Wait what was so bad about siri before? I've been using it for years on homepod, asking it for weather and setting timers.

I realise this is a joke, but I have to pile on.

Even weather was/is comically bad. Ask it anything specific and it would fall over, repeating the broadest, least helpful version of weather data, even if all that data is clearly available in the ios weather app. Specifics on wind, precipitation hourly, etc.

So no, you can't really ask a homepod for the weather either - Homepod's weather was more like a shitty version of sticking your head outside and looking up at the sky.

Way ahead of ya.

Why contain it?

9/12 = 3/4, so it is April?

It's not December yet?

I agree with the spirit of your comment. 20261209 Is a much better way to express the date than the 9/12 Americanism.

Year, day, month in that order written all together? I have seen both day-month-year (12-09-2026) and year-month-day (2026-09-12), but _that_'s a new one.

You're a few months ahead of yourself :)

The 9th of December?

My first car was $1k bought in Michigan in 2006. It was a massive POS and took $1,500 in repairs to run reliably. I immediately bought a $7k car when I got a job.

I still drive a '97 4runner that I bought for 5k around 2020. I've probably put 5k into repairs. I've spent less on it than anything I could buy new, and it will probably outlast us all. Nearing 300k miles on it now.

Very smart to go with a Toyota! I did the opposite and learned the hard way that the 'discount' for buying American will be paid for in $3k increments whenever it wants over the next few years until your finally give up and just buy the Toyota you should have bought to begin with.

Nowadays Toyotas are more expensive than fords and every Toyota hybrid has a year long waitlist. Everything is priced in today.

Does anyone know the status of John Carmack's AGI work?

Not yet AGI, and Richard Sutton has left to start a new lab

I’ve had this question on my mind at least once a month for what feels like years at this point.

I don’t feel like monitoring Twitter to see how it’s going though.

I'm on Twitter and Carmack doesn't seem to talk about it much. Feels like a skunkworks. If there were enough clues made public, it seems others (OpenAI) would be able to take that info and scoop the insight first.

We would have heard if there was any result?

OpenAI must be destroyed.

Remember when people said LLM's were just autocomplete

I used dating apps in mexico and it felt like being back in the 2010s. This was with college-educated, bilingual mexican women. They were fun to talk to and responsive and wanted to hang out.

I desperately wish apple would release a viable competitor to the garmin fenix line but they can't with that battery life. Garmin UX and software overall is such dogshit, and to have Apple UX with garmin raw performance (battery life, GPS tracking accuracy, activity modes) would be perfect. Apple could never though because the fenix was designed from the ground up as an embedded device microcontroller, whereas apple watch is a general purpose computer with a GPU.

I suspect the screen is also a big battery drain. I dont find color useful in a watch so perhaps a greyscale version with no GPU. Apple could definitely do 7+ day batter life if they wanted.