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I moved to Render 3 or 4 months ago during Railway’s big GCP outage and have been very pleased.

I was interested in reading this until my slop detector went off at the paragraph starting with “It's worth being precise about where the benefit comes from, because it isn't raw speed.”

I love AI, but I really hate reading it.

It obviously is! Human pattern-matching abilities are rather amazing, and unfortunately I've seen so much AI text that it instantly flagged in my brain within 3 seconds of opening the page.

Pangram agrees: https://www.pangram.com/history/3de33376-94e3-404d-bbb0-751a...

This is a genuine question and not intended as an insult: do you have a personality disorder?

I love cars and driving them. But the modded Corolla/Civic/Accord/Camry (why) people have always driven me crazy because their mods often seem directed to inflicting their cars on everyone else, with loud exhaust, subwoofers, and (subjectively) garish cosmetics, rather than things that make it actually good to drive.

I recognize this is judgmental and it's unhealthy to always be annoyed at these people on the road, so I clicked the article looking for some empathetic understanding - and I really got it, UNTIL he told me about his "fire-breathing" exhaust and subwoofer. So it is about subjecting OTHER people to his car.

Does USAA sell the servicing too? Most credit unions sell their mortgages, but as long as they retain the servicing rights (which seems to be less and less), the borrower should be in good hands.

Well, as a 2 week tenured and very happy Railway customer until now, I am now a Render customer. Somehow DNS cut over within 1 min(!) and live after about 30 minutes of work. Not bad!

I’m a new customer and have been falling in love with Railway over the last 2 weeks, but this is quite the wake up call.

As a new customer of about 2 weeks, it was a lovely run with Railway until this afternoon!

I am a personal injury lawyer, and am therefore biased. But I submit that they are decidedly not undifferentiated - the problem is that there is no real way for you to differentiate them.

If I were seriously injured, there are about 10 personal injury lawyers in my small state that I would consider. There are no obvious external signals such as billboards, websites, or marketing that convey their superior strategic skill and they just have it qualities before a jury. But if you know them, you know.

If you need a lawyer, call another lawyer (preferably someone involved in the special interest bar association for that field) and ask them who you should call.

Only a handful! I am a terrible marketer and have no idea how to promote things.

Claude and I (mostly Claude) built a web app for lawyers that uses Gemini to extract (and calculate, where necessary) court dates and deadlines from a PDF scheduling order and output them in a structured format. The user can then select which ones they want to add to their calendar and generate an ICS file to add all case dates/deadlines at once.

https://www.courtsynccalendar.com/

For some reason, most of the AI-focused subreddits, like r/OpenAI, r/Anthropic, etc., seem to convey a sense of mass mental illness or delusion. For example, r/OpenAI is 95% focused on how OpenAI is horrible for taking away their virtual girlfriend/therapist model, 4o. r/Anthropic is 95% either rambling about usage limits in Claude Code or “showing off” by presenting a giant wall of AI generated text describing the stack for their latest zero utility vibe-coded project. I personally find value in vibecoding, but the signal to noise ratio in these spaces is insanely poor compared to generally anywhere else on Reddit, and I’m not sure what that says.

I am in Copenhagen for the first time and was wondering why there were 20+ people waiting in line at various ATMs last night. I think this explains it!

It’s a fair question and I find your comment to be an interesting example of resorting to a conspiracy theory because you don’t understand something that’s easily explainable.

The Boeing 737-800 has batteries that power certain things in the event of a dual engine failure, including cabin lighting.

Those same batteries, on 737s manufactured more than about 15 years ago, do not provide backup power to the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder.

It would be unsurprising if someone who named a company after themselves turned out to be a narcissist who couldn’t help themselves.

https://ma.tt/2003/04/hit-diggity/

The Court technically can if Google asked for JMOL prior the case going to the jury.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_50

1. If filed by a lawyer, no. The clerk will just issue a summons.

2. In order to compel a person to appear a proceeding, the court must have personal jurisdiction over the person as a defendant, or if the person is a witness and not a defendant, they must be within the subpoena power of the court.

3. The order explains the court’s reasoning on this.

I think what you’re looking for is an older used Nissan leaf

I love seeing your spelling of his name! It took me years to realize that his first name is Jack, not Jackery. It’s Jack Rhysider.

Apple has sued them. So has Meta, and the Supreme Court recently declined an NSO appeal, which means the lawsuits can proceed.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-lets-metas-wh...

I’m a lawyer and listening to this call was absolutely painful. I like to think I’m a pretty decent negotiator, and agree that there was likely a few million here were this handled competently.

Don’t be afraid to bring people in when something is outside your area of expertise.

Man, I have a totally opposite view about LLMs expressing creator’s values. Not only do they express them, they don’t STOP expressing them to the point of utter annoyance. Any remotely PG topic ends with a safety caveat, e.g., “however, it’s important to consider . . . .”

Observational hypothesis based on 5 minutes with the app (and asking it to repeat the prompt it was given):

This does not use any OpenAI service to analyze the image. Rather, it’s using some other image, recognition model to generate a description of the image, feeding that description into chatGPT, and having chatGPT hallucinate other likely details based on that description.

Beautiful photography and I love the simplicity of the site design. Nice work on both counts!

Aside from the question of whether this plan was legal, DoNotPay seems like a terrible product. The results it generates seem laughably bad, and it’s questionable whether “AI” is actually involved when it takes them literal days to generate a document for certain types of requests. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/the-worlds-first-robot-l...

Note that the Samsung Internet privacy policy is awful. They collect:

“The information we obtain in this manner may include, identifiers associated with your devices, types of devices, web browser characteristics, device and operating system type and characteristics, language preferences, clickstream data, your interactions with Samsung Internet (such as the web pages you visit, links you click and features you use), dates and times of your use of Samsung Internet, and other information about your use of Samsung Internet.”

https://developer.samsung.com/internet/privacy-policy-us.htm...

Does the house have coax wiring for cable tv? If so, get a pair of MoCA Ethernet adapters. I have 2.5Gbps ones running across a large house and they are rocksolid reliable.