BeetleB

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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> I live and work in France, and oh boy... It's just cultural. Every email is like a letter to the King. "Would you be so kind enough to consider my humble request that is described hereafter in next three paragraphs". Ha!
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> if the sender has enough decision power to move forward with a default action without confirmation, then the email is simply a polite notice to someone above in the command chain, isn’t it? In one team I did this all the time even thou
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> Do YOU (want to or have time to) read someone else's long emails? Always - as long as it makes proper use of paragraphs and doesn't have too many spelling/grammatical errors. If I ever have to respond to an email asking
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> We write emails so the reader can understand the point in seconds, decide quickly, and forward the message without extra explanation. I stopped reading right there. He's plain wrong about much (the majority?) of the world.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> One great genre of HN comment is where people insist subscriptions are the only way a software business can work, It's the primary way most SW can work. Pre-subscription, you needed to make SW that was so much in demand that it co
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> Maybe for budgeting purposes you don’t want to lock in future obligations. And I guess I can understand that, but I can’t help feeling like you have in mind that this one-time purchase is going to be $5 total. And I’m here to tell you
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
The point is that the less capable models are also borderline AGI. You're paying 10-100x more to get a few percentage points improvement in performance. Put another way, what I get for my under $3/mo is better than what you were g
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Is a lot of money. The majority of people here aren't willing to spend $200/mo for coding unless their little projects provide a comparable value back to them. For context, I'm paying under $30/year and get GLM-5.2. An e
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> I don’t really get it - NONE of the frontier assistants can use tools / connectors while in voice mode - Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok. Is that true? I have a friend who often brainstorms with Gemini (I think just on an Android ph
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I should give these voice models another try. I have friends who have brainstormed with an LLM (voice chat) for 10-30 minutes, and reported very positive experiences. When I speak to one - while I'm impressed at how far they've pr
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> Yes, every minute you spend texting or talking to a chatbot is a minute that you'd have spent talking to another human beings. Human beings tend not to be available (results vary by culture). Also, imagine you're 82 years old
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I think you misspelled "I've got plenty of money".
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
One thing Simon pointed out: Usually live voice models are not as capable as the frontier ones. What makes this one special is that it can delegate the task to a frontier model while talking to you.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Ah - whenever I had a car with physical buttons, I could typically press the ones I wanted without looking. Fairly quickly too. That's why I hate screens.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
The source I checked has it above 2%. I'm looking across all platforms (desktop, mobile, etc).
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
The example I gave was $10. I suppose it's possible I'll get it cheaper on AliExpress, but how much cheaper? As for shipping - if it's not urgent, I just put it in my Wishlist until I accumulate items beyond the free shipping
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> You really shouldn’t make speeding up to make the light a habit but, I was restraining myself from saying exactly this :-) I can't remember where, but I recently drove somewhere and they had posted signs informing drivers that the
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I think you don't follow. I said: "When I hear people say this, it's not because of any experience they've had, but just a repetition of talking points" You pointed out a potential problem. So my followup is: "
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I don't doubt they speak only Spanish, but this is the part I contest: > There are notable issues What are the issues? Which (English speaking) Americans have been so negatively impacted because of this, and how? I don't live i
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Knowing Germans, I'm not disagreeing with you - merely pointing out the perception. (I have heard bad stories from Germany, but that was decades ago).
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> My dad's Toyota has this. The issue is it seems to have a hard time actually centering itself in the lane, so it'll just sway from side to side like a drunk driver if the lane is somewhat narrow. Newer cars (or other cars) do
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
comma.ai will not disable the warning. This is a warning that's on all the time.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> and for the downvoters: these are facts. One would expect you would follow that sentence with some facts...
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> The whole immigrants who don't integrate seems to be a constant issue in every developed country across the globe I can't speak for the other countries, but in the US it's almost entirely an agenda being pushed. When I h
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I can only speculate, but usually when such phrases come up, it's about things like not being part of the in-group - people they know throwing parties and not inviting them, etc.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
I love the warning about not having hands on the steering wheel. It goes off all the time. And each time, my hands are on the steering wheel. It doesn't actually detect contact - it checks to see if you're actively adjusting the s
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> adjusting the climate controls, Well if they hadn't removed climate control buttons , this would not be a concern! Not being able to easily adjust climate settings is very much a safety concern. And the fact that it beeps at you
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
Can't you turn that feature off? I often complain about the lack of buttons, but my car actually has a dedicated button to turn this safety feature off. IIRC, veering from the lane is the cause of most collisions, so it makes sense to
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> The worst is the cruise control that tries to stick to the speed limit -- but its sensors don't always read the signs very well I would assume all such cars have an option to turn this off.
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by BeetleB 4mo ago
> Most side effects don't happen to people taking a drug. Which is why most doctors don't mention them, either. Look, everything I've been prescribed has a long list of side effects - many quite serious. Just read the pa

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