"Everyone" piles on Tesla all the time; a worthwhile comparison would be how Tesla roll out vehicle updates.
Sometimes people are up in arms "where's my next version" (eg when adaptive headlights was introduced), yet Tesla prioritise a safe, slow roll out. Sometimes the updates fail (and get resolved individually), but never on a global scale. (None experienced myself, as a TM3 owner on the "advanced" update preference).
I understand the premise of Crowdstrike's model is to have up to date protection everywhere but clearly they didn't think this through enough times, if at all.
You can also say the same thing about Google. Just go look at the release notes on the App Store for the Google Home app. There was a period of more than six months where every single release said "over the next few weeks we're rolling out the totally redesigned Google Home app: new easier to navigate 5-tab layout."
When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out. And then I read the Sonos app disaster and I thought that was the other extreme.
> Just go look at the release notes on the App Store for the Google Home app. [...] When I read the same release notes so often I begin to question whether this redesign is really taking more than six months to roll out.
Google is terrible at release notes. Since several years ago, the release notes for the "Google" app on the Android app store always shows the exact same four unchanging entries, loosely translating from Portuguese: "enhanced search page appearance", "new doodles designed for app experience", "offline voice actions (play music, enable Wi-Fi, enable flashlight) - available only in the USA", "web pages opened directly within the app". I heavily doubt it's taking these many years to roll out these changes; they probably simply don't care anymore, and never update these app store release notes.
I was honestly looking for / intrigued by (the thought of) e.g. a correlation between Wifi 6E access point density vs older ones, and quality of living / neighbourhood.
I didn't even consider the legality (they're legal in the Netherlands), but I was thinking more along the lines of Google's 'Family Policy' mentioned in the Tweet (Xeet?).
From the title I thought, how is holding a pen all day going to stop me from forgetting where I put things down? Lol.
This is at times my personal hell. I'm of the type who uses the "find my phone" feature about ten times a day and needs Tile trackers for my keys - and wallet. If only a tracker existed that was small enough to attach to my two pairs of prescription glasses.
I'll have a think about designated putting things down areas, but I'd likely just forget.
Generally Gold (aurium) is not bioreactive, it's hardly reactive at all hence it's lustre in the wild since it doesn't tarnish or bond easily. Goldschlager has gold flake in it for human consumption. It's generally considered safe to consume for this reason. The quantity to make an LD50 of inhaled gold would be considerable I imagine, but have no data.
Exactly. Taking a few vitamins including multis and D is a very cheap insurance policy.
People overestimate how much sun someone in Australia is exposed to on a daily basis for one, especially if I want to protect my skin from dangerous UV radiation. And throw in some very regular WFH on top of that...
(I believe this one and the imperial one (which definitely is) both make some sort of sense in being the same as half a pint. For whatever reason that's consistent, but the US needed to reinvent the pint (and gallon, ton[ne], ...).)
You may be saying this, but it's fine until it's not.
A good example of where it's not is baking. Cup works for the wet stuff but will ruin your baking if you use it with flour. Because of flour's ability to compact, 1 cup is a wildly different amount. That really impacts how dry or mushy your bread turns out.
Show me a recipe that uses cups for volumetric measurements and also has any mass measurements. They're rare.
Cups makes it either very old or very American, and from what I've seen American recipes tend not to measure anything by mass. (Even butter is measured by the 'sticks' that it's sold in there. They're obviously some standard weight, but if you're not American (and so did not buy your butter in a stick) you'll have to try to look that up.) And in a vicious circle, as I understand it most American home kitchens don't have scales?
Personally I think cups (or call it anything, doesn't matter) are nice when absolutely everything is going to be described in a volumetric ratio. That works nicely, it's easy to scale, and it doesn't matter at all what a 'cup' is, everything's just relative to everything else. But even then, especially with wet & dry ingredients, you probably want multiple 'cups' of the same size, it's not completely convenient.
Yeah - I started getting food boxes with picked ingredients that I cook every week a few years ago ... to add to the "cup" situation there's also the tablespoons/teaspoons situation they like to go nuts on their smaller ones.
My favourite was seeing "half" a tablespoon of something.. not having a full derivative of measurement devices for this unit, thankfully with 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon that was merely 1.5 teaspoon.
And then they have eg "sprinkle", "dash" and "pinch". As in "add a dash of water". Grr, those are _not_ beginner friendly units. I've destroyed a dish by adding a "big pinch" of salt (my fingers probably much bigger than theirs).
I find measuring with grams and millilitres much easier.
Salt is the worst because a pinch of kosher salt is wildly different from a pinch of granulated salt.
That said, one key part of cooking is knowing when the measurements matter. Most herbs and spices will flavor a dish exactly the same if you add a teaspoon or a tablespoon.
Those measurements matter the most when there's a chemical reaction that's strongly influenced by the ratios. For example, having enough emulsifier in a cheese sauce.
Yep - it was indeed a teaching moment for me. :-)
Dealing with a bit of high blood pressure as well, I'm learning to err on the side of caution when it comes to salt.
My experience was very similar - back in April I also tried the option that was clearly labelled as Trial in my GMail interface, just to see how Gemini Pro would compare to ChatGPT Plus. After only about 10 days, I decided it wasn't for me - and thought I'd better cancel it before I forgot.
It was only at this point that I realised that the Gemini Trial that I stupidly took up was actually a _change_ of my existing ~$125 AUD Google One yearly 2tb subscription - and not a standalone ~$30 per month offering like ChatGPT.
There was no _cancel trial_ option at all. There was only the ability to change back to a different plan, which was hidden but I managed to find my way to. In doing so, I lost nearly 3 months of subscription - my annual 2TB had been paid up late 2013, and now I had to renew the subscription for a year in August.
Tried contacting support twice, but both times I was just brushed off.
This morning however, I got an email stating that I'd been issued a refund of unused balance, and when checking my Google One page, they are listing the $32.99 MONTHLY plan as the current plan I'm on. And there's no longer the option of a classic 2TB plan that I was on, hiding under a show more plans hyperlink.
So what the actual is happening here? This is such a hot, confusing mess.
I'd strongly advice against trying Gemini on a primary account, or at all, after this experience.
Thanks.
Sometimes people are up in arms "where's my next version" (eg when adaptive headlights was introduced), yet Tesla prioritise a safe, slow roll out. Sometimes the updates fail (and get resolved individually), but never on a global scale. (None experienced myself, as a TM3 owner on the "advanced" update preference).
I understand the premise of Crowdstrike's model is to have up to date protection everywhere but clearly they didn't think this through enough times, if at all.