- I'm skeptical of this on two counts...
First, a lot of people I know would never thank a machine regardless of how happy they are with the results. Second, a lot of people habitually say "thank you" regardless of their actual satisfaction level.
Because of these two things, I doubt that whether or not someone says "thank you" is a strong indicator of satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
- I'm certainly not, anyway. Not because of Zoom or being distracted, but because there's not much point to doing so. Almost always, the presenter is reading the slides to me anyway. Also, slides have such a low information density as to be largely not worthwhile to me in the first place.
- > My dilemma is whether to open source these products now, or wait until they're more established.
I find this statement curious because I don't understand why there should be a connection between software being "established" and being open source.
What is your goal here?
- That fact makes me seriously doubt their claims of it being "privacy first". Perhaps Phreeli can be taken at their word about their own practices (but remember, we only have their word to go on with this), but T-Mobile is still handling the traffic, and they're not likely to be terribly concerned about user privacy.
Aside from their privacy claims, there doesn't really seem to be anything unusual in their offering. If you're the sort who wants/needs a burner phone, this offering doesn't reduce that need.
This whole article appears to be just a thinly-veiled advertisement.
- If that means they'll stop trying subvert the US and focus on their company towns instead, then I'm all for it. Good riddance.
- This was a common thing with snailmail back when it was the primary means of such communications. My sense is that it's because if an institution is contacting you in a way that isn't routine, the odds are pretty high that it isn't to give you good news.
- The endless depressing blandness of user interfaces these days makes me look at that color scheme with a great deal more fondness than it would otherwise deserve. At least it has some life to it.
- It's very much alive. It's the primary way I keep up with sites on the web. One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of websites have RSS feeds but don't advertise them or offer an obvious link, but are discoverable by looking at the site's page source.
> Now, with the advent of Agentic AI they seem to be an old fashioned way that is needed anymore.
One of the main reasons I use RSS is to assemble a news feed that I read. It's hard to see how Agentic AI can improve on that.
- > Are you going to take the risk and be the first?
Absolutely. If the company I work for happens to be one that's so crappy that I'd get fired for questioning things, it's better to find that out as soon as possible. That's not a company that's worth my time and attention.
- This would not be of interest to me because it wouldn't mesh at all with my job hunting methodology.
- > hooked up a camera to a baby's head so it would get all the input data a baby gets.
A camera hooked up to the baby's head is absolutely not getting all the input data the baby gets. It's not even getting most of it.
- This seems very pedantic to me, on par with companies who don't want devs to use the word "bug". Fine, we can use different words for the concepts, but the concepts haven't changed, only the term used. Everyone's understanding of what is meant remains the same.
- Usually, little of it is real money, but is stock and debt instead. But I imagine the cash portion is wired.
I've never sold a business that large, but with the businesses that I have sold, the payment was in the form of a structured series of wire transfers.
- I see (and use) them on a regular basis.
- So, jump out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Does this help?