LeafItAlone

What is snarky about that?

The answer is so that they can charge different prices per credit. If you buy low amounts, they can charge one price. If you buy in bulk, they can offer a discount. The usage is the same, but they can differentiate price per usage to give people more a favorable price if they are better customers.

Is there anything wrong with that?

I would love to hear more about this!

Don’t worry. This advice has been going around for much more than 2 months, including links posted here as well as official advice from the major companies (OpenAI and Anthropic) themselves. The tools literally have had plan mode as a first class feature.

So you probably wouldn’t have any clout anyways, like all of the other blog posts.

what's the value of paying someone for a product like this vs just building it myself?

Same thing it’s always been. Convenience. Including maintenance costs. AI tools have lowered the bar significantly on some things, so SaaS offerings will need to be better, but I don’t want to reinvent every wheel. I want to build the thing I want to build, not the things to build that.

Just like I go to restaurants instead of making every meal myself.

I lived in such a place and never had power outages. Mostly because the power company came through on a regular basis (two years or so) and chopped down and trees that could cause problems. Some areas definitely looked terrible from a beauty standpoint, but it meant keeping power.

Who paid the $20k?

I’ve had a cheap (was $15) single salad spinner, for about 15 years. Decent amount of usage in that time, but not professional level.

So my question to you is: what the heck are you doing to your salad spinners?

All of this was on a Bambu A1 Mini?

These are the types of things I want to print. My Ender 3 was so finicky, I only got a few out before I gave up.

simply moving to greener pastures, whether that be NC, TN, NV, or FL

Yeah, but then they’d be in NC, TN, NV, or FL which, frankly, sounds absolutely miserable. They made the right choice by being in NYC.

Adafruit seems to be doing very well where they are. Why would they want to suffer in such junk states like those with worthless governments when they could continue to be where they are and are happy? They’d also be scraping the bottom of the barrel in those places for talent for the necessary in-person positions. The stars up mentioned sure are cheaper, and they still cost more than they are worth.

I’ve tried most of the coffee making tools and fads, including the above mentioned recipe. I’ve spent thousands and hours and hours of time chasing the feeling others like you describe.

It was so easy for me to go back to a cheap drip coffee maker and pre-ground coffee. I realized that I’ll never appreciate the flavors and process as much as the investment would call for.

I wish I could read like you then because it’s distracting to me, and clearly many others, when people write like that.

I really wish your comment also had some capitalization and punctuation so it was easier to parse. Even ChatGPT had different interpretations.

But PT (sorry, I guess it’s stylized, pt) has written like this for years, long before the recent LLM-based AI revolution (maybe given his position in the tech community he had much earlier insight into what the machines want). It has been one of the reasons his messages always seem aggressive, IMO.

This is not acceptable behavior on this forum.

None of it is reasonable. This is an online version of a schoolyard tiff. Neither side in that email chain is reasonable or mature.

This is all just very disappointing.

SparkFun filled a very important gap for me during the downfall of RadioShack. Their Free Day was a source of excitement and goodies. Around the same time they realized the legal implications of Free Day and had to cancel it, (but not because of it) I started buying from Adafruit. Since then I’ve spent many thousands on their stuff. Even when I could get it cheaper elsewhere, I was OK spending more there because of their open source work. I even made a pilgrimage to their office when it was by Ground Zero.

I’m not sure I can find them now, but Sparkfun’s Nate has definitely posted public comments over the years that are not friendly to Adafruit, always clearly rooted in jealousy. One that comes to mind was him telling Adafruit to stop pretending they are an underdog and stop preening that they didn’t (at that point) have millions in sales. I totally believe Adafruit’s account of what Sparkfun was doing.

At the same time, Phil has always rubbed me the wrong way to - too aggressive and a bit rude, even in their own forums, including where they provide customer support on orders. The threads shared of his egregious behavior do not shock me in the least.

I guess this is a good of a reason as any to stop supporting both. I’ll save thousands and I won’t have a continuously growing supply of components for projects I’ll never get around to.

What! How can you be so insecure with your data?! You’re willing to upload a file you downloaded from a cloud service to a different cloud service? The horror!!

This is exactly what I expect out of…

Sorry, got interrupted by an email saying my bank was involved in a security incident.

One question could be: which set of people know more about each other at the end of dinner.

Dinner time used to be a time of the day where couples and families would have the first chance since breakfast to discuss their day. With all of different available forms of communication today, my partner and I already know what happened during the other’s day and we are doing something like planning the next adventure.

