My nest to Google Home got "updated". I just to ask hey google what is the thermostat set to and it would tell me 70-whatever degrees. Now after the update it tells me it is set to cool. Not that helpful, I have to ask, hey google what temperature is the thermostat set to, which is longer and I find annoying specific

It's "AI" but really not a lot of I.. on the new Pixel phones there are overlays, if it sees a foreign language one appears "This text is in French (etc). Do you want to translate?". The Google geniuses made sure that when you ignore or dismiss the prompt, if you leave that screen and come back multiple times, even within a few seconds, it will ask every time "Do you want to translate this text?".

Counter point - the on screen translation stuff is way better than before, it can now translate text in pictures which is a huge benefit on many East Asian websites.

Sure it might work well... but some genius thinks it's great UX to prompt someone 10 times within 5 seconds because it thinks "Oh, the user is in a new screen, and there's foreign language in it!"... it's almost as bad as the 90's website doing a loop of window.open()'s before the browsers thought of blocking that Javascript function...

Let nurses do more, let them write some prescriptions, let them open up a shop that puts casts on people with broken bones and minor things which they mostly do anyways.

Thanks to all the people here pointing out how bloated, overly broad and useless this is. I went to read it thinking I would pick up something applicable and it was written in such a overwrought humanless style that I gave up learning nothing and thought the problem was me. I am glad to learn I am not alone.

Yes, this is a clear example of how regulation was harming people (not all regulation is bad, but some of it is, usually the kind that gets between safe things and users)

What do you call "regulation" vs "deregulation". This is technically a new rule that added a category of OTC called "hearing aids" and established guidelines for OTC hearing aids

Yes we needed more regulation to let people buy things directly from sellers. What would we do without regulators

This.

Those who have the money/insurance will still go through their doctor for expensive "prescription" hearing aids.

Those low income ones can buy one off Amazon/Walmart which (though not the best) makes a huge difference than not having one.

next i hope for contact lenses to no longer require prescriptions

It isn't there are large real world implications and difference in what each does and what risk it exposes to the end user.

This exact same thing was seen a Boeing, which isn't a model of good manufacturing, but it is semi-commmonplace for the line to have unapproved fixes.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/faa-found-staff-boeings-supplier-0...

If I may clarify: Unapproved here would typically mean engineering hasn't signed off. It does not mean engineering was asked and said "Hell no".

And additionally, using dish soap to lubricate parts for assembly is standard procedure elsewhere in many industries. It's sometimes even recommended in the standard manuals as part of a repair procedure (I've had refrigerator gaskets that call out using a bit of soap on them before installation).

A crucial difference being that there's no risk of your refrigerator gasket sending a 3 tonne metal box into a crowd of people if it comes loose, unlike the gas pedal on a truck.

Playing fast and loose with the processes surrounding something as important (and dangerous) as the gas pedal is recklessness of the highest order.

It is just those are objective measures and lead to minority groups being discriminated against (notably Asians) having data to prove it.

SCOTUS ruled that universities can't use race as a factor for admission. Like, at all. Asian demographics are usually scoring higher on these tests.

None of this has anything to do with antitrust.

Colleges still use race in admissions. They just obfuscate it slightly. For example, they preferentially admit people by zipcode, i.e. by the degree to which the neighborhood is non-white, non-Jewish, and non-Asian. They encourage applicants to write about their experiences with discrimination in their applicant letters. They also accept people scoring in the top percentage of grades at a school (which preferentially admits students from worse schools with lower standards i.e. students from black and Hispanic schools). I assume they use a variety of other techniques as well.

Your post contained a possible misconception, that being legally barred from using race at all means they functionally don't use race at all.

Executives aren't able to time their sales of stock to events and they shouldn't be able to as it would lead to more manipulation. It is likely the sale of stock was planned ahead of the layoff announcement timing.

As was pointed out in this comments section, they are able to time events to their scheduled sales of stock.

the only time this really makes sense (in my head at least) is selling prior to something that KNOW will tank you stock and make your shares worthless. If you just hold... sure you're making a decision to not sell, but other than looking VERY VERY bad to employees on the timing of things... the stock went up, he sold....

now if he sold a boatload of stock before a horrific earnings report... thats another story

The time value money math seems pretty light here. The win condition is that you have a single person using up a table.

This is actually the best chance Microsoft has to bring Edge back from the dead and make people support using it.

Going from one abusive partner to another will not fix the issue