>> pretty much every manufacturer decided the trade offs are not worth the benefit.
Isn't worth the benefit for who? the manufacturers? sure.
Let's say a single manufacturer decides to offer some phones with a changeable battery, invests in their marketing, and they start becoming very popular.
What happens next? Every manufacturer does the same, nobody earn a premium, total sales volume gets cut in half.
Sure there are goals -- but the problem is, you can't make automated tests for them in the same way as you can for (many) software engineering outputs. So you can A/B test something for conversion rate, and find that instead of getting more conversions, it damages your brand. Or it gets more conversions AND damages your brand. And maybe brand damage is frankly not the worst thing in the world with some demographics, but is catastrophic for other demographics. And even if you were okay with doing this kind of A/B testing in the wild, how do you even instrument for everything that matters, anyhow? Your first port of call for security wouldn't be to do an A/B test on how hackable you are.
These sort of issues are what you trust the judgement of a good designer to navigate through. I have no doubt that Claude Design can be better than no designer, and probably better than a bad designer, too. But better than a good designer? I'm more skeptical of that than I am of software engineering.
Even if chatbot LLM's stop at their current capability, There's a whole ecosystem of scientific language models(in drug discovery, chemistry, materials design, etc), and engineering language models(software, chip design, etc) that are very valuable in their fields.
And even if chatbot LLM's seem to be a dead end, them and other machine learning algo's will be happy to use the data centers to create/discover a lot of stuff.
The question is whether robotics will look like a some number of platforms with little development to adapt to different scenarios, or a million types of machines that are highly fit for purpose.
Because the first situation won't create that many jobs. The second one might.
I expect hybrids. Something general has to be adaptable for what will be an expensive capital purchase.
The human form factor - torso up anyway - is probably easier to bootstrap on a general basis; keyed off of human data. But I don't like the failure modes of bipedal robots - imagine a robot flailing around trying to regain balance, in any setting with humans around.
Yes. You can actually buy pairs of antennas (basically an AP pair) that do just that. The only downside is that the signal quality varies based on weather.
If you want something more or less weather proof, you can get microwave P2P links that run in licensed bands and you don't get any signal interference from similar nearby antennas.
Both WiFi and Microwave equipment act just like bridges and you can connect them to a switch or router.
Thinking about this, I think what happens if we take it to the extreme - a system that lets a single user enter his route to work - and compare how various transportation systems, including innovative ones, would impact his day to day.
It's really hard to build such tool, and if it's done well and made appealing to users, it could be the base of a political tool for people to pressure their representatives to implement new and better systems and improve voters lives.
As someone that is sensitive to displays, one of the best features of XFCE, unlike others desktops, is that it doesn't cause eye strain, probably because it doesn't play tricks - a pixel at a certain color is stable, and not dithered(if you choose) and higher level primitives are also stable and don't play time/frequency based games.
I hope XFCE preserves this, it is a killer feature in today's world.
Isn't worth the benefit for who? the manufacturers? sure.
Let's say a single manufacturer decides to offer some phones with a changeable battery, invests in their marketing, and they start becoming very popular. What happens next? Every manufacturer does the same, nobody earn a premium, total sales volume gets cut in half.
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