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Comment · 27 days ago
Who knew the fix all along was just scolding people for being the wrong kind of frustrated
Comment · 28 days ago
Att offered such good trade in rates for my phone that it’s been effectively free to upgrade to the last two generations.
Comment · 1 month ago
Playing acoustic piano patches on my reface wasn’t a good experience. Seems all those light actions have hyper sensitive black keys.
Comment · 1 month ago
nono the state is the only thing that counts. Not the country the state is in or the cities in the state.
Comment · 1 month ago
facebook marketplace for $10 or $20 is magic. People don't like free as much as they like paying $10 or $20 for a $50 item
Comment · 5 months ago
I had an interesting one yesterday. Someone responded to me on Reddit with very official sounding words to make their argument. I was still dubious and googled a few of the concepts they threw out there.

The AI confidently told me they were right. Then I checked the sources, and found the only source that agreed with them was their own Reddit comment!!!

Comment · 5 months ago
If I only had a brain...
Comment · 6 months ago
Tokens don’t matter if you have any slow deterministic processes. The bottleneck is already on testing infrastructure in the work I do. Screenshot tests are slow. Enormous codebases are slow. We have whole teams devoted to speeding these things up, so all I can do is get the agent to call the minimum set of commands necessary to check their latest iteration. This of course flies right in the face of the mountains of slow commands the harness tells it to use, resulting in chaos.
Comment · 6 months ago
The movie "vice" covers this nicely. The only thing stopping US presidents from acting like kings is precedent.
Comment · 6 months ago
If you want an ambulance dial 911.

These hotlines are for providing support. They are trained not to escalate to sending someone unless they absolutely deem it necessary (and the caller agrees). My wife has been working the hotline as a volunteer for 6 years and has not once escalated to sending someone.

As others noted, my California county has a dedicated team to respond to this.

Comment · 1 year ago
So you’re saying I should’ve eaten the cat that lived in my apartment when I was a baby?
Comment · 1 year ago
I briefly owned a gen 1 leaf. It went from 70 miles of “range” (more like 25) at 100% to 50 in a couple of years of very light driving. Poor guy who bought it from me had all kinds of trouble trying to get it home.
Comment · 1 year ago
Don’t they usually get a better stock package than the average new hire?
Comment · 1 year ago
It isn’t empowered to do anything you can’t already do in the UI, so it is useless to me.

Perhaps there is a group that isn’t served by legacy ui discovery methods and it’s great for them, but 100% of chat bots I’ve interacted with have damaged brand reputation for me.

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