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How popular is Grok compared to other companies models for SWE tasks? I almost never hear it talked about against OpenAI's or Anthropic's products

For me, I've found that some curved displays are better than others. My home monitor is curved, on a seemingly very large radius, and I love it! However some that I've used that ar…

you beat me to it :)

I have this conversation with my wife (who is an avid book reader) at least once per month. I read so many technical documents for work, via my computer, that I often don't want to…

> Companies forget this. they don't care about your commute at all. "if [c-level exec] can make it to the office every day, so can you" not to mention that, said exec does not in f…

I agree, I don't need an existential crisis every time I open a terminal session

similar, only I use dadjoke and the thinking cow to keep things a lighthearted :) dadjoke | cowthink -s

I love FF and have gone back you it for the last few months, after using chrome for years, CPU and battery usage is great now, but coincidentally I've been getting these weird hang…

It's same with a lot of the rural south too. Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas. I grew up driving past these types of towns all the time.

One of my go-to closing questions in interviews is to ask them if they have any concerns/doubts about hiring me for the role. So far I've gotten pretty good and honest feedback fro…

I think the reason is 2 part. Part 1 being often these "junk" processed foods are cheaper to buy for more quantity. eg. a box of macaroni and cheese can feed a family of 4 on $2USD…

> Apple also maintains very high margins, something that leaves more than enough room for another company to compete on price. The trap here is instead of producing a good product …

They mention smoking it, isn't smoking ANYTHING be harmful to your cardiovascular health? What is the increased risk vs cigarettes vs cigars etc.? How does this hold up for users w…

Which card is that, that takes away the incentive? I use Apple Pay pretty frequently and still get my cashback rate, or double points incentives on the cards that I use.

Don't forget the defense industry, a lot of my friends who graduated from UCF went to Boeing, Lockheed, and Homeland Security

Cafe colada is what I miss most about Miami, having now moved to California :(

Do they really need a captcha on BOTH username AND password input? I get that they are different submit pages, so they are likely querying the database on each page, but is that re…

At a previous company I found an internal excel document with everyone's salary, from the CEO down to his assistant. On the doc my salary was inflated ~25K to what my actual gross …

This happened to me, not necessarily in a bad way, but makes me think what I should've asked for. I attempted to do research on the company and their salaries for that position via…

On the bright side, that's much less of a budget cut than what I was expecting!

I know that it's not, I just said that I like it better than the two-factor auth that I use elsewhere. If I need to pull out my phone; its just easier to click my notification and …

I started using their "Account Key" process, any time I log in on the site from a computer, I get a notification from my Yahoo sports app (iPhone) asking me if I would like to allo…

I lol'd

I was recently on an Alaskan Air flight which did just that. It had no TV's on the plane, but power outlets right on the back of the seat. For all of their in flight entertainment,…