We had a fridge years ago that was dumb in the sense that its non-fridge function to the user was only some temperature indicators (and probably controls, I forgot)
One day they stopped working and the fridge had to be rebooted.
I read that younger people have no concept of files or filesystems.
"Just search baby!"
And now "someone else's database"
Books are essentially files (chapters) bound together by being coherent, consistent, aligned and building upon each other. This is not something you want to see go away. I have used "The Internet of Unconnected Bytes" for too long.
Putting things together in interesting and valuable ways is a creative act. Files are that way.
It's real. Try growing old. You move to the woods because of the divorce, you have half the money and can't afford to live where there are people. The nearest towns with people (say, universities as well) are 50 miles away.
People don't even answer text messages and emails, as if they are coming from Mars and there's a surcharge on long distance calls.
Who here wakes up, looks at the phone and there are zero dots?
Geez, I send messages, really nice photos, encouragement, invitations. Growing old ain't easy.
Apple, hire me! I have a habit of simplifying things by introducing bizarre complexity.
If the watch recorded the very unique motion I use to instill my eye drops, GREAT, but I use little magnets on the range hood to record my eye drop activity (give or take a few times I forget)
Where I differ is that I actually realize the folly of "simplifying by making more complex" and "drop" the matter. Complexity bias remains a hobby with me instead of a business model.
Trump won by convincing people who were not reaping the benefits that billionaires enjoyed that they were WINNERS. Usually at the expense of minorities least able to protect themselves. The billionaires remained the only WINNERS, and the myth is fading rapidly as the reality sets in.[0]
And so, something "artificial" is renamed "super" despite having flaws that "ordinary" can discern.
The majority of people don't care about quality. They want reinforcement (the very heart of LLM's) and quick answers as in "Don't make me think"
Being a "wealthy country", despite the wild concentration of wealth by a few who are actually profiting, and recklessly so, from AI and its disruptive power, means the corresponding loss of, or change wave shift of jobs.
Along with loss of jobs, comes real danger to local and national environments, not only a "see if I care" issue with the wealthy, but, along with loss of jobs, seems to be a demonstrable goal of the current administration.
So there you have it. Another tool to crush the average Joe, at a time when job and environmental destruction are well in progress, and even the slow on the uptake person realizes that this all is only making a very small part of America great, a gilded age for a handful.
I left my paper notebook at a friend's house last night, and had the recurring worry that I might leave one of my precious notebooks with countless near-impossible to recall thoughts, in some parking lot as the notebook falls off the seat onto the ground under the car.
I simply need to scan important stuff that I can back up, or use digital input devices, all of which I hate (even pens)
I looked up linux (and other) SIMPLE notepad apps last night (late).
Just please tell me why, when Apple is pouring a fortune into AI (and selling wasted costly RAM space) why G.D. notes app REMOVES LINE BREAKS from text.
Please, world get the simple stuff right before trying to break the speed of light barrier. I live here, not there.
I was a systems engineer aka sales engineer aka technical account manager for Sun and I worked evenings and fought like hell to do the best for customers, having previously been a Sun customer.
Perhaps my story will explain what others experienced. I flew out to visit a customer on my first day on the job with the most capable sales rep in the world. Well, we did great, but eventually she left, and I was working with pinch-hitter sales reps from SoCal, doing roughly twice my previous workload, and holding the fort well.
It was not easy, so when there was a division meeting in Santa Barbara, I didn't feel like going, but my wife booked a flight and a car, on the spot, and I ended up driving the 3 or 4 hours through LA to the meeting, and got an SE of the quarter award.
My sales rep's replacement was a kid with no product understanding, and who hung around his boss, learning the ropes, a lot of 880 traffic from my home and home office. We didn't coordinate sales calls and brought duplicate literature and presentations. He did manage to get one customer to go ballistic.
During all this time, even as a techie, I was bamboozled how Sun actually sold as much as it did. The sales side of the fence looked to me, as a newbie there, like a mess, so I started reading "MBA" books and that helped me personally, but no greater understanding of my organization. But what the hell did I know, being on the front lines.
I was considering shifting home base to Santa Clara but left for a startup rather than be part of a team with a minor league talent and a very large territory.
That was before our market went to hell, and before Oracle.
A shame, but I gave the job 200% or more. And wear the Java jacket proudly.
One day they stopped working and the fridge had to be rebooted.
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