caleb-allen

Thanks for linking that, it resonates deeply with me. It's an odd place we find ourselves

I started reddit.com/r/androidterminal for discussing this feature

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task.

It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.

And this is where I'm tapping out.

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them. The challenge, then, is to actually operate independent of the technology and the company.

Sure, just as a considerable group of alchemists believed the recipe for gold was right around the corner

Of note from the "Acknowledgements" section:

> K.C. is a director of TdeltaS Ltd., a company spun out of the University of Oxford to develop products based on the science of ketone bodies in human nutrition.

Plug for reddit.com/r/androidterminal !

Article I. Section 8. of the US Constitution:

> The Congress shall have Power To [...] establish Post Offices and post Roads;

So any such change to the mail would be legislative

You put this really well. It's been incredibly frustrating to try to understand the mentality of these people, but that's just the problem—there is barely any "mentality" at all, it's easier understood by what they don't consider or understand.

The arm architecture is also optimized for UI-like tasks, quick to start and stop processes on one of many cores with differing power constraints, whereas x86 is more for workstation-type sustained workloads

I have the Forerunner 945 and it's the only thing that has ever filled the void left by Pebble. Garmin is so good.