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I've seen director / VP-level folks at a public company point LLMs at a corporate product and essentially ask it "What deficiencies do you see here? Output to a Word document." The…

I have to wonder if it's because of how many Enterprise customers they have who have standardized on Github Copilot and gotten it through the gauntlet of legal approvals etc.

Was he in banking? For some reason I was under the impression he was a lawyer and partner in a major Seattle law firm.

namesilo has been decent for me

Accompanying code: https://github.com/tjdevries/advent-of-nvim

This is one area where I find ChatGPT to be quite decent.

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition [1] is an oldie but a goodie worth a re-mention. 1. https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

Someone close to me works with this guy, who was a total hero last year. Obviously, he had to go through all the treatments. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/aggressive-coyote-…

I have Starlink at my home located in a rural area where the only alternative is DSL at ~1.0MBPS average downlink. Using Starlink made it possible to actually do interactive work f…

This is my experience (greater Raleigh, NC). It's people asking for referrals for painters or experiences with various Internet service providers. Or lost dogs; so many lost/found …

Agreed. It's not surprising at all since they don't want to manage a bunch of different contracts. However, I'm of the opinion (and I am a lawyer) that the contracts should then al…

Shipt does the same thing for some stores they deliver from. They claim something like a 15% markup average, but in reality from our own experimentation on items we most frequently…

Home Depot and Lowes do this same thing with certain items like dishwashers. It's obnoxious. Their website will show that they have "1 left in stock" but it's the demo model that's…

Companies shouldn't be permitted to call something "flushable" if over half of the country's sewer facilities say they are a problem.

That's why my dentist recommends a fluoride mouthwash after brushing.

I'm fairly certain GE also builds timers into the system to "expire" filters on either water volume or time (e.g., six months).

I'm somewhat surprised Google hasn't taken the old Microsoft route of just charging per call for support on their free accounts. MS used to be $300 way back IIRC. Google could prob…