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greenpresidenton Agents for financial services and insurance

My experience has been quite the opposite. Some bank processes remain oral traditions about clicking excel filters by hand because any code would have to be extensively documented and tested.

greenpresidenton iPhone 17e

They will be bought in bulk by businesses. The same for some of the laptops what you might find in a strange place within the lineup.

greenpresidenton Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

https://www.reddit.com/r/mercedes_benz/comments/1oq9xum/acti...

This is an example of what I am talking about.

greenpresidenton Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

It’s built in. There is a dedicated button for it. Hard to justify imho.

greenpresidenton Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

Pressing the lane assistant button on a Mercedes steering wheel and getting a “you’ll need to activate your subscription first” message really drove up my blood pressure.

greenpresidenton FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools

List prices are not real when it comes to the kitchen. They exist to be „limited time“-offered.

greenpresidenton M5 MacBook Pro

Baldurs Gate 3 runs great on m4 pro at 1080p (I’m on a Mac mini though).

greenpresidenton Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers

Ifixit score of 7 plus best parts availability of any phone makes for a great combination in my mind.

greenpresidenton Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises

That would ideal, yet we still got things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Woman at a cotton swab factory was identified after being considered a serial killer.

greenpresidenton A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)

That’s the engineering solution.

You could also hire two interns to do it layer by layer, call it the consultant‘s solution.

greenpresidenton New Mac Mini with M4

There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.

greenpresidenton Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE

This has been my impression in social science academia: a lot of ready to run methods are released as R packages.

greenpresidenton Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

Not OP but for everyone I know the desktop is mostly either empty or a messy “temp” folder.

greenpresidenton Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)

Also important: When asked to peer-review, tell editors that you won’t be doing free work for for-profit publications that land behind a paywall.

greenpresidenton Multimillion-dollar L.A. heist was seamless, sophisticated, stealthy

A leaky microwave would do the trick.

greenpresidenton Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'

I randomly know some people who did research on the relationships between the stakeholders that are involved here. See:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2021.1...

I find the whole thing facinating.

greenpresidenton Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age

How much are people typically tipping ChatGPT these days?

greenpresidenton Pandoc

For documents that require a longer process, I prefer formats that I can use comments and TODO in, with a text editor that feels familiar.

Other than that, I strongly agree. Word is also de facto standard when you want others to open and edit your document.

greenpresidenton Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter

Buy something (semi-)professional like the Panasonic NE 1840. There should be smaller, cheaper variants. The NE 1027 EYG will most likely work for home use. Commercial appliances are made to last and then be repaired.

greenpresidenton Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?

A playlist destroys the magic of the monumental achievement that this represents but visualizes the quantity pretty well:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jjc7SCCeXZ0PmvnKZgjpx?si=...

750 performers contributed to 260 hours of recordings. The three hours I rounded up would represent a major part of some other‘s work.

greenpresidenton Experts revive ancient techniques to make concrete more sustainable

Their CFO gave a talk this summer that I went to. He noted that green energy does not solve their sustainability goals, as about a third of the CO2 emissions are process related. He talked about their capture plans but noted that they are unlikely to be big enough to capture ongoing emissions, essentially admitting that this looks good on slides but would work at scale.

greenpresidenton Apple Spent $1B on the M3 Tape-Out, Says Analyst

I block ads though my DNS on iOS and had nothing on this site. Highly recommended, though ublock origin is obviously preferable.

greenpresidenton Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope

Notably, the placebo effect usually only effects suffer reported symptoms as in this case. It’s a folk wisdom that it has physiological effects, which is often not true.

greenpresidenton iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

If you’re using an Apple case, you might not even get prompted, as the communicate their identity to the phone already (to show their color on screen).

greenpresidenton French regulators order Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12

Settings > General > About.

Tap model number, copy, search it online.

greenpresidenton Authentication on meet.jit.si

There are a number of instances hosted by others, see for example:

https://pads.ccc.de/jitsiliste

greenpresidenton VanMoof encryption key exporter

There are three within 5 minutes on my bike. But waitlists for appointments are crazy in the summer. My friends don’t cancel but pass them on amongst each other if they don’t need theirs.

greenpresidenton VanMoof encryption key exporter

That’s a common waiting time at my local bike shops to be honest. The difference is that you can do most stuff on a normal bike yourself with off the shelf parts (supply chain woes permitting).

greenpresidenton The Dead Internet Theory [video]

If it’s all bots, what’s another one really.

greenpresidenton What Reddit Got Wrong

There is already a large population of bots reposting formerly popular content, including the comments from the original thread. It’s eerie once you notice it.