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by alsodumb 4y ago
There was definitely massive digital payments drive before the speakers, and the article is exaggerating it’s effects. However, there was a good chunk of vendors who were not happy with the ‘check your phone every time you get a payment’ ro
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by alsodumb 4y ago
As discussed in other comments, illiteracy is not the primary driver of these devices. To some extent it is, but not a significant chunk. It’ll probably also make the device more expensive.
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by alsodumb 4y ago
Just to add to this, digital payments in India got popular well before COVID, significantly increasing after the demonetization charade (which imo was a bad decision and total chaos).
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Now that I think about it, I am not sure why they didn't just announce using the smartphone speaker - I've seen several vendors with smartphones still using these boxes. Granted, many vendors don't have smart phones, and perh
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I've interacted with several vendors who use these sound boxes. The article is a bit misleading in the sense that illiteracy is not the primary driver of the usage of these devices. It is a better check-out experience. Vendors were bus
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by alsodumb 4y ago
It doesn’t seem that difficult-to-execute if the attack is targeted. Google Fi is known to have pretty good customer service, unlike rest of the free Google products. Again, considering everything, I came to the conclusion that Fi is the be
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by alsodumb 4y ago
I think switching to Google Fi seems to be the best option we have right now with respect to any sim swap attacks. Fi doesn’t have physical stores and it’s associated with my Google account which I can secure using non SMS based 2FA options
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by alsodumb 4y ago
The author clearly wants to push it as some sort of 'Amazon faking it bigtime' thing. I am sure there are manual reviews when it gets flagged, and I am also sure there are mistakes in receipts (I had an error once out of 20 or so
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Bill Gates on Reddit – I recently had the opportunity to test ride Wayve(old.reddit.com)
3 points by alsodumb 4y ago|2 comments
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by alsodumb 4y ago
This reddit post, combined with a video I've been seeing everywhere today ( https://youtu.be/ruKJCiAOmfg ) makes me wonder if Bill Gates made any investment or has any other relationship with Wayve. Wayve does pretty imp
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by alsodumb 4y ago
Love the idea and I’ve been looking for something like this. I wrongly assumed that Pinecone offered exactly this and was disappointed to realize that I had to figure out the embedding generation myself. I am yet to completely explore your
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by alsodumb 4y ago
You learn from failures, and failures are expensive. I wouldn’t call SpaceX a money loser though.
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by alsodumb 4y ago
Hahaha I was worried no one’s gonna get my pun.
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by alsodumb 4y ago
Yup, they are really good. The Open Agriculture fraud is a living example: https://gizmodo.com/mit-built-a-theranos-for-plants-18379682...
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Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise(google.com)
321 points by alsodumb 4y ago|248 comments
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by alsodumb 4y ago
When I first came to this country as a broke grad student, paying 80$-100$ or joining a family plan with friends, sometimes even strangers, seemed absurd to me. Mint was the only thing I could afford at $15 a month. The data was limited, li
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by alsodumb 4y ago
GitHub and other companies like Amazon have the advantage of the scale in terms of dataset. What’s the guarantee that the pre trained model you have that you’ll fine tune on a company’s code base is as good as say Copilot? It makes it even
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by alsodumb 4y ago
I mean one could say the current admin is paying for all those SpaceX contracts only because there’s literally no alternative left - yup, after Vulcan 5 ending due to restrictions on engines import from Russia there’s literally no other hea
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Conda Is Fast Now. Like, Really Fast.(anaconda.com)
2 points by alsodumb 4y ago|1 comments
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I've seen people complain about conda speed on hackernews and I think most people didn't see this update from December, 2022 so I figured I'd share. I recently wiped my machine and setup conda from scratch and noticed there w
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by alsodumb 4y ago
Not exactly the same but very close - Decathlon, a french sports-goods company uses RFID tags on each item to make checkout easier - https://www.decathlon-united.media/media/decathlon-united-rf... Once you want to chec
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Google's intrinsic is auctioning a ton of robot assets(svdisposition.com)
6 points by alsodumb 4y ago|2 comments
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by alsodumb 4y ago
This comes weeks after Google shut down it's other robotics bet, Everyday Robots. Both Intrinsic and Everyday Robots are recent bets; first one launched in 2019 and Intrinsic robots started in 2021. Intrinsic recent had a layoff that&#
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Alphabet shuts down Everyday Robots(theverge.com)
7 points by alsodumb 4y ago|2 comments
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by alsodumb 4y ago
Sad news but wasn't unexpected - everyday has had zero openings for a while. I liked some of their work, really cool stuff. Alphabet went through many shots at robotics - they owned Boston Dynamics not too long ago and acquired a bunch
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Google recently updated the Google calendar preferences where you can select if you want to see events from people outside your contacts in your calendar or not effectively solving the calendar spam issue.
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Just one data point, but Gmail spam filter has been extremely good for me. I probably get like one spam make it's way into my inbox a month or so, and that's because it's a spam email sent from a new Gmail account to a very f
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A Convergence Result for the Baby Feeding Problem [pdf](kkhauser.web.illinois.edu)
1 points by alsodumb 4y ago|0 comments
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One can obviously find hundreds of tracking tools on Amazon, but all of them need at least a simcard or equivalent to connect to the internet and share the location back. One has to pay for such a network. The beauty of AirTags is that it b
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by alsodumb 4y ago
When all the people on Twitter were claiming how Google missed the bus, how Google's incompetency made them sit on their own good LLMs since 2021, this is exactly what was passing in my head. Small companies do cool demos and media is

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