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Which is why the long-term reviews make much more sense.

The car reviewer needs to get over the honeymoon phase of this new shiny gadget.

Many places I toured offered $5 starbucks gift-cards for a review.

I think small accidents == large bills is caused by the amount of sensors and crumple zones in cars.

Layered on top of that is the massively increased cost of parts and labor to install the parts and paint them. And cars aren't really made to be taken apart easily.

Then there is the issue of availability of parts, especially in newer cars.

All of that makes it so that there are a 100+ cars outside the body-shop I frequently pass by. Because of the speed (or slowness) of the pipeline, body-shops need to be a certain size. Then insurance tries to squeeze them, and people don't get paid enough for the work they actually do.

So that's why your repaired bumper is 2 tints darker than your body. No-one has the time to properly blend the paints.

On the road I find WireGuard to be quirky when connecting to DNS names. When I'm on an IPv6 only network (like T-Mobile), connecting to a DNS name that offers A and AAAA, WireGuard on iOS prefers the A record, making me connect over one of T-Mobile's 464XLAT proxies which time out after x minutes. This then makes the connection look dead until I do something on my phone that re-enables it.

Tailscale doesn't have this issue.

Welp, that explains why they ghosted me after the interviews. And they went very well.

It is also expensive because the debt is very hard to get erased through bankruptcy, so private companies are now offering more money to people than is actually needed. So universities see this $ and raise prices.

Kinda like how tax breaks on housing initially help people, and then the market adjusts based on the new inflow of $.

France?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62717599

This wouldn't be needed if banks supported something like PSD2.

I would love to connect systems to my bank in a safe way, but I can either do this, release the AI (I don't by the way) or shell out money to a service like Monarch, which relies in Plaid for all of its connections.

The banks brought this upon themselves.

There was an post about something like this a while back on lobste.rs, where some people were upset about the image that Anubis shows while it is validating your machine.

This is more general issue in the USA. How do you prove who you are? Your driver license / identity card doesn't have a chip, so given enough information about someone else you can sign up as them.

Compare that to say a large part of the EU where people have an identity card with a chip, which has a PIN. It allows institutions to read the chip, and that chip cannot be easily faked (PKI). The photo is on the card and on the chip, so they have to match.

Also, more importantly, all of these financial apps popping up is because the normal banking system is too slow moving for the modern requirements, something the EU has also solved with the SWIFT system.

Unsure about eggs, but they definitely have their own rotisserie chicken farm and plant.

Story goes that Tyson's chickens were becoming larger and larger and thus Tyson wanted more money.

Costco wants to keep the chicken at $5, so they starter their own plant.

Well, if we want more drinking water we might start boiling salt water with electricity.

Can I do the same for like EcoBee?

I bought them a year ago and today they showed me an ad ON MY THERMOSTAT.

Or you open the Weather app, it updates, you walk somewhere without cell phone reception, open the weather app again, and it shows the old temperature, and suddenly it shows --. Temperature gone. WHY?

As someone laid off just now, I wish companies saw this. I genuinely don't know where to go with my 'skills' as a software engineer, both pre and post AI.

The market is shrinking, the pressure to review code is so high, I'm kinda relieved to not be at the $last_place anymore, but looking on LinkedIn or calling around my network... there isn't a lot out there.

Sadly not my experience. When I give this kind of feedback on a document, highlight a gap, or give constructive feedback, most of the time this feedback is fed back to the AI and a new revision of the document shows up.

BUT because it is AI it's not that section that's addressed, it's about 90% of the document that now has changed, and I need to spend another gargantuan effort to review it. It's like by trying to be helpful I actually lose more time.

The AI has made it so that the thinking before writing is mostly gone, and shifted that step to the reviewers.

I've drastically reduced my tips. I'm done with this system in the USA where they are allowed to advertise price X, but you're expected to pay X+Y, where Y might be a fee or a % of X.

And the way the system is trying to sneak it in everywhere more and more makes me revolt even more.

