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Yeah if you treat it is a junior engineer, with the ability to instantly research a topic, and are prepared to engage in a conversation to work toward a working answer, then it can work extremely well.

Some of the best outcomes I’ve had have needed 20+ prompts, but I still arrived at a solution faster than any other method.

MKBHD did a video on this. Pretty interesting. https://youtu.be/1KEtxTQUzxY

My CDN bill recently went from about $5 a month to over $200. Turned out it was Tictok’s spider relentlessly scraping the same content over and over again.

It was ignoring robots.txt. In the end I just had to ban their user agent in the CDN config.

total expenditures potentially reaching $9 billion

I imagine they negotiated quite the discount in that.

For folks in the UK if you’re in crisis contact the Samaritans https://www.samaritans.org/ call 116 123. It’s free and 24/7 and fully confidential. They’re helped me out in the past, don’t hesitate to call.

Hey leaving to join Biden’s 2024 campaign team.

Oh great, another key to accidentally press when I’m in a game.

I don’t, without the advertising a lot of the content can’t exist and I like the context to exist.

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AWS/Azure are incredibly expensive compared to most hosting providers. If you need the services and scale they provide then they can be good value but there are for sure expensive.

From the NYT reporting

Although Mr. Musk acknowledged that an extended boycott could bankrupt X, he suggested that the public would blame the brands rather than him for its collapse.

lol, yeah, sure.

I use it for free access to gpt-4 and dalle-3. Can’t say I use it as a browser though.

When enrolling with the 2FA take a screenshot of the QR code, print it and add it to wherever you keep your secure documents. The QR code is your private key, just scan it again to add a new device if you lose your original.

Obviously you need to keep the code secure!

I would like to use Proton but their calendar is only available read only when added to calendar apps, which is a blocker for me.

I had a feeling it was going to be 8/256 when it when ‘business owners’ were described as one of the key user types. It’s the laptop the IT department can give to management that’s got a pro sticker on it, without having to give them something over powered. It’s a vanity thing. Actual pro’s will get something better, everyone else is probably better off with an Air.

A 40% rise in Apple TV+ in one year?? It was already on the ‘sub when a series finishes, watch and cancel’ list, but I’d been letting it slide since there were a few shows I was enjoying. This will put it back to just a couple of months a year.

I wish more checkouts had volume / mute controls so you can at least customise it to what you want for your checkout. They reset after each use. I’ve seen a few with it but I wish they were more common.

It amazes me that anyone will fill in their actual date of birth on an online system outside of a government or bank system. Just put a fake one in, no one is going to check! Jeez.

Plus all the energy used in developing the feature in the first place. What a crock.

This is something the EU got right by limiting interchange fees to 0.5% rather than the 3%+ in the US. It stopped companies charging consumers extra for credit transactions and also stopped weird outcomes where airlines and hotel companies became more interested in their branded credit cards than in providing an actual service.