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I wasn’t aware Apple announced an offering.

Regardless, the general sentiment about this hardware is obviously not great, anecdotally I know zero people who own these (or they at least refuse to wear them), and they are exceptionally rare in both US major metros I frequent.

Perhaps their popularity exists moreso in print than reality?

January Sixth was not a protest, it was an attempt to interfere with government processes to prevent Biden from being elected - so a really shitty attempt at a coup.

no, not shocked; just willing to check that perspective more publicly than most.

the vonnegut quote is hitting hard today -

“why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.”

No, not lonely, I simply choose to not dehumanize those who work in that role.

> it's universally something that should have been possible online without talking to anyone

why do you think it is the case that quite literally zero medium+ sized companies have no customer support? do you think it’s possible that not every single iota of knowledge or edge case is immediately digitized and ready for consumption by an LLM?

is it also possible that customers that pay serious money for a service don’t want to click about on a website to solve a problem they didn’t cause? wasting someone’s time like that when you already fucked up is a very quick way to lose a customer; one throat to choke, as they say.

but since you’ve drawn the rest of the owl with those stages, I can only assume you’re raking in mad consultant fees for companies like Meta - they certainly haven’t had any issues replacing their humans with AI recently!

>There's nothing a low-level CS representative does that couldn't be handled by an LLM.

This kind of reductionist take is an immediate tell that one has no experience in that kind of role. More worryingly, it hints of something antisocial and misanthropic. Do you not enjoy talking with other people during your day? Have you never experienced the resolution of complexity or ambiguity from a person that is intimately familiar with a product, its documentation, or internal processes?

I think it's because the extremes are simply not equivalent.

On one hand, you have smart people are doing cool and interesting things like dang referenced: breathing life into old projects and cleaning out old bugs in EOL hardware.

And then you have people who use it to do things like "chatGPT can this trailer pull this car?", "gosh, my electric bill is high I should use an LLM to figure this out" or "please write this email to my subordinates".

So yeah, it's cool that LLMs can work on software(. And now, the profession that intersects between highest earning potential and least amount of schooling is able to be done significantly faster, so wages will be diluted faster than the workers will ask for raises commensurate to their output).

But it's more obviously terrible because a large chunk of people are losing their critical and creative thinking abilities rapidly, obviously, and with seemingly no end in sight.

Fascinating; you used a non-deterministic tool - one that disclaims its own accuracy - to calculate critical information that could result in serious damages or physical injury? Did you like, double-check the results?

One must imagine how many claims have been denied by insurance companies for doing something like this...

Let's not speak so airily of forced pregnancies.

I stopped using google as my primary email service a few years ago in favor of the custom domain integration that comes with iCloud+.

If you already have a domain and know what an MX or CNAME record is, it takes less than thirty minutes to set up.

Migrating critical correspondence / autopay / etc. may take some time, but observing how much spam continues to flow to your old inbox will certainly be surprising. Now, it is exceptionally easy for me to keep all messages read, and only use my google account for junk signup forms.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-a-domain-you-own-...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102540

I don't think the line is quite so arbitrary! Virtually all animals (with a few exceptions!) have a central nervous system, which is required to "feel" pain, to my understanding.

The good news is that we can adapt our thinking and behavior in light of new evidence.

I’m not a lawyer, but Chipotle is a US company and this github repo belongs to a US citizen currently residing and employed in New York, so US law might apply here.

obtuse and so dense;

fish swim happily upstream,

while rocks sink down fast.

I’m sure we both have cared for and loved animals at some point! There’s nothing wrong with recognizing that a fish can feel pain much like a cat or a dog or a rabbit or a horse.

nope, i don’t think that claim holds water.

my claim would be something like how the recommendation of fishing in response to news of conservation efforts is as absurd as recommending spankings in response to news of more babies being born: stupid, harmful, and self-serving.

Bears are people when you’re on grindr, but that bear there isn’t a person, friend.

Animals other than humans feel pain and do tend to avoid it.

And nope, no eating meat for me (and like half a billion other people). It’s both easier and more empowering than one might think!

And which would you prefer through your lip? Barbed, barbless, or nothing the fuck at all because people let you live your life undisturbed?

Could you educate us as to where the barbed hook goes?

Not quite as relaxing if you’re the fish!

Rent control helps, from what I remember. but I imagine you may be looking from the perspective of purchasing a home (in which yes - pricey!)

The folks who pour those very beers you order usually know a fair amount about how they’re made and what differences exist, especially if you’re at a brewery (not e.g., a dive bar). Chat ‘em up!

Have you been to Paris recently?

Great food, tons of bike and rail infra, 35 hour work week, strong social safety nets, lower than average rate of violent crime, wide consideration as the preeminent destination for fashion and art, etc. etc.

> A residential vacancy rate that low means people are deeply stuck

Is that what it means? Paris has a similar vacancy rate and seems to be doing alright. Vancouver has also seen population growth rates above 4%/yr, which outpaces the province, so people are moving there.

Is there a talent shortage in that city? Unemployment seems higher than normal but that could be an oversimplification.

I guess I’m struggling to see the connective tissue between the stated points.

Agreed that the writing is poor and difficult to follow, but the vacancy rate mentioned was regarding commercial properties:

> Portland, Oregon reached another post-pandemic high of downtown office vacancies – 27%

Did we read the same article?

> A feature of the EHT is that it focuses on residential properties, not commercial spaces

> [Due to] the shift to remote work during the pandemic, office vacancies remain stubbornly high in many cities.

> With the combination of Vancouver’s EHT combined with the province’s SVT, the taxes are credited with reducing the residential vacancy rate to 0.49%

Clarence and Alito have received gifts that would raise serious scrutiny if they were a “regular” government employee. Here’s a link to the series of articles covering this over the last few years.

https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus

definitively, no. it’s not against the person for their characteristics, but the composition of the content they’re sharing.

i think it’s more like accurately pointing out a logical fallacy, i.e., an assertion that thought was not properly applied which results in nonsense.

you would likely be quite interested in the more quantitative writeup from a real research team ! it’s linked about midway in to the article - similar functionally can be reached, yes, but not always and never with fewer tokens than what mythos requires.

https://xbow.com/blog/mythos-offensive-security-xbow-evaluat...

I didn’t know that, thank you! Now to find if the original claim holds up, and not just the semantics.

How can “genocide” apply to a voluntary religious group? And even if it could, the linked wikipedia article doesn’t seem to support your claim, either. Do you have anything else we could review?