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I tried to buy an EV3 last weekend but every dealership around me is sold out through the year.

Not clear to me why they started it with such low inventory, but I ended up getting a new Leaf since I couldn't wait another bunch of months.

I'm driving a gas RAV4 while my EV is in the shop, and it's a truly miserable driving experience.

Dunno, but it's a big reason why I hated living in SF, hate being lumped in with "tech bros", and absolutely cannot stand people who turn their entire personality into being "all in on AI".

End of an era, but the writing has been on the wall for a while now.

> I tell you what ... Texas is a much better decision.

I tell you h'what*

Is it weird that I can think of multiple "Palantir guys" and am not actually sure which zonked-out billionaire you're referring to?

Holy moly, just hearing those sound effects gives me a giant wave of nostalgia.

I find it extremely hard to believe there's a sales rep for my generic-branded fluoride toothpaste, and even more hard to believe that there's one sending my dentist on vacations.

The provider for Chase credit card claims (insurance, price match, etc.) went through a company, EClaimsLine, that had nearly that exact phrase bold and red on their website for many, many years. I'm honestly shocked that their new website after the rebrand to Chase Card Services doesn't say it too.

I'm 100% convinced that this is the reason so many customer service jobs are being shelved.

No one who actually wants to provide a good experience for their customers would offshore, nor would they offload this to AI agents. They know that customers have very limited opportunities nowadays, so the company responses seem to be along the lines of, "fine, go somewhere else! Oh, there's nowhere else to go? I guess you'll be staying with us afterall muahaha!"

> Some dentists prescribe them even when they're not needed, since it won't be harmful to use a tube of the stuff every year, or even every 6 months, and it's profitable to them.

How is it profitable for them? If I get a prescription from my dentist and fill it at a pharmacy, how does my dentist make extra money from that transaction?

Is that common with ISOs, even after exercised? I don't think I have ever seen an opportunity given to employees to buy shares beyond their grant...

Right? If spending the most is lauded, why wouldn't I use the most expensive model, automate things that don't need automating, build things I don't need to build etc just to jack the spend up?

> It only signals to me that they have other priorities

Yes, priorities other than their business.

Source?

Using AI to make a sign is likely a pretty good indicator as to the effort the owner puts into other aspects of their business.

Can anyone comment on if this is how larger tech companies are operating now? Not AI-only companies like Anthropic or OpenAI, but companies like Meta, Stripe, Google, Airbnb, etc.

I see this strategy evangelized a lot on LinkedIn, but it's 100% of the time posted by folks with titles like "AI Native Innovator" who work for themselves or no-name startups.

Z means Zero Time (+00:00). They're UTC timestamps

I would hope so

Oh hey, that's the same percentage as the new-hire equity grant for most SWE roles nowadays!

Not really. More like the modern equivalent of "I don't watch Fox News."

AI backlash is not because of "high variance"...

Is your comment meant to be making fun of the people who think AI is doing no harm?

The world is considerably worse because of AI than the effects of beer and cigarettes. No, I'm not joking.

That seems like a wildly different scenario to me. The OP is about a guy who has not committed any crimes. Andrew Tate is a known predator and CSAM peddler, with an active warrant in several countries.

Same thing has happened to grocery stores. The place near me doesn't even staff a single checkout lane after 8pm-- the only option is to use self-checkout. I had a full cart at 9pm a while back and asked an employee if they could help me checkout. She literally laughed before telling me that I had to use self-checkout, or I was out of luck and would need to come back tomorrow.

Partially, yes. Ads are also psychological, and tracked cross-platform. If you see a BMW ad on Facebook, drive by a BMW billboard on the highway, search BMW on Google, and then go buy a BMW, they have ways of fractionally allocating the conversion to the different impressions. It's pretty crazy.

Yeah I'm a bit baffled too... the world is so, so much worse now because of AI.

More scams/spam, lower quality software everywhere, development is no longer fun, many interactions with coworkers are just "have my people talk to your people" behind the scenes, except it's "have my LLM read the huge document your LLM generated". Every business is trying to cut corners by using AI, so customer service sucks, products suck, prices are optimized to be the absolute maximum people will pay regardless of the actual value being provided (including food)...

I've resorted to adding instructions like, "do not insert any comments unless they will be exceptionally useful in clarifying blocks of code for future developers."

Adding it to AGENTS.md seems to do nothing.

Bundled with a revived Streets of SimCity please and thank you

Right but once your traditional IRA is fully rolled over to a 401k, you can take full advantage of backdoor Roth IRA contributions regardless of income.