> pervasive CCTV and face recognition.

I'm willing to wager there is no country on the planet that comes within an order of magnitude in terms of their awareness of precisely where any given resident is to within a few meters.

In fact - I think we would struggle to find a country within 2 orders of magnitude - the combination of incredibly high technology, super density, lack of much in the way of "countryside" (and the jungles/parks have lots of camera's near the entrances) and a general societal consensus that omnipresent surveillance is worthwhile exchange for the world's safest country all come together to create a system in which you don't need to worry about obscuring who you are dating with/sleeping with/associating with.

The Government already knows, always has known.

Everything else was stuff that the Casio does way better. And - need the phone for the camera - so it's always with me.

It's kind of amazing to have a watch with a 7+ year battery. I spent about 4 years with my Ultra. Might keep it for stuff like hiking where I want to track elevaton and such - but the other 99% of the time I expect the Casio will be my goto.

There's a reason why people spend more $$$ with Data Bricks, Palantir, AWS Bedrock etc.. and don't even consider using Anthropic or OpenAI APIs directly - it's because those guarantees provide very little in the way of data-discovery, audit requirements, or liquidated damages should it ever be discovered there was data leakage.

At least with these other companies, while the LD is likewise not great (typically limited to the amount of money you paid them) - you at least have some data-governance guarantees around running on dedicated hardware - no multi-tenancy, no third-party access outside of the AWS operators who keep the HW running - but are very much not in the business of looking at your data.

I think this is mostly a function of what's at risk - when company valuations get into the 10s of billions of dollars, the risk of IP leaking into what could be seen as competitive companies (OpenAI/Anthropic would be happy to take over the world - I don't sense that AWS or Azure, are as ruthless in stepping on their customers business, unless of course they are a SAAS provider) is just too significant a liability to take - particularly when you can de-risk.

What's interesting is that there is zero procedural generation - single world with about 20 Biome, each one with all sorts of character. Monsters are incredibly well balanced, and the sheer terror I got from the spiders (which I think are a tad OP - especially the ones that launch)_ triggered my fight-flight reflex (mostly flight) more than any other game I can recall.

The game can be played in so many different ways too - you can take the factorio/big factory build out approach and speed run that, or just spend your time exploring, or, perhaps best of all - watch hundreds of hours of Youtube Videos to get a sense of the architect aesthetic that some of the top players bring to it. Epic Tech Tree. Cute back story.

I consider it the greatest Sandbox/space game ever - I don't know if we'll ever see anything like it again.

Honestly - if it wasn't for the incessant nagging me to upgrade, letting me know it's going to upgrade, letting me know it had failed to upgrade, and the never ending useless notification that I kept having to edit/unsubscribe/remove stupid apps that I never installed - I probably wouldn't have switched for a short period of time.

What I would have never predicted is how getting rid of all that noise has just made me so much happier.

Also - didn't realize how much I hate having to charge my watch every 16 hours.

And, I don't think I've once missed having the big annoying clunker of a watch.

First - there is this - https://openai.com/policies/how-your-data-is-used-to-improve... (linked from the Navier Stokes writeup)

I don't know how much more clearly they can write:

> When you use our services for individuals such as ChatGPT, Sora, or Operator, we may use your content to train our models.

One of the key selling tactics that companies like Data Bricks or Palantir provides their customers is "Data Governance" - that is, some control over where the data is being used. It's also a reason why enterprises don't use the OpenAI or Anthropic APIs directly - but through secondary sources that have Enterprise Agreements that do their best to make sure that no Company IP is ever retained by a third party, or even exists on a multi-tenant GPU. AWS Bedrock, and companies like together.ai, fireworks.ai have tons of deals that focus very much on data confidentiality.

The reality is - if you want any type of control - you run your own inference, on your own hardware. Anything else and you are at the mercy of third-parties, despite what their contracts might promise you.

Another Blackboard Example: https://github.com/halbritt/striatum/tree/main/docs/rfcs

(Useful to see how this compares to another Blackboard type platform - Gastown https://github.com/halbritt/striatum/blob/main/docs/records/...)

Maybe it's a bigger deal when you have multiple users/and or more repeated queries against something that's really expensive?

And if the answer was, "Well, there is nothing better than HN" - kind of makes me wonder what his original point actually was.

It doesn't just have access to my entire machine - it has access to all of our Corporations Google Docs, Google Sheets, Jira Tickets, Confluence, Slack - everything (Except, weirdly - our GitRepos - they aren't confident enough there to let CoWork talk to them)

Weirdly - my work email is mostly irrelevant - nothing in their other than some sporadic company announcements - I'll go a week without looking at it - so it's the least concern. (Very different from personal gmail which, omg - if anyone got into - game over)