One of the challenges in reading AI output is that it outputs cross-discipline. Load bearing (civil engineering), smoking gun (detective novels?), etc. I use a skill file which states that it may internally use…
> I can 100% guarantee that we'll have comments from people saying they buy iPhones specifically because of the walled garden and the last thing they want is a jail broken device. On a website called Hacker News. I…
> I never did much beyond installing Cydia. Watusi was great, it let you disable the blue checkmark on Whatsapp. (Since been added as a setting) I also used a tweak that let me auto-block certain phone prefixes that…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180987 [dead] ?
A coworker told me that the bank she worked for would put you on hold for a 20 minute minimum, during which they played background music with intermittent static, to annoy you into hanging up. Pure evil.
Had a doctor take a biopsy, said we need to wait for the test results, but should already start planning for cancer treatment. Results come back: Just some blood under the skin.
Might also be easier for money laundering when you can claim you're a cash-only business, and thus have no digital proof of where these 30 million in monthly car washes comes from.
For online purchases, the 10% typically applies to Pix, so it's not "outside the governments view". However interesting point with taxes: Next year Brazil is introducing split payments for credit card transactions,…
> The vendor pays the 3% not you In Brazil, you'll typically get a "10% discount" when not paying by credit card. Eg, it's very clearly pushed unto the consumer. I assume some law says they cannot charge more for it, so…
I got an old pair of Sketchers which are great. They are a bit worn, so a year or two I bought a new pair which are absolutely horrible to wear for any extended amount of time. Been looking for a good replacement ever…
I'll keep it in mind when these fail.
> How many Apple Watches and AirPods have ever become obsolete due to their batteries not being replaceable? Every single pair of AirPods I've had has died due to one of them not charging anymore. I assume it's the…
> I’m fully bought into the Apple ecosystem, and I’ve had Teslas for 8 years and we currently also have car that supports CarPlay. The CarPlay interface is overall far inferior, especially with navigation. First of all,…
Epstein
Someone sent me https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/OkEMRb/433-millioner-i-miste... and I immediate thought of this post. On e24, opting out of cookies is a paid service.
Do you believe there are many enough of these at scale to make any meaningful impact? The vast majority of personal projects are not built by those receiving FAANG salaries.
> It became way better when microsoft started tormenting the users of win11 instead of win10, and now that windows update doesn't bring new catastrophes and unexpected reboot, the OS is finally not interfering with…
> I think it sets a dangerous precedent to put guardrails in that return a response from a prompt that was modified by the system in real time In practise though, how is this truly that different from system prompts?…
> Onedrive constantly trying to steal all my files By default setting, windows defender will upload "suspicious files" to Microsoft. A while back I caught it trying to nab my OpenVPN installer which also contains the…
> If I buy the SpaceX stock it's 100% certain to go down. If I don't buy it it will rocket to the moon. The answer is clearly to buy stocks and then short it. (/s!!)
> because my employer is the one paying for Copilot & wants us all using it I was told we're moving off Copilot and over to Claude desktop sometime this week. Burned trough 30% of our included credits yesterday, while…
> How many digits/letters long is it nnn.nnn.nnn-nn A CPF is nationally unique. You also have a RG/RNE which is unique per state. Not too often you get asked for this one though.
> People underestimate how difficult it was to transfer money before Pix, even between local banks. The process was hard to use, it could take days and the fees were huge, depending on your bank. Pix solved all these…
> To be able to pay with Pix, one needs to get a CPF (Brazilian Tax ID). There are third party apps you can use to pay with pix using a credit card, can't recall that name, but read about it here a few months back, on…
> How do people find Lightning cables robust? Every single one I got from Apple failed My third party cables are lasting 3-5 years. Absolutely would have preferred lightning cables, but it is what it is. That said,…
One of the challenges in reading AI output is that it outputs cross-discipline. Load bearing (civil engineering), smoking gun (detective novels?), etc. I use a skill file which states that it may internally use…
> I can 100% guarantee that we'll have comments from people saying they buy iPhones specifically because of the walled garden and the last thing they want is a jail broken device. On a website called Hacker News. I…
> I never did much beyond installing Cydia. Watusi was great, it let you disable the blue checkmark on Whatsapp. (Since been added as a setting) I also used a tweak that let me auto-block certain phone prefixes that…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50180987 [dead] ?
A coworker told me that the bank she worked for would put you on hold for a 20 minute minimum, during which they played background music with intermittent static, to annoy you into hanging up. Pure evil.
Had a doctor take a biopsy, said we need to wait for the test results, but should already start planning for cancer treatment. Results come back: Just some blood under the skin.
Might also be easier for money laundering when you can claim you're a cash-only business, and thus have no digital proof of where these 30 million in monthly car washes comes from.
For online purchases, the 10% typically applies to Pix, so it's not "outside the governments view". However interesting point with taxes: Next year Brazil is introducing split payments for credit card transactions,…
> The vendor pays the 3% not you In Brazil, you'll typically get a "10% discount" when not paying by credit card. Eg, it's very clearly pushed unto the consumer. I assume some law says they cannot charge more for it, so…
I got an old pair of Sketchers which are great. They are a bit worn, so a year or two I bought a new pair which are absolutely horrible to wear for any extended amount of time. Been looking for a good replacement ever…
I'll keep it in mind when these fail.
> How many Apple Watches and AirPods have ever become obsolete due to their batteries not being replaceable? Every single pair of AirPods I've had has died due to one of them not charging anymore. I assume it's the…
> I’m fully bought into the Apple ecosystem, and I’ve had Teslas for 8 years and we currently also have car that supports CarPlay. The CarPlay interface is overall far inferior, especially with navigation. First of all,…
Epstein
Someone sent me https://e24.no/norsk-oekonomi/i/OkEMRb/433-millioner-i-miste... and I immediate thought of this post. On e24, opting out of cookies is a paid service.
Do you believe there are many enough of these at scale to make any meaningful impact? The vast majority of personal projects are not built by those receiving FAANG salaries.
> It became way better when microsoft started tormenting the users of win11 instead of win10, and now that windows update doesn't bring new catastrophes and unexpected reboot, the OS is finally not interfering with…
> I think it sets a dangerous precedent to put guardrails in that return a response from a prompt that was modified by the system in real time In practise though, how is this truly that different from system prompts?…
> Onedrive constantly trying to steal all my files By default setting, windows defender will upload "suspicious files" to Microsoft. A while back I caught it trying to nab my OpenVPN installer which also contains the…
> If I buy the SpaceX stock it's 100% certain to go down. If I don't buy it it will rocket to the moon. The answer is clearly to buy stocks and then short it. (/s!!)
> because my employer is the one paying for Copilot & wants us all using it I was told we're moving off Copilot and over to Claude desktop sometime this week. Burned trough 30% of our included credits yesterday, while…
> How many digits/letters long is it nnn.nnn.nnn-nn A CPF is nationally unique. You also have a RG/RNE which is unique per state. Not too often you get asked for this one though.
> People underestimate how difficult it was to transfer money before Pix, even between local banks. The process was hard to use, it could take days and the fees were huge, depending on your bank. Pix solved all these…
> To be able to pay with Pix, one needs to get a CPF (Brazilian Tax ID). There are third party apps you can use to pay with pix using a credit card, can't recall that name, but read about it here a few months back, on…
> How do people find Lightning cables robust? Every single one I got from Apple failed My third party cables are lasting 3-5 years. Absolutely would have preferred lightning cables, but it is what it is. That said,…