I use voice typing for almost the same thing every day.

I run to/from daycare to drop off my son and I title the run "Daycare drop-off". It constantly types "Take care drop-off" which drives me nuts. Those words don't even make sense together. A simple Markov chain should do better.

Our milk man still delivers a lot more than just milk.

The only thing legacy taxis add that Uber's don't is being able to hail them from the street.

Other than getting in a taxi line at the airport, I've never been able to use street hailing as a practical way to get around. There just have never been enough taxis in the places that I've lived.

Not yet, that I know of

I forget the exact details, but we had a bug that prevented logging in to the app for a large subset of users.

The engineer that caused the bug ended up staying late and fixing it. He was treated like an absolute hero by management, even though it was his fault in the first place. (Don't worry, we all fully understood it wasn't just his fault. The whole system failed and he wouldn't have been harshly judged for the problem.)

From then on we joked about adding bugs on purpose so that we could all get similar treatment.

This article is about how the tech bros in Seattle hate AI.

Are students really allowed to be on their phones during class at a lot of schools?

When I was in high school, we didn't have smartphones, but we had game boys, flip phones, and graphing calculators that could play games.

If we were ever caught playing with any of these things we got in trouble. That seemed sufficient at the time, but is that not the case anymore?

iPads are required in some public school classrooms, in place of textbooks! There no "lockdown mode" that the teacher can enable, to lock to the apps/websites related to the lesson. It's INSANE.

Apple's Classroom says it allows locking to a single app

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/classroom/id1085319084

Then it can't work. Textbook, website for the problems, notes app, etc. Multitasking is required when the answers are input online (which is a problem itself).

South Park did an entire episode about them about 3 months ago.

I've seen them around, but they're definitely not popular with anyone I know.

Do you mean there's no ARM chips that they can buy? Surely the ARM chips in Apple's devices are powerful enough aren't they?

You can’t buy an M3 chip on its own

Why can’t someone else make one?

That’s very much the trick. Apple is actually exceptionally good at making CPUs. Look at these single-thread benchmarks: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/ Similarly, if you look for the M4 in this list and then look for other ARM chips, you’ll have to look quite a ways down the list: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/multithread/mobile

It’s baffling to me that no one else (Qualcomm) has not been able to come close.

My guess is that CPU design is existential for Apple, and no one else cares enough to be dedicated enough to do what Apple has done.

This is exactly what happens when you invest billions and hire the best industry specialists for decades. M-series processors did not magically appear out of nowhere. Apple perfected them for years in iPhones, but people didn't have the ability to compare since Apple doesn't share their processors with anyone.

Because it’s a proprietary design? You’d have to reverse-engineer the whole chip, which is really hard to do on that process node

Giving them some credit, I think they're asking "why isn't there a close competitor" and that takes a much more involved answer.

> With remote education during the pandemic, people have more visibility into their school's day-to-day teaching

I'm not sure remote schooling during the pandemic is very representative of day to day teaching in school. At least that's the impression I got from my teacher friends back then.