SoftTalker (u/SoftTalker)

SoftTalker commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

sneak · 14 hours ago

Doesn’t matter. Simply defending against the claim costs significant money, and you can’t recover those costs.

Best to avoid the claim altogether.

SoftTalker · 13 hours ago

Filing such a claim costs money too, and any decent lawyer will tell the claimant that he has no case.

SoftTalker commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

swat535 · 13 hours ago

I don't know about you but the older I get, the less I take anything in life personal.

I've come to realize that there are so many aspects of life that are not under one's control and shaking your fist gravity doesn't accomplish anything; even more so when it comes to business and professional relationships.

One of my favorite quotes is from "Deuteronomy 18:13", or as the The Coen Brothers aptly put it:

- "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you"

SoftTalker · 13 hours ago

Not that I’m religious but I looked up that verse and don’t see how the Coen Brothers got that message from it.

SoftTalker commented on Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators governing.com/management-... · Posted by u/tencentshill

phil21 · 17 hours ago

Murder may be down, but every other “minor” visible crime is up. Reporting it is useless.

Just this week about a dozen contractor vans in the neighborhood were broken into (windows smashed) by a professional crew caught on camera looking for valuables to steal. Zero of those contractors reported it since they know it’s a pointless waste of time with the local police department. Not even worth reporting to insurance since rates will more than make up for the claim in a short period of time and they expect it to happen a few times a year. The stats will report a perfect week of zero property crime.

This is a neighborhood where the cheapest property is over seven figures.

Shoplifting is effectively legalized these days. No one is enabled to stop it like we did 30 years ago when I worked a retail job. And no one wants to talk about the corrosive effect this has on society via second and third order effects. Just the liability fairy and “don’t get paid enough to deal with that”. Again, only a small percentage of such theft is ever reported these days when before it was a policy to detain and call the police for booking every single time you caught someone in the act.

So sure, violent crime is down. Misdemeanors are effectively legal where I’m at. Traffic laws more or less no longer exist on top of it all. Armed carjackings went from basically unheard of to a weekly occurrence in my neighborhood.

But all the stats state otherwise, other than perhaps the carjacking one.

It’s also a large reason folks are losing faith with institutions and experts. When the stats and “studies” match absolutely no one’s lived experience people eventually start to question things for good reason. Only so many times you can be told by wealthy suburbanites that crime is down until you tune them out.

We are rapidly moving from a high trust society to a low trust one and I think many people are being caught flat footed in the new reality.

That said, I don’t believe it’s really a government problem. It’s societal one.

SoftTalker · 13 hours ago

My local supermarket has an armed guard (off duty cop) with a Kevlar vest, I’m pretty sure nobody is walking out of there with unpaid groceries.

SoftTalker commented on The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch positiveblue.substack.com... · Posted by u/positiveblue

verdverm · 21 hours ago

The website owner has rights too. Are you arguing they cannot choose to implement such gatekeeping to keep their site operating in a financially viable manner?

SoftTalker · 21 hours ago

If you put your information freely on the web, you should have minimal expectations on who uses it and how. If you want to make money from it, put up a paywall.

If you want the best of both worlds, i.e. just post freely but make money from ads, or inserting hidden pixels to update some profile about me, well good luck. I'll choose whether I want to look at ads, or load tracking pixels, and my answer is no.

SoftTalker commented on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/speckx

delfinom · a day ago

Went to shiT-Mobile in store. Only two employees working, one preoccupied with a customer that apparently is months late on their bill and demanding to be let back in, and was presenting a expired ID. The second one was a couple which based on their conversations and look, were replacing the phone lines for their mafia crime family.

Had a 1 hour wait to basically do a 2 minute fucking ESIM swap. No, fuck that.

SoftTalker · 21 hours ago

That's a shame, I have had much better luck.

Last time I had an issue with my internet I went into the Xfinity/Comcast store, they had reps with nothing to do and someone immediately helped me, they seem to have direct access to management systems that are not available to the customers on the website or via the app. Talking to a human to describe the problem is so much easier than dealing with a bot or voice-response system.

SoftTalker commented on Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower Than the Old Ones wsj.com/us-news/amtraks-n... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

eqvinox · a day ago

> Old trains: padded schedule

No — Old trains: schedule based on experiences from having ran them for at least a year (i.e. all seasons)

New trains' buffers are larger because you don't know e.g. how shit the brakes are when you have tons of leaves on your rails. (Yes this is an actual thing¹.)

[¹ Ed.: in case anyone is incredulous at the leaves thing: https://www.groupe-sncf.com/en/group/behind-the-scenes/traff... ]

SoftTalker · 21 hours ago

The contact surface area of a steel wheel on a rail is about the size of a dime. That's what you have to work with to stop the train.

SoftTalker commented on Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower Than the Old Ones wsj.com/us-news/amtraks-n... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

mrpopo · 21 hours ago

It's also 700kg of CO2, one of the best ways to worsen climate change per dollar spent

SoftTalker · 21 hours ago

What is it per passenger-mile, that's what you would have to compare to e.g. a car, bus, or train.

SoftTalker commented on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy anthropic.com/news/update... · Posted by u/porridgeraisin

const_cast · a day ago

> Yes, because race is a protected class.

No: because Uber doesn't have to tell you how their model works and they probably don't even know.

SoftTalker · 21 hours ago

Doesn't matter. If you can convincingly argue that the effect is discrimination based on race, you have a civil rights claim.

SoftTalker commented on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights... · Posted by u/eoskx

lupusreal · a day ago

.22 handguns are extremely popular personal defense weapons. Nobody with sense would say they're great at it, but they are nonetheless extremely popular in that role.

SoftTalker · 21 hours ago

If you're in a situation where a gun would help you, a .22 is better than nothing. I mean, I certainly would not want to get shot with a .22.

SoftTalker commented on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights... · Posted by u/eoskx

dfc · a day ago

Does any service in the world have a standard issue full auto handgun?

SoftTalker · 21 hours ago

Not "standard issue" but a Glock with a switch is an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_switch