SoftTalker

> We wanted receipts, so we invested heavily in eval infra to help us hill-climb, but also to identify when knowledge is common enough we can prune our guides.

Good god.

Remeber, the features you don't use are the ones you don't have to support, or scramble to replace when they are deprecated.

Keep your effing websites simple.

$20K (ish) will get you a Slate EV truck with no options, or a forthcoming REO. Those are real, road-legal trucks not carts with a lawn-mower engine.

Limiter delete will likely be readily available in the aftermarket.

I know next to nothing about Ableton but aren't projects mostly a bunch of uncompressed audio or other large binary media files? Git doesn't really do well with that.

> I read this as: We'll build anything and everything into Claude eventually.

Well, isn't that the natural end result of an AGI?

No more software, no more deciding what apps you need. It's all just Claude. Except now you're pulling 10kW to add up a column of numbers.

It's the same. Ambulance gets billed to insurance, if they don't have insurance then it's written off (actually just everyone else pays more).

When my kids went away to college it was something of a relief. They were on their own. I would not know where they were, who they were with, how late they were staying out, or any of the stuff I was much more aware of when they were living at home.

I never GPS tracked them even when they were younger. They got inexpensive Android smartphones in 8th grade, with a talk about what to watch out for. I didn't read their email or text messages, I didn't lurk on their school website checking grades every day. If a teacher or administrator emailed me, I'd deal with that, but otherwise I tried to let them learn to run their lives. They made some mistakes. That's how you grow.

Yes, after the biz unit spends a month talking with IT about it, it might take the developer 10 minutes.

"abundance of caution" means "horses are out of the barn, but we closed the door anyway"

A big thing they could do for costs is reduce mail delivery to the final destination to once or twice a week. They would need anywhere from 1/2 to 1/5 the number of delivery drivers and vehicles that they have today.

The vast majority of first-class and bulk-rate mail is not anything can't wait a few days. For truly urgent deliveries, use a courier service or pay a higher postage that covers the expenses of that.

I used to run that at work, but I'd invariably get calls or emails that "your computer is crashing over and over" so I stopped.

I've never seen a ticket system used as just a dumping ground for data in auto-closed tickets. Seems like there would be better solutions for that, particulary for data you want to find later (in my experience, the search capability of ticket systems varies from poor to "don't bother, you won't find what you're looking for")

Anything else, that needs a human to interpret or take action on, yes, ticket systems get extremely wide usage.

If you don't know what "python code" is, you'll just ask the AI to do the task.

Cities have plenty of employees without much to do.

Coins, being cash, are simple, require no apps, smartphones, batteries, tracking, ads, or privacy violations.

My suggestion is that if you're going to present a "Men and boys’ health and well-being strategy" then the public face and leadership of that should be male.

How would it be received if a male were presenting a strategy on women and girls well-being?

Institutions don't and cannot care. You're looking in the wrong place.

As another commenter noted, "sometimes there can be things that only other men understand"

There are countless square miles of vacant land in the USA that are unsuitable for farming and ideal for solar. This might be useful in areas where vacant land is actually scarce.

> I was getting some weird responses from people who went through a lot of effort to track me down

I'll just say that this is not new. Some decades ago I wrote a Letter to the Editor in my local paper about a local issue. As per their policy, it was published with my real name. I got several anonymous letters sent to my home about it, plain envelope, typed, no return address. None were out-and-out crazy but they all clearly were from people who had at least one or two loose screws and far too much time on their hands.

They don't recognize the persistent Norton renewal notices I get as spam either. That's been going on for years.

I've just concluded that Google views every message from gmail.com to be an advertisement for their service.

A pretty decent spam filter would be (From gmail.com && not a known sender) -> Spam.

Unless you find a way to stop bots, they will overrun everything and all tag each other as "someone I've met"

The couple of enthusiast email lists I'm on are still real people, as far as I can tell.

Most of my spam is from gmail addresses. Why Google hasn't figured out how to stop the fake Norton renewal notices is just mind-boggling.

Lately I've also been getting a lot from compromised MS365 accounts.

Maybe the CRM will become a viable replacement for a job. There are tons of one-person or very small service businesses who could probably use that.

Why are we so willingly ceding one of the few widely used free and open protocols to a handful of $mega-billion providers?

Experience shows that the walls will get taller and the moats will get deeper.

Charge for the service. How much spam do you get from Fastmail?

Postal mail still works.

It being free and open is exactly what the big providers can't stand and why they are coming up with ever more "standards" that are complex to configure as well as "reputation" scores that are hard for small senders to clear.

Also why they do non-standard stuff like accepting mail but then simply not delivering it, rather than bouncing it.

I'm fine with providers imposing some default level of spam protection but as a user I'd like the option to disable it, even better if I can disable it per domain or sender. The old technique of adding the sender to your contacts doesn't work reliably anymore.