In my company some of the top users spend over $3000/m. $29 is maybe 30 mins - 1 hour continuous running for a *medium" sized model like Sonnet. Not sure about cheaper models.

Not exactly a windfall

Late last month, plaintiff Alek Schott of Houston was awarded $76, one dollar for each minute that he was detained. (Schott asked for this exact amount as symbolic compensation.)

“Money was never what mattered,” his lawyers said. “This was and has always been about the Constitution. IJ will now ask the court to enjoin Bexar County from using baseless traffic stops as a tool for warrantless searches, and will work to enforce the precedent across the state.”

Ah, fair.

Worth a read. The nonsense he went through is bizarre.

My brother just informed me that those are lillies and they are very toxic to cats, watch out!

I remind you all to never support J. K. Rowling’s works. If you do, you actively fund the oppresion of trans people in the UK.

If you like the games or movies as I once did and want to experience them again, then simply buy them second hand or, better, pirate them.

Yeah I heard of a case like this at least a year ago. I was wondering if we were reposting an old article, but no. That makes it worse, and explains the judge’s reaction.

“It’s little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court.

Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.

Yeah, I know someone frustrated with their local council who privately says “I’m going to 💥 the council” as a joke. That’s very different to sending a threatening letter to the council itself. Or harassing them.

The example here feels closer to the former than the latter.

It has varied. I used to keep them 1-2 years when they used to improve a lot year-to-year. The last 2 phones I’ve had 3 years each.

After I’m done with it, I hand my phone over to my brother, who runs it into the ground over the course of the next 3 or so years, until it’s almost unusably slow. My brother does the shower thing too, but less often. Maybe 30% of the time and less steamy.

It’s possible that there could be gradual, over time damage. Rust growing until it forms a short. But that’s not been my experience.

Ultimately, it’s up to you if you want to take the risk, but given how I treated mine, if you even did this half as often as I did, you’re probably fine.

I didn’t mention this above, but I sometimes also used the phone inside the shower. Clicking the next video or checking a message notification. Maybe 1 in 8 days.

I’ve also sometimes washed the crud off the phone under the sink, rather than my normal approach with isopropyl alcohol. The worst I’d get is a notification saying I couldn’t charge for a bit, or the speaker sounding funny for half an hour or so.

You might call me crazy, but I don’t like to baby my stuff. I paid for water resistance, I’m going to make use of it.

I’ve been told that caffeine is toxic to cats, doesn’t that make this somewhat dangerous?

I’ve been doing this for around 10 years, have very hot, steamy showers and never had a problem 🤷

Started with the Samsung Galaxy S7, one of the earlier water resistant phones, and I’ve been doing it ever since, across maybe 5 phones, almost every day. You’ll be fine. If you are worried about drops, just use a decent case.

As for why, others have said, it’s to keep listening to my YouTube video essays and similar. Stuff that doesn’t need to be seen to be appreciated.

Yeah I have seen it can be pretty hard to find non-English content on the high seas. I wonder if anyone has a good source for this stuff.

I also use this one. It’s available on F-Droid here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock

Lovely. Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension.

I can kind of relate. There are a lot of parts of coding I find a little boring.

• Once the interesting problem is solved and all you need to do is follow through
• Large scale refactorings in ways too complicated for an IDE.
• Fixing annoying dependency / migration issues

When you use an expensive AI agent, like Claude, it can nowadays handle these tasks competently, to the point where I only need to correct small things here and there.

When you give these tasks to an AI agent, it feels a bit like delegating to a junior, but without the guilt of giving someone a menial or boring task. That allows me to work on stuff I find more interesting. To me, THAT’S why it’s adictive.

However, this isn’t without cost. First, there’s the societal costs: Environmental, centralization of power, contribution to hardware shortages and a bubble

Second, there are more personal costs. You’ll come to rely more and more on these tools, and your skills will rust. You may end up avoiding learning things about a codebase because you delegate it away.

It’s a tempting tool. One which in my experience can genuinely help, but is easy to misuse.

What’s that bottom panel crossed shape one?

I love having to use 4 words to describe the number 99 (cope)

Sure enough, 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.

That’s an insanely high proportion. I don’t think I’ve ever cheated on an exam or assignment, so the concept seems kind of weird to me.

I wonder if some of the remaining people used AI but then reviewed the output and removed the weird stuff, or if they wrote it themselves.

I bought a Hisense fridge and Hisense washer dryer a little under 5 years ago and they’ve been working flawlessly ever since.

With EU customers, not reporting a breach within 72 hours of learning about it is actually illegal under GDPR.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/

Not sure how much trouble that can get you into though.

Did Edna Mode tell you that? She was correct.