There needs to be some kind of process like an intervention where people get introduced to what big data has already done.
With modern storage and compression techniques companies might be storing the data those bars already gathered for years before the facial recognition gets to the point where even crappy, out of focus face partials are good enough to identify a person and connect them to a database.
I wonder if whatever language the scientists would be arguing in would be comprehensible to you, you know, from inside the simulation they were arguing about whether or not it was ethical to run.
Could be that the OS looks at the lower end machine specs and decides ahead of time it can’t run all the extra stuff where the higher end machine gets over the line and runs it, or it could be something the sysadmins did since they’re work machines. No way to know without the source code which we won’t get.
I’ve been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it?
Ask for pictures of all his other paperwork so they can finish onboarding him at his new job.
Or you use last week’s peanuts bag and contaminate the “not peanuts” hopper that the folks allergic to them use.
I like the credit card for most purchases because I’m just going to pay it off later anyway. I don’t buy a lot of cups of coffee or sodas, so that’s not an issue. The fraud recovery is worth it for me even if I’m paying the fee.
When food trucks became a thing locally you had to have cash, and you had to at least know enough words to specify the number on the menu and what type of meat you wanted. Now that same business has a bunch of local locations all doing card transactions, and maybe doing a cash discount. I wouldn’t know since the food <-> money+card_fee transaction is worth it to me. I would wager for that type of business that they pick up more overall business than they lose, and they really should teach at least a little bit of this in school so you don’t get people weirded out by a minimum fee, but then again I was in line at a gas station that had a “minimum purchase for cards” sign, and a guy was like $5 short. The cashier explained, guy goes and gets a $2 drink. Cashier explains again, guy goes back again and still doesn’t come up to the limit. A tacked on “hidden” CC fee probably saves a lot of trouble in the long run.
I’d be more amenable to ACH if I had a dedicated business account. I use it for my current broker, but balked once before when I signed up for Robinhood and one of the later steps was “now we just need your bank account and routing number.” Nah guys, I’ll pass. I’m assuming most checks these days get filed electronically anyway.
the processor makes sure the floor is covered […] but there is no ceiling with any processor that I’m aware of
Nobody’s in business to lose money.
I suppose because online transactions are more likely to be fraudulent or something
I can see that. I’ve been lucky enough to only see two cases of stolen card numbers, and in both cases there was a small purchase (to verify the number), and then largish purchases I guess to see if merchandise can get delivered before the fraud is noticed. I wonder if they write off on their taxes the fees on those largish, fraudulent purchases they catch.
I guess with the costs of running all the servers to look for fraud, security on the whole works, hot backups, cold backups, etc, that 3% doesn’t look so bad for all that goes on behind the scenes, but it also doesn’t look like their stock prices are hurting (what the heck happened to Fiserv that owns Clover that they dropped 50%?).
Do you also take American Express? Is there any difference on your end between Visa/Mastercard/AMEX? I’m genuinely curious since I remember all the old commercials.
See also: merchants charging a ~3% fee if you use a credit card because similarly covering the cost of a payment processor is increasingly becoming a cost that is not absorbed. Even with medical practices!
At least this is easy to understand, though. Credit card processor charges us X% so we’re passing that on. We used to eat it or fold it into business costs, but with the economy doing it’s slow-death we can’t anymore.
What really gets me, especially with large purchases like a medical bill or a transmission replacement for example is that 3 or more % quickly becomes advantageous for the processor. On a $10,000 that 3% becomes $300, and it did not get $297 more expensive to wiggle some bits around over a $100 payment’s $3. Then, some businesses decide that the best way to offset that cost is something akin to an ACH transfer…just hand over your bank account information and don’t worry about it!
Anything that creates a reproducable build for you is fine; however, learning Ansible (or Puppet, etc.) puts you on the road to being able to do that sort of thing professionally.
Congratulations on getting almost all the way out. It sounds like the hoarded items thing will come up at some point, but you knew that.
Your reaction is a lot like that of people who’ve been parentified when they were younger (forced to take care of younger siblings). There’s a similar reaction out of the parents when the child doesn’t carry out the portion of The Plan devised for them.
There’s more honesty in a parent/child relationship where the parents tell the children they’re out the door on their 18th birthday so the children have time to plan. At least that way the children know for sure where they stand.
Point clarification: the firefighters ended up not being necessary?
And yes, like training an LLM, you’ve taken in negative feedback to not do this, not do that, maybe some positive feedback along the way on how to do something right, and when things really mattered and someone was in danger, you engaged the LLM part of your brain to think two steps ahead…and it gets thrown back in your face.
Your breaking point is completely warranted, because you hit a point where you realized that no amount of messing with internal weights and trying to guess what they want would ever work, so why bother stressing over it anymore?
You can’t even show me the right speed limit due a sign on a different road that say 5MPH, when I’m on a 30MPH road, and suddenly you start beeping at me cause I’m going too fast?
Insurance company using police report: “Sorry, your rates are going up because you were going 25MPH over the speed limit. What were you thinking?”
Ft. Knox
Did anyone ever go in there and show the gold? I thought someone campaigned with that as a promise.
it would be able to detect
“It” doesn’t have to be any good at it:
https://blog.princelaw.com/2009/07/08/nfa-and-constructive-possession-myth-or-reality/
Most still will. Like I’m sure a lot of people are doing, I was trying to reuse old hardware for a new purpose. Perfectly good computer with 16GB of RAM with an AMD A8-3850. I’m not complaining about progress’s march towards the future, but I missed the warning signs about the changes. I’m sure some other folks probably did as well.
I’m going to drag out my same soapbox: a lot of systems old enough to use DDR3 RAM will have x86_64 v1 or v2 processors. Some projects have already removed support for those, the big one being the RHEL kernel as of RHEL9.
Too many gray areas (bodies of water) on that map with no red anywhere near them. The people there are going to be really surprised to learn that they’ve been living on some tech company’s water all their lives, and that their local water board all retired and left the state at the same time.
Replying to myself here and including a link that just dropped:
Apparently the debate was more spirited than I thought. The argument appears to revolve around whether it’s OK to jump to the new stuff directly, or use a combination of the old and new.
I think this is how I can message people…
Once they know you care $50 million worth, the price will be $60 million, or $100mil.