Sometimes it can’t connect to the server (which is a completely stupid necessity).
That’s where it does the voice processing. The only processing it does on-device is the wake word and taking commands. Actually figuring out what you mean is done in The Cloud. Doing that on-device would not only make the devices significantly more expensive, but they would also rapidly become outdated.
The rest of your complaints are valid and I’ve experienced them all myself to boot.
Probably AWS stuff. An application that hasn’t been designed to scale well can get very expensive very quickly.
Usually the first thing I put on a new phone is a case.
Evolution doesn’t select for positive traits, just not-negative. If a trait doesn’t strongly reduce the chance of reproducing, it can get passed down.
For example, humans have plenty of neutral traits (hair color, eye color), and even plenty of negative ones (Alzheimer’s, arthritis, baldness, cancer, sickle-cell disease). But they’re not so fatal that they don’t get passed down.
Similarly, if neutral traits like cannabis including whatever chemical causes the munchies doesn’t reduce that plant’s ability to reproduce, it’ll get passed down.
They say their biggest expense is marketing. But I think they’re honest in saying that there are no current plans for layoffs. They just made the plans right after making that statement.
A lot of those people need to get a hobby. Arguing over definitions in someone else’s projects doesn’t count as a hobby.
That can also happen if the cable is worn out. They’re designed to wear faster than the port, since that’s much harder to replace.
I assume you mean flashlight and not a flame.
Music in particular can be described the most mathematically. Personally, I think it’s fascinating.
In a way, we have. There is already ML-generated music. It doesn’t sound bad, just boring and all the tracks sound the same.
I assume there was, as modern freezers have built-in alarms, but I don’t see any mention in the article.
Yeah. For persistence and cross-device stuff, it makes more sense for it to be stored server-side. Either by the app author, or maybe Google could offer a few kB free for each app, like how Chrome provides a bit of storage for extension settings.
They would only have the trademark as long as they’re still using it. I don’t think there’s anything first-party still in active development for any DS platform, but it’s still recent enough.
It might just not have caught their attention yet.
Alcohol is banned as a performance-enhancing drug for some things like shooting.
I’m not sure if there’s some special calling feature to reach a previously associated provider, but when I’ve been in that situation I just borrowed my roommate’s phone.
Yes, it is possible. You use whatever the provider’s method is to download an eSIM to that device. Usually it’s logging into their app or calling their support to register the IMEI or whatever.
In the store if you’re getting the phone from a store, or somewhere with wifi (home, a friend’s, a cafe) if you’ve gotten it some other way.
If you don’t have any of those, you probably live way out in the jungle, and I’d be surprised if you had service even if you got the eSIM. But in the edge case that you somehow got home delivery postal service in the jungle, you’d probably be able to survive just fine without it until your next trip into town.
In the extreme edge case that you are in the jungle, get service, and your need is critical, I would have an activated backup phone tested periodically and ready to go.
Depends on the phone. The newest ones let you use multiple ones simultaneously, one for calls/texts and one for data, for example. Slightly older ones only let you use one at a time, but they let you activate and deactivate multiple downloaded eSIMs.
Your provider won’t issue a new eSIM?
tl;dr:
Neat! But please don’t shine lasers into your eyes even if it’s supposed to be invisible.