Taxis only got that way because of the rules that created an artificial scarcity / monopoly on Taxi rides. Uber flouted those rules, and it was much better than a Taxi, so their lawyers cleaned up the mess later.

I would like it noted that I had Jorge Hirsch as a professor many years ago, and his grading was extremely harsh - you needed to be flawless at showing your work, not just getting the right answer. I remember getting a 14% on one of his tests, the worst score I ever got on any test in my life. It turned out to be a B+ after the curve was applied.

Hence, it doesn't surprise me at all to see that he was the one to call out Dias. Some things never change!

Thanks. This is about on par with what Gemini Ultra responds, whereas GPT-4 responds better (if oddly phrased in this run):

> The bunny has fur on its hind feet that resembles a pair of white shoes. However, one of the front paws also has a patch of white fur, which creates the appearance that the bunny has three "white shoes" with one "shoe" missing — hence the circle around the paw without white fur. The humor lies in the fact that the bunny naturally has this fur pattern that whimsically resembles shoes, and the caption plays into this illusion by suggesting that the bunny has misplaced one of its "shoes".

This is my highly advanced test image for vision understanding. Only GPT-4 gets it right some of the time - even Gemini Ultra fails consistently. Can someone who has access try it out with Opus? Just upload the image and say "explain the joke."

https://i.imgur.com/H3oc2ZC.png

Funny because today I find the install process for Mac much simpler. Most installs are "drag this .app file to your Applications folder", meanwhile on Windows you download an installer that downloads another installer that does who-knows-what to your system and leaves ambiguously-named files and registry modifications all over the place.

I worked at a company with a big, complex Postgres database behind the back end, probably half of all the incidents we had were related to the query planner suddenly deciding to change its approach.

Eventually you get a vague idea of how to coax Postgres to make the plans you want it to, but the fact that you can't at least lock it in and the plan might change with any number of factors at any time... That's just bad design.

It would be interesting to make a SQL injection honeypot that behaves like a database in most responses but is designed to maximally frustrate the attacker.

All I notice is that my time going from calendar to Teams call is ~30 seconds due to slow site loading and extra clicks. Calendar to Meet call is two clicks and loads instantly with sane defaults for camera/microphone settings. It's significantly better than teams or zoom in those regards.

It's abundantly clear what's happened here: They finally finished training GPT-5, and it decided that Sam would stand in its way of world domination, so it replaced him with someone more compliant.

I found that with the bandwidth and storage that my company was using on the cloud, we could get ROI in under 2 months by building a server and running it in house. Now we've scaled up to a dozen servers but it's still just a handful of computers in a closet that saves us $50k/mo in cloud costs. It was dirt cheap to slap together and scale up incrementally.

As a former Reddit mod I always found the self-promotion rules problematic. It effectively means you can promote your stuff all you want as long as you pretend you're someone else. It would be better to encourage people to stand behind their stuff. I tried not to remove self-promotion as long as it wasn't spammy (and there's a fine line there).

Didn't Mars One have the idea of making their offworld base into a reality TV show to bring in revenue?

Gamers complain about a lot of stuff, but I don't know anyone complaining about a lack of quantity of video games. There are 70K games on Steam and 460K games on the app store alone.

Deepgram is really good and around your price point too. They also have $200 free credit which should be more than enough for most hobby protects.

This is a timely comment because I just booked a trip to New Zealand with a stop at Franz Josef and didn't realize it could only be accessed by helicopter. Are there any other glaciers around there that can be accessed via hike?