Max Tagher

Co-Founder/CTO @mercury; check it out at 🐀

[Max Tagher @MaxTagher]

@TaliaGraceSable Good scene from Molly's Game, "Don’t break the law while you're breaking the law"

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@theo Thanks Theo :)

Any feature requests?

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This site can be very negative so let me say today that @KelseyTuoc is awesome. Rational , reasonable, and wise while also being benevolent and gracious. An excellent writer. Bravo.

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@KeenanPeachy Rian Johnson 2 years later did Knives Out and got an Oscar nomination, then Netflix paid him $100 million for him to do two more. In what sense was he wrecked?

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@soychotic Maybe like simpler mechanical refactors in a large codebase that you want to split into a lot of PRs.

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@devonzuegel I also tried to record debate rounds in college, but that was controversial so I only rarely got permission for it

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@devonzuegel Yes! I wanted this for employee interviews years ago and ran into a good amount of resistance (legal concerns, what will candidates think?), then it arrived as almost a free side effect of AI note taking.

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@rSanti97 do you go rock climbing?

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@rydoyle @mercury This is pretty annoying, we’re adding an option to make these emails a weekly or monthly update instead

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We got that feature request through other channels too, but it's nice to say "125 people tried to do this exact thing and found the product wanting, and that was the most common request we couldn't support"

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Cool feature of natural language UIs powered by AI: your users tell you about missing features

Example: @mercury bank accounts have an auto-transfer feature where you can setup rules like ~top up my checking account to X from investments when it gets below Y.

You can set up the rules by hand or write a description and AI does the setup for you.

Sometimes users ask it for something our system doesn’t support. For example, about half of unsupported requests involve transferring money to 3rd party institutions, so now we’re building that feature.

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@cremieuxrecueil @LinkofSunshine Do zinc gummies work for this?

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@bryan_johnson Toy poodles!

Don’t shed, intelligent, easy to travel with, friendly and not yappy.

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@RealKodiTheFox @13Mr_Mayhem Kills by allies count as denies

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@TaliaGraceSable @thiagovscoelho This comes up in prison D&D games, since dice are banned there!

Iirc they use spinners

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@simonsarris @jp_kiser “They” here is Apple right? Iiuc they came up with the term and announced it at WWDC, but there wasn’t a clear explanation of what it was exactly. Eventually everyone else adopted it too

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Caveat that right now every user has to have TOTP and passkeys are added additionally, so passkey users have a backup option AND they’re self selecting into using them. But still think the data is in favor of passkeys and they keep getting better

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Passkeys do get hate (eg this TikTok has 240K likes https://t.co/Hj12VvHTnz) but it’s gotta be way less than TOTP (6 digit rotating codes à la Google Authenticator). Success rate @mercury for TOTP is 88% vs 97% for passkeys, and passkeys have ⅓ the support tickets

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Passkeys are the solution to this problem but people are mad about those too

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@nwilliams030 Any Brooklyn reccs?

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@savarlamov @tryramp @mercury Hey I’d like to look into this, can you tell me or DM me who this was?