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Maybe a little off the topic, but I was thinking just the other day that Alexa/Google Home/Siri could be made significantly better if it accepted instructions the way ChatGPT does.

> "Scalable" no idea what it means.

Generally refers to the idea that a microservice should be designed to scale horizontally (with more instances) vs. vertically (more compute power). If you can scale horizontally you're more likely to be able to meet changes demand at a lower price.

In firefox, if I put something in the search box, press enter, it will search. If I press enter a second time (taking no other action) it will display json.

Kind of a tangent, but I was traveling in Portugal last year, and one day as I was headed to a train station I felt my phone buzz. I picked it up and it had a failed Bluetooth file transfer. In the settings, the device name had changed from the default to what looked like a base64 string, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately I didn't think to screenshot anything.

The phone was literally only a couple weeks old. Nothing new had been paired. I changed the name back and figured I would look it up later. The failed file transfer was automatically cleared (just a phone thing) and I wasn't able to find information about it.

For what it's worth, my banks have these features other than Daily Cash. That feature is something I don't think I've seen before.

> It just looks like an Apple branded version of what I've already had for years.

It is an Apple branded Mastercard, with some level of iPhone integration. It is something you've had for years.

> It seems that everybody knows everything.

I think about this from time to time -- how people build up this sense of personality related to a forum or site. I think what tends to happen for an individual is that when you're talking to millions of people you don't have the perspective on who says what anymore, it becomes "twitter thinks" or "reddit says" instead of "these 10 people."

I think the reason everybody knows everything is that because we don't look at the individuals when we talk in a forum like this. There are always going to be some 'famous' people whose names pop up over and over, but as general responses you don't really know what a person thinks about something. We internalize a consensus of opinions and then it becomes just "well, HN said this."

This is most apparent when the forum contradicts itself. If there isn't another way to denote the opinions (like a sub-forum) then you start seeing comments like "everyone was against it yesterday and now everyone is in favor?" when in reality it's unlikely to be the same people responding anyway.

Wouldn't this be true for any open source application you don't compile from the source?

I don't, sorry. I'm seem to recall that he worked with a state government.

Not that this is really any help, but an acquaintance of mine works for HPE and notified he was being laid off yesterday, and his last day is today. He was with HP (now HPE) for maybe 4-6 years.

It's interesting to say that $8B of new value was created, since no one could supply that money if anyone asked for it.

How did the cryptocurrency markets handle that, anyway?