Easy in the US apparently. My bank refuses that here without (written, signed and sent by post) proof I have been scammed and this case wouldn't be that. It is a credit card, not a debit card. I only have it for hiring cars as many just refuse unless it is a cc.
I don’t want to victim blame… but I’m gonna. You’ve been paying $18K per year for infra you don’t use? Can I get in on this action? I’ll rent you some of my home lab for half the price.
But AWS doesn’t charge by the usage of allocated resources. They charge by the allocation of those resources. Have 50 EC2 instances at 0% CPU? Amazon sat them aside for you, as promised, yet you chose not to use what you paid for. That’s not their fault.
By analogy, a restaurant charges you for a steak, whether or not you eat it. Unless it’s defective, you bought it and you pay for it. And if you don’t want to donate $1500/mo to the AWS Steak House, stop ordering the ribeye.
Yeah but I'm not sure if that's the way to go for learning your first 1000 words of a language, especially if you're just trying to spend your 15 minute commute doing something useful.
That's actually pretty smart to address reports in batches to find the intersection of sites users routinely encounter and sites that are AI slop instead of trying to address reports individually as they come in.
I think alcohol is a good working model to start with. It's a complicated issue bound up with culture, religion, and addiction. How do we deal with it? Well we haven't fixed the problem perfectly and it can still cause a lot of problems, but the main thing we have settled on (in America) is some regulation + formal social pressure and beliefs + informal social pressure.
The first step is to make it more socially acceptable for people to publicly express their belief that social media is bad and that it is ok to do something about it. Libertarians hate this, but legal+social influence over behavior has been something humans have been doing since the dawn of society (for good and ill, unfortunately).
So there's a study which shows that elite athletes have more dental issues. And the conclusion is a conjecture that this might impact athletic performance but that wasn't studied explicitly? Or am I missing something?
Yea, and once you zoom out - being able to intuitively see the temperature all around the planet just creates this sense of appreciation for where we are. On top of it, one can't help but notice that we are floating nowhere in particular in this infinite and eternal universe ...
as far as I am concerned there should be a strict no-smartphone policy in every café, restaurant, bar, club, cinema, theater, concert etc. that would be amazing. or at least some should do it and i'd only go there.
I realised a step up with going to lunch with Japanese friends where the stream of sounds started to become comprehensible as discrete words. When I understood some of them I at least grasped the topic of the conversation, though not the details. It takes time and patience...
> I am talking about for instance chatrooms where a small remote team joins for the express purpose to collaborate closely
I am too.
A chat room is not equivalent to a face to face conversation. You’re not in an always-on social engagement with those people.
If you need to switch to having face to face conversational norms, you need to request a time for that.
It’s not reasonable to expect that someone’s online indicator means you are entitled to request that they drop what they’re doing and respond to you. Online does not mean not busy.
This is really cool. With a newborn in the home I've been really thinking about projects like this recently. When you have a newborn things are so busy and hectic that it's easy to get overloaded and for things to slip through the cracks so I've been really wishing I had a dashboard like this somewhere to remind me that we need to take the dogs out or show how long it's been since the baby last ate or whatnot.
There's a growing pile of "AI wrapper" products that slap a chat interface on GPT and call it a day. I don't want to build that. I'm trying to build something that actually coaches people — the way a good human coach would.
The problem I'm solving: professional dating coaches cost €100-300/hour. Most people who feel stuck on dating apps — don't know what to write on their profile, freeze when they match, overthink every message — will never pay that. And the free advice online is generic, contradictory, and impersonal.
Biosai is my attempt at bridging that gap. The core idea is an ongoing coaching relationship, not a one-shot tool:
- The coach (named Coda) asks questions before giving advice, like a real coach would. It doesn't just generate text for you.
- It remembers your story across sessions — your goals, who you're talking to, what happened on your last date — and picks up where you left off.
- Coaching is grounded in a structured knowledge base of professional frameworks (conversation dynamics, profile psychology, confidence building), not just raw LLM output.
- Voice coaching: you can talk to Coda in real time, which feels surprisingly different from typing.
What makes this hard (and interesting): making an AI that listens before it speaks, that pushes you to grow instead of just telling you what to say, and that doesn't become a crutch. The goal is to make users more confident and independent over time, not more dependent on the tool.
Honest status: I'm a solo dev, pre-revenue, building this part-time. The product works but the coaching quality is what I care most about improving. I'd love feedback from anyone who's felt stuck with dating apps — does this resonate? What would make you trust an AI coach?
Yes, that is what the paper says, but a high carb. diet is also common in the general population. There might be other unexplored reasons - ex: tennis players with constant tours and lack of consistent pay contributes to less dentist visits to fix these.
This is a speculative piece that is, by the author's own admission, a scenario rather than a prediction.
But it's unsettling because it somehow feels more plausible than most thought pieces on where all this is going. Not as a single big-bang, but a multi-year big-squeeze. That and the circumstances being materially different from previous recessions/crises that governments and policy makers won't have a ready-made playbook to refer to.
I expect we'll see governments attempting the old playbook than doing nothing though. Fiscal and, specifically, monetary stimulus.
It's true that the meaning of "vibe coding" has been somewhat diluted - but the original definition as set forth by Karpathy was to forget that the code even exists (no review, no reading the commits, nothing).
I remember when Fox News was considered irrelevant compared to mainstream news outlets. Don’t underestimate the reach of billionaires with an ideological agenda.
