morpheuskafka

48 months financing is two years. If you upgrade your phone less often than every year, what’s absurd about that?

It could plausibly reduce theft, for one. Before they started using SSNs as quasi-passwords, people used to be encourage to engrave their SSN on their TV and other stuff.

Surely the only consumer protection law that would not apply is the "right to cancel" thing in the EU where you must accept returns. And that doesn't exist in the US, where they allow returns anyway. In fact, they are virtually the only store to take back an opened and activated phone or laptop. The HK store is the only region I know where Apple doesn't take repairs.

So they are not trying to avoid returns, rather, they are going above and beyond what the law requires. If you choose to engrave something you know it can't be returned, that is common sense, not a trick.

I have used Telnyx for, on the opposite end of cool-ness, their fax API. Curious if their AI pricing and quality are actually competitive or if this is just a rapid pivot to try to ride the AI wave.

My ex used to work in their sales department lol. But I'd seen them anyway, in the context of cheap unmanaged switches on Amazon. They are not a state owned company or anything so I doubt this is anything too nefarious, likely just absolutely not giving a crap about quality.

It's not out of some anti-AI ideology. I use LLMs daily. I just don't understand why we need to pay $8,000 for a robot that does exactly two tasks, takes up space in the house, uses power, and needs updates and repairs.

At $15/hr, $8000 is 533 hours. So you are only breaking even if you get more than 22 full days of human folding labor (not the actual, slower time it takes the robot) during the useful life of the machine (probably 2-3yr max since it relies on backend supervision like a waymo). ChatGPT estimates that a human could fold about 27,000 shirts over 533 work hours.

> For home use, you don't care if it takes 3 hours to make your bed or just stops for a while when waiting for a teleoperator to become available.

But why would you pay thousands and store a clunky machine in your home for that? Either you don't care about the bed being made or not -- in which case just don't, its not essential -- or you'd have it made already in 30-60 seconds when you got up before you could even get the thing turned on.

Folding laundry is the same thing. It says 30-90 minutes, I assume for one wash load? A human couldn't possibly take more than 30 minutes. And a human with a folding board could do it in 5-10. So unless you do not care about laundry at all, it would drive you crazy to watch that machine blocking your hallway for over an hour slowly folding a single load.

Alternatively, a wash/dry/fold service will deliver them to your door not just folded, but neatly packed in dustproof bags. (This is a major life hack when packing for a trip btw.)

Well, the first filter catches anyone whose timezone is set to mainland China. That includes presumably all individual devs just using a VPN, who have no desire to or knowledge of distilling.

(Again, could be trivially bypassed either by rewriting, mocking the timezone call, or just changing the timezone. But we are assuming no mitigation used.)

The timezone checks for Shanghai and Urumqi, but not Hong Kong. All of these are the same actual time (China does not use time zones internally), not sure how these three were picked (why not Beijing or Macau etc). And all of them are prohibited by ToS, so not sure why they only flag mainland time zones.

Interestingly, my device is in Shenzhen right now, but macOS has assigned Shanghai as the "closest city" rather than Hong Kong which is geographically closer. I am curious if there is any documentation on how that is assigned.

I'm sure there is something I don't know here, but how is working with integers "brittle"? The only issue I see is rounding down by default, not sure if that is even an issue or not. At any rate, it seems a lot less brittle than floats or bigdecimal style number classes.

A Plaid balance check is NOT a guarantee that the ACH debit you're about to submit will go through.

I don't care if the balance is one million, before that ACH can process, every single dollar can be (a) wired out, (b) cleared out by yesterday's ACHs (bills, autopay, whatever) and checks, or (c) spent at debit/ATM.

I probably shouldn't tell you why I know that some fintechs don't address this.

> For example the default output file name. It doesn't ask for an output file name when you save output.

I'm not really sure what output file even means for an interpreted language, but GCC doesn't ask either, it will spit out an a.out by default (not even .elf or something logical).

> getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.

The wording is very ambiguous, but to me it suggests the opposite. If legal was question why the logo was on the account profile picture, not just that specific repo's content, that would imply the entire account was unauthorized, right?

YC's application asks for test scores if under 25, although it doesn't specify which ones.