Unless I am repeatedly missing it, it’s not mentioned in the article how much money the researchers spent performing the tests. What was the budget for the AI execution? If the researchers only spent $10,000 to “earn” $400,000, that’s amazing, whereas if they spent $500,000 for the same result, that’s obviously less exciting.
Readit Newskirktrue commented on Can LLMs earn $1M from real freelance coding work? newsletter.getdx.com/p/be... · Posted by u/nickwritesit
Been hesitant to get due to battery life. My fitbit lasts for days on one charge. Is there ways to configure the watch settings to extend the battery life for more than a day?
The usual suggestions I’ve read about are to disable the “always on” display, disable WiFi and/or cellular, turn down the brightness, limit notifications, and so forth. However, I cannot state how much impact these would have.
kirktrue commented on Author Clock: a novel way to tell time authorclock.com/... · Posted by u/iamben
There is the Inkplate (https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-5), which has an ESP32 and so should be just as hackable as a Linux system.
Thanks for the link! I’ve been looking for something similar to hack on
kirktrue commented on Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) mako.cc/copyrighteous/goo... · Posted by u/pabs3
yep cos of Covid namecheap sold my domain to a squatter who now wants $10k for something i've renewed for years for $12.
That was so shitty coming back round to reality and everything broken. Still upset about it. To this day I have no idea why the card didn't pay as always.
> cos of Covid namecheap sold my domain to a squatter
Can you elaborate? As a Namecheap customer, this is concerning.
I have not knowingly received any “bad“ purchases from Amazon. Having heard scary stories like these has put me off ordering things from there for sure. But the convenience is just too great for me to give it up.
Maybe I am just fortunate to have not had an issue, maybe the counterfeiters are very good, or maybe I am just clueless, or some combination of these.
I try to stick to only name brand items. If there is a product that looks compelling but is from a brand I have not heard of, I generally look at both their website and other reputable retailers which sell that same product.
I largely ignore the reviews. Not necessarily because they are scammy (which I’m sure they are) but because they are so largely subjective. Reviewers will often give a one-star rating for a product because shipping was slower than expected. Or a one-star because the product didn’t package a standard USB-A cable or didn’t include AA batteries. Or a one-star rating in protest something of the company or product itself. Many times it appears the reviewer did not read the description closely enough, and accidentally purchased the wrong product, for which they blame the retailer.
I almost always purchase from Amazon.com as the seller vs. some Harry’s Tech Supply Store. Exceptions are made if there are thousands of Store reviews and a 95%+ positive rating.
In other cases, I will simply purchase the item from the official brand website, or some other retailer. It’s frustrating that Amazon allows commingling of products from different suppliers and retailers in a common bin. It’s also frustrating that other retailers like Walmart and target seem to have followed suit.
kirktrue commented on Paper Website: Start a tiny website from your notebook paperwebsite.com/... · Posted by u/azhenley
The largest size of the fanciest coffee you can get (mocha chocolate frappucino whatever) is still like $5.50 in the middle of San Francisco, and I'm sure cheaper elsewhere. A regular Starbucks roast is 2 bucks, actually on the cheaper side compared to other coffee shops.
Don’t forget the $1 surcharge for the lactose-intolerant!
With coffee, non-milk substitute, and tax, a latte can run me nearly $8 :(
> Letter signing is not typical in ASL
Really? I'm not deaf, but I did take 3 semesters of ASL, and knew a lot of deaf people. In my experience, fingerspelling is incredibly common.
It isn't that people spell everything, but is very common to spell a very specific word, especially for something technical, that one of your following signs will represent. You might spell "Macbook M1", and then use the sign for computer in the rest of the conversation.
I've also found that many people that weren't born deaf, but went deaf later, or that had hearing parents that didn't really help them, often don't know ASL well. It was common for someone to not recognize a sign and the other person would spell out what it was.
A funny oddity about spelling and the deaf. You might (at least I did) think that since they spell things out far more often than we do in spoken English that they'd know how to spell well. That is generally not the case unless the person was raised by hearing people.
I knew a couple where the husband was CODA (child of a deaf adult, both parents) but could hear/speak, and the wife was deaf but was raised by hearing parents. She actually could spell well, but he couldn't, and that was very atypical.
Yes, just like with hearing individuals, not everyone can spell well.
Often times, just like when reading, one may not notice every single letter in a given word, but with the sequence of letters, autocorrect, and context, the meaning is usually clear.
Letter signing is not typical in ASL and in any event BM is not a common letter sequence in English. I would also think that if I made eye contact with someone who signed BM to me, I would have to assume it was this signal or else they were being awfully rude https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/BM#English
Yes, as mentioned elsewhere, finger-spelling is common when introducing a new person/entity/concept into the conversation.
Regarding the person's expressions, it's common in ASL to employ very dramatic facial expressions to assist and augment the signs themselves to help the "listener" arrive at the correct understanding and feeling.
kirktrue commented on Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name twitter.com/racheltrue/st... · Posted by u/appwiz
I haven’t had an issue with iCloud and use it everyday. I wonder if it’s specific to a certain product or workflow.
But I’ve used other services (Facebook, for example) that interpret my last name as a boolean and throw errors.
kirktrue commented on Fry's Electronics is closing all stores twitter.com/bill0004/stat... · Posted by u/synack
In the Bay Area do people often bring dogs into retail stores?
Yes, even to food establishments, unfortunately.