The API lets you directly choose the model you want. Automatic thinking is a ChatGPT feature since ChatGPT has always been a “GPT wrapper” in that sense.
I don't think the dialog as described in the article is accurate and I can't find a screenshot of Windows NT that says "Windows has been shut down." The only screenshots I can find say, "It is now safe to turn off your computer." The confusion around the Restart button is understandable, but the framing of the story seems to imply that the old dialog led to the later phrase, "It is now safe to turn off your computer."
Looking at the photos, that calculator wheel on the back looks wonderful. Certainly better than the contemporary paper calculator wheel that I got with my Argus.
It is really great and always where you need it. The shutter on these things is amazing and solves all problems with leaf shutters, filth has little effect on it and even if it gets dirty enough to inhibit function you can just open the back of the camera and click the shutter and stop its rotation with your finger so you can clean it, it is like 1/16" thick steel so you are not going to hurt it unless you actively try. The only real problem with the shutter is the spring will need replacing every 10k photos or so, but that is a simple matter and even if you ignore it all that happens is that the shutter speed is slightly slower than it should be. This camera convinced me that leaf shutters should not exist.
In my case, I wanted to edit some HDR environment maps. They are a 360deg image of the environment used for 3D work. They need to be floating-point so that arbitrary brightnesses can be captured and used to calculate the lighting in the scene correctly.
This is interesting... when I visited recently I realized that Suica on Apple Wallet was more convenient than the physical card. The top reason is that you can use Apple Pay to top up your Suica whenever and wherever you are, without downloading any special app or needing to login to something.
However, one of my credit cards didn't work for that with no clear reason given, but a different one worked almost every time.
In my past life I built and sold dispatch software for microtransit / on-demand rides. (UberPool as a service, more or less.)
What this article doesn’t say:
* Many, many cities have something similar already, but only for riders with disabilities. (“paratransit”) You need to schedule your ride the day before, but they will take you from door to door.
* The cost per ride is quite high: more than $20 per ride, often. This cost is borne by the city, while riders pay little to nothing. In very few cases does it make financial sense - most places aren’t replacing their buses with microtransit.
* The best utilization I’ve seen is on campuses, where there are a fixed set of stops in a small region, and a large population of people who can’t or don’t want to drive (maybe due to limited parking).
Istanbul has an oddly good system, where vans run a set route, but you can ask for them to stop wherever. I feel like this would be a better balance that would allow for greater coverage, while also lowering the cost of equipment and in the very least, eliminating the need to walk as much to a stop. It's also faster because it's basically a large taxi, so once the van is full, you only stop where the passengers need. This is only a supplement there, but I think it would work better than the majority of bus set-ups currently used.
It's only a "failure" if you look at your net worth, right? It sounds like you have the experience, knowledge, and even resume of someone much older than 28. If you had instead spent ages 22-28 on a PhD, you'd still have no net worth, but people wouldn't see that as a failure.
That's a great point you're right, I'm still young. I'm not about net worth at all, I just want free time. If I'm working on my product 10 hours a day with a tight knit team and sustaining myself, that is success to me. Everything from there on is gravy.
On the contrary. If you do a PhD, you can get paid by the university and build some net worth. And people are impressed when you say you have a PhD, but do not care when you tell them about a graveyard project
