That’s just the fricking worst ever! The battery in my toothbrush is dying, so I have to stop reading and pay attention while brushing teeth, so I can finish before it runs out. Or, it would have been the worst, had I not discovered, while brushing teeth, that some definitions of “millennial” include me. I’ll […]
Tag: Status Updates
Gotta love smart scales that make guesstimates of body composition. According to mine, I’ve lost 800 g bone mass since yesterday. As far as I can compute from a bit of Googling, that’s roughly the same as the weight of the human spine. I’ve seen techies making more accurate time estimates than that! […]
Dear Apple, please stop accepting app updates whose release notes can be summarized as “we continuously update the application, download and see what has changed.” Facebook is of course the original sinner and biggest perpetrator, but others are following suit. A couple applications that did great release notes recently come from Slack, The Omni Group, […]
The Real Danger of Artificial Intelligence
When most people think of the dangers of artificial intelligence, this is probably more or less what comes to mind: Computer-literates and paranoids might raise (legitimate) privacy concerns and mention uncomfortable cases like the teenager whose parents learned she was pregnant when a machine learning algorithm started sending her parenting advertisements based on her purchasing […]
If I Were More Mature I’d be Methuselah
Hats off for Withings – their customer support excellent – less than an hour after I sent a mail to their support, I got a response from Victor, who shall remain anonymous. I tried ordering again but with initially little luck. In the end, my order went thru, and I decided to share my experience […]
I Handled that Maturely
A bunch of time ago, I ordered a Withings scale which can connect to the internet. I’ve been largely happy with it, and when they released a new one a couple months ago, I had half a mind to get one, but it was conveniently never included in their (rather frequent) promotions, and even I […]