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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Operated with food delivery robots for two years in a major downtown city area. City councils were excited but they can't accommodate as much as school councils though. Also fun fact, the robot companies are usually contracted and deal
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Glad I'm not the only one
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
What's cool also is that this is from the West African tech scene.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
I found a book teaching HTML at a library somewhere in 1995. It was in a visual format explaining what the markups do. My favorite was the one that made words blink. I typed things into Notepad, meticulously tabbing and aligning the little
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Microsoft grinds constantly and consistently though, sprinkled with some monopolistic tendencies now and then to clinch a win. I think the grind from Windows CE to Windows Phone is just a blip to them for now.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
That's Bing Copilot and it's still not that impressive, it's just search engine with Clippy then. Google can't change for now, in doing so they undermine all the AdWords accounts, the real customers to Google, paying six
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
In short: a chat bot is not AI.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Xbox, Surface. Holo didn't go far. May return back to mobile in some form soon. Services, and their sales team, are still Microsoft's strong point. Apple seeing its services grow and is leaning in on it now. The question is whethe
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Airbnb hosts do this. An engineering friend of mine has documented and labeled every aspect of his vacation rental in Hawaii. The only thing is, it's styled the same as the 1980s terminal systems he worked on down to the embossed black
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
You built Patreon, even that stock photos carousel you have above the fold is ripped from patreon.com but the rest of isn't even built out. So yeah, you niched down to say creators and IRL tasks, tossed in some sense of community activ
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Health insurance is a coupon code you subscribe and pay for every month.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Did Google culture in 2011/2012 then again in 2022/2023. 2011 was watching them recruit and hire everyone smart enough to sit around to just make stuff and eat each other's dogfood. There were posters for little experiments t
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
I know much more about this. You'll have more luck building relationships with VCs that focus on dual use military tech, with partners that have prior military service experience, or you'll need to find a consultant that knows how
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
The website reads fine, there's even three FAQs to answer your questions at the bottom of the page you referenced. Job Corps is a training program for 16-24 year olds as an alternative or supplement to high school or college. Your firs
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Started web dev five years prior but went through the same trajectory in the 00s. This is rather clever and reminds me of ajax. The a11y focus is great, definitely modernizes this. I don't think the script kiddies these days are going
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
This is the part of inflection where corporate personhood and GAI makes it so that no one will talk to your chatbot.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
The magic sauce is the empathy part. Which is different than what was done back then in male-dominated, boomer-centric work places. It's equivalent of making a safe space before embarking on the rest of the standard design/dev pro
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
A realistic portrayal. Always amusing when I step into a conference room and the little cubbies or trays full of post it notes and sharpies and markers left behind telegraphs how the next few hours in talking with the stakeholders will go s
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
My non-English-speaking first-gen immigrant grandma that assembled rice cookers in factories back in her day figured slide down for notifications, right slide down for control panel, and slide up on day 4. My mom didn’t ask about it until a
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
After twenty years of hearing the same thing over and over again I believe the actual fallacy is that ideas are a dime a dozen, good execution is hard. Now I learned ideas and execution are minimum requirement, good execution is common, gre
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
I don't get it. On first boot my iCloud email is already setup, I add my other three email accounts (2 gmail, 1 self rolled). In the Mail compose window I have a dropdown that lets me choose any of the accounts to reply. I can also use
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Good memory, x.ai indeed was a calendar bot in place of a virtual assistant before chatbots were a thing.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
No one was using Android phones in 2007. It was BlackBerry and Moto Q days.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Spatial computing as an idea is from early 2000s. It was in Wired and sci-fi pulp and something the graybeards would hobnob about. Sometimes it just takes 20 years for an idea to come to fruition.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Tested spacetop last year; it's not good for extended use. Glasses were dim, it's Chrome OS based so web apps for everything. You have infinite virtual desktop, readability is good, but ultimately it's just a consumption tool
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Emphasis on progressive web apps in macOS is a good hint with the first wave of apps this will have. Similar to how iPhone first didn't allow for third party apps, this will take the first year to sort out all the HCI before allowing f
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
The pizzas are pre-assembled by a 6dof arm at a production facility, this is their value add as being equivalent of replacing the manual labor to finish a pizza similar to what Costco food court's been doing. The pizzas are then par-ba
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
The last chatbot wave (when FB opened up Messenger API and when Microsoft slung SKYPE as a plausible bot platform and when Slack rebranded their app store) fizzled out after 18 months. All to figure out the singular most important thing: ch
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
A la Google wave circle sharing. I think the lesson from that war was that humans inherently are bad at pre-judging their own relationships. But now we're in the LLM era so I would hope it would be automated for me.
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by alaskamiller 3y ago
Another old timer Yahoo engineer showed me something like this at a cupertino coffee shop a few years back but with like half the features ready but the enthusiasm is there so I guess vcf sharing is a pretty deep idea. The headline, sub, an

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