn’t waste money on escalating measures of inventory security if their inventory wasn’t at risk, based on their own shrinkage data.

[0] https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/recidivism-am...

Something needs to happen between now and a cultural shift that will take decades.

Compassion for the criminals comes at the expense of the peace, safety, and well-being of everyone else. There seems to be little compassion for the vast majority who act right, but have to put up with all of it, which ends up eroding public trust and keeps us on a downward spiral.

No one can really answer that without actually knowing the situation, people, culture, etc. There aren’t enough words to try and capture all the variables at play.

If they are feeding you corporate BS, then pushing back on it will probably hurt you.

If you get to know them better, it may soften, or it may not.

It also depends on the context of the communication. I’ve had managers who were very open with me and would tell me everything with no filter… but when certain messages came down from HR, they’d have to put their game face on and read them verbatim for legal reasons, which was a lot of corporate BS.

Or just keep the people in jail who are committing most of the crime. When someone has been arrested a dozen times, we don’t need cameras tracking them to keep people safe, we need that person removed from polite society.

Flock is a poor solution to a failure of the judicial system.

The 3rd party sellers on Amazon are a mess. I’m in the US, and just waited 18 days to get the wrong item sent to me… some face lotion instead of a drone.

I picked it off someone’s wishlist, so didn’t really vet the seller. I thought I was being really proactive when I ordered, but now I will need to find an alternative at a local retail store, which will probably be difficult.

Last year at Christmas, my brother-in-law opened his gift to find a bunch of adult diapers. It was supposed to be a power tool.

Sure, Amazon takes the returns, but it’s still extremely disruptive when these things happen, and it’s happening more and more frequently.

I haven’t run into any such coupons, but have heard this complaint about how Amazon as poisoned online retail, holding sellers hostage, countless times now.

Someone I know tends to email the CEO in situations like this, with a surprising level of success. They usually have a team of people managing their inbox. In several cases he’s ended up with a dedicated point of contact to see things through to resolution.

I avoid them. Some look cool, and might even be useful… but is there something lurking in the code the developer doesn’t even know about? Will it get support? Was there any thought or care when it comes to security? How long before the developer moves on to their next vibe coded project… an hour?

The only pure vibe coded apps on my computer (that I’m aware of), are ones I made myself.

That still requires recreating every passkey, even if both can exist at once. If I want 50 sites to use a passkey on macOS and Linux, I need to go through the setup process 100 times, and all 50 sites will likely handle it slightly differently.

It also requires foresight if switching. I ran into this with 2FA as well. When I got a new phone, after setup it offered to wipe the old one, I declined. When I went to open my 2FA app for work on the new phone, it needed to be setup. I needed the 2FA on my old phone to login to the portal and setup the new phone. Had I wiped my old phone when prompted, I would have been locked out and on the phone with the help desk. This same scenario can happen with Passkeys.

Not to be a Debby Downer, but GarageBand on iOS had a guitar like that ages ago. It is cool to see something like it in the browser, but here is a 15 year old video showing it on the iPad. While it may not be a common project, it certainly isn’t new.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E_KYUF6pxR8

Edit…

I looked at that site some more and found the songs area. That’s pretty cool.

Chat us a horrible UI for most things. It seems like there is an opportunity for those who realize this and do something about it.

That's good to hear. There's a lot to be said for being in the right place at the right time.

I've been using the Fastmail app to get started, which has been working great and the migration tools worked really well. Once I'm fully migrated I may want to set up the native apps for some added OS integration.

I recently switched to Fastmail. When I was asking an LLM about using it with the native Apple apps, it mentioned this approval that was needed, and that it didn't always work. I'd be interested to hear some first-hand experiences.

My dad has been using his own domain for email for about 25 years and has bounced around to various hosts... random hosting providers. He uses Apple Mail and hasn't ever mentioned having an issue. Though I'm unsure if he uses push of fetch. I guess I always assumed he was using push, but maybe not.

They’d have to make iPadOS multiuser, which they’ve been avoiding for 16 years, despite constant requests from the user base.

Amazon’s goal with Alexa was to sell hardware with effectively no margin (or maybe even as a loss leader) and make it up on increased store purchases. It turned out, all anyone uses them for is to set timers and control lights. No one is doing their shopping via Alexa, so the whole thing was a failure.

Apple is almost certainly making money selling the hardware itself. It’s a completely different business model. They don’t need people to use it a certain way to be a success. They just need people to buy it.