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And then you can't use Uber, or Doordash, or Instacart. It works for single transaction merchants, but for platforms that having become critical to functioning in today's modern society, it's unfortunately not the magic password.
If you need to issue charge backs you shouldn't be using them. Painful lesson but call the restaurant. Call a cab. Go to the store yourself. Your modern society is a wasteland to be avoided.
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I boycott the self checkout, and always go through the cashier, even if that means waiting a bit longer. The way I look at it that's at least a token towards keeping people employed that make substantially less money than I do and even if my time is valuable it isn't nearly as valuable to me as their employment is to them. I hoped more people would join me this but it looks like it is a losing battle.
You're fighting the wrong battle. The real galaxy brain move is to use a self-checkout and fuck up horribly so they have to send the staffer over anyway, and take ten times as long. Then it appears on the balance sheet as a negative.
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So the plan is screwing over the company you're buying goods from? Where can I like and subscribe for more of these amazing life hacks? (/s)
here’s few more: - you never have to buy stamps. just put address where you want letter to be sent in the sender area of the envelope and address it to whomever and drop it in the mailbox without postage. post office will return mail without postage to sender which is exactly where you want letter to go any more? ;)
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The government will reclaim the land unless I pay for it with money I make from the system. It’s not possible to opt out anymore. They stole the land too but my guns are smaller. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/matthew-clarke-youtube-...
You could work at a job and then buy land outside a city, thus beating the system. This is something other people have done.
The only way to avoid needing system money would be to live on national land for free, but then you cannot have a permanent dwelling like a cabin.
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Interesting. When I tried it (using GPT4), and told it "but won't that leak memory because we're not removing the other listener?", it gave me: const EventEmitter = require('events'); let eventEmitter = new EventEmitter(); function eventPromise(eventEmitter, eventName) { return new Promise((resolve, reject) => { const successHandler = (data) => { eventEmitter.off('error', errorHandler); resolve(data); }; const errorH…
Kind of: The point is making it find and correct the mistake itself, instead of spelling out the fix. We want it to replace a competent coder who can do code reviews by themselves, rather than just being a fancy input method that turns English into code. That said, sometimes you can even get it to write correct code on the first try. It's completely random.
See, the thing is I don't actually want it to take my job, I like having a job, for many reasons. As a translator that turns Jira tickets into English and then turns them into code, if it makes my job easier and I'm more productive, great! If it takes deep domain knowledge before it's useful and it can be tricked into missing subtle things, that sounds like job security.
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Ironically, I had a lot of trouble with a particular recipe (pan-fried gyoza with a crispy bottom), and it was only GPT 4 that gave me a working recipe! The lack of determinism can be considered a type of strength. Run it multiple times! It might find different bugs each time. Humans are the same, by the way. If you show a random set of programmers random snippets of code, you'll get a non-deterministic result. They…
> The lack of determinism can be considered a type of strength. Run it multiple times! It might find different bugs each time. I’ve only tried it with code a little bit, but what I find is that it gives me hallucinations that I need to spend time figuring out. I don’t know what it’s saying, because it’s gibberish, and then I have to spend my time figuring out it’s not accurate. I don’t want to run on that treadmill.…
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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe da…
Not much is stopping you from living in a log cabin in the woods.
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It's ironic, but at the company where I provide support (50-ish employees), one of the most common things I have to tell people is that they actually have to sign in and cancel their memberships themselves. They just fire off an email rather that investing even four seconds into typing the same message into the Support Center or just looking at their Account page and doing it themselves.
Is the front line the still staffed by humans then? Or does something first scan the email for unsubscribe and all its synonyms, and send them a canned reply, before escalating to a human.
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Anyone who has ever interacted with a tier 1 customer service agent in an outsourced support farm knows the difference between that and a chat bot is negligible. True technical support can't be replaced yet, but thousands upon thousands of tier 1 human drones can be.
I strongly disagree, I don't care how terrible their english is or whatever - having a live person is almost always infinitely better compared to the bot.
Dealing with a human whose job is to function as a bot is worse than just dealing with a bot.
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Technical solutions for societal issues don't have the best track record. Providing healthcare and education to everyone needs the right incentives, not technology that could theoretically help if greed spontaneously ceased to exist.
Your healthcare depends mostly on a solid foundation of technology. Otherwise everyone can have full access to all the witch doctors.