smelendez

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by smelendez 4d ago
I don’t think a train conductor would normally intervene if they saw someone escorting an intoxicated person. Unfortunately taking someone somewhere to rob or assault them doesn’t look that different from taking a drunk friend to a safe pla
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by smelendez 4d ago
I’m not sure the line is that clear. Any gun shooting projectiles out of a moving vehicle is dangerous. Pellet guns and paintball guns are less dangerous than “regular” guns, but they’re not really toys.
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by smelendez 7d ago
Yes, cash is also physically dirty! Another advantage of credit cards is you normally don’t have to touch anything customers bring into the store, since they can tap their own cards. You probably still should wear gloves to handle food and
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by smelendez 7d ago
I use credit for the purchase protection (I believe many debit cards have this as well but it’s easier when you haven’t yet paid the charge, and seems better enshrined in law for credit), for the rewards (which including signup bonuses can
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by smelendez 7d ago
Well, they still pay a fee, it’s just reduced. They primarily don’t deal with cash because cash is a pain. It needs to be physically taken to a bank and protected from theft by both staff and random robbers with guns, it needs to be counted
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by smelendez 8d ago
I’ve heard this recently too. It’s confusing because of the streamer convention of referring to their actively chatting audience as “chat,” which had also entered broader slang use. I saw one online use that seemed ambiguous, but I realized
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by smelendez 15d ago
Yes, or the train. All of these cities have a mix of public transit modes. > Cities around the world, including London, Stockholm, Milan, and most recently, New York City (NYC), have adopted congestion pricing, charging drivers a fee to
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by smelendez 17d ago
First degree, etc. murder isn’t just a pop culture distinction. It’s in the law in various states, notably New York, from where it’s found its way into TV cop shows. New York also has five degrees of arson: https://ypdcrime.com&#
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by smelendez 18d ago
> I feel like it's a mistake for the legal code to distinguish between what are fully interchangeable terms in the language the code is supposedly written in. I’ve thought about this too. They often vary from state to state as well.
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by smelendez 20d ago
That makes sense. You’d basically want to standardize/slugify the path on creation and each access.
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by smelendez 21d ago
I think failing to take advantage of the charisma of both Lina Khan and Janet Yellen, and not making them public-facing economics gurus like Alan Greenspan or Larry Summers historically were, was a huge tactical mistake by Biden.
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by smelendez 21d ago
People really do not want to give up the reach once they have tasted it. It’s a shame: I remember when people would be so excited to get 100 strangers visiting their blogs but in a month, but now someone blogging for an audience like that w
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by smelendez 22d ago
Yes, exactly. Same issue with cellphones: They’re more powerful and have better cameras, but many people are paying more to use the same apps they used a decade ago, even though inflation numbers say they’re getting a better deal.
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by smelendez 22d ago
This is an issue with all kinds of products and services, from residential university education to cars to restaurant food. Expensive options with lots of extras that not everybody wants—and some may actively dislike—replace broadly afforda
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by smelendez 27d ago
Twain can be tedious because he’s a humorist and we’ve heard those jokes a million times by now. Also he writes speech in dialect which now means nothing to us and makes him harder to read. I find him easier to read as an adult but he can s
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by smelendez 28d ago
The sticker part makes sense, but why did it say "now," which usually would imply it once didn't include Tetris? I guess "includes Tetris!" just sounded awkward on its own? Or maybe they made stickers for the contin
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by smelendez 28d ago
Yeah, I suspect the problem here is that computer transcription makes mistakes and then a summarizing LLM treats whatever it outputs as gospel. Automated transcription for anything official is scary to begin with, because some noise in the
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Yeah, health information is interesting in general because it needs to be kept strictly secret from unauthorized people, but people also often need or want to share their own information and have every legal and moral right to do so.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Yes, it is very annoying. But I think they are already tracking you. They want use to use the share button so your recipient is more likely to open Spotify (or whatever app) themselves.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Yeah, I would rather see a warning in that case that the screenshot could contain sensitive information, with options to take a redacted screenshot or a normal one.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
I want those things included, at least by default. A screenshot normally captures the user’s screen size, brightness, zoom level, font choices, etc. It is often important to people that the screenshot is an accurate record of what was on th
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Nobody back then would have ever said IRC was “sacred ground.” What does that even mean? And I read 2600 and also occasionally submitted, but it certainly wasn’t treated as gospel. Also of course there was clout chasing — most of the scene
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by smelendez 1mo ago
I remember playing The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall in the 1990s. It came on CD and was very buggy, and I would periodically call Bethesda and they would send me the newest patches on a floppy disk.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Right now the AI really needs to just be another interface to menu options the user already has, ideally with a “dumb” layer taking over to confirm every action with the user. If you give the AI options the user doesn’t normally have, like
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by smelendez 1mo ago
How do you use Amazon to commission custom software? Was this through the retail site or AWS?
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Yes, that’s a great example. I think most of the time you’d play with the order it would be for comic effect, like someone saying “my dinner is pretzels now” after having too big a snack.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
I actually thought the article could be more explicit about that, but in fairness I think the author figured readers were familiar with the app and that it would be obvious there’s no tarot functionality.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Yeah, this is the thing you can ask an LLM and get a confident and verbose wrong answer.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
Yeah, I frequently wish you could get directions from your current point on a train/bus line.
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by smelendez 1mo ago
The word set is enough to identify some people based on speech patterns or interests. The inclusion of other words in the set — cocaine, divorce, abortion, merger, lymphoma — would make many people uncomfortable.

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