That's your monkey brain hard at work making sure you notice movement that could mean danger in your peripheral vision, funny how much technology is built off of manipulating primal parts of our brains

apple actually didn't release any 'pro' airpods at this event, the feature is for the pro 2's which have been out for over two years now, was glad it wasn't made a feature only for a new version

that's not a source, could you link the report?

and if someone questions this is a leftist website: https://fortune.com/2023/03/15/elon-musk-starlink-brazil-ama...

apple already sells a device for taking care of kids, just get them an ipad and it'll keep them entertained all day long! /s

What never made sense to me with their go stores was why a store that only needed 1-2 people max to operate had such bad hours. Hearing now that getting the bill is a mainly manual process i guess their hours had to line up with their data entry team in india so people could get their recipes quickly. insane to think about

It's not manual. This is a case of mistaken journalism. The labeling is for training data of the models.

Before covid, the hours were much better too.

> 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022

That's manual by any reasonable description.

I think it depends on how much each human reviewer did.

If they manually reviewed most of the items on each shopping trip, then it's mostly manual.

If they only manually reviewed an item or few per trip, I'd consider it to be mostly automated.

Well Amazon did not think so:

> Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales.

They didn't even agree with the 700 out of 1000 trips needing review figure

> According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales. Amazon called this characterization inaccurate, and disputes how many purchases require reviews.

Even if the system was fairly accurate, if the vendor is charging Amazon too much for it, it can still be financially worthwhile for Amazon to switch to scanners in their carts.

"inaccurate" can mean lots of things here, from "actually it was 690 out of 1000" to some other minor technicality. Note that Amazon did not provide a figure of its own.

Large corporations tend to tell the truth, but push it as far as they can.

Might be "700 manual reviews per 1000 trips" getting misinterpreted as "700 out of 1000 trips needed manual reviews". If some trips were pathological edge cases that required near-constant reviews and a substantial majority took zero reviews, I could understand why Amazon would keep trying to fix its system.

So if it's mostly automated then why are they abandoning it after investing so much time and energy?

If my memory serves me right, when I last visited the US right before COVID (SF) I wanted to see an Amazon Go convenience store but it closed down at 16:00 or 17:00.

That was quite unacceptable for a convenience store and it was then I got the feeling Amazon Go was still an experiment rather than a mature technology.

the trick is lots of amplification on both ends is able to compensate for a wide beam spread, edfa's allow you to optically amplify the sent signal and allows the faint received signal to also be amplified

Years ago when gpu power was basically free through google colab I used that to my advantage by racking up sheepit credits rendering other people's projects on google's dime. I still have about 10 million credits right now and I don't think I'll be able to use them all.

This exudes chaotic good energy

Are they not transferable?

From memory they specifically discourage a points economy.

It’s more just basic fairness and score keeping

If you're using a pi you're already in a pinch, putting a dac on a pi seems alot like putting lipstick on a pig, the only scenario where it wouldn't be overkill is music streaming and i highly doubt thats even a majority of pi projects with audio

You can plug a 5€ USB audio adapter. That's what I have always been doing.

probably the way to go, but 'another thing to plug in' if you're building something for someone else to use

You need to plug in the headphones/speakers anyway, so it is just a little piece in between :)

this is true, but non-technical users (the likes of for whom my last pi project was built) get easily muddled!

Non technical users can get audio off hdmi i think.

not so convenient for "a box you plug into some speakers"

procreate doesn't have any in app purchases, there is alot of 3rd parties that sell brushes for procreate

It really depends on your definition, pretty much every car for the past 50 years has been computerized. If what you're really after is an ev with no lockouts there are plenty of ev's where the only lockouts are to ensure you don't do anything stupid (no over-discharge destroying the battery for slightly more range, etc) But if you're after complete control you'll find that in ev conversions with dedicated speed controllers will give you complete control, so you can shoot yourself in the foot if need be.