I had VERY SPECIFIC requirements and I wanted the extended warranty. I would have paid 2x at a dealer. I know what I was doing.

I bought a used 2020 XC90 from CarMax last week. I did everything online from shipping it from Texas to Minnesota to financing the extended warranty. I walked in the door, gave them a cashier's check, and drove away within 10 minutes.

That's how it should be.

SA has its history but the people who are left grew the fuck up and are by and large decent people. Seriously.

When I was in college I really admired Slashdot's anonymous posting / dedication to free speech, but at some point you learn the ironic Nazis are just real Nazis always feeling around to see how far they can push their limits.

With age and wisdom I'm convinced a paywall + relative freedom to ban paying users is the way to go. At least if people want to burn their venture capital money (or their personal money) to run bot or humans with an agenda on your site, they are paying handsomely for the privilege.

This is actually the answer though. SomethingAwful (for whatever you think of it) charges $10 since forever and its provided money for the site and for the most part kept out spam and bots. Combine that with human moderators who have the authority to ban people (or robots) if they pay that and start acting like a piece of shit anyway, and you walk away with a decent online community.

https://archive.is/uyPhk

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Anthropic is prepared to loosen its current terms of use, but wants to ensure its tools aren't used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.

The Pentagon claims that's unduly restrictive, and that there are all sorts of gray areas that would make it unworkable to operate on such terms. Pentagon officials are insisting in negotiations with Anthropic and three other big AI labs â" OpenAI, Google and xAI â" that the military be able to use their tools for "all lawful purposes."

https://livingwage.mit.edu/met...

Typical annual salary, according to MIT's Living Wage Calculator for the NYC Metro, is $84,860.

Poverty wage is $7.52/hr (no kids) and minimum wage is $15.50 which, according to the calculator, should cover 1 adult with 3 kids.

The Brearley School, regarded as the best private school for girls in the nation and charging around $70K, is a non-profit.

What shareholders?

I rode a few while on a trip to Phoenix and it was way better than the average Lyft or Uber ride I've taken.

It drove defensively, I got to choose my own music and climate control, I didn't have an driver tapping on their phone to plan out new rides, or high, or bragging about how they've been driving since 5am, or complaining about how they've been driving since 5am.

This is coming from someone who is typically pretty skeptical of big tech bullshit and a fan of labor. I still use the cashier when there is a self checkout, etc. But the tech here is so good that its going to destroy all of those uber drivers (assuming it can sort of handle weather -- I can't speak to that)

Less stressed? Since this shit came out our management has lost their minds and every clarifying question/pushback has been met with "Ask ChatGPT".

They've gotten really lazy about specifying what they want and one slipped up and used the language that he was going "prompt" another engineer.

Sounds like you just need to bake "Hey i have a thing on my mind that's really been stressing my Mental Health" in front of every query

Lets not jump to conclusions, sometimes is was for the purposes of their own sexual gratification

I've made a career out of being this guy. (and the inverse of talking to the users so the developers don't have to) It's absolutely useful and despite a lot of other bullshit I'm glad my company sees it this way (until they replace me with a chatbot)

For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.

That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.

Nano works fine though

I found GP2.5 to be great at academic-style research and writing; it was absolutely awful at writing code. So; I would tell it to plan some thing for me and write it in a way that could be used by another agent (Claude Code) to build the code to do the thing. In this way, it has been great! I haven't yet attempted it with 3.

That said, I found GP3.0's page to be hilarious:

It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanityâ(TM)s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also sets a new standard for frontier models in mathematics, achieving a new state-of-the-art of 23.4% on MathArena Apex.

It then proceeds to show, lower down on the page, an example of what it can do, by showing off 'Our Family Recipes". If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.