Benj Christensen

Product @ Stripe

[Benj Christensen @benjdotnet]

This is a 5% discount masquerading as 10%.

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@amazon, when did Subscribe and Save switch from being a discount off of the one-time price (what you think you're getting unless you look very carefully) to being a discount off of the arbitrary list price?

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

This is wild. https://t.co/fA4oTX8fB9

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@AdamMGrant Agree on not pressuring kids. That said, as someone who's hired many folks, one signal I look for in early careers is a willingness to push through tough problems. There are some majors (and other activities!) that demonstrate this much better than others.

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

On the death of a prophet, a church shooting in Michigan, and what I learned from President Russell M. Nelson:
https://t.co/RxBKXMz0WP

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@edwinarbus I've had a couple Clear Plus free trials and didn't see the benefit. Like your anecdote, I often found myself waiting longer than regular precheck - and with more hassle.

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@Magendanz (Around here)

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@Magendanz ChatGPT guesses 47.292°, -121.300°

[Benj Christensen @benjdotnet]

.@ring refused to cancel sending a fire truck after a mistaken CO alarm test. They claim “the regulations where you live require the fire dept to check every CO alarm.” No such law here, and fire dept canceled when I called directly. Burdening users and fire depts needlessly.

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@Austen Similar to how I learned HTML, CSS, and (basic) JS as a teenager: seeing things I liked on websites, grabbing the code, and figuring out how to adapt it to my own uses.

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@hudzah I needed a measuring cup earlier today so I printed it. Felt like the future.

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@kyzrsosay @ericjang11 A robot mows my lawn daily (very well, too). Just doesn't look humanoid.

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@vkhosla An interesting statement.

Which of the most deadly wars in history are you ascribing to religion?

How do you account for Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot...?

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

I’m bullish on LLMs for code but this is kind of a funny/weird counterpoint that maybe it makes developers chose worse tools

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@DrHughHarvey @StanfordHAI The study (to date, as described) seems to be lacking a meaningful comparison to baseline - a control group. E.g.: how deterministic is the average physician?

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@JamesClear One I heard and wrote down years ago: "Family is where love goes to work out."

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@SportsGuyLance @Rainmaker1973 @Grazfather Thank you - agreed this is both more accurate and more impressive!

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@svpino I think raw GPT-4 gets this right as (hex) 25. Needed to convert decimal 27 to hex first before adding A. https://t.co/xyLpTJGrau

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@steveofmcleod @collision @stripe GPT-4's explanation:

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@Truphone @Truphone : 5 weeks in to this service and _still_ no phone or SMS access. Have emailed many times, been assured "this is still with our Technical Team"... please help?

[Benj Christensen @benjdotnet]

@Truphone, bought a plan for my son over 2.5 weeks ago and phone calls don't work. Customer service keeps asking for more time for the Technical Team to investigate the issue. This seems wildly slow. Can you help?

[Benj Christensen @benjdotnet]

@Truphone Thank you! Case# 01993669. Still no action on it, now at almost 3 weeks :-(.