Great perspective. I had not considered the effect of school shootings on this topic. Not a parent, but I suspect this has really driven parents to a place of fear (justifiably), leading to a need to ALWAYS know if their kid is ok at any moment, in schools and in general
> It was at some point while I was thinking about adding extra countries to represent seas that it was time to call the automation quits, and just make the map manually. This has some advantages – I get to choose the overall layout, it’s much easier to include stylistic elements, and I don’t have to spend ages describing to a computer what common sense is.
Though this is casually thrown out by the author and empathetically chuckled at by most of us, I this points to a problem worth exploring. In the wake of the hype around recent AI advancements, we can often view computers and software as capable of anything. But often the limits of our current computing systems are made glaringly obvious, such as stylistic design and a "common sense" disconnect articulated here. An area worth our attention and a domain possessing potential for innovation.
While I generally agree with this sentiment, I don't know if this is a good example.
This doesn't really seem like an impossible problem to me so much as a really complicated one. Something that could likely be solved algorithmically without even the use of AI.
Perhaps it could take information like the size and/or population of different countries to make best guesses on how large to make different parts of it. Even if it produces a best guess that you can then clean up in Inkscape it'd be a tremendous contribution to this task
I like this view, though many people aren't just purchasing the phone from Apple, they are purchasing the OS and integration into the Apple ecosystem. Definitely think the user should have the option to pick the app store though
Lived in Barcelona for two summers, loved going back over the metro lines (one of the best things about the city imho) and looking at all my favorite places. Excellent detail!!
I wouldn't say it is necessarily immature to use a paywall as opposed to ads. I for one sometimes prefer paying for a site just so i dont have to see ads.
Though I do agree, the bait and switch aspect of finessing seo and such leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Glad google penalizes such behavior
Thats exactly the biggest concern. Private companies are asking for government ID and most of the time they're not handling it securely, and it is also stored with other very personal information the application collects from you. Totally sketchy in nature.
