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> old people that love siri

Why am I not surprised?

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber the thing to keep in mind is that while apple loves to LOOK futuristic, they actually care about other things.

Ya but thing about Siri is it doesn't actually like ... work. I use chatgpt all of the time, mainly as a more advanced version of search: I ask a question that you can get the answer by searching, but I don't want to read 10 pages of LLM slop to find my answer, so I let GPT do it.

BUT, Siri voice activation thing is just DOA.

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber brother, LLMs produce too much slop for me, so it's all relative.

I often have questions which the answer exists somewhere, but I'm not motivated to look it up.

> What's the Kwh per KG of energy in wheat straw?

> What's a good recipe for making a NYC style pizza dough?

> Can I get a credit card with a good interest rate if I have someone provide a guarantee on the debt?

(Those are questions I was asking today)

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber yeah, I will ask it "what is a good recipe for using X,Y,Z"

Oh yeaah, tell it what you have in your liquor cabinet and your fridge and it will tell you drinks.

Caution: Alcoholism

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber I mean, if you like to do that, just .. learn bartending (it's not hard!)

Guess I will eventually...

Oh and BTW "energy density of straw" => straw is 40% cheaper than firewood, so doing a woodgas generator / outdoor boiler that runs on round bails would be pretty rad

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber I wonder why straw is so much cheaper. trees in general take way less work to grow

Firewood almost by definition requires a certain amount of manual labor, but wheat planting & harvest is 100% automated, and #2 straw is basically a byproduct.

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber my good sir, you have not seen the automation they have in tree havesting.

@sickburnbro @cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber It's sad just how few North American timber managers have brought over all the harvesting tool that they use in Scandinavian countries. Lightyears ahead in tree felling technology, and here we are still using handheld chainsaws and manually de-limbing.

@christmasman @cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber I've only seen a little of reasoning, and I know people care about not running heavy equipment over things.

But the critical thing to keep in mind is that in Scandinavian countries they've been managing forest for over 1,000 years. Lots of time to optimize things.

Europeans in general do a lot more inventing of labor-saving tech. The best splitter right now is a computerized electric thing that basically looks at your rounds as they feed through on the belt and it decided how far to advance before sending the ram for each split. And that's an Italian machine.

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber @christmasman > And that's an Italian machine.

so it runs on stromboli?

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber @christmasman it's crazy to look at the types of machines people were inventing in the US in the 1910-1960s. Then post end of space age nasa when it was decided we were going to throw everything into "muh equality" we stopped making expensive things.

Because if you have a expensive piece of equipment, dumb people will break it and smart people won't.

So we couldn't have that.

Also European labor is expensive because payroll taxes are roughly equal to the paycheck itself. The US is really focused on cheap labor, so they end up not adopting a lot of stuff like that.

@cjd @caekislove @Shadowman311 @WandererUber @christmasman @sickburnbro
America never stopped being a slave nation.

Btw. Slavery was technically never abolished, the 14th amendment moved it into the prison system.