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by ageitgey 11mo ago
Fun fact: In the UK, you can pay more (say 30%-40% the cost of a US health insurance plan), get treated like royalty in private care, skip all the lines for specialists, still be covered by the NHS to pay 0 for anything catastrophic, and st
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by ageitgey 11mo ago
> I'd be interested to hear from a charge coding expert about Claude's analysis here and if it was accurate or not. There's also some free mixing of "medicare" v.s. "insurance" which often have very dif
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by ageitgey 1y ago
Cars (especially in the US) are an emotional and personal purchase. They are an extension and representation of your personality. It's fashion. The entire history of the US car business has shown that the path to success is to produce
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by ageitgey 1y ago
This is going to be sick to buy for almost nothing in like a year when it inevitably gets discontinued.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
Sweet, an AI spam post about learnings from a outage that is still ongoing.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
Sure, people always claim "drivers in MY city..." But I've lived in both places and London is very different than SF. I'd say the UK has better drivers on average (and much more strict licensing requirements), but drivin
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by ageitgey 1y ago
If they can operate in London, they will have really shown that autonomy is working. London is full of two-way roads that are only one car width wide, roads were you can just get stuck and have to fully back out, vehicles entirely blocking
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by ageitgey 1y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said. I guess there's also factor where the worst of Seattle is right beside a tech conference, but the worst of, say, Baltimore just never gets seen by the wider world.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
This is more about two sides yelling past each other and playing team sports instead of being credible parties trying to improve society. And given how weaponized especially the right has become recently, I'm not sure how you can even
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by ageitgey 1y ago
This is exactly why this turn is illegal in nearly every country in the world except the US and Canada. [1] If you are in the UK, this turn is illegal always and everywhere, so it basically never happens. I grew up in the US with right turn
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by ageitgey 1y ago
Anthropomorphizing statistical language models doesn't do anyone good.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
I owned an ID.3. It was a great car held back by just passable software. But much of the software issue was a non-issue in real life since Android Auto or Carplay would take over the screen. But the failure was big enough for VW that they w
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by ageitgey 1y ago
We are so far past that in mass market fiction. It's folding back in on itself. Tom Clancy has new books coming out every year and he's been dead for over a decade. They don't hide the "ghostwriter" but they also pu
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by ageitgey 1y ago
I bought some expensive camera gear from Amazon and had a terrible experience. The delivery person obviously stole the gear and kept making fake "delivery attempted" notifications at exactly midnight while I was at home night afte
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by ageitgey 1y ago
> the website UX has become steadily worse Not disagreeing, but the Amazon web UX has been famously terrible since like 1998. They basically invented the whole trend of building via A/B test result instead of via user-centric design
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by ageitgey 1y ago
QGIS is great. It's a slightly janky version of ArcMap, but ArcMap has always been janky anyway, so it doesn't matter for most things. And QGIS is super extensible. There have been so many random times that QGIS has helped me out
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by ageitgey 1y ago
There are two lessons here: 1. When selling software to companies, don't price it like a consumer service. For a company of any size, paying $10 and paying $100 for a tool require the same amount of work for someone to process and it i
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by ageitgey 1y ago
Progressive politics has a natural 'kitchen sink' risk. A group proposes to build simple, affordable housing and funds it. Then another group comes along and says that people with affordable housing deserve energy-efficient, low-c
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by ageitgey 1y ago
The AI upscaling makes it look like NIN are playing with late-1980s era Rick Astley. Hilarious.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
The Iron Horse cafe! Surprisingly good sandwiches back in the day.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
I didn't get an AI vibe from this post. Grammar checkers add em dashes, too. If anything, an AI tool would have written a shorter, less rambling post.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
I posted this comment in 2013 [1] and I stand by it 12 years later: Cucumber tries to solve the problem of turning customer requirements into 'real code'. In exchange for that worthwhile benefit, it asks you to implement the most
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by ageitgey 1y ago
I used to use a grammar and punctuation checking browser plugin that worked in any text box. Among all the normal suggestions, it would always insist that instead of using a - dash, that it was proper to use an — emdash. I would accept the
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by ageitgey 1y ago
It's a nice idea, but it is still pretty far from even a public v0.1. I think they can get there, but it will be at least a few years.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
This feels like the last paper cut for me. It's easy enough to keep using Heroku because it's "easy for the team," even though it is overpriced. But when they can't even acknowledge an incident and there is no way t
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by ageitgey 1y ago
I have several services on Heroku, and they are up and down randomly. So it's definitely not just the Heroku admin layer that is down. Access to check logs or perform other Heroku CLI functions is very intermittent. Some of our service
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by ageitgey 1y ago
If you want to get hired by a traditional company, you need to get into a stable position with a fixed address. If that's not possible right now, you can try doing project-based work on Upwork or similar services. It's quick to ge
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by ageitgey 1y ago
Sure, but that's a lot more work than just cloning your fake crypto exchange site tenplate for the 100th time to a new domain. These scammers aren't geniuses. They are all about quick turnarounds.
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by ageitgey 1y ago
The numbers are just examples, but you'll get 1-2 real withdraws before you start losing money. The sunk cost and feeling it was legit before is part of the scam to get you to big numbers. You might only get sent a small part of the ba
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by ageitgey 1y ago
On reddit, the /r/scams community is a fascinating one to follow to both track what the common scams are right now and to also see just the unending, massive wave of them working over and over. Based on what is popular right now,

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