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Launch Video:

https://vimeo.com/882968794

A lot of the interactions seem to take longer vs me just taking my phone out and quickly doing what I need to do. Its compelling given this is a v1 of the product so it will only get better from here but not completely sold on it just yet.


Kind of cool, maybe, but oh my god - the awkward video is such a turn off. Hire some actors!


Not that it matters either way, but I hate the recent Apple style of presentation with everyone being overly happy, hand-wavy and eerily excited about mundane features. This at least felt different and somewhat more honest.


The whole goal of doing a startup like this as ex-Apple people is the narcissistic "next Steve Jobs" audition they are implicitly doing.

I'm sure Steve Jobs rolled over in his grave when they lead with product specs over "why buy this."


Absolutely. It was a snooze fest but as a presentation, even a few minutes in I thought I'd missed the part where they told me what it does and why I needed one asap.


But then the cofounders wouldn't get the full ego-stroking Silicon Valley Enterpreneur Experience™ they crave!


so it's like a phone, but there's no apps or functionality other than what's built into the base OS, and there's no screen or input controls other than voice and gesture, it only plays music from Tidal, and only connects to t-mobile, and looks to everybody around me like i'm always wearing a camera pointed at them?

pass


They ask it where the next eclipse is, and where best to watch it. They got the date right, but the suggested locations of Timor and Australia are not in the eclipse path. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8


That also doesn't look like enough almonds for 15 grams worth of protein. 10 almonds have approx 3g of protein, requiring 50 almonds for 15 grams of protein, I don't think there's that many in the video.

Makes you wonder about the veracity of the AI (or the accuracy of the demo). Looks like a cool product either way.


Achieves “all day battery life”… by replacing the battery multiple times a day?

“No wake word so it’s not always listening”… you just activate it with your voice?


I can't tell whether the abysmal video is what's making me hate it or the device itself.



For the top groups, Spam is extremely profitable.

A lot of them were commissioned to spam knockoff viagra pills, or other pharmaceuticals and they take a % of all conversions. Hundreds of millions in total/yearly.

Other spam is outright scams as well or efforts by cybercrime groups to recruite money mules etc.

So I suppose it depends what type of spam you're referring to but as an whole in cybercrime its one of the oldest and most profitable.


Hey, this is more or less being done. The best bots/groups are bringing in comparable salary if not more than industry standard in their respective fields. If anyone is interested in developing Bots/Platform to secure limited items em masse, please shoot me an email at: sukh@zerosync.io

I have direct connects with some of the biggest sneaker storefronts, and looking for developers.


Wouldn't a bot network used to purchase any kind of good run afoul of the CFAA? I've never heard of such, but I wouldn't put it past a high level company to make a stink and then send Feds to peoples' doors.


Hey do you work in EE/Hardware? If so, would love to send you an email about a project I’m working on


I am not the OP but I do. I'd love to use small color e-ink displays for low power indicator displays on equipment I design. I only run into it with hand held battery stuff, so for stuff I plug in it's kind of a non-issue.

Feel free to visit my website and send an email if you think you've got something that we could work together to get into some of my clients' projects. If it makes the final product more compelling I'm definitely open to it, especially if it runs on trivial drivers that a low power microcontroller can handle.

I'd basically expect a display that works with a chip like a STM32WB (wireless integrated so makes sense to pair with a low power design). https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/microcontrolle...

Of course fancy people have access to Qualcomm parts, so I understand if that's what you're aiming for. But if it's suitable for a bit less fancy of microcontroller chips and has a reasonable price I'd love to replace the literal LCD displays we're still stuck on because I guess it's 1996 in the realm of equipment prototyping.


I do as a side hustle/ passion project. I make a small single use board, about as complicated as an arduino.

But I am by no means an EE.


Do you have a link to your project page?


Perhaps look into exploit development/reverse engineering if you want the most difficult 1% top tier job in this field.


Learning exploit dev and vulnerability research on browsers and operating systems (like Project Zero’s work) is really difficult, and ends up being mostly self-taught. One good entry point into this role for people early in their career, though, is NSA’s development programs, especially CNODP and C2DP.


Yes, I agree in terms of difficulty. Are you in this space by any chance?


Essentially there was a hedge fund who was heavily short in GameStop stock to the tunes of many millions. Once the subreddit community of WallStreetBets started applying buy pressure it made the shorts either add more/cover; or have to sell and when they do it adds buy pressure to the book. Led to a big gamma squeeze and this fund got caught off guard with poor risk management and the stock surged so much letting the small joe win for once in a game of smoke screen tactics by larger funds


Mind sharing the ML server?



At this point I would wait for the new Apple M1s slated to come out in a few months. Apparently the current M1s have impressed many all around and probably worth the wait to at least see final specs and not have buyers remorse


Never wait for the next best thing. Buy what you need now, you can always resell and get the new model later.


Normally, I’d agree, but I think a seismic shift in the industry warrants some patience.

If you can’t wait, this is sound advice. However, if you can, it’s likely worth it, on this rare occasion.


Why wait half a year when m1 air resale value will be close to retail price? We are talking losing $100 after using it for 6 months.


Seriously. Programmers making >> $100k hem and haw about upgrading a tool they use 10 hours a day. It's worth it to upgrade for $100 even if you use it for a week, let alone 6 months.


We don’t all make that, and we don’t all use personal hardware for professional work.


That seems optimistic, the M1s were already discounted $65-150 earlier this month. I think the decider here would be simply having an M1 if your workloads benefit from it.


Does your resale assessment also include withheld taxes?


The keyboard is the big thing that kills any non-Thinkpad for me, otherwise I'd have gotten an M1 Mac in a heartbeat. Has anyone here managed to adjust from the nice solid ThinkPad keys to the modern Mac keys?


Will they be in the $1200 price range, the op has mentioned?


The rumors says third quarter - at least 6 months.


Bitcoin cash? You sound clownish. Wake up and stop drinking the kool-aid buddy. Nobody goes near that scam fest, sorry.


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