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Decorative emojis (the stuff AI loves to add to bullet lists) don't do much. On the other hand I'd say emojis at the start/end of a sentence are as meaningful as emoticons or /s or any other Internet shorthand for conveying intent.

Decorative emojis in headings and lists help me skim documents faster than I'd otherwise be able to.

I'm curious how. I rarely see the emojis line up with the content of the header in a way that makes parsing reading the header any easier.

How?

/s is incredibly dumb as well. “Hey look everyone, I made a joke! Aren’t I clever?”

I don't think most people building AM4 systems currently are buying new, or at least not everything new, simply because depending on what you're looking for there might not even be any new parts.

Depends what you’re doing on the VMs, I run one as a desktop PC so have 4/6 cores and all the GPU access is important.

Same question on Google gets you nyc.gov (the actual source!) with the same answer. That page is also always correct for NYC, instead however correct ChatGPT is, which might be 100%... or might not!

And what then? People read through all of nyc.gov and the entire city/state legal code to find the exact statute that applies to their scenario?

In fact government agencies have set up their own chatbots to help people with situations like these, and like the article says those would be illegal under this law as well.


Was it that hard for you to try the search yourself? The first result was a helpful guide breaking down what to do specific to the scenario you mentioned: https://www.nyc.gov/main/services/rent-increase-guide

Also NYC is in the process of getting rid of that chatbot.


This is not about you or me, it's about the large chunk of New Yorkers (and people in every city) that:

- have no resources for a lawyer

- have limited English skills, and possibly limited literacy in general

- aren't good with computers/internet

- have little understanding of the law

"Oh just browse a complex website" and every other "it works fine for me" scenario doesn't help this class of citizens. A simple chatbot that answers questions does.


Apparently you are either a bot yourself or some AI shill. That page is clearer than most ChatGPT results, the official source, and has translations for dozens of languages. Not to mention "aren't good with computers" already rules out using ChatGPT!

True. But just changing the prompt to include "cite me cases" expands the search to court systems and actual cases. It's pretty useful as a first pass to get a sense for the issues, precedents and laws at stake.

You know some of those "actual cases" are made up, right? Like, famously, lawyers are filing briefs with made-up citations b/c they used LLMs to draft it.

Ah ok so only lawyers get to use AI hallucinations! (Actually, CA has a bill pending that AFAIR requires lawyers to manually verify AI citations... which is a lot narrower and better than what NY is trying here.)

Note: 'Same question on Google gets you' can only reasonably be sure for you and no other person. Answers may vary depending on your location and history information.

This is a strange disclaimer to make specifically about Google when it is even more true for these chatbots.

OK, I don't. I wonder if we could set up some sort of legislative system that could debate this on our behalf and make a reasonable plan that accounts for our differing viewpoints.

I've found that if two people sit together and are willing to talk long enough, they'll eventually be able to actually hear each other, and usually they are more in agreement than the media-installed reactions and assumptions we have. Only with a few would we vehemently disagree. I'm talking about reasonable people though, like your calm reply.

You completely missed the point: Trump unilaterally started this chaotic war without going to Congress. This isn't a matter of "if we just talk we can be friends" type of situation.

He stated a war on his own (after campaigning on the opposite no less) meaning our representatives had no say in this. It's completely unacceptable.


I did not miss any points. You are uninformed. Iran was less than a month away from having a viable nuke, and they've been swearing to use it against America and Israel for the past 47 years. In the last set of negotiations, Iran refused to rule out building the nuke. That's the official information, and if you think they're lying, you have no alternative sources of trustworthy information besides terrorist-aligned ideologies.

Presidents can take such defensive actions. It's legal.


> Iran was less than a month away from having a viable nuke

Oh, I see, you've bought the propaganda that Iran is close to a nuke. That's been the scare tactic for decades. Did you already forget the strike we did on their nuclear facilities months ago that supposedly set them back?

There was no justification for this war, the official US position is that we needed to get involved because Israel striked first and Iran was going to retaliate against us.

Israel is wagging the dog here since this is likely the last puppet they'll have in office and Iran threatens their power in the ME.


Here you go: they were 7-10 days from weapon's grade enrichment.

https://x.com/stinchfield1776/status/2029365225426649346

That's the guy who met to negotiate with the Iranians. They admitted it. You won't get clearer evidence than that.


Steve Witkoff is a real estate developer who, for some reason, got put into a special envoy for foreign affairs. The fact that you take his word (or really anyone in the executive) at face value says a lot. Many lawmakers were briefed recently and still have no clear motive for this war.

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) on Monday said the Trump administration has not effectively explained the U.S. military objective in Iran, accusing the White House of giving “multiple definitions.”[0]

0: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5765223-warren-davidson-t...


So people should not believe the guy who was in the meeting because... he's a real estate developer... You will never believe facts as long as you hold to your agenda, and this translates to other areas of your personal life.

No, I'm saying he has no qualifications and this administration lies constantly. There's already reporting that he lied in this case about Iran saying they had nuclear material. You're making this out to be a clear cut case and it's not.

Your willingness to give them the benefit of the doubt is mind blowing.


Again, you are misinformed. The nuclear capabilities were real. They had secretly moved facilities and those struck by the US were a detriment but didn't hinder development. The attacks were unsuccessful at their primary objective, per all official information.

But there's no argument against someone who thinks everything is a conspiracy. You will always come up with a creative argument, however false it may be.


Been a while since I needed to use it there but it always amazed me that the Windows implementation of iCloud was more flexible in terms of location and ability to decide what files got synced.

Ho ho, except for where it puts the photos. Those go into a subfolder of the system photos folder, and there's no configuration (yet you can configure the "shared photos" location)

And then, should you try to set up OneDrive (despite Microsoft's shenanigans, it does simplify taking care of non-tech-savvy relatives), it will refuse to sync the photos folder because 'it contains another cloud storage' and you'll genuinely wonder how or why anyone uses computers anymore


It's also a standard right handed strat, which seems like an oversight for a guy famous for playing with a right handed strat flipped upside down.

I am 100% sure that AI with guardrails will become the dominant models as they become more widely adopted, and the bigger issue you should be concerned with is can you even tell what those guardrails are.

You can't and that is the danger. These tools are one of many to drive "right-think" at scale, which is against the users knowledge and wishes.

Seeing a Substack email collection box where you have to agree to whatever its terms are to subscribe with a skip to content link of "No, I'm a coward" is... an experience. I'll take your word he's an excellent writer, if there's an RSS feed maybe I'll subscribe.


Oh, I just edited it with developer tools to "No thank you, and I'm brave" so that clicking it wouldn't turn me into a coward


Most Substacks have an RSS feed (I'm not sure if one can disable it or not); in this case: https://samkriss.substack.com/feed


This is painful to me on three levels: 1. Real estate costs have gone up so much it’s prohibitively expensive to do something this grand. 2. Advertising is now a race to the bottom where showing car ads on websites has almost zero cost with all return compared to something novel like this. 3. It’s impossible to find a car like a 90s Miata these days because manual transmissions are almost dead and every car had to get heavier to have enough safety features to survive being T-boned by a Cybertruck.


Agree on the rest, but thankfully for #3 a modern base ND Miata with the 1.5 is pretty close to in weight to a NA due to a lot of weight saving work by Mazda.


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