I also read that the AI used about $25 millions worth of tokens, to solve the problem (with a “prize” of $1 mil), not counting a lot of actual mathematicians supervising the works. Can you imagine if that sort of money was available to academics. I know a couple of math post grads and I feel they spend more time trying to secure grants than doing actual work, or at least that’s what they are always talking about

I worked at a call center for xbox. Yelling definitely worked because we had a protocol to escalate angry customers to tier 2 and they usually get some freebies like a few months of xbox live, some games or a gift card. There was a thin line between yelling/bring angry and being rude. We had the option to disconnect the call of there were personal insults

My wife’s been on mint for 7 years now, this year they decreased the price of her plan slightlyand added more GBs. I think this is the 3rd time they increase her monthly GBs but the first time they decrease the price

Then they need to fix the issue that a lot of people are complaining about so they can get to the other matters

Lololololol the president of my company went full AI shithead recently and he posted how it was a big deal that they were going public and he was talking about how he see it as a great investment to purchase shares and I asked how it was a great investment to get shares of a company severely in the red and my comment got deleted in a few minutes

Edit: we also got claude code for everyone in the company and they are monitoring token use (as in we need to use a lot) and I asked if they were concerned that the token price would rise if the board of directors of anthropic suddenly wanted to make a profit and that comment also got deleted (this was in a virtual townhall so we can ask stuff, usually they just ignore the ones they don’t want to answer but they were actually deleting them this time)

The few times I asked something to gemini it gave some bs response like "one Reddit user claimed… "

I like the approach that a city close to me took. Street parking and small lots are kinda expensive and very monitored (red/green/blue lights indicate status of the spots from a distance so police can quickly fine cars)

However there are a few parking garages that are not so expensive and also include 2 or 3 hours free, but you have to walk a little to get to downtown ( about half a mile)

Lots of people that hate walking pay a lot for parking and fines and the rest of us walk a little and get free or very cheap parking

I was thinking that! I got my PS3 early 2008, my account is old enough to vote

I’m with you about not hating shorts. My YouTube algorithm is great, the shorts it recommends are very geeky or from topics that I’m very interested in and I can just jump to my subscriptions if I don’t want to see random shorts/videos

Uff I never had a bad experience with them, I got my refund very quickly the only time I had a major issue but I’ve not used them in a while

Lately I check these “discount hotel” websites and then check directly with the hotel to get a price match. They usually do with Priceline, agoda, booking, experian and hotels.com

My understanding is that Whatsapp is “real” e2e and it’s based on signal protocol. That app is the main IM in many countries so they’ll probably won’t mess too much with it

I didn’t really expect Instagram or messenger to be really encrypted

Maybe I’m confuding tools but I think I used Odin to flash my s10e. I didn’t jailbreak it, I just updated it from a carrier locked firmware to the official Samsung version

Not all USB-C are equal. They can add or remove features as they please

I mean good-ish in the lesser-evil type of thing. I don’t expect any of those to be 100% ethical but there are some that are a lot worse than others

I don’t really have a computer capable of running a local AI. I have an i3 laptop from around 6 years ago with 12gb of RAM and integrated graphics

No, I mean good in the sense of less evil. I don’t ask any question to a bot where I need complete accuracy

Is there a “good-ish” AI chatbot? I uninstalled chatgpt and started using claude over the weekend 🤡

I don’t use it that much, maybe a couple of questions a week and some help understanding Japanese grammar

Even when they give the correct answer they talk too much. AI responses contain a lot of garbage. When AI gives you an answer it will try to justify itself. Since they won’t give you brief responses the responses will be long.

Looking at my nearest Costco vs Walmart prices

Ribeye choice:

Costco $15.99 / lb

Walmart $23.47 / lb

Ribeye prime

Costco $20.99 / lb

Walmart $27.98 / lb

I meant Strava, I don’t have a Garmin. I use Strava (I pay for premium) and I like it and they keep adding features (I mostly ignore their AI)

After 3 free apps that I used to track my runs went under or really enshittified I decided it was worth it to pay for something I liked

What do you feel they have been enshittifying?