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Telo MT1 12 months ago

The primary purpose of a pickup truck is gender affirming care for men in an increasing confusing world.

I honestly think desktop notifications in their current form are one of the worst features of the modern web. Sure it's nice to get an email alert but on my experience there's probably a thousand confused old people getting spammed for each person that intentionally enabled it.

What's worse is they look like native OS alerts (on Windows) so when one says "SECURYIRT ALERT!! CALL NOW" it's that much more effective at getting people on the phone with scammers.

This sort of post should result in a permanent ban on any platform. If someone thinks it's too long they can copy and paste it themselves.

Sure, but there are already many many people partially or fully disabled by over resting after an injury. The parent comment was hardly calling for running marathons right after a car accident.

We can debate the merits of various drug pricing schemes but at the end of the day, prices are set by a small group of interested actors who want the prices to be as high as they possibly can without causing a violet revolt. So call it what you will but let's not pretend there's some deeper, more important meaning to be sussed out here.

It should be cheaper. No circling the block looking for parking, no space needed at all for that matter. That alone is worth giving taxis/ubers at least a different pricing structure.

Provide evidence. 2012 is pretty late to have been drinking the techno-utopian koolaid but millions of people, and IMO, maybe half of silicon valley tech workers, took this assumption as ground truth.

This breathless article from 2009 [1] (found in 2 seconds by searching "tech will change the world year:2009") is a good example of what most people thought. You can find blog many posts and articles from the time saying basically the same thing. If you forget, back in 2012 people used to tune into Apple's yearly keynote with bated breath in anticipation of what marvelous innovation Apple would grace us with next. An app to replace your therapists? Uber for dogs? Solve poverty and racism? That was the attitude I remember among my peers (college kids and yes, professors too).

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/Science_And_Technology_That_Changed_...

Meta Movie Gen 2 years ago

It's incredible in the same way an AK-47 is incredible. This sort of thing is going to uproot all of culture and god knows what happens after that.

Keep in mind this is not true in the Northeast. It’s very common to have multi million dollar homes within spitting distance of dilapidated buildings worth only land value. My parent’s house, while nothing special, sold for a couple hundred thousand when they sold in 2019. A few months before hand our neighbor sold theirs for over 2 million.

Yes, almost all US cities have at least a couple grocery stores that stock imported products and have signage in multiple languages. most common is Chinese or general “Asian” but larger cities have more specific stores that specialize further on Korean, Vietnamese, etc.

In the US, Comcast does this on all business copper connections. They call it "Secure Edge". It frequently breaks DNS, VPNs, some voip, torrents (or any P2P connections), and probably other stuff. It's enabled by default on all new accounts and will randomly be at the account level.

To disable it you have to call them and ask.

Fastmail Is Down 3 years ago

If you follow the Sysadmin subreddit, Microsoft routinely has long outages. Last week (or the week before) email was completely down, the admin panel was unusable, etc. Fastmail has been FAR more reliable then Microsoft. Yes, the Fastmail team should be responsive though. At least with Microsoft they internal comms are very leaky with this sort of thing so details are usually public long before it's announced.

Fastmail Is Down 3 years ago

Working for me also. Seems to be one of the rare cases where the “down for some people” in a status page actually does mean “some”. Recently when Microsoft 365 was offline for all email services they reported it as a “limited degradation”.

One more clip, starts at 56:22. They search for negative reviews for their own lanyard, new Bing Search checks for all negative reviews, but here's the insane part; *It also checked the legitimacy of the site itself and notes people can post reviews without purchasing the product*

I've used GTP3 and chatGPT quite a bit but that is shocking. Google Search will be nearly irreverent in 3 months if they can't match this.

Direct link for desktop browsers:

https://www.youtube.com/live/AxAAJnp5yms?feature=share&t=338...

So long as you can buy drugs with Bitcoin it will maintain a certain minimum value, regardless of what happens with these scam companies. If tether where to completely collapse I estimate Bitcoin would fall to to no less then 30% of it’s current value.

The price of bitcoin will never fall faster then the time it takes to login to a darknet market and update a listing.

Sometime last year, someone published a guide on auto-generating subtitles using an emacs plugin and WhisperAI. A lot of anime release groups use it so they can get an English subtitled version of a show released a couple hours after it airs in Japan.

It's nice to have access sooner, especially for less popular shows that might never get any kind of release outside of Japan, but it's a lot worse then most fan subs and sometimes misses entire sections of dialog.