wan23

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by wan23 6d ago
It's a hybrid - the Apple Upgrade program (both the old and new ones) let you keep the phone and pay it off over time like zero percent financing but also give you the option of returning the phone and getting a new one.
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by wan23 14d ago
To be fair that would be excellent marketing
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by wan23 16d ago
That's a lot of words to say the same thing
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by wan23 20d ago
It's not legally binding, but it is central to what the US is and has been. That's why they put the poem there, and that's why Americans welcomed the gift and erected the statue, and that's why it has been considered to
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by wan23 3mo ago
You misunderstand - the government issued a directive to Anthropic that effectively forced them to pull access from everyone, even their own employees.
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by wan23 3mo ago
High income earners already subsidize the program. But more importantly, why would you target high income earners instead of targeting the wealthy?
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by wan23 3mo ago
Does a pocket calculator not understand arithmetic? What part of a fourth grader's understanding is missing?
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by wan23 4mo ago
If Windows isn't the gold standard having 70% of the market, then what is? Azure is in second place not by far after AWS. And these are huge, HUGE markets. I wouldn't say your local grocer is dead because it's not Costco, and
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by wan23 4mo ago
My elderly uncle is completely addicted to these. We can barely complete a conversation without him getting bored and pulling out his phone to watch these nonsense videos. I don't even understand what the point is. The ones he watches
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by wan23 4mo ago
You're comparing the wrong numbers. The question is what 1% of the purchase price does to the amount you need for your down payment and fees. On a 10% down payment an extra 1% increases the amount you need by 10%. Remember that while a
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by wan23 4mo ago
I tried out Gemini in Google Sheets the other day. I asked a pretty simple question and the agent ran for like two minutes trying to answer it until I stopped it. I can't imagine these agentic features are cheap to run for what they ge
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by wan23 4mo ago
Things besides writing code that you might be doing: - Meetings - Code reviews - Manual testing - Deployments and more testing - Triaging issues - WTF how did this bug happen? - JIRA in general - Whiteboarding sessions / Design docs -
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by wan23 4mo ago
Have you ever encountered the very common real life situation where there's some software that works, and you have a binary for it but you either don't have the source code or it doesn't compile for whatever reason? This is t
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by wan23 5mo ago
The simulacrum of a thing is a simulacrum of the thing though. LLMs are trained to simulate human thinking, and while their thought process is not the same, you can't say for sure that the thinking output is not necessary for their tho
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by wan23 5mo ago
Why would you want to live in a free-standing house instead of a nice apartment given the choice? There are pros and cons sure, but unless you can hire someone to do all the house things I don't see it being a clear win.
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by wan23 5mo ago
The day I picked up the first iPhone I was carrying a Blackberry, a flip phone and an mp3 player. Really interested to hear what you're thinking of that was an equivalent product.
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by wan23 5mo ago
When I was a kid everyone knew that JanSport was the one to get if you actually wanted your bag to survive. Absolutely one of those things where you'd spend more replacing the cheaper bags over and over compared to buying the JanSport
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by wan23 5mo ago
You wouldn't want to live there because it's too safe?
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by wan23 6mo ago
The last time I was on jury duty in New York, any time someone tried any of these, the judge just reassigned the person to the jury pool for civil cases which, he claimed, are usually longer trials and likely to be more of an inconvenience.
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by wan23 6mo ago
Without getting involved in the flame war, SNW and SFA are good shows. Strange New Worlds is the closest to one of the classic shows out of the new ones, though it has some quality issues in the more recent season which Trek show didn'
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by wan23 6mo ago
Many homes have a bunch of lights with their own switches, like lamps. Also there are rooms with multiple entrances, like a living room with a bedroom on the other side from the from the front door entrance, which would involve walking to t
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by wan23 6mo ago
https://hobbybot.net I'm trying to see how far I can get using AI to help me track pre-owned items for sale, starting with watches. I started with an OpenClaw agent that was looking for specific things I wanted to buy, and
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by wan23 6mo ago
With the exception of a few brands that have the artificial scarcity that PG wrote about here, pre-owned watches have the same kind of value decline that pre-owned cars do. If you are ever in the market for a nice watch that is actually ava
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by wan23 7mo ago
In America, the military isn't supposed to be in charge. They fought a revolution about it.
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by wan23 7mo ago
I think it's made for those people as well as people who want a hackable customizable wearable.
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by wan23 7mo ago
I pre-ordered a round one which is going to be my third Pebble and I'm excited for it, but there is some really good competition nowadays. Casio makes a watch with similar display technology, solar power so the battery life is basicall
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by wan23 7mo ago
It's absolutely wild to see how unevenly distributed the future we're living in is.
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by wan23 7mo ago
So basically you're okay with the trains and the camps, just not the showers and incinerators?
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by wan23 7mo ago
AI can plan and do architectural work - just not amazingly well. Treat it as an intern or a new grad at best. Though this capability has been increasing pretty rapidly, so who knows where we'll be in a few years.
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by wan23 7mo ago
I'm not making an argument, you are. You suggested that the long history going back to 1906 makes these actions normal. I'm merely pointing out that what they were doing back then was immoral, which may undermine your argument ina

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