CompactFlax
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- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 day ago:
I wonder how it compares in functionality - to be clear, there’s no functionality I’m aware of that would require cloud (perhaps historical data).
Still, they’re wildly expensive.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 day ago:
I’ve heard these beds are actually quite effective at helping you sleep and then wake up more naturally.
But they have wrapped entirely local events (it’s all just timers, folks) behind a cloud-exclusive subscription and the product is useless on a sunny day like we had yesterday.
They’re enormously expensive and the subscription serves no useful purpose other than to line the pockets of the investors.
I have a strict rule of no cloud dependency in my house. Otherwise, I’d be interested - if the price was remotely reasonable.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 3 weeks ago:
Indeed! It must be a lot of lag to notice a difference.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
China decided to end their dependence on foreign fossil fuels.
The USA decided to double down on oil.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 4 months ago:
I wonder if the new right-click menu is also part of this “improvement”, because it too is slow. Actually, a lot of stuff that used to be really fast in Explorer is now not nearly as fast.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 5 months ago:
Because explorer is already so performant in windows 10+.
- Comment on The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here 5 months ago:
After they laid off the senior people a couple years ago, AI’s terrible ideas are indistinguishable from the terrible ideas their
juniorsenior PMs come up with. That, and MS is trying very, very hard to make AI a thing, because they totally missed mobile, invested insane amounts into OpenAI, and don’t have any other ideas. - Comment on Duolingo said it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI 5 months ago:
I am not a biscuit.
The owl has a menu. I do not have a menu.
How much worse can it get?