The mars probe unit problem was mismatched between different software programs. One was telemetry reported by the spacecraft to the ground, the other was software on the ground that used this telemetry to perform calculations that reported the results with the incorrect units.
Maybe the answer is that strong typing should somehow continue outside of the individual programs and be embedded in file formats as well?
which does all sorts of checking, allows arithmetic with proper accounting for units and so on. But yes, the basic notion is wrapping things in structs which can't be simply assigned to each other.
I ordered one since it cost exactly as much as a 1 year stand-alone perplexity license that it comes with.
I don’t know how they can possibly make money with this but i’m looking forward to having a new toy on my desk and I really like the teenage engineering vibes of it.
The math works out because they're most likely paying per API call and are banking on the near-certainty that >90% of devices will end up in a drawer within a week, never to be used again.
Same and same. I don't know if I'd have bought a year of Perplexity, but the R1 plus that year for $200 was worth it to me for the experimental nature of it.
> i’m looking forward to having a new toy on my desk and I really like the teenage engineering vibes of it.
I want more companies to try hardware!
To quote the title,
> a thing that should just be an app, is just an Android app
Except the company doesn't own the hardware for distribution by being an Android app! People want developers to be subservient and taxed forever, as if Google and Apple own all of non-desktop computing. It's an unfortunate place we've arrived at.
We need many more hardware options. The cellphone duopoly is harming and taxing innovation.
Yeah Google not allowing 3rd party apps to be used as the voice assistant is 100% reason enough to release as hardware. I don't want to unlock my phone and type and click buttons just to ask about a task I'm working on.
”Android lets you choose which digital assistant app to use. Settings > Apps > Default apps > Digital assistant app. Stock Android will have this preconfigured to Google Assistant, but it's designed to be swappable.”
My point being, they’re already releasing an Android device with cellular. Why not make it a bespoke Android phone and/or partner with someone like One Plus to be a differentiator?
The number of people who’d carry two devices around is vanishingly small when the use cases all can happen on their phone anyway.
They aren't paying retail price for the subscription. The basic idea behind the business model is – you pay wholesale rates to the provider, charge all users a set fee, and hope that they collectively don't use the service too much.
Would that not make the situation worse? I would think that having more older people as part of the population means less productivity and a much bigger strain on the health care system.
I don't know what qualitative framework you are using to judge "worse". I am only remarking that increasing longevity is a non-negligible contributor to population. The process involves births and deaths, so you can't look only at births. You have to look at how many people are dying at what ages.
>The company, which is one of the world’s most valuable private companies and owns several other buzzy apps in China, hired aggressively worldwide in the past several years as TikTok grew in popularity globally, especially during the pandemic. It employs more than 130,000 staff.
I cannot fathom how a social media app company would need this many employees to function.
How do you even put that number of people to productive work? I am fully aware that TikTok is vastly more complex than one might think at first, but that's an insane number.
>I cannot fathom how a social media app company would need this many employees to function.
I'm sure they're growing as fast as they can, for the sake of their investors and to outflank competitors.
You're probably just not familiar enough with TikTok. "Teens sharing short videos" is just the tip of the iceberg. It does video, like YouTube. It has livestreaming of events and gaming, like YouTube and Twitch. It has a music streaming app, like Spotify. It is an e-commerce platform with live video shopping, like... Facebook Live, I guess? It sells advertising space like Facebook does. I'm sure there's more. Disclaimer: I have never actually used TikTok myself.
and for all of those products, you have not just the engineers, you have QA, product managers, moderators, designers, a whole pyramid of HR, sales, accountants, data analysts, finance teams, legal, compliance, support staff for many of these positions as well as the need for duplication of many of these positions for each different country or region where the social media services are consumed.
I thought it was just me! Trying to control turn signals is beyond infuriating in a Model Y. You would think that this should be part of the functionality that is largely free of bugs..
Setting aside the conceptual criticism, the execution of this badge is also done poorly.
If the goal is to highlight creation by humans, I’m struggling to see how slapping a big fat sticker that says “AI” in large type on it would be a good idea?
All it does is give AI more attention and associates the work with it.
Is this not what re-dress numbers are supposed to solve? Once you get one assigned, you can enter them at the time of booking to prevent problems that might occur by sharing the same name with a known no-fly individual.
