The reason that insurance companies currently exist is to make money. That’s the ONLY reason. Until that changes, the system is likely to get worse, not better.

I don’t believe that this is the path to actual AI, but not for any of the reasons stated in the article.

The level of energy consumption alone is eye watering and unsustainable. A human can eat a banana and function for a while, in contrast, the current AI offering requirements are now getting dedicated power plants.

You could send an SMS or email to someone in the building and get them to clear the kitchen so you can exit.

That seems adequate.

You say that phones and mobile devices stream fine. Os that from your media server, or the internet?

How does internet streaming work on the Google TV and Apple TV?

Essentially you need to keep eliminating causes until there’s one left.

Any studio I’m familiar with has an airlock specifically so you can enter and leave during the broadcast.

That’s further evidence that Starbucks making assertions about recycling are misguided at best and misleading if not criminal in some jurisdictions.

Which type of Wi-Fi and what type of wired connection?

I suspect that there’s not enough bandwidth available.

How are these devices connected to the network and how is your media server connected?

This is the corporate equivalent of “Oops we fucked up and customers noticed.”

I doubt it will stem the flow after already ditching partners like AWS. As an ICT consultant with two decades of experience with VMware, I’m not recommending this platform any longer and this announcement won’t change that. I doubt that I’m an outlier in this view, time will tell.

Scarcity.

In other breaking news, the fire department announces an initiative to ban all fires after their station burned to the ground during a live streamed flashmob arson attack.

Yeah, good luck with that…

Interesting how Starbucks is quick to blame the stores rather than its own processes.

According to Statista [1] there were 38,038 Starbucks stores worldwide in 2023.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266465/number-of-starbucks-stores-worldwide/

I’d suggest that a seven stone sample isn’t statistically significant but anyone will a spare airtag can replicate this test and share their observations publically.

I’d hazard a guess that we’d discover that the stores were not to blame, but then I’m cynical like that.

What do you think that the difference is between a meme post and public conversation?

The experience depends entirely on which shop you go to, how much space there is for your trolley, which model of self-checkout you encounter, how well the touch screen is calibrated and cleaned, which software version is installed and when the last time was that maintenance was done on it, not to mention what state the previous user left it

In other words, it’s a stressful and moving feast that many, myself included, absolutely detest.

How many seconds?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

The idea that two people could keep a secret for 50 years is far fetched, the concept that governments across the globe could is absurd.

If disagreement about strategy was the cause for Intel’s decline you’d have to ask yourself just how effective the board of the company is/was.

From where I’m looking strategy doesn’t account for the ongoing engineering issues with fundamental bugs in their chips, or the never ending parade of “more of the same”.

Right now there’s an Intel CPU available at every single price point between expensive and absurd and very little to distinguish between them other than price.

An “Intel Inside” sticker used to be advertising, now it’s a warning label.

That’s not what this is about.

It’s about manipulating RF in software. This means that anyone can use or modify it and not be restricted to the existing hardware.

It also means that you can probably use common off the shelf components like an FPGA to implement this and still have full access and control.

This is absolutely a big deal and worthy of replication across other protocols and platforms.