While I wait for someone to post a non-paywalled version, what's the real overlap of things the average joe wants automated, things an agent can reliably do, and isn't seen as a bit too creepy? I think it's pretty small, and certainly a lot smaller than Silicon Valley thinks. That's still before things like cost, general AI aversion, and the technical confidence to get an agent set up.

I think it could be argued there's a use case for agents to function as a personal secretary, planning, emailing, news briefs, task reminders, those kinds of things.

Probably hasn't taken off because what this solves isn't much of a problem for people without executive dysfunction. Most people simply don't need a secretary, and the tasks you might delegate are often pretty important things that must be done correctly (e.g. you don't want to invite your ex to your wedding, or your boss to your family dinner).

Interconnectivity managers and smarthome managers are about it. People don't want something that can alter things unbidden and unrestricted. But them being able to automatically set up, for example, your phone's Bluetooth connection to a rental car would be appealing to a lot of people. Or being able to adjust the thermostat or start the coffee maker or whatever according to preference of whoever's in the house.

You can just disable js on that page and get text of the article. Works in my Firefox.

Slight tangent, how would you recommend learning when you can't find anyone in-person? I was able to get adequate with a six hole from just tabs but am failing at anything bigger.

You loosely have two major types of Ocs that are popular: English Vessel Flutes (aka "pendants") and "little geese" (aka "Japanese-fingering" or "traverse")... Pendants typically have about the same range as a Trombone. Traverse will generally have the same range as a Clarinet. Some sopranos have an extra 1-5 notes at the top allowing most recorder music to be played. You also get multi-chambered Ocs but these are "advanced" instruments.

The best way to learn is to move straight over tabs and onto to score, while playing scales and arpeggios to learn the fingerings. This will give you access to a lot more music options! (There is a TON of sheet for Trombone and Clarinet!)

The next thing to recommend is learning to transpose keys. This isn't as hard or daunting as it sounds at first! You kinda just pretend your instrument is tuned differently, this widens your options a lot.

Then the final recommendation following this would be getting yourself a chromatic tuner. One of the most challenging parts of playing the Ocarina is playing it in tune!

Some people kind of don't care, and just are out there living their best lives squeaking for the joy of it, power to them: But if you ever want to play with other people you want to learn to discipline your breath pressure to control your tone/intune.

Over four octave ranges? Really?

Yeah, it really hurts to read. So many decent arguments andthe author goes for the foot-gun.

It's at least a standard, and that's the important part. Narrow down what exactly the best way to tell is later, the SAT fits the bill of good enough to re-impliment quickly.

I’d say written tests is a common thing in many countries, and at college age you really should be doing more than multiple choices

I agree with that, but it sounds more like a college readiness certificate concept than a competitive exam concept.

I would add more robustness in the computer systems. Ideally separation of critical systems and niceties, and definitely manual ability to select A/B systems for when the inevitable bad update hits.

For my two cents, the jiggly images are distracting from the text and the site makes my (admittedly somewhat old) phone stutter when scrolling. Overall it feels like you tried doing too much with it when simpler would have been better.

No? Clippy was an attempt at an assistant for average joes who didn't really know how to use a computer, and got out of your way when you hit the go away forever button. It could've been link bonzi buddy, same era, except clippy genuinely wasn't malicious. All the tech was there for clippy to embed itself into your computer and steal your data, but it didn't. A genuine winner of the yellow paper star of you tried.

Nowadays a lot of people still need computer use help, but every assistant is a bonzi buddy that wants to hijack your computer. Clippy was the last big non-malicious computer assistant.

In addition, the solid yellow background is another readability impediment.

Author's right about one thing, the user expects security to be invisibly taken care of by the OS itself and doesn't care about how. In my experience, the first time most users learn about a security feature is when it throws up a roadblock, and from there the only thing they care about is how to get around it. The real issue here imo is how Windows expects the user to be diligent in setup, record their recovery info, and keep it in a known safe location, instead of just mashing "next" so they can just use the computer already, but that's another conversation.