Last time I was in a restaurant and I tried to pay with the QR code thing it suggested I paid 20% tip on top of the total + tax. Tip is supposed to go on the part before tax. Sneaking it in makes it so that the people working there think they get paid better, without the employers paying their fair share.

It should be on the employer to ensure that (s)he is properly remunerated for the work (s)he does, not the customer who has no insight in that contract.

But isn't it understandable? You work your whole life to buy a piece of property. But not just a piece of property anywhere. It's a specific one, in a specific neighborhood, in a specific zone. All of these things tie into the $ that you paid for that property. Regardless of the change in value, a change there impacts how you perceive living there.

If all of the sudden the neighborhood behind you gets rezoned to industrial and you get a datacenter nearby, everybody understands you're up in arms.

If at the same time the neighborhood behind you gets converted from 200 single-family homes to 200 8-plexes, complaining is NIMBY. Even though it has the same dramatic impact on the quality of life you bought into. Way more noise, way more street parking, cars racing late at night etc.

It's also missing overly shiny textures and the horrible delayed input on Unreal games...

In AZ a victim impact statement is given after the defendant has been found guilty, but before the judge sets length of the sentence.

The rules of evidence don't apply to the victim impact statement.

So was it thrown out because it was AI? If so, could the family have hired an actor to do the impersonation?

Was it thrown out because the judge said he loved it?

To my understanding the victim impact statement must be authentic. How can we know if that is how the victim would've reacted?

Making an AI / actor say: I believe in another life we could've been friends is different from the sister saying: I believe you and my brother could've been friends in another life.

This is for the PERM. The labor certification that you cannot find an American to do the job and thus your employee should be granted a green card.

> One nearby farm that I buy it from, it tastes like hazelnut. At another farm it tastes like sunflower seed.

I find that to be the case with a lot of product that are low quantity, locally produced.

Almost anything you buy at a supermarket is homogenized to make sure that when you buy Brand A at Store X tastes the same as Brand A at Store Y.

And even if it's the same company, the flavor should differ year by year, because it's based on a natural product. The harvests are different.

I wonder about this too. Whenever you ask a question to do something in GitHub Actions it comes up with an answer that kinda works, but I would've never chosen because it works around the inherent limitations of GitHub Actions.

Those limitations were put in place for a reason, and using the work-around feels dirty. I recognize that all platforms are flawed once you start to do more than they offer, but I feel that with AI its easier to build the plumbing around it.

The question shouldn't be: can you do this, but 'is this the right thing to do'?

Problem with languages like Go is, because they have GC, their API is less tuned to the ability to prevent new allocations.

In C you see lots of functions whose first parameter is a buffer that will be re-used.

And even in Rust you don't see this often, because reusing a buffer means having to do &mut, which means having to re-structure your code. And it's really easy to do Vec::new().

On a BMW a lot of stuff is synced on the key, and the rest of the information can be pulled over ODB2.

Old article: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

Fast forward to today: getting access to the canbus (e.g. via headlights) allow you to steal the car: https://www.theregister.com/security/2023/04/06/how-thieves-...

Given the integration of these modules, is it that weird that you could send signals the other way?

I remember looking at the amount of $ I had in Red Alert 2, ALT+TAB-ing out of the game, then using some RAM modifying tool to search for the value and bumping it. Good times.

Now to get more currency in Assassins Creed I have to take out my credit card. Parts of the game where you earn this currency in-game are bugged, so I don't get all the currency I am owed. And when I make I try to spend the currency I get this ominous warning that this payment cannot be reversed.

> Every student is also responsible for protecting his/her own work. If you inadvertently allow your work to be accessed, you may still be held responsible for facilitating an academic integrity violation.

This is insane. Absolute power tripping. And I say that being in favor of banning AI throughout the course.

When I had my house in Belgium we had ours just before that change. Our meter (analogue) rolled back.

I know they were phasing that out, but I don't remember if it was phased out for everybody, even the ones grandfathered in?