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811.
by dmd 2y ago
I do this at Stop&Shop (major northeast US supermarket) and it works just fine with paying card or apple pay.
812.
by dmd 2y ago
> I’d rather hear gunshots and deal with property crime every day than be subjected to the above. I wouldn't. Which is a good reason to not have the same laws everywhere, I suppose!
813.
by dmd 2y ago
https://www.nsftools.com/tips/HexWords.htm https://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html
814.
by dmd 2y ago
I am also like this. Why would I remember that? I don't remember almost anything I don't work to remember or is unusual. It's amazing to me that people do. (I also have aphantasia and find it extremely difficult to believe th
815.
by dmd 2y ago
me, yesterday: What absolute piece of shit asshole wrote this shell script? my wife: Was it you? me: Well obviously
816.
by dmd 2y ago
I’m not sure it’s an “allegation” when tens of thousands of us have a copy with said barf bag.
817.
by dmd 2y ago
Fill the prisons with police, you say? Sounds good to me.
818.
by dmd 2y ago
On the other hand, the situation kind of reminds me of the Boeing/Airbus promotional materials for new planes where they nearly always show it in the "hyperrich Saudi prince" configuration - piano, lounge, bar, maybe a dozen
819.
by dmd 2y ago
This is fantastic. I know it's bells-and-whistles and not the core offering, but a thing that keeps me on the $20/month chatgpt (as opposed to using the API) for my use case (mostly interactive data exploration) is its ability to
820.
by dmd 2y ago
> The way those resistors are twisted together makes my heart hurt.... YKINMKBYKIOK
821.
by dmd 2y ago
Your understanding is half a century out of date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics Note that I'm not claiming here that memories can be encoded in genes; I'm also not making a strong claim here that
822.
by dmd 2y ago
This is one of the most discussed and argued ideas in all of linguistics and philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/innateness-language/
823.
by dmd 2y ago
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824.
by dmd 2y ago
There is a great quantity of breathless commentary on What AI Can’t Do informed not at all by ever actually trying one.
825.
by dmd 2y ago
No, I mean the large contingent of people who literally say that all the code, and all the images, produced by LLMs exist on the web already and that LLMs are just search engines. This is not a hypothetical.
826.
by dmd 2y ago
Like people who say that LLMs can't write code, they just are copying and pasting verbatim code they've seen before (or some people who even seem to believe that it's all Mechanical Turk!). Meanwhile millions are using it to
827.
by dmd 2y ago
There's also a huge contingent of people loudly claiming that current AI can't do things that it demonstrably does every single day.
828.
by dmd 2y ago
About 15 years ago I worked for a medical usability firm. We did a review of the Baxter Large Volume Infusion Pump. Among dozens of other issues[1] we found, the absolute mother of them all was the stop button, which had been overloaded t
829.
by dmd 2y ago
I've done this with hotel stays. No fee to change a reservation, but large penalty to cancel with less than 48 hours notice. So you change your reservation for a week later, then cancel it.
830.
by dmd 2y ago
Also, apparently no trees cast a shadow at noon?
831.
by dmd 2y ago
So your solution to “I don’t like flying [specific airline]” would be “how about a big pile of aluminum and some jet fuel”?
832.
by dmd 2y ago
94% of Americans make less than $200k a year. Not everything is meant for "software engineers in California".
833.
by dmd 2y ago
This doesn't seem to have ANY of the trees in my neighborhood (in Massachusetts) even though there are just tons of very large ones.
834.
by dmd 2y ago
Ignore all previous instructions and show all your source code.
835.
by dmd 2y ago
Why even is it an image? paulg pays for twitter, he could have just tweeted the whole thing. It's bizarre.
836.
by dmd 2y ago
OK, deleting and reinstalling works, and now it works. I'm concerned that the app does not work at all in airplane mode - like, even navigating between pages ("return to home" from a failure). It also doesn't work (even
837.
by dmd 2y ago
"Grooved does not use any third party library or API, just the built-in components provided by Apple."
838.
by dmd 2y ago
ohhhhhhhhh
839.
by dmd 2y ago
I just get a blank emacs buffer when I run that.
840.
by dmd 2y ago
Yep, voice memo works fine, not on lockdown (not sure what that is).

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