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by flkiwi 1y ago
As soon as I start having anxiety about that, I try to remember that the same is true of any human person I deal with and I can just default back to a trust but verify stance.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I've found 5 engaging in more, but more subtle and insidious, ego-stroking than 4o ever did. It's less "you're right to point that out" and more things like trying to tie, by awkward metaphors, every single topic ba
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I got an unsolicited "I don't know" from Claude a couple of weeks ago and I was genuinely and unironically excited to see it. Even though I know it's pointless, I gushed praise at it finally not just randomly making so
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by flkiwi 1y ago
This is kind of how I use it: 1. To work through a question I'm not sure how to ask yet 2. To give me a starting point/framework when I have zero experience with an issue 3. To automate incredibly stupid monkey-level tasks that I
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by flkiwi 1y ago
As noted above, Kagi is the quietest but most useful subscription I have. The Kagi Assistant AI tool, with its access to pretty much any major model, is an enormous bonus.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
They are dumb and they are mean because they are empowered and they have access to secrets . And a department's designated HR person will not respond to questions from anyone lower than a VP, and when they do they'll point you to
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Bondi is weapons grade party trash so Nelly is actually higher quality than I would expect from her, but certainly not inconceivable. Her personal reputation is firmly jello shots and purple jesus for breakfast down here. (Important to note
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Phone cameras don't come close to any of my "real" cameras with my decades of experience shooting and composing ... but phone cameras absolutely obliterate anything I was shooting with a film camera as a beginner back when fi
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by flkiwi 1y ago
It's not exactly the same thing, but imagine my complete surprise when, in the middle of a discussion with Copilot and without warning, it announced that the conversation had reached its length limit and I had to start a new one with a
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by flkiwi 1y ago
iOS is the same, though I’ve found that the truly granular control depends on the vendor exposing the control in the app. Scummy companies—most of them—make notifications all or nothing. It’s not JUST marketing either. I don’t want to be in
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Which is nice, but when the offender is, say, a security device that sends event notification but ALSO sends marketing spam, with no granular control over types of notifications, it's not a great situation.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
> [In English] it also happens a lot with hallucinations saying stuff like "This is the end of the video, remember to like and subscribe Well now I know how I’m going to start filling awkward silences in meetings.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
> He was promoted every year in his first 8 years at Microsoft. Microsoft has too many layers and they value performative work over any kind of actual leadership experience OR Microsoft's promotions are a sham and leadership select-
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by flkiwi 1y ago
libro.fm is great. I happily subscribe to them because it's all so effortless. Probably worth noting as an aside that bookshop.org is sometimes mentioned as a libro.fm-like Amazon alternative for ebooks (NOT audiobooks), but my brief e
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by flkiwi 1y ago
It totally is. I'm not saying I ENJOY 100 degrees and 89% humidity. I'm not a monster. But it's ... fine. I can go for a walk and not die, because it's what I grew up with. I'll happily sit on the front porch, sweat
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by flkiwi 1y ago
They can hire locals ... until they find out that the talent they genuinely need isn't here in the numbers they require, either driving up their costs or requiring importing people. But they're drooling about replacing all of thos
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I have never been so cold, so very cold to my bones, as when I walk into a Florida Five Guys. I need a fleece just to get a hot dog.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
But the admins, marketing team, junior employees, etc. get screwed, and the worst part is they are genuinely not expecting it. "I thought it was going to be cheaper to live here than NYC" is something I hear _weekly_.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
It's funny: I lived in a state with similar weather (hotter at the hottest, colder during the winter, but on balance similar humidity and climate generally) but fewer imports from NY/NJ/CA/etc., and we were outside all t
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Offset by exceptionally high fees, insurance rates, etc. The taxes argument is generally a benefit only for the owners (which may well have been your point).
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by flkiwi 1y ago
My kid has an excellent Thinkpad I picked up for something like $500. Runs linux (NixOS, specifically) perfectly well. Even the fingerprint reader works! And if he spills something on it, replacing it is substantially less awful.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
After reading this, I assumed this was some level of parody: “If a program can be easily installed on Debian and (nowadays) installed on Arch Linux, that covers basically all Linux users.”
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by flkiwi 1y ago
This is the number one complaint I have with all of these solutions (and my tone here is friendly, not irritated): they assume you're already far along your fitness journey. Watching Apple's iOS updates talk about AI coaches to &q
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Because there's a fundamental difference between "manufactures a car with well-understood features in a mature regulatory space" and "prematurely deploys untested and unprecedented functionality without oversight."
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by flkiwi 1y ago
It just warms my heart to see so many lawyers pining for git-based change management and drafting-as-code all in one place. I KNEW I WASN'T ALONE.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I'd invite you to point out where I said that we should all expect others to fix our problems, but you won't be able to. I said, and I'm correct, that there is a larger context than simply one's mental approach to a prob
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I've seen statistics that ~64% of my state's residents are obese or significantly overweight. That's a pretty stark number. I honestly don't know how I feel about things like sugary drink bans. Objectively they're p
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by flkiwi 1y ago
All good advice, and I follow much of it. I should note that due to addiction issues in my family, I tend not to be an absolutist about these things, nor to stigmatize things (I don't have a 'cheat day' or 'sneak' a
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by flkiwi 1y ago
For me, it's the YMCA down the street. (Surprise! I said I hated gyms and toxic gym culture, but I didn't say I didn't find one I enjoy.)
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I appreciate the response, but I'd caution against extrapolating from a list of examples intended to represent a generally comprehensible set as a representation of my (or anyone else's) full life context. I mentioned the food des

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