She’s had years to train up a successor, at this point it’s just blind power hungry arrogance.

I use malic acid to tune acidity, earl grey tea to play with tannins, and you can always cut up a few pounds of apples and throw them in there to get some of the flavors from the skins + flesh.

You can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it’s the easiest thing to do.

Remember I said “It all depends on how you implement it”.

It all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.

Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.

• Ad free
• Cloud backup
• Highlight users
• Tag users
• Translate text
• Select text from images
• Push notifications
• Saved folders
• Import / export subscriptions

Source: The sync ultra description from in-app

I might be mistaken, but I don’t think Sync Ultra is the same thing as the ad-free sync premium. Sync Ultra is a subscription because it adds functionality that requires cloud resources, not just removes ads.

I think even more broadly, they want to encourage the harassment of anyone who goes outside their definition of what is culturally acceptable.

At this point it’s like saying that water is wet.

“No such thing as bad publicity” comes to mind.

Are there any apples in there?

Aileen Getty has not personally worked in the oil industry and has poured much of her fortune into philanthropic ventures related to the climate crisis.

Isn’t this what we want these rich people to be doing?