It's good for creating meeting notes and action lists in Teams, but that's about it.

MS use of AI in apps really feels like their Google+ moment.

I found that the time I spent reviewing and fixing issues/errors/omissions in Copilot’s meeting notes was more than just cleaning up my own notes that I took and sending out.

There's you problem, you care about accuracy!

It's time to accept the new way of working, just change your reality to match the copilot version and boom, you save time fixing its mistakes!

In fact, why have the meeting at all? Just prompt copilot to create notes based on a fictional conception of the meeting and you just saved everyone a whole hour!

I'm building a scraper in Golang based on Colly to do two things:

* Automatically train the scraper on the structure of the page to acquire the data you want, and

* Clean and structure the data into a format suitable to go into a relational database

I got sick of doing all that manually for some pricing data I wanted to monitor on some suppliers sites, and I've always wanted to contribute more to open source and give back.

I'd recommend you listen to the consumer's of those systems, instead of American pundits talking about them.

Our system in Australia is absolutely fantastic, and far cheaper in taxes than you'd think.

How much do you pay as a percentage of your salary in taxes? In total of course.

I pay 30% in taxes for federal and state. House is paid off but taxes is about 3% my salary. My insurance is more than I need (I don't use it at all) and cost me less than 2% of my salary.

You can keep your socialized system, we are doing more than alright here mate. I got plenty of friends in Europe, England, Canada, and Australia all complaining about the same thing, wait times for care. I can see my doctor for basically anything inside of a couple weeks.

I'd rather live through a financial crisis than fascism, thanks.

The former can lead to the latter, 50/50 chance though.

> There's no evidence to support that gene therapy will ever be inexpensive. We can merely say that the process may become less shockingly expensive.

A similar thing has been said about so many cutting edge therapies and technologies in the past that I think you'll end up being quite surprised.

Eventually someone will invent a machine that spits these therapies out like espresso machines.

I think if you got some experience in the industries this serves then you'd reconsider your opinion

i don't see how improving the source could detriment anyone. The rest is just relationship details. The decent part about relationship details is imprisonment.

As nawgz said, the applications they are automating are often closed-source binary blobs. They can't enable scripting without some kind of RPA or AI agent.

Correct. In the RPA world, if there's an API available, or even a sqlite server you can tap into, you absolutely should go directly to the source. Emulating human mouse and keyboard is an absolute last resort for getting data across the application boundary, for when those direct apis are unavailable.

I use it for loading up source materials and notes for a DnD campaign I run. Then I ask it questions when I need off the cuff answers, instead of researching.

It's also good for when I can't think of anything (like a background NPCs name and backstory)

There is a giant world of high end replica watches that are so close to the original that they take expert mechanics to tell apart. I've got a few $500 watches that are identical to $10-40k watches.

Worth checking out reptime to scratch that itch without selling a kidney.

We're running out of critical metals at the price point we want to mine them. There are more that will become viable when the price goes up.