There are only two ways to give everyone a private dorm room:
1. Drastically reduce admissions until a 1:1 ratio of rooms to students is achieved. Once rooms are full, you have to reject students. Overall college admissions is cut significantly.
2. Massively increase tuitions so that more single-occupancy rooms can be built
So which one do you choose? I suspect most of these proposals rely on a world where money is infinite and nothing has to be sacrificed to get there.
One of the things that bothered me about university is that other people sat in judgment. One should really be free to choose one’s path through life and yes, that includes setting one’s own grades. Anything else is just institutionalized slavery and rape of free will.
I’ve been using it a dozen times a day for the past 14 years with very few issues. Certainly not enough issues that I would ever want to go back to adding things like alarms and reminders and events by hand.
This is an absurd take. Of course tons of people use Siri. It’s by far the fastest way to create alarms, reminders, and events. If Apple got rid of it, I would feel like a cave man, having to unlock my phone and navigate multiple screens just to do basic tasks. I’d immediately switch to Android.
Apple has spend, and will spend, billions of dollars developing Siri and you use it to create alarms, reminders and events (probably more). The question quickly becomes if that money had been better spend elsewhere, at the cost of losing a small number of customers.
Apple will remove successful phones models, because they did sell as well as expected, but they keep pumping money into software that still only does basic voice assistance? The problem for Apple is that they can't NOT invest in turning Siri into an AI product, because the stock would lose value the minute that announcement was made, regardless of how sound the financials of that decision might be.
I might be completely wrong and 80% of iPhone users use Siri, but I'd surprised if it's even 20%.
You left out the key line “and you don’t believe me, wait six months”. These models are getting better all the time. The term “vibe coding” was only coined a year ago, around the same time as the release of Claude Code.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t think it’s good yet, because it’s brand new tech and it keeps improving.
If you don’t think the quality has improved then you haven’t actually been trying it. Any programmer who knows what they’re doing can immediately tell models like Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 are much better than models from a year ago. All the objective metrics (benchmarks etc) agree as well.
Isn’t that the whole point of this approach? Everything is specified just in terms of how the end user will actually use the software, at a high level. Then the LLMs basically iterate relentlessly until the software matches what the end user wants to do.
Of course those are things that happen to people, why would they make them up?! If anything, your reaction seems like an emotional and biased one, refusing to acknowledge the experiences of others when they conflict with your beliefs.
(and I say all this as a happy Windows user with no plans to move to Linux).
I take your criticism on board. Just because I haven’t experienced them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I only took issue with the way it was worded, like it was a universal experience rather than just one that happens to some people.
Nobody is claiming that this will work in that situation, but there are thousands of much more common situations where it does work and makes driving more safe and enjoyable.
My local karate school used them in the COVID era to build an app for practicing at home. I've used it off and on, though the occasional oblique reference to COVID is a bit amusing sometimes. Never mentioned by name but there's an occasional reference to "as we're stuck at home" and such. They use Vimeo to whitelabel the service.
Whatever they're paying for it, it is too much. Video availability drops in and out. Sometimes the video works. Sometimes it doesn't work at all and gives a weird error. Sometimes it doesn't work and it claims that it "can't guarantee the security of my connection", even though other videos work fine. Sometimes videos that didn't work yesterday work today. I've been tempted to go to their app developer and try to show them how to just host it themselves in S3 or something, which would probably still be much cheaper than what Vimeo is charging. The Vimeo player embedded into the app is extremely minimalistic, for instance, it can't cast to anything, which is a pretty useful feature for something you don't want to be staring at your phone for.
I found I can Favorite a video, which then makes me log in to a Vimeo account, then it adds it as a Favorite to my Vimeo account despite being private, and then I can view it through the Vimeo app proper, although that also seems to have lost the ability to cast to anything in my house lately. Casting is a clusterfuck of its own with the mismatched capabilities matrix of what can cast to what under what circumstances anyhow, but Vimeo seems distinctly behind on that front. It's honestly significantly worse now than the default video player a browser offers at this point.
But it was probably relatively easy for them to set it up ~5 years ago, before Vimeo collapsed.
A notable difference to their (somewhat) contemporary, Nebula. Nebula made the choice to develop their own services, to also own the customer billing relation. Dropout relies on Vimeo for all that.
Are there other services doing whitelabel video sites? (Apart from porn, I'm sure there is a few) I only know of Floatplane providing whitelabel for William Osman's sauceplus.com recently.
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