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I think user-driven flagging is starting to show its cracks here, though. I'm starting to see stuff flagged to dead status, from otherwise reputable posters, because they went against the current in a thread.

I really think HN should consider giving out limited mod points, like Slashdot did (does? haven't used it in 25 years.)

This would probably be the ideal* system for somewhere like Reddit, too.

* Defining "ideal" as what drives high quality discourse, not what drives engagement.


In the first half of this comment I thought you were setting us up for a old-Google-style interview question. I felt oddly disappointed to not find a Fermi problem at the end.

To that end, I do wish there was a way to hide some cards in wallet inside a "folder" or something. As is, they're there front and center, or not added at all.

Riffing on your comment: would be neat if Apple let you add a sticker to the corner of each card.

Yes, exactly. Or some simple text to overlay at the top of the card, it's a very easy problem to solve as far as I can tell.

Isn't the same true of the wallet on iPhone? I drag and drop reorder my cards as necessary. There's a fixed number of positions that fit above the "fold" (in the scrolling sense).

No. I have only a vertical ordering available in Apple wallet. A card can be above another card or below another card. I have 3d physicality in a wallet that Apple wallet does not replicate.

Ah, so two+ columns vs one.

I can fully control the location of cards in my physical wallet.

The sorting of the Apple Wallet column is a mystery to me. I can probably control it. But I couldn’t tell you how. It also lacks tactile feel. So it’s just not the same. It’s a sloppy mess.


Without wading into your leather vs glass debate: open the Wallet app, press and hold a card, drag up and down as desired.

Two columns vertically, but four columns deep in 3D space.

Yep, except on my TV I don't have to leave Apple TV to adjust my climate control every time.

(Mk8 GTI)


I drove such a VW. Once. I still get annoyed when I'm reminded of it!

I couldn't help myself and just watched a video demo of it https://www.evshift.com/242850/how-to-adjust-the-heating-and...

The actual rage it induces LOL!


> [..] app does not work [..] text changes all the time, the buttons move around, weird errors, and then I realize 'yep I'm in a dream again'.

Unfortunately, this is becoming less and less of a "tell"! You're going to have to find a new one.


Haha, fair :D.

I had the same experience until I upgraded my Echo (we have a few, but the one in the kitchen gets 99% of the voice commands).

Just looked it up in my order history: I went from an "Echo Show 5 (1st Gen, 2019 release)" to a "Amazon Echo Show 8 (newest model)".

Whether I should have needed to upgrade is a separate question, but, yeah.


The experience of having to tell Siri to "Ask ChatGPT <about something>" really sucks, though. It doesn't consistently do it, the handoff frequently just stalls out and you never get a response, the transcription that gets passed to ChatGPT is low quality, etc.

And though I have the feature enabled that should cause it to ask ChatGPT about things it can't answer, that works even less frequently.

But even if all of these things were true, the stuff on your phone you would expect to be exposed to the model as available tool calls, are not. So their efficacy is very limited.

(edit: iPhone 16 Pro Max, if anyone is curious)


Oh I was just thinking creating a shortcut that you'd tap on your Home Screen/control shade (whatever it's called) to activate ChatGPT, or wire up to the action button. I forgot you can have Siri do the "ask ChatGPT xyz" thing – I agree, that integration sucks.

I'd definitely do the former. I don't even think this is specific to ChatGPT or Claude's apps.

There seems to be something about how intents get triggered by Shortcuts on iOS that feels flaky to me. Whenever some app suggests a shortcut (most recently Starbucks promoted a shortcut that orders your "usual"), the success rate when I tap it is <50%.

It's possible it's uniquely worse on my device, since I haven't done a "clean install" (vs letting the device upgrade flow copy over) in like a decade. But I'm also not up for dealing with the pain of setting up from scratch just to find out it's bad on a fresh profile, either.


Any of the LLM-based ones should pull this* off - so that's to say.. none of the popular commercially available ones, yet?

Alexa+ does, but I don't use it for anything except kitchen timers and home automation triggers, so I can't speak to how well it works in a longer conversation.

Zoom's meeting notes excels at this, Google Meet is terrible at it. Meet mishears our company name about 90% of the time; various attendee names are a coin toss.

* "this" being: context consideration in speech-to-text/transcription.


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