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Americans get another message that's similar: https://www.oneplus.com/us/adjustment

didn't know that! have a 2024 Premium and it's still loud

no one's complained (I don't even know if they notice), I just feel like it's obnoxious - I can feel the car arrive from the apt shaking haha

great choice NOT getting the GRC — it doesn't fit a car seat comfortably if you're 5'8 or larger haha

the stock GRC exhaust is intolerable already; every time I pull into the apt complex where everyone drives an EV, I feel like we're the neighborhood hood rats

I have a GR Corolla and it's great in the mountains! It's tiny light and fun and fits a car seat (barely).

I wouldn't consider a loud GRC w/ catback a "sleeper" though - it's quite the opposite??

I like the idea that Costco and Amazon are diametric opposites — for example I couldn't shop at Costco for a very very long time because I lived in the city and didn't have a car.

Amazon and other delivery companies (e.g. Weee) came to the rescue. For a while I lived close enough to a Costco for a 20 minute bike, so I'd load up my gym bag full of food - even then Costco is not ideal because there's only so much you can carry (one thing of meat, one thing of eggs, some veggies).

For those that think Costco are the uber-shopping experience are missing that they both provide very opposite consumer experiences. (Yes Costco has shipping, and same day shipping, but it hits different from Amazon).

This is also opposite to corner store grocery systems where you can pop in at any moment to get fresh fruit, a wider choice, smaller quantities at more flexible hours etc.

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tldr - what I think I'm saying is that Costco is the perfect "suburban" purchasing experience - great if you tick the boxes that you have a big family (otherwise why do you need a 60 pack of toilet paper), a big house (where do you fit all that toilet paper), a car (to transport the toilet paper), etc.

anyone who don't tick those boxes can't really take advantage of any of that - so while Costco is amazing, it definitely shouldn't be the only way to shop.

there's plenty of tells, e.g. "how to actually bank the part that is real" — AI tends to just "throw words out there" with very little information density

you COULD create a writer/reviewer loop hook to catch and rewrite sentences like this, but almost no one does

the result is usually very long essays that say very little (kind of like in grade school where we're graded on "length" so we just add words as filler)

should really look at the Australian system... it's not really a free market there and the internet is awful

fantastic bloke, I wish most people did this

yeah this is what I meant - as we get older we're supposed to move slower, and spend more time working on mobility and strength (moderate strength building, walking, and other movements like taichi and equivalent)

they also keep the papers as a pre-edited, free version of the peer reviewed equivalent

Healthy older adults (n = 123, average age 72.0 years, body mass index 25.8 kg/m2) completed three 45-min supervised exercise sessions per week for 6 months. Participants were randomised to treadmill-based moderate-intensity training (n = 45), or high-intensity interval training (n = 41) or a low-intensity active control condition (n = 37), with individualised heart-rate prescription. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry was used to quantify body composition at baseline, and at 3 and 6 months.

ok they didn't even include light/moderate weight lifting as another control, so this is a fairly poorly executed study

basically it comapres hiit with treadmill walking in which case yes, it's slightly more useful, but hiit also causes a lot of damage in a lot of ways

Author: Deena Mousa

clearly an article sponsored by Big Mouse

"Bot fatigue sets in when the internet stops feeling honest"

if there's anything worse than LLM-written text, it's websites that rally against LLMs and AI-use, then blatantly just use AI to do the thing they're against

if you're going to be anti-ai, at least don't use it!!

before AI was around we blamed Covid for doing this to us, and now we blame LLMs... and before that we blamed social media. I'm pretty sure this downtrend has been happening for decades.

it would be racist if we started calling it the texas screwworm, but that's kind of redundant

apparently it has to be destroyed and can't be sold

yeah it happens at smaller companies - someone insulted the boss and got sent home (small agency)

layoffs happen, and they're firings "without a real reason" - and no PIPs exist for surviving layoffs

yeah that's true, and it gets murky - because employers will just wait til an employee messes up (which everyone does), and use that as an excuse

Generically, it's about a unit time of life and how it is spent meaningfully

technology has generally flooded us with more speed, more choice, more entertainment - even the introduction of bicycles caused a similar outrage response, that we're moving too fast and should be slowing down to take in the world around us

the paradox is that choice is both great and awful for us

the one skill to hone / develop in the last couple of decades (way before AI) is the ability to focus, filter, discard, and choose a direction to move in (whether its hobbies, career, apps to build, social media to consume, etc etc etc)

in most states, as long as it's not discriminatory, you CAN fire anyone for any reason

the article is wrong here

self-hosting is fine, but even if you had a $100k god box with opus-level LLMs, you'd still end up grinding it to a halt if you tried running 5-10 parallel inference streams

saying the quiet part out loud

Svelte + Astro is the combo for me - this combo is great for documentation sites and pages w/ selective amounts of interactivity

that's what happens when your only industries are cooking oil, actual oil, and real estate

can you make Superset work on folders that aren't git repositories?

this is why people still enjoy eating at Olive Garden and Chipotle and Sweetgreen

basically the AI-slop version of food, yet still they thrive

the trope is that they actually said the quiet part loudly