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by gblargg 4mo ago
So you spend more time checking out and more time being idle waiting for it.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
It's people being dishonest that makes self checkout slower, with it having to verify the weight of everything. Some stores are higher trust and lack this, which makes it so much faster and smoother.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
I love self checkout. It's usually significantly faster and I can keep busy rather than waiting (I still bag when I use a cashier). I can do shenanigans like do three transactions so I can use a coupon three times separately, without b
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Yep, and it's pretty bad. The only benefit is real-time, which is why I highlighted that FUTO lacks that. If it made as many errors as GBoard, it wouldn't be worth using.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Voice dictation is so much better than GBoard, which I've been using until now. It capitalizes and punctuates sentences without me needing to, and got several sentences perfect without any post-editing needed, and it's all a local
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by gblargg 4mo ago
If most people have a significant Vitamin D deficiency, then I agree that my comparison was absurd.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Same for breathing oxygen, if you don't get it you'll die, but for most people oxygen supplementation would not be worth even knowing about.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Depends on which vitamin as well. Some like vitamin B and C aren't retained, so excess is shed quickly.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
I thought we were talking about companies that spam you if you're a customer. I don't think we need government force involved.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Doesn't the right to free association solve this? Don't patronize companies that do this.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
I don't have a problem with that. I wouldn't upload anything to these I didn't keep a local copy of. Monetarily it makes sense: they have to recover the cost of storing these images. By charging to recover every old image, th
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Since I couldn't be bothered, I had AI read it and tell me the outcome: they did in fact go to online-only bookings, freeing the staff from the phones so they could help customers more.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
I think they re-implemented Unicorn on a newer version of QEMU 5, rather than trying to port their old modifications over. Unicorn apparently did not support RV and PPC in the older version.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
That kept annoying me. I thought I was moving the mouse while clicking. I repeated and found it forces a rotate even when you just click.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
AI needs to learn "stranger danger."
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Can you elaborate? I know it's a drive-by but maybe you can articulate.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
> There it was, something about my desktop profile was introducing at least 3 ms of latency [as compared to creating a fresh account]! From here, I tried a bunch of things: plasma-manager to diff my existing profile against a clean one,
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by gblargg 4mo ago
> I mean, the dude didn't even try to say he wasn't warned: A warning that service will be disrupted if you don't add a credit card clearly implies that service would be cut off once they used up the free time. Continuing
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by gblargg 4mo ago
> In this instance, the bill is a communication in advance -- if you provide a credit card in order to keep using our services, we want to get paid for everything you used after the free limit. That would be much more acceptable. If it
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by gblargg 4mo ago
This story is also educating people so if they do use them, they know in advance how they bill so won't be surprised.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
The terms state > Alternatively, for larger contracts, You may request to be billed via invoice. > By providing payment information, You authorize us to charge Your credit card for usage fees or, in the case of invoice-based contracts
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by gblargg 4mo ago
> we've never pursued these invoices. Reminds me of the company Tado, who was testing to see if people would pay by making them think they would have to even though they didn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t
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by gblargg 4mo ago
I just tested and apparently their site is extremely flaky. I tried for several minutes to get info but nothing except one time (changing store location, refreshing). Then it started working fine for a while, updating when I changed locatio
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Well given a long enough timeline, everything will be disabled at some point.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Like Home Depot not showing the item location in store from the website, only the app.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
If you don't align the array to a 4K boundary in memory, fitting within a page isn't as big of an optimization win.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
Yeah, they could make it more prominent at the top. I would be fine if it said that "AI may give totally wrong answers" but that would never happen.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
> In order to use the Blacksmith Software Inc Service, You must set up an account. During the account setup process, You will be required to connect your GitHub account and install Blacksmith’s GitHub integration in your org, and add a v
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by gblargg 4mo ago
I thought Google labeled its AI summary with a disclaimer already. I don't want companies to be forced to only offer safe-for-children services.
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by gblargg 4mo ago
To remove the choice from responsible people who can understand that LLM answers are not to be trusted with anything important?

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