Nearly all UK drivers = "total of 1,850 drivers". Also mind you, in UK you can go to jail for disagreeing with narrative. I hold this article somewhat sus.
With that said, yeah, headlights are kinda bright these days
Nearly all UK drivers = a large majority of 1,850 drivers, with enough diversity in the sample set that one can reasonably extrapolate from that to the population as a whole. (Do you throw this criticism at every survey?)
> in UK you can go to jail for disagreeing with narrative.
I'm considering a new heat pump (ducted) and daikin seems to require One+ Smart Thermostat to run it in most efficient way, so - cloud. I don't think this project supports plugging into it, but perhaps it's possible?
I constantly see beliefs dubbed as "conspiracy theory" later found to be actual true facts. Does that indicate that truth is sometimes on the fringe, and if yes, then what "fringe" really is?
I used to work in IT in a large corporation back in the days. Amount of work necessary to procure software was so staggering, that any alternative "creative solution" would be much more preferable. And the worst thing is that the cheap software was the one that suffered most. The gazillion-dollar CISCO upgrade was no problem, it's already gazillion dollars. But to get $10 email shareware license one would spend many work-hours of many people, so who's gonna do it.
Took a meeting once with a customer who had been evaluating our product, which was not OSS. It was a nice meeting, they loved our product and seemingly they would purchase. Awkwardly the guy said their CEO had a rule: they could only use OSS. Their own product was not OSS.
Yes I am having this with trying to get some Neurodiversity software on my laptop, lots of people keen to help, government even refunds the cost, but setting up a new supplier is hard work, and then security approval too.
Other than nostalgia, why should I sign up for it? I didn't gather from the article what sort of innovations are they planning to bring in than would make it appealing to use
Got the same sentiment from the article - I think the value-case that is being implied is Ohanian and Rose leading the platform; not entirely sold on that pitch but interested to see what ends up happening with it.
I would applaud if FCC goes even further, and bans the robots from use in any business, which is required to accept calls
For example: government forces me to have health insurance, and health insurance is unable to satisfy my needs online - DON'T FORCE ME TALK TO YOUR ROBOTS. These don't typically recognize my voice, and frankly speaking "How can we help you? You can say anything" sounds like an insult to me. Many of the businesses don't even offer touch-tone navigation anymore. It used to be that "Say blablabla, blablabla, or blablabla" meant you could use "1", "2", or "3" respectively, but now even that is no longer working in many cases.
Hire f*ng human, or don't offer phone line at all.
No P&L, no cost/reward analysis, no numbers at all. Just emotional "omg need more green". Have the author ever torn down a single parking lot? Doesn't look like that to me. Why is this article even on HN at all?
With that said, yeah, headlights are kinda bright these days