Many of these countries though, finance theirs debts and pay them back in USD, simply because the USD is still the de facto currency in global financial markets.
Thanks for sharing this. The voice interaction is indeed very impressive.
I played with Meta’s SeamlessMT4 recently and I thought the output voice was quite ok for long inputs (whether text or speech). This is infitely better.
> Sadly it doesn't seem to be smart enough to be at that level yet […]
It is! Last week, I aked Bing Chat for a reference about the Swiss canton of Ticino. I made a mistake and wrote in my prompt that Ticino was part of Italy, and not Switzerland. Bing Chat kindly corrected me and then answered my question. I was speachless.
Its accuracy is way worse for that than just asking directly, since there is less structure for it to go on. Compare that to a forum where you can rely on people correcting you almost every time for all sorts of things.
You’ll need more time and memory compared to Invoke or an Nvidia graphics card, but it’s not that bad: 1-2 s/it for an image in standard 512x768px quality, 14-20 s/it for an image in high 1024x1536px quality (Hires Fix).
I believe the problem is that the situation you describe occurs on a much bigger scale. It’s no longer you and your friend in the cafe; it’s millions of people looking at the headline on the screen.
The scale has always existed. Thousands of cafes filled with millions of people.
Even on Facebook, if I comment on a headline it's still just me making that comment. I, singular, provide some value to Facebook by being there and no value to newspaper because I didn't click though. If Facebook didn't exist, the value I bring to the newspaper by not reading it is the same.
I've been there before. It's frustrating; I'm sorry for you.
Here is the thing, you're not going to "fix" that co-worker's behavior, and trying to do so or deal with it can consume you or stress you in ways you can't anticipate.
Check your options to move to some other project within your company. If your team lead can't handle the situation (or is unwilling to), the workplace is not worth your time. Move on because, as I said, fixing the issue is outside your hands.
Not every company has these idiots, or they're in other teams, and you can safely ignore them.
While I agree that an open and distributed messaging system (such as Waku[1]) can improve things, it’s not enough. Apple Store and Google Play Store are the true gatekeepers. And governments can request Apple or Google to remove an app from the Store at their will (this has happened before).
An app out of these stores has zero possibilities of survival. Average users don’t use (nor want to use) VPNs or hacks to use their phones.
Two late thoughts; apple just enabled notifications for web apps in safari. So in theory you could have a messaging app not in the store. Maybe. Not sure what the state of this is in android.
Hopefully soon we will have sideloading on ios too.
