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Comment · 10 days ago
It's late, but I'm not grokking this:

> The loop runs on stateless workers in the control plane. A worker runs one iteration > of the loop, either a model call or the tool calls it produced, then releases the > agent and puts the next iteration on a queue in Postgres. ... > Also unlike other harnesses, the machines that the workers (our agent loop) run on aren't > where the agent runs its commands.

It's late but don't think I am grokking this.

Isn't running the commands the heavier part of the work? The agent loop itself is mostly waiting for a remote model and then running the commands?

Why would I need a pool of workers for the loop when the constraining resource is likely to be the machines I am running the commands against (which can't be stateless like the workers are?)

Comment · 11 months ago
> locking in 4%+ yield

Locking in 4% AFTER TAX yield ... if you invest the $300K and it earns 4% you still can't pay the mortgage interest with those funds

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm very disappointed with my Surface Pro tablet ... battery life sucks, resuming from sleep is really slow and the keycover needs to be disconnected and reconnected for it to 'remember' it is there. I've owned 4 Surfaces over the years and won't buy again.

I'm not a fan of OS X but seriously considering one of these just for the battery life and it-just-works portable computing.

Comment · 3 years ago
We use https://www.enchant.com/

It works great for email support, haven't tried their chat features, but is the sweet-spot for us in terms of features and complexity.

They have an API if you want to integrate, though for a web form just feeding it through email works.

Comment · 4 years ago
Do not use your own corporate domain for user generated content.

Source: been there, done that ... there is no benefit to it and only pain.

Have a separate plunk-emails.com domain that is used for all emails. Or even have a bunch set up and rotate through them. This will mitigate spam impact too -- you will get spam issues even with 100% legit users

Comment · 4 years ago
Any idea how CA handles (small) foreign companies hiring contractors in CA?

Assuming they did decide to quibble about the classification what can they actually do to an entity that has no legal existence in the US?

Comment · 4 years ago
1/ Yes, and you also potentially incur taxable capitals gains at a time not of your choosing, which can suck.
Comment · 4 years ago
We've used https://www.enchant.com/ for about a decade for email support .. it's great, does exactly what is is supposed to and doesn't add a bunch of 'cruft' on top. Had to check our volume, currently over 40,000 tickets in that time.

They do live chat too but we've never used that.

Comment · 4 years ago
What is motivating you to look for a replacement? We are evaluating grids and AgGrid is the front runner currently though really rather heavyweight for our use cases.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks -- appreciate the reply.

As a future product option I'd love to be able to treat these as standalone terminals, so we can offer a web based POS app (running on a different device) and the phone as a payment terminal without having to deploy our own mobile app.

Comment · 4 years ago
Question for anyone in the know at Stripe ... does this make a iPhone work like the existing BBPOS WisePOS terminals and able to interact with a web app _without_ any code running on the phone itself (other than Stripe's)

Or is it more akin to the BBPOS Chipper readers and still needs a custom mobile app to interact with?

ie: can a platform built on Stripe use this for their customers without needing to supply a mobile app?

Comment · 4 years ago
If the teacher is moderately technical then they can gain a lot of flexibility by using OBS (https://obsproject.com/) and its 'virtual camera' feature as your 'webcam' feeding into Zoom.

Then anything you do in OBS is feed into Zoom as a direct video feed and saves Zoom screen scraping and re-encoding the video. You can use OBS's screen capture or better yet pre-download the files and just play them back.

Comment · 4 years ago
Many services won't accept these 'virtual' phone numbers for 2FA. Last time I tried I couldn't assign a Twilio provisioned number as the second factor on a Google account for example.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks -- to clarify these are spam reports from the end users email host, ie the notification we get from yahoo.com, comcast.net, etc saying an email was reported as spam. So it isn't the user actually clicking through to our site via the unsubscribe link.

I think the best option might be to show something on the site when they are unsubscribed so they can easily undo that .

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