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by quietsegfault 9d ago
My coffee shop barely has a menu. None of the current roasts are listed anywhere, you have to ask and they change daily. No signage. It’s consistently the best coffee I’ve had. Not fussy but very very good. They do slack off on cleaning the
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by quietsegfault 9d ago
Absolutely not. My local kebab shop 100% uses AI for their menus and signage. It’s delicious. He does not have time or the desire to worry about the provenance of the menus. It’s a pretty good indicator the owner bought a ChatGPT or Canva s
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by quietsegfault 9d ago
My local coffee shop not only doesn’t have social media, but they don’t even bother decorating the store. Truly unique and amazing coffee, absolutely no design inside. It’s amazing and it really turns people off!
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by quietsegfault 9d ago
What about the pictures of Chinese food above the counter vs. the actual food you get? There has ALWAYS been a big difference between advertisements and menus and what the food really looks like.
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by quietsegfault 9d ago
This is so weird. Small businesses like delis and pizza parlors and Chinese food joints have been using stock photography and pre-made advertisements for decades. That ageless “GYRO” poster, FFS. People have lost their absolute minds over t
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by quietsegfault 10d ago
I love my kids. But I would never ever buy them robux. And I would never ever buy shit like that on a corporate card. Imagine just explaining that.
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by quietsegfault 10d ago
I have always had company cards. I never used them except when forced. It’s not a mistake to use it unless you have no business working in a job where you have access to someone else’s money.
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by quietsegfault 15d ago
The way that OpenRouter frames it with having calls routed to whatever provider is handy encourages you to think that they’re all the same in basic functionality. Really sours me on OpenRouter.
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by quietsegfault 16d ago
https://youtu.be/tEBYHHiQ4ps Home stenographer!
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by quietsegfault 16d ago
Good. Don’t say things around me, an Apple Watch wearer, that you don’t want getting out.
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by quietsegfault 16d ago
Good. I wish we had the “home stenographer” sketch from the Chapelle Show in real life. Now we do. https://youtu.be/tEBYHHiQ4ps
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by quietsegfault 18d ago
I too ran a large VDI, server, and scientific computing cluster based on Linux - libvirt in my case. I saved a bunch of money over VMware. When I quit to go to a higher paying job, they had to rip and replace everything with vSphere becau
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by quietsegfault 19d ago
Can you talk more about what changed in the last two months? I use open router for when I run out of limits, and I’ve done better than buying an additional sub for my uses. I thought about looking at a more niche player, but it’s not a prio
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by quietsegfault 22d ago
What makes you proud about IBM currently? IBM’s “RA” culture fostering Machiavellian politics, singleminded view of next quarter’s success, and asinine yet draconian bureaucracy are three out of MANY reasons why I’m embarrassed to have had
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by quietsegfault 22d ago
You get more bobcoins by using your old allowance and running out, then submitting GitHub issues that get ignored.
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by quietsegfault 22d ago
Are you allowed to use Cursor, Codex, Claude, or OpenCode or is Bob all they allow?
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by quietsegfault 22d ago
I used Bob extensively at an IBM acquisition, it was absolutely dreadful. Bobcoins.
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by quietsegfault 29d ago
It doesn’t even need to be secret or underhanded. The government can simply foster the media that drives their strategic goals. Same kind of idea as stochastic terror.
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
One big risk with Ebola is how the dead are handled in some parts of Africa. I understand the dead are cared for at home by family members which increases the risk of exposure. In western countries, death care is far more formalized with ex
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
we're done - straight to genocide, later buddy.
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
Stop repeatedly changing definitions and accounting rules until the desired conclusion becomes true. It's tiresome. In U.S. policy terminology, Social Security and Medicare are social insurance programs. Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, and housin
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
You only get to a majority by doing two misleading things… blaming the national debt on entitlements instead of general fund deficits, and counting Social Security (which is funded by its own payroll taxes) as a welfare program. The actual
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
> But the Protestant work ethic is good! No, it’s not. The Protestant work ethic is what causes people to come into work when they’re sick, spreading illness to others.
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
This is textbook sealioning! Wrapping an interrogation in a polite "just to clarify" and demanding point estimates and error bounds on a generalization is weaponized pedantry designed to derail the thread into an impossible burden
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
I think I get your point, and I’m sure there are ideas that will disappear forever. The books we were disposing of were so totally inane that I couldn’t tell you what they were, but they weren’t taken out in like 30-40 years. Northeast US s
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
Why is it a big deal? Do you think there's no difference between the books curated at Oxford University and the crap that Amazon is buying?
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
Why do you think that? Do you have evidence, or is this just a hunch? Why would Amazon waste money on uber rare books when there are thousands and thousands of not-so-rare books that could serve the exact same purpose?
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
Is there evidence that these mythical low-print-run books are being purchased by Amazon and friends for destructive scanning? I simply don't see why railing against the AI giants about this without also contributing significant effort
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
Do you think that you are somehow special and unique in needing these books? If the books cost in the 10s of thousands, then there's obviously value to other people. I've seen no evidence that Amazon or others are buying $10k book
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
I’m confused - are you intending to say Anthropic and Google are buying ALL the books?

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