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by greyb 6mo ago
>I bought a Pixel phone. As per the sales terms, the phone came with one year of Gemini AI Pro service. Except, the redemption process to get the year of service didn't work for me. I contacted Google, they never fixed it or offered
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by greyb 6mo ago
Building solar panel installations in remote locations still requires linking that back to the main grid, and all the in-between infrastructure needed to transform and transmit that power. Building it in an urban location allows you to tap
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CSOA Forte Prenestino (2023)(thecommoner.org)
2 points by greyb 7mo ago|0 comments
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by greyb 9mo ago
Meanwhile, there is a whole grey market built around this. People sell “CGNAT mobile proxies” that ride on carrier and ISP NAT, and the whole point is that they are a pain to block without nuking huge ISP ranges. So they get marketed as a c
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Proctorio Dismisses All Claims Against Critic Ian Linkletter, Lawsuit Now Closed(linkletter.org)
2 points by greyb 11mo ago|0 comments
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by greyb 1y ago
Sources mentioned in the article. [1] Powell's remarks: https://www.federalreserve.gov/mediacenter/files/FOMCprescon... [2] The kids are alright?: https://secure.ubs.com/global/en/we
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by greyb 1y ago
Can managers/directors of engineering even qualify for a TN under the recent renewed scrutiny?
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by greyb 1y ago
This remembers of the Youtube channel TRNGL [1]. They got banned from posting for some reason, and their channel was about to be deleted within a few days. They had no following, so they instead looked for bypasses to put a video publicly.
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by greyb 1y ago
>This is one of the most magnificent buildings I've seen in my life and everyone should go see it even if you're not religious. On the flipside, I remember thinking it was a kitsch architectural icon and my family was bullying
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by greyb 1y ago
It is possible. It's just not likely either.
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by greyb 1y ago
Similar happened to me. It's ridiculous to make the claim that a business should be able to make avoidable errors that ruin lives and disrupt societies, and we should pretend that they are worthy of reconsideration without having learn
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by greyb 1y ago
There are many VPNs on TopCashback offering 100%+ cashback. I assumed most of them were trying to build up user numbers in order to sell or get acquired, since I can't logically understand why a VPN would pay so much for an affiliate b
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by greyb 1y ago
>Unique to the current moment is that there are simultaneously (1) high interest rates and a challenging economy (2) a narrative that AI adoption should enable cutting junior roles. I'm not disputing your point, but I'm curious
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by greyb 1y ago
They're mostly just typical UI/UX or business consultancies trying to fit their way in the niche by offering vague advice and "data-driven analytics" services. I don't have a great deal of confidence that the averag
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by greyb 1y ago
Anecdotal, but every small business owner I've talked to have said it's because of the 1% difference in fees, even with OptBlue. I've only had 1 business owner ever say it was due to chargebacks, a small tea shop in a Chinato
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by greyb 1y ago
Haha, I'm amused you remember. I went back in my emails and it happened back in 2018. I was a not-so-eloquent college student back then. I appreciated that you both handled it with grace and kindness - sorry if I sounded irate at the t
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by greyb 1y ago
They've said it's coming: >For developers using Codex CLI via API key, we plan to make GPT‑5-Codex available in the API soon.
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by greyb 1y ago
>Perhaps this is a question you should be asking yourself. Is your cancellation system working? There was a billing session created the day after the initial charge, are you sure there wasn't an attempt to cancel the that the system
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by greyb 1y ago
Suing for $43 would absolutely be frivolous and would be thrown out by all but the most bored small claims courts. The best you could do is send your client to collections, though if you try and mess with their credit report, that incurs li
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by greyb 1y ago
My father, a blue collar immigrant worker, did the same thing in his 40s. His CEO had an open door policy so he went in and expressed concerns. That day, he learnt that an open door policy is a massive red herring and got reamed for disturb
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by greyb 1y ago
I get the economics of it for science museums, but at least science museums in major cities tend to have adults-only nights now.
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by greyb 1y ago
I don't feel that your comment has corrected anything. I like their OCR offering but it is suited for certain use cases, and would be overkill for many industry use cases. Mistral Saba is cool but there's no evidence uptake has be
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by greyb 1y ago
I truly do not see the USP for Mistral other than being based in EU. It's former USP of setting up their models on-premises for clients is now moot with the proliferation of open frontier models. I'd love to be proven wrong but I
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by greyb 1y ago
From what I recall, there are retirement homes (the examples I'm thinking of are in Asia) that make use of these suits in their onboarding processes, where they need to wear these suits for a few hours to understand some of the challen
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by greyb 1y ago
> I recently found out that my nephew's school had no take-home homework before high school, instead having kids complete assignments during class time. At first, I was flabbergasted that they would deny kids the discipline building
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by greyb 1y ago
I'm curious how relevant this actually is as a USP with the proliferation of open weight models and a glut of technical consultants.
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by greyb 1y ago
>Let's say that a friend of mine has a startup funded account at Chase, and where should they go? Silicon Valley Bank... oh wait. In all seriousness, the approachability and flexibility of SVB bankers was really unparalleled at the
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by greyb 1y ago
I'm not convinced that TrueNAS Scale is an improvement. I won't make the case that stability and maturity hamper Scale as a whole, but there are definitely discrepancies for SMB performance and limitations in and the use of Kubern