residentraspber

That's not a prank, it's just evil!

Love that they kept the frog in this one! That part really surprised me about the original.

I've found one good solution to this problem (for AC, at least): go for a car with a good "auto" mode!

I hardly ever touch my AC, I just leave it on auto and the car does the rest to get it to the right temperature as quickly as possible.

I suspect this is what most automakers think the real solution should be, just make it easy enough to set a temp and leave the rest to the computer.

It's seemingly not going to get any better soon, either. A new candidate for mayor of Boston has 3 main policy agendas [1]: Housing affordability, public school quality, and removing bike lanes.

Despite being farther from Cambridge (a different city than Boston, so they have a different mayor), I prioritize biking to places there to meet friends or go out to dinner. It is just a much more pleasant experience than nearly anywhere in Boston proper.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/us/boston-mayor-josh-kraf...

As somebody who has never done this before, how do I go about this (past Googling their phone number)?

I remember a while back with SOAP and PIPA there were templates you could read, do those exist for this case?

Some airlines (Air Canada, in particular) are ramping up their attacks outside of just technical means [1].

It's a pretty sad state of affairs, but it seems some airlines would rather throw lawyers at a problem than let their users have a better experience.

[1]: https://onemileatatime.com/news/airlines-shut-down-websites-...

My 2019 Audi S5 was excellent at this. It would ping pong at most once then auto-correct itself to be perfectly centered in the lane.

It did some weird things like if the car in front of you was driving a bit too far to the left/right of a lane, it would copy them. Other than that it was nearly perfect, though. Never had it take an exit by accident, etc.

Their tuning on when to accelerate/brake and make it smooth needed a fair bit of work, but I found that switching the drive mode from Dynamic (Sport) to Comfort changed the eagerness of the system and smoothed things out.

Been working in the Fintech space for the past 3 years and what I've learned is that deep down no bank trusts any other. No other bank wouldn't trust that a random bank actually correctly verified the persons identity before giving them an account.

I imagine this also works with other vendors. All you need is 1 company with a weak process.

I completely agree! The company I'm currently working on is pretty cyclical such that we get a bunch of new activity towards the middle of each month and nothing at the beginning or end. This leads to our notifications to go wild sometimes making us super happy then trailing off and making us worry other times.

I agree with this as good practice in general, but I think the human vs LLM thing is not a great comparison in this case.

When I ask a friend something I assume that they are in good faith telling me what they know. Now, they could be wrong (which could be them saying "I'm not 100% sure on this") or they could not be remembering correctly, but there's some good faith there.

An LLM, on the other hand, just makes up facts and doesn't know if they're incorrect or not or even what percentage sure it is. And to top things off, it will speak with absolute certainty the whole time.

Yes! I recently watched Hello Tomorrow during the day and had to turn up the brightness on my TV to make out some of the scenes. Day or night shots in the show didn't matter, it was all too dark and pale looking.

Watching the same episode at night for me was a much nicer experience.

~4 yr old 4k Samsung Smart TV with all the motion blur and vivid stuff turned off.

This was happening to me until I started with a much shorter prompt at first. Then once you get to the editing view, you can use longer prompts.

The waste is unreal. When I was in Uni, I used to sit outside and work in a little side-of-a-building park area where, every spring, I'd watch the grounds crew pull up perfectly good looking flowers and plant slightly better looking ones in the days before a "parents weekend" or a big admissions event.

They would just toss the "old" flowers in the dumpster

I LOVE the new bike lanes on the Mass Ave bridge. Total game changer on how often I actually want to bike into Cambridge now.

I wish the other sides of the bridge were better for bikes, too, but I'm sure they're coming with the next re-paving/maintenance of those roads.

The article states that they got a demo where they were able to ask questions about the new Bing launch, so the delay is ~hours now, not 2021 anymore (at least, for this new Microsoft thing).

I forget if it was this article or not but someone mentioned that a few of the smart locks that do have secret codes don't rate limit them, so, in theory, they could brute force a pin code or password.

I guess the idea is that they think nobody is going to sit there and shout pin codes until it unlocks?

Direct link to the survey results here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-8LLKL2N87/

There's only a tiny link at the bottom of the page for this.

As someone from this area (I used to work at the Chick Fil A by the mall!), I agree with some of your points, but not all of them.

Levittown is very close to a bunch of wealthy Philly suburbs, but it, itself is not wealthy. The main "strip" no longer exists, taken over by the shopping plazas nearby and the mall, but never really replaced. It's also surrounded by Rt 1 and I95, making it rather difficult, if not impossible to walk around anywhere.

I most disagree with your statements about the mall. It's usually about as empty as the pictures show. Way back when Boscovs left, that was pretty much the end. Sears and JCPenny left more recently but after they did, so did the rest of the mall. Now it's hardly as busy or useful as it used to be. Macys will probably leave too, someday.