{"id":17144,"date":"2026-05-31T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17144"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:13:08","slug":"5-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17144","title":{"rendered":"5.31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love that !! Charlie was locked and loaded for That Question<\/a> !!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past decade we have seen the concept of a \u2018smart home<\/a>\u2019 collapse into a nightmare of abandoned IoT devices, subscription services, forced ads, privacy violations, and an increasingly more congested 2.4 GHz spectrum that everything from WiFi and Zigbee to Bluetooth and others ended up competing for, with a corresponding collapse in reliability of data transmissions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is anyone working<\/a> at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marketing and innovation produce results<\/a>; all the rest are costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toshifumi Suzuki, head of the giant Ito-Yokado Group of Japan, helped revolutionize<\/a> his country’s retail sector, previously known for its inefficient, hidebound practices. He introduced franchising<\/a> to the Japanese retail industry in 1974, as founder of Japan’s Seven-Eleven convenience stores, which eventually grew to a chain of over 10,000 units by 2003, many of them operating 24-hours a day. He pushed the franchise concept in new, creative directions, and then turned around in 1991 to rescue the U.S. company that originated the brand. He has been a pioneer in the gradual introduction of business-to-consumer e-commerce and a forceful public spokesman for economic liberalization and reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026.. to become the kind of engineer they\u2019ve spent their entire careers battling against<\/a>. Worse still, the AI tooling mostly works<\/em>. It\u2019s not (yet) causing any kind of catastrophe6<\/a><\/sup>. The code isn\u2019t quite as clean, and it\u2019s a bit less well-understood, but it\u2019s good enough (particularly in a world where companies are trying lots of new things and abandoning the ones that fail). So the just-say-no engineer faces not just a threat to their livelihood, but to their entire self-identity: they have to either insist that the apocalypse is right around the corner, or accept that their technical role was contingent on a really weird<\/em> economic environment in the tech industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family emergency page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I typically don\u2019t vent on styling<\/a>, on the grounds that everything has to look like something. Vehicle design is subject to a host of requirements and regulations that constrain designers\u2019 options; what\u2019s left has to be approved by the company\u2019s accountants and suppliers and signed off by the executive corps. Few flowers grow from this poisoned soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It literally is the ultimate level of narcissism and delusion of grandeur<\/a> to think you can create God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commercialization<\/a> Moment for Chinese AI Going Overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both<\/a>: 1.To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance. 2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain. Your most obedient servant, Wellington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love that !! Charlie was locked and loaded for That Question !!! Over the past decade we have seen the concept of a \u2018smart home\u2019 collapse into a nightmare of abandoned IoT devices, subscription services, forced ads, privacy violations, and an increasingly more congested 2.4 GHz spectrum that everything from WiFi and Zigbee to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17144"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17157,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144\/revisions\/17157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}