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I think you are wrong.

They never asked for one becase they never imagined being able to afford one.

The amount of administration organizing a normal household takes I suspect most would be glad to leave to someon/something they trust and that can be held accountable.

Today that someone needs to be a person (imo). But who knows, a startup may be plotting accountable digital assistans as we speak.


I think theres some real use cases in the household department. I would love an AI that I just tell my nutrition goals (I want to eat X calories, Y protein, Z fiber, hit all vitamins) and it just generates a full meal plan for me each day. Like, I go to the store and it made the complete shopping list for me. And automatically updates the rest of the day if I tell it I skipped a meal or ate a snack.

I get where you're coming from but at least for me you appear to be looking to automate away the interesting bits while being left with the tedious ones. What I want is the opposite to what you're asking for - let me dump a rough meal plan into whatever thing is doing this giving an overview of what meals I want to cook this week and then have it go place an order with the supermarket for delivery of the necessary ingredients taking into account what I've got in the house already.

Eating disorder as a service does indeed sound like a business plan.

Some people would use the GP's idea that way, yes.

But that's absolutely not what he's describing. He wants not to think about it, that's exactly the opposite of a disorder.

Anyway, an LLM assistant is also exactly the worst technology to use there, on every dimension.


People with eating disorder do not want to think about it, they cant stop thinking about it. They create all kinds of systems for themselves, but mind cant stop - and restrictions grow.

Why would having goals on fiber, protein, and vitamin intake be an eating disorder?

When the urgency and complexity of those goals becomes so high that it creates daily burden, you are in the eating disorder territory.

Is looking up nutrients a significant daily burden?


Pretty sure unaccountability is a desired feature of management decisions in most organisations.

That quote has an unexpressed precondition to the effect of "In order for an organisation to be objectively well run..." or "In order for an organisation to equitably benefit all stakeholders at all levels..." etc


Your experience isn’t representative. Mine isn’t either.


I've seen plenty of Gmail accounts over the years and they pretty much look the same.

The only Gmail accounts that are "overrun by spam" are those of people subscribing to lots of spammy newsletters and then not knowing how to unsubscribe from them (or figuring they'd stay subscribed in case the next newsletter is the Magical One™). But that's 100% self inflicted and you can't save those people with any technical solution.

Email spam isn't a day to day problem for Gmail (at least) since Bayesian email filtering was first implemented.


This brings back memories. I used CoyoteLinux to surreptitiously share my ADSL connection with my SO. This was against my provider's ToS at the time.


Having one digit numbers count as a palindromes takes away most of the amazement.


They tried to up-sell me when I was in the chair during surgery. (sweden)


My mom got angry and asked why no one had told her how wrinkly she'd gotten.


You may also enjoy Farewell Horizontal K. W. Jeter, takes place on a giant floating cylinder


The trust is gone. Even if the dems win the next election, we now know that the US isn't stable enough to handle one rouge president.

With the massive cost of shifting infrastructure, those scared away by the current US administration is mostly gone for good.


This calendar is what we work after

A useful addition would be to show weekdays/weekends with a localization option for holidays (Here in Sweden we have 5 days off this Q2)


You must be of size medium to small then because legroom is definitly an issue for me, especially for longer flights and I'm just 180cm. (just below average hight)

Or alternativly you can afford better seats than me.


The "just below average" caught my attention, and it looks like that that's probably not true about most countries in the world..?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...


Yeah but the person you are replying to is Swedish, according to a previous comment of his.


I am of the same height as you, and I managed a Ryan Air flight to Madrid a couple of weeks ago with enough legspace that I was able to put my bag under seat in front and pull it out without having to shift around noticeably.

On the other hand, I took an Iceland Express flight many years ago, and my knees were uncomfortably pressed against the seat in front.

It does seem to be all over the place.


Indeed. I am 190 cm and leg room is by far the biggest issue when flying.


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