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Appositives are my favorite.

This would be the same Antigravity 2.0 that "surprise, no longer an IDE, did I forget to mention that? Lolol."

I bought a flipper zero to reverse the shitty wireless remote that my pool equipment vendor wanted $1000 for.

This remote sent signals right in the middle of the flippers range.

The flipper didn't work for shit, was fucking weird, and had piss-poor documentation. The promise was democratizing radio hacking digital signals. That was, in the most charitable light, an oversell.

So for the low price of $200, I found out I could just buy a replacement remote off ebay for cheap rather than hacking up my own receiver.

Also, you can BUY a flipper, but you can't SELL a flipper.

Anyways, that's my flipper experience, I wish them the best but also I don't give a shit.

In their defense, a website not working on a popular browser was on-brand for the era.

This is just part of the operating nostalgia.

Exactly my thought. I know languages differ in support ... but enum is right there.

I don't understand this em-dash crap. MS Word automatically converts dashes used for appositives into em-dashes. The world is awash with them.

I wonder if the common gap here is the inability to reify specification.

LLMs seem to be a significant step forward in converting language to code, but they don't seem to engage self-directed abstraction.

Get Scramble and let me know if you can beat it. At a young age, that game destroyed any interest I had in video games. I played Scramble for hours, always dying at the same point over and over.

What's the point of this story? Bad actors win?

Here's a hot take: Name and Shame.

If this story is true, the author should be shouting their names from the rooftop.

Instead, we get this nonsense.

Still the best subscription I've gotten in years.

This. Had to deal with cosmic rays on earth in data centers 20 years ago.

I can't imagine running bleeding edge GPUs in a particle accelerator and getting reasonable results.

Hey, I've been a subscriber for a while. I love it. I wear the tshirt.

Thank you.

Apocryphal story time:

Had a family friend who was in a kicking oompah bad in the early 60s.

They thought there was going to be a surge in this market, and were getting some pretty big gigs.

The saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show and promptly quit for different careers.

That may be the most buried lead I've read in a decade.

I still have no idea what the point is. I gave up.

Anyone care to summarize?

Made me stop reading for awhile.

He argues this point exactly.

Control over jitter would be less ideal for very tight deadlines due to branch prediction, cache misses, instruction counting, etc.

How else would you do lights out eye tracking for heatmap evaluation??

Not one photo of said frog.

Look, new rule: you write an article about frogs, you include a photo.

In either case, my grounds for cancelling early really had nothing to do with the year-long case.

My grounds for cancelling is that the software didn't work. And I don't mean in some qualitative sense. The software would just crash when opening files or creating new files.

Adobe never held up their end of the bargain - providing functioning software.

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If I recall, the problem was that they were refusing to cancel the subscription unless I paid the cancellation fee.

My argument was that while I may have agreed to the cancellation fee in the fine print, they contract was not perfected because they never provided consideration.

The software would not work on my computer.

My grounds for cancelling the software wasn't that I wanted to cancel early, I was satisfied with a year-long subscription. My grounds for cancelling was that the software simply didn't work. It crashed when opening AI files are creating new files.

This is not how it was presented when I signed up, 8 years ago. I am aware of the differences between monthly and yearly subscriptions with discounts.

This was ~8 years ago. I am fairly careful when signing up for services and subscriptions, having learned hard lessons when signing up for gym memberships in the 1900s.

I mean, maybe technically.

But the "its yearly with a cancellation fee" was not qualified in the sales information on the sign-up page. Maybe it was in the fine print.

Given that customers are quite used to a monthly fee is a monthly subscription model, it was disingenuous at best. Putting significant terms in the fine print doesn't exactly engender trust.

Let me regale you with the story of my Adobe Subscription cancellation.

I had been considering learning Illustrator and to align myself, I decided to get a little skin the game. I signed up for the "monthly" subscription. I downloaded Illustrator, and this screenshot was my entire experience:

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Suffice it to say, this didn't meet my expectations. I thus decided to cancel and was presented with a $108 cancellation fee.

Boo.

I hit up customer service and explained my frustration. I was told that I was going to pay that $108 since I agreed to it. I countered that contracts required consideration and since Adobe had provided no consideration for my valuable cash, no contract had been perfected betwixt us. He was unwilling to see my point. I asked for his contact information for follow-up, which he provided. I then explained to him that after I hung up, I was not only NOT going to pay, but that within 60 days Adobe would cancel the subscription voluntarily on their side and not collect a single further dime from me.

His response basically amounted to "good luck with that."

So, I got a temporary prepaid credit card number with $5 on it and swapped out the CC on file with Adobe.

I then went over to Amazon and spent that $5. Who knows on what.

A month goes by, turns out $0 is insufficient for a monthly subscription payment. I get a notice that the balance isn't good. I get several more notices.

Then I get a notice that if I don't pay, I'll lose access. At about 60 days, they cancelled the subscription. I took a screen shot and emailed it to the CSR's contact with my "I told you so" scrawled on it.

I never heard back, but in my mind it was a great victory. Tickertape and swooning ladies.

I think my favorite part of this is watching LLM-bros awkwardly rediscover basic AI concepts that have been studied in depth for 5 decades.

This just smells like Lamarckism with more steps.

Stunning that Vance isn't mentioned.

I can't imagine how he's overlooked in this article.

Damn, I've been trying to sell mine.

Is there a used market place for them?

Wait until you hear about the demo scene!