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despitegirls t1_j4uj2vq wrote
Reply to Nest smart thermostat co-founder is back with a new device for the home, focused on food by V_talks_alot
Lomi already does this and AFAIK doesn't require a subscription, although they do recommend using their pills to help with the process.
https://lomi.com/products/lomi
Seems like a decent product for those who are apartment gardening a lot, but I'm not sure I'd call the resulting product compost, at least visually.
despitegirls t1_j2ffeua wrote
Reply to comment by lolbojack in I just finished Ready Player One and I have mixed opinions by [deleted]
Same here. I'm the same age as Cline and got all but literally two of the references in the book. It was at the point that I actually felt bad for the characters, who live in a world where there is practically no original art.
But a lot of people enjoyed it and it got a little lot of people into reading, so that's a plus.
despitegirls t1_ixros7e wrote
Reply to comment by pomonamike in China and the US have plans for nuclear-powered moon bases | Look out, moon. Here comes humanity by chrisdh79
I do not eagerly await the documentary that just asks questions about whether the Moon Wars ever occurred which will air on the History Channel.
despitegirls t1_ixjg30g wrote
Reply to Should You Let Artificial Intelligence Plan Your Thanksgiving Dinner? by ThirdPartyMechanic
>While A.I. recipe generation has come a long way, it won’t outdo humans anytime soon
This is the subtitle, so feel free to move skip reading this article unless you're just really into people making recipes that AI creates without actually watching them do so.
They basically gave a GPT-3 a prompt and surprise, it came up with recipes that had interesting flavor combinations but didn't make sense as recipes. What would've been interesting is if they took the ingredients as a prompt and adapted it so that the preparation and proportions made sense.
despitegirls t1_iwk4410 wrote
Reply to comment by AtraMikaDelia in Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books - Internet Archive Blogs by koavf
You mention that the OS isn't reading a text file (correct), but not that Linux isn't an OS as I inferred. Missed opportunity for further pedantry there. /s
Realistically, if we were archiving documents we'd do so in multiple formats. PDF or some other format would likely be the most used but plain text would be there for compatibility, or for those who are accessing files on more limited clients.
despitegirls t1_iwjt8m8 wrote
Reply to comment by AtraMikaDelia in Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books - Internet Archive Blogs by koavf
Every OS easily natively reads plaintext. It's a pain to read a lot of it, but it can be done, and manually marked up for better readability and functionality. I'm sure in the future there'll be an AI-based tool that could look at a text document and suggest possible formatting, if there isn't already.
PDF is an open format but isn't supported natively by every OS (specifically smaller versions of Linux). There's also more CPU and RAM necessary to display fonts and formatting than a plain text file. Not something we really have to worry about these days but worth considering when resources are more precious.
despitegirls t1_iwcuy59 wrote
Reply to comment by QuevedoDeMalVino in Electric doesn’t mean boring—Porsche’s EV future includes plenty of power by mmaksimovic
I for one am waiting for more affordable, "boring" EVs.
despitegirls t1_ivdmuj7 wrote
Reply to comment by fletch44 in Twitter Rival Mastodon's Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media by Doener23
Social networks need users in order to be useful. We can disagree what that number is, and I agree that there's a point at which additional users don't add benefit. I don't think Mastadon is at that point, but obviously ymmv.
despitegirls t1_ivde8q8 wrote
Reply to comment by fletch44 in Twitter Rival Mastodon's Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media by Doener23
If you're looking to grow a social platform, looking at people who don't want to think about selecting a server as unintelligent would be a horrible way to go about it.
despitegirls t1_isxqjuv wrote
Reply to Microsoft’s remote-work-friendly CEO puts his finger on the big problem with working from home by JannTosh12
>Nadella is staunchly [employee tracking]. Any kind of employee tracking will only distract from the bottom line, Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s VP of modern work, recently wrote for Fortune. “While you might get a lot of data from tracking this type of employee activity, I can confidently say it’s the wrong data,” he wrote. “And surveillance doesn’t just lead to bad data—it undermines trust, a critical factor in organizational success that, once lost, is incredibly difficult to regain.”
>Rather than monitoring, Nadella encourages leaders to get back to basics: setting clear business goals.
>“Really make sure that you’re very clear, as leaders and managers, about what the goals of the company or the team are, setting the norms for how people collaborate, and communicate,” he said.
Highlighting this for those that don't read articles. Glad the CEO of Microsoft is saying this and hope others follow.
despitegirls t1_istljtk wrote
I hate this headline. It's literally a feature of Google Meet. Haven't used it there but used the same thing in Teams and honestly it's useful with meetings where you have action items since you don't need to write them down and can literally search the notes for whatever later.
despitegirls t1_is6eoj8 wrote
Reply to comment by jeffinRTP in Even Google's Own Staff Thinks 'Incognito Mode' Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be | Internal communications show employees joking about Incognito's abilities with one comparing it to "Guy Incognito" from The Simpsons by Hrmbee
I use it for sites I don't want to appear in my history in my main session. That's what it's for. It's not meant to hide activity per se, just not have that activity appear in your main session. It tells you what it does but people have their own beliefs as evidenced by those in this study.
despitegirls t1_iquu0zy wrote
Reply to For the minimalist lovers, a website that curates essential and high performing products by SuperSaiyanZuko
High-performing products don't need to be this expensive. The Stagg kettle is great and I constantly see it recommended, but the Willsense is half the price, similar in features, and mine has been great for the past two years. OXO's stainless steel salad spinner is great but from what I've seen, shares the same components on the spinner as their plastic version at half the cost, something I've used for 18 months. There's a $60 plate... Given the cost these items demand, I'd want more than a paragraph attempting to sell it before pushing me off to another site to buy it.
Great site for the owner who's getting referrer credit from purchases though.
despitegirls t1_iqpsnxv wrote
Reply to comment by hornybj1 in PM Modi tests drive a car in Europe remotely from Delhi using 5G, view pics by Royal-Noble-96
Literally stopped playing Cyberpunk to read this thread then realized the irony of this post.
despitegirls t1_j67gjaf wrote
Reply to OMG! What Will Happen When A.I. Makes BuzzFeed Quizzes? by mankls3
Honestly I think ChatGPT will be perfectly suited for quizzes. They mention that it'll be used to help writers and I use it myself at work similarly, but the reality is less writers over time. I'd like to think that means investing more in investigative journalism but I doubt their serious stories generate the clicks compared to their traditional content.