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How can a latex topper be hypoallergenic when tons of people are allergic to latex?

For some reason, most of these (and other narration AIs) sound like someone reading off a teleprompter, rather than natural speaking voices. I'm not sure what exactly it is, but I'm left feeling like the speaker isn't really sure of what the next words are, and the stresses between the words are all over the place. It's like the emphasis over a sentence doesn't really match how humans sound.

I find myself disagreeing with many of the examples. E.g. according to the article:

Bad: It is quite difficult to find untainted samples. Better: It is difficult to find untainted samples.

Bad: We used various methods to isolate four samples. Better: We isolated four samples.

Something being quite difficult reads significantly differently than just being difficult. You haven't made the sentence better, you've changed the meaning.

And the fact that you used various methods instead of a single method is information missing from the second sentence.

I love this quote from the blog:

> Why are we making chandeliers out of swords of Damocles?

Amazing description of proliferating footguns.

I've enjoyed reading many of the blog posts by Antithesis, really cool work.

I don't really see a fit for the automated testing product in our stack at the moment, but I would love to use a time traveling hypervisor that I can hop into whenever I'd like.

Currently, it seems your pricing is pretty focused on the automated testing service. Do you have pricing or plans that offer just the deterministic dev environment?

One of my favorite blogs for "sentence URLs" is https://there.oughta.be

The projects formatted like: https://there.oughta.be/a/wifi-game-boy-cartridge

Thanks for the list!

For SSO, does SAML support clear your bar?

As someone who is about to launch my SAAS, what are some of the things you look for, as someone with purchase authority?

What are the positives or negatives you see when dealing with vendors (i.e. what makes you lean towards or against dealing with a vendor)? I'm trying to figure out how I can make the process as easy as possible for exactly people in your position.

There was a YA book series about exacty this topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87427.Virtual_War

This is one of the best thought out UX I've ever seen. It's extremely well laid out and simple to navigate through, all the design choices are very meaningful, UI elements (like the unit conversion) are available inline when you need them...

Not to mention the content itself is great.

I'm taking notes.

Done this way, you also re-incur any input token costs for every additional step. If you're using a large context, this can be significant.

Will this be available as a Vertex AI foundational model like Gemini 1.0, without deploying a custom endpoint? Any info on pricing? (Also, when will Gemini 1.5 be available on Vertex?)