I live in the states and haven’t seen a smoking section of a restaurant or bar since around the turn of the century. There are ones which have smoking tables outside too close to the door, which sucks.
It’s funny watching old movies like Airplane where he was buying a plane ticket and she asked “smoking or non-smoking” and you remember that people used to smoke while trapped in an airplane.
The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.
You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.
I personally prefer the Kirkland signature brand to La Croix. But that just be me.
I'm excited to see what the refactoring will allow the dev team to produce. Technical debt is a really good thing to clean up but there might be some growing pains in the mid term.
Wouldn’t that get caught by the accountants when the receipts don’t match up?
This is it. A strong public domain benefits everyone. It is why open source software works.
I live in Washington State and see them all the time. They are definitely purchased as a status symbol more than for its usefulness.
It reminds me of when the Hummer first came out, and all you saw was rich people like Arnold driving them around.
The SUV is really just a mini van. Mini vans got a bad rep, which I think is a shame because I LOVED my Honda Odyssey. It drives like a car, and has a 3rd row that you can actually sit adults in. Also, with all the seats down, and middle seats removed, you could carry a LOT. We fit two full sofas from Ikea back there. It was a tight fit, but it worked great.
For whatever reason people don't like the idea of mini vans, so they made the suv because TRUCK. We replaced the Odyssey with a Subaru Ascent, and that is great too, it has all wheel driving, and a lot more bells and whistles than the old Odyssey. The 3rd row is not nice to sit in as an adult though, and I miss the sliding doors, those were great in tight spaces.
They just need to put more sliding doors on these vehicles they expect people to get in and out of the back seats.
So we can do this all again in 2124 then.
A lot of states have checkpoints for vehicles towing boats. Need to check for invasive water creatures.
To be honest, that seems like it should be the one thing they are reliably good at. It requires just looking up info on their database, with no manipulation.
That’s not how they are designed at all. LLMs are just text predictors. If the user inputs something like “A B C D E F” then the next most likely word would be “G”.
Companies like OpenAI will try to add context to make things seem smarter, like prime it with the current date so it won’t just respond with some date it was trained on, or look for info on specific people or whatnot, but at its core, they are just really big auto fill text predictors.