jcater

> What use is a 'relationship' with a customer that doesn't pay?

The most important take-away you’ll learn in this thread, OP. Sometimes it’s a hard lesson to learn, but the sooner you learn it, the better.

But that was a huge assertion in itself. I’m personally having amazing results with Python in Opus 4.5, so this is very contextual.

To be fair, I don’t think OP was directing that statement to you, the submitter. Rather, he was commenting on the article itself.

Well, I’ll elaborate as a Gen-Xer; what you describe about financial aid was the exact same scenario we faced.

You are conflating the “exceptional” kid coming out if HS who is offered full rides (who clearly should take advantage of that and go straight into university with that full ride) with an average student who will have to pay for some or all of college. For the latter, community college for 2 years was and still is a good idea.

His word choice and tone are unfortunate, as he did put a few words in your mouth you didn’t say. But… I agree with his underlying point. As other siblings have pointed out, this certainly seems like selection bias.

Is driving of rental cars on sidewalks really that big of a problem there to make that comparison?

This is interesting. I’ve been tinkering with using Jupyter Notebooks for our somewhat intensive onboarding of new engineers. Is Pathbird solely focused on the education market? Is there pricing info anywhere?

Sure, but as there were no full payment discounts, full cash buyers subsidized my payment plan.

They do, as I bought a Peloton using Affirm. I was ready to pay cash, but they offered to do an interest free, no fee loan thru Affirm and split it across a couple of years. So I did it, because why not?

I’m guessing this was probably an arrangement between Peloton and Affirm to where the former paid some fee to the latter, and all of that is absorbed as marketing overhead just to get more people buying bikes.

Yes, cyanoacrylate (the group of adhesives that superglue belongs to), are used in medical and veterinary situations for exactly this purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanoacrylate#Medical_and_vete...

I've used off-the-shelf superglue on cut fingertips where I couldn't get bandages to stay. I believe it's also commonly used in place of stitches where you don't want the scarring that stitching would cause (e.g., parts of the face.)

It wears off in 3-4 days.

That’s not California-specific:

https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/

Not only are there hard limits, but at age 35, suddenly it’s considered a “geriatric pregnancy”.

The risk of complications go up.

Lower calorie per dollar, as long as none of it gets thrown out as waste.