I recently bought a device through my carrier (secondary device, secondary carrier; luckily not my primary device) to replace my existing one. Old device was still physical SIM new device only eSIM. I paid for it in a store, but it had to be shipped because they don’t have it in stock, even though it was in stock on their website (including after I left). It arrived late, the day before I was set to travel. The rep said I could just turn it on and follow the prompts and it would auto activated. It didn’t. Luckily it didn’t deactivate the old SIM. At least it didn’t until I called tech support and got their help. They said hang up, restart both devices, and the new one should work. Of course it didn’t work and both devices were now unusable. Had to go into a store and have them sort it out there.

On the flip side, being able to have a primary I never change and a secondary that I swap out for international travel has proven to be extremely valuable to me. So you take the bad with the good.

The thing that struck me most is how creative they are at finding new ways to fail

Wow, they are really going for that human-like behavior aren’t they?

I completely agree. Grok’s impressive speed is a huge improvement. Never before have I gotten the wrong answer faster than with Grok. All the other LLMs take a little longer and produce a somewhat right answer. Nobody has time to wait for that.

Completely agree. Let’s trust the experts we’ve reported on for years: put your symptoms into WebMD. Now please excuse me; according to WebMD apparently this stubbed toe means I have cancer so I have to get that treated.

Their new smart plugs finally seem reasonably sized. I love IKEA’s smart home products, but their smart plugs (and many of their device power plugs) are comically sized in the US. Their original US version of the TRÅDFRI plugs wouldn’t even allow for two to be plugged into the same (standard size) dual wall outlet. Their more recent TRETAKT is much better, but still larger than competitors.

Does it actually make a difference? I have an old Kindle (from 2013 I think) and I opted for the ad version. I only see ads on the lock screen, which means I never really read the ads. The few times I’ve looked at them intentionally, they were books I’d never consider reading, just from the title and cover; in other words, a terrible ad for the recipient.

Does the ad-free version not collect your data too?

Where on that page does it show that it is a necessity? I haven’t been to Rocky Mountain recently (and when I did go right before COVID don’t need one) but am an avid National Parks visitor and have never once needed a phone. You can print the timed entry codes (which I often do because of lack of cell service in some).

I am working on a project with ~200k LoC, entirely written with AI codegen.

I’d love to see the codebase if you can share. My experience with LLM code generation (I’ve tried all of the popular models and tools, though generally favor Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet). My time working with them leads me to suspect that your ~200k LoC project could be solved in only about 10k LoC. Their solutions are unnecessary complex (I’m guessing because they don’t “know” the problem, in the way a human does) and that compounds over time. At this point, I would guess my most common instruction to this tools is to simplify the solution. Even when that’s part of the plan.

It massively amplified the nuts. It brought it to the mainstream.

COVID was handled terribly after the first month or so, and hopefully we've learned from that. We're going to endure the negative consequences for years.

In theory, I agree, kind of.

But also - we were 10+ months into COVID raging in the US before Biden’s administration, the administration that enacted the policies the article is about, came to be. Vaccine production and approval were well under way, brought to fruition in part due to the first Trump administration. The “nuts” had long been mainstream and amplified before this “silencing” began. Misinformation was rampant and people were spreading it at a quick speed. Most people I know who ultimately refused the vaccines made up their minds before Biden took office.

I honestly don’t know. My libertarian foundation want me to believe that any and all ideas should be able to be spread. But with the technological and societal changes in the past 10-15 years, we’ve seen how much of a danger this can be too. A lie or mistrust can be spread faster than ever to a wider audience than previously ever possible. I don’t have solution, but what we have not is clearly not working.

Ok, but how does that get implemented? Not technically, but who makes it happen and enforces the rules? For all content or just “political”? Who decides what’s “political”? Information about the disease behind a worldwide pandemic isn’t inherently “political”, but somehow it became so.

Who decides agar falls in this bucket. The government? That seems to go against the idea of restricting speech and ideas.

SEA and others are still better educated than us.

Honest question: is this true? What’s the data around this? If it is true, why are there so many people from SEA in American universities? Wouldn’t they stay in their home country or another in the area?

I’m truly trying to learn here and square this statement with what I’ve come to understand so far.

The best disinfectant is sunlight.

Is it? How does that work at scale?

Speech generally hasn’t been restricted broadly. The same concepts and ideas removed from YouTube still were available on many places (including here).

Yet we still have so many people believing falsehoods and outright lies. Even on this very topic of COVID, both sides present their “evidence” and and truly believe they are right, no matter what the other person says.