"Remind me [at datetime/in x hours] about Y." is very useful for handsfree reminders. I have an alarm clock that reacts to "Hey Google" so I just say "alarm at xyz" to set alarms. With the phone, "Navigate home" saves a few seconds compared to opening Google Maps and hitting the "Home" shortcut.
I'm just waiting for Google to send the email with the title like "An update about Assistant's future" to make the clock e-waste. On the phone I tried Gemini but that's slower because it needs a brain for simple text parsing..
We're rather used to the idea of progress in most areas of human endeavor. It's fairly absurd to believe rolling back the last 200 years of progress would lead to measurably better outcomes is absurd in fields like medicine, industry, science, history, technology, cuisine, transportation, ...
That it seems to be that case in education seems to me to qualify for the label of surprising.
But I think it's not the case incentives are wrong but the reality of business - what do you do when things are feature complete in all the ways that matter?
I dunno, what does Jordan's Furniture do about the fact that the recliner I'm sitting on is feature complete and has been since 2005 and seems to be sturdy enough to last me for the next twenty years? Try to sell me something better, try to sell me different things, try to sell things to other people, and succeed or fail at those goals.
I haven't used a Mac in a bit but I remember liking BBEdit back in the 00s, and it still seems to exist without having a subscription model.
I don't think we can really have software engineers without having software engineering...and despite the name in use I see very little evidence of actual engineering.
Today, Helsinki region was under drone alert with advice to stay indoors. It seems that the public warning system failed to notify a large number of users.
Not many information I could find but it seems you need to have latest version and always on location permissions to have a good chance of things working. However if you do, you'll probably notice battery drain and be spammed by low urgency alerts like traffic congestions.
The Finnish government recently agreed to finally adopt the standardized EU-Alert system by 2027 so there is hope for the future.
I'm thinking now, is there even a point of notifying everyone during a drone alert? With current amount of drones entering Finland, you are more likely to die in a car accident when you leave your house than to be killed by a drone
I guess it's better to know than to not know (citation needed).
From the examples given I haven't seen any meaningful life improvement with them.
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