PebblesRox

What's the technical distinction between "not guilty" and "innocent?"

A Facebook friend was talking about how overwhelming and chaotic her life has been feeling lately and people were chiming in to say they were in the same boat and attributing it to the Mercury retro-whatever.

Must just be a coincidence that it's back-to-school season and everyone is transitioning out of their summer routines into school-mode.

I got the FirstEnergy settlement email this morning and was very suspicious, but I'm finding multiple sources online claiming it's legitimate.

Is this an intentional design to make it so that people don't claim the money? It has to be this bad on purpose, right?

https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/08/10/yes-its-free-money-su...

I’m familiar with this principle as “Alternate your mistakes.”

I call it "seeding." When a mess is bothering me but there's a barrier (internal or external) to dealing with it completely in the moment, I "seed" the cleaning process by doing just a little bit.

A few rounds of seeding can have a surprisingly big impact and every round is an opportunity for the momentum to kick in it that leads to the whole job getting done.

We definitely relaxed our standards for kid #2 compared with kid #1 in terms of phone time.

Mainly he would watch photos and videos of himself and his big brother. We did not install any kid-specific apps and did not allow YouTube at that age.

He did enjoy Wordle - at his peak he knew how to type in around 8 different valid five letter words, which I thought was pretty impressive at age 2! His favorite was TRAIN.

Unfortunately it was too late to change the address by the time I discovered it, but we, uh, actually did order our own copy (from a much cheaper photo place) and it's currently hanging on the wall in our kitchen.

Sorry for the confusion, the fridge was just part of the photo he was looking at. We gave him the phone to look at photos, thinking he couldn’t make too much trouble with that app. But while looking at a photo of himself with ketchup, he managed to complete the ordering process for ordering a photo canvas - a feature of the photos app I had always ignored until I saw the email that the order had shipped.

Dr. Doofenshmirtz would definitely do this.

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!)

Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone, which was the only way I could see to enforce that he couldn't do it again, but then someone made a payment and ended up saving the payment method again.)

I feel like it's only a matter of time before it happens again; at least the address is correct now so we'd actually receive the item if we were unable to cancel/refund.

Yes, our happy medium is a black-and-white laser printer that we use a few times a week. For color printing we go to the store a few times a year.

I’d be curious to know if someone could get a more “valiant effort” version of those first two questions with some prompt engineering. E.g. if it was asked to roleplay a conversation with the proper disclaimers to override its objection to not knowing what they actually think.

I was expecting this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sh3kx9Qa3UU

Yeah, it probably depends on the region.

My state is split down the middle and I'm in the soda half.

I think the implication is that it doesn't work as a way to avoid raising taxes on regular people.

I've always heard and used bathroom as an American. Restroom is also used for public facilities that don't actually have bathtubs.

Now I'm imagining a writing/journaling app that automatically chooses a playlist based on the emotions or concepts detected in the writing.

Plus they're often used by kids who might not have the body weight to give a good slam.

From the map it's clear but I can imagine how someone standing in the public areas of either store would not expect that the Apple store extends behind the coffee shop ("how it wraps around")

From inside the building, it probably just looks like both stores go straight back.

Which article?

And when the revealed preference of a group clashes with the personal preferences of individuals within that group, it can be annoying and frustrating for those individuals.

And maybe they'll try some vocal complaining to try to shift the preferences of the group. Which could work out, especially if a lot of group members don't have strong preferences and are just going along with the existing default.

My impression is that the article was contrasting the first couple profiles with the other ones. But I don't think it was very clear about that, and I felt bad for the people featured who do seem more legitimate, since they were lumped in with the rest.

Plus the biggest factor in how much you need to retire is what your expenses are. Significantly lowering your expenses boosts the savings rate but it also lowers that target number.

For me, it's a question of values. I'd rather live frugally and have more freedom than trade away more of my time to have more stuff and convenience in my life. For others, the balance is different.

I think OP was imagining using a LLM trained only on animal sound data, not using a LLM trained on human data to interpret animal data.

I was expecting this link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language

That's a good point, although the phone usage could have a multiplier effect and cause proportionally more trouble in the US due to the bigger cars and more-car-oriented environment.

Seems like this would hurt vendors making legitimate changes more than fraudulent vendors.

Got it, we only use liability since we drive a cheap used car.

We use Metromile since we also work remote and don't drive much. There's a base rate per month plus a per-mile rate of a few cents. For us it ends up being a lot less than other options we've looked into.

I think they mean the scrap of paper torn out of the book:

> In 1949, a pathologist had found a bit of paper concealed in one of the dead man’s pockets, and on it were printed the words Tamám Shud, the Persian for “finished.”