losvedir

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by losvedir 7d ago
You say "Correct", but Toast works the opposite of the person you're responding to. They charge the same fee regardless if it's a debit or credit card. They charge based on the network, and most debit cards in my experie
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by losvedir 7d ago
Debit cards aren't that, in practice, because as you say they typically get the same 3% fee whenever I've asked. Toast and other point of sale networks just charge it based on the network and not the card type. But even so, I stil
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by losvedir 7d ago
I play the credit card "game" because I hate feeling like I'm leaving money on the table, but I really wish I didn't have to. Some degrees of fees make sense, to run the network, and handle fraud, but it's ridiculou
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by losvedir 10d ago
This is confidently presented, but seems incorrect based on other commenters. > Snark noted, though I have no earthly idea why you felt it necessary I think it's useful if you are, in fact, talking out your ass. It's hard to te
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by losvedir 17d ago
The abuse, sure, but the birth control stance is really the only one compatible with the Catholic idea of sex only being appropriate in the context of a monogamous, lifelong married couple. I'm not really sure what you're getting
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by losvedir 20d ago
I think you can tell who still has the ability to read long form content by whether they thought this was full of fluff or decently actionable. I think the bolded parts of section 3 are definitely not fluff. I found the document pretty inte
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by losvedir 21d ago
Everyone's got their Tim Curry role that defines him. For me it's from The Three Musketeers. Though Nigel Thornberry is a close second. You can probably identify the age of every commenter in this thread based on the particular ro
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by losvedir 22d ago
RIP. We went to Dollywood last year and I highly recommend it! It was a fun, family-friendly park, and one of the things I was impressed by was how helpful and happy to be there all the workers were. Seemed like a bunch of friendly veterans
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by losvedir 23d ago
I think that's out of date. He links to a study showing interchange revenue net of rewards showing up to 3% by high FICO scores. (Just at a gut check that seems crazy to me, since interchange revenue doesn't really go much above
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by losvedir 23d ago
The rewards differences can be significant. Eg 4% vs 1% cash back is $3k difference on an annual spend of $100k. On the one hand, relative to our income it's not so important, but on the other it feels bad leaving $3k on the table.
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by losvedir 24d ago
Heh, $600k still sounds like a lot to me! Talk about a bubble.
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by losvedir 24d ago
I don't know what I'm looking at here. I upvoted at first on the premise, but the reddit post doesn't have any information other than a link to AI Slop.
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by losvedir 28d ago
The point of decoupling the phone from the contract is you don't buy your phone through your carrier. Why would you want to do that?
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by losvedir 28d ago
I can't tell if you've actually tried a finding phone or not, but that would help understand and place your comments better.
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by losvedir 28d ago
Same, oh God the leaking of our chat infuriates me. It also loves to document public functions with what the caller is and doing, and I'm like that's not how this works! The point of an abstraction or interface is that it stands
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by losvedir 28d ago
Yes, they probably read it 15 hours ago when that comment was posted, before OP changed it, in response to these comments. Though I'm not convinced it actually is. OP said the same the first time around, and I don't think actually
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by losvedir 1mo ago
"If it's worth your time to say something false, it's worth my time to correct it". I don't take a stance on who is right, but your dismissal here, which doesn't deal with the truth of the matter, is worse than
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by losvedir 1mo ago
Seriously, I can't stand these tests of 1000 input tokens generating 1 million output tokens. You can't really convey anything interesting in 100 words, so like almost who cares what it produces? No one is providing value if the e
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by losvedir 1mo ago
Something about having a very fast, very small harness written in C only to drive LLMs amuses me. Like putting a big ass spoiler on a minivan or something.
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by losvedir 1mo ago
I think "system prompt" is the key bit they're getting at. It doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on the underlying model if the system prompt was bad. It does reflect somewhat, in terms of alignment (how well the model d
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by losvedir 1mo ago
Genuine question, but why does it matter? It seems to me the vast majority of the benefit comes in the weights. Then you can self host, quantize, finetune, ablate, etc. What does having the original data get you beyond that?
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by losvedir 1mo ago
Well "climate change" as understood today wasn't really talked about much in the 90s, as I remember it. Some broad, apocalyptic concern about creeping temperatures and knock on effects over many decades. But I do remember qui
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by losvedir 1mo ago
Oh, no! What a tragedy. I loooved them way back in the day when you used to be able to get them at Taco Bell. The inventor of the Choco Taco went to tour the factory one time while my wife was working there. I asked her to get him to autogr
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by losvedir 1mo ago
Heh, my wife was the maintenance supervisor for the Missouri Unilever plant that makes Talenti (well, not Unilever anymore). The same plant also makes Breyer's, Magnum bars, Choco Tacos, Popsicles, and various other novelties. She freq
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by losvedir 1mo ago
I still think Google is the only one who has a shot of coming out of this on top. Open AI and Anthropic's whole existence is predicated on some sort of moat, which I don't really see them having long term. They've got a bit o
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by losvedir 1mo ago
Oh, wow! This is a lot clearer to me. I've long had a soft spot in my heart about Sandstorm. Here's a comment[0] I made 11 years ago about what Sandstorm was, to me: > I'm a web developer, but I can't really use my s
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by losvedir 1mo ago
That just means you can't call Africans one "race" because they hold all the genetic diversity on the planet. But it doesn't mean there's not some meaningful genetic grouping of populations that splintered out of Af
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by losvedir 1mo ago
With Claude it's actually not that hard. I set up a system for a startup where devs used a full dev environment and non-devs could use the Claude web UI to open rougher PRs, and one of the non-devs asked me what was involved with getti
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by losvedir 2mo ago
Interesting. Every time I've ever vouched a comment, it came alive. (Though the last one I vouched ended up dead again after enough people flagged it, oops. I hope that doesn't mean I lost my power. In my defense, it was flagged t
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by losvedir 2mo ago
I don't know why but I really struggled to internalize what the question was asking. Here's my take on a rewrite that's clearer: Mary is 24, which is twice as old as Ann was some time ago. At that time, Mary was the age that

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