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I've lost count the number of times by wife has accidently agreed to store all her google photos on the cloud then filled up her account. The prompts are very good at making you ~seem~ like you need to do it.

It was actually free money assuming you had the resolve to stop once you claimed the bonus (presumably most people didnt). As long as you were laying the other side of your bet on an exchange you could extract the full value of your free bets risk free.

I collected a few grand back then, however those sort of promotions are now illegal where I live.


There are sometimes free lunches out there to be had. They’re playing the averages and accepting some losses if they know they’ll make it up from other customers. But you’d better be sure you’re not one of the suckers if you do it.


That still requires a car present to be washed though.


but you can walk over to them and tell them to go wash the car that is 50 meters away. no driving involved.


I'm missing something with the first example, can anyone shed some light?

The last line of the instructions says:

> The premium model will be used for the subagent - but premium requests will be consumed.

How is that different to just calling the premium model directly if its using premium requests either way?


"WESCAM" seems like a crazy name for a company.


The "We" is short for Westinghouse, or at least it was: Westinghouse Steered Stabilized Camera Mount, thus WESSCAM. Then they dropped an "S".

Granted pronouncing the name is ambiguous, Wes-cam or We-scam. But they're known well enough in the industry at this point that it's not a problem for them.


It's the we-scam part that's kinda funny. But of course they don't target consumers at all so that connotation doesn't matter I guess. Professionals just go by the product specs and not brand feeling.


I'm not super surprised that these examples worked well. They are complex and a ton of work, but the problems are relatively well defined with tons of documentation online. Sounds ideal for an LLM no?


Yes, that's a point I've been trying to emphasize: if a problem is well specified a coding agent can crunch for hours on it to get to a solution.

Even better if there's an existing conformance suite to point at - like html5lib-tests or the WenAssembly spec tests.


When did Linus say he doesn't know how to install a distro? My understanding is he's only said he prefers to use simple to install distros.


Thanks for asking, I had to search the quote since I recalled it from memory. I couldn't find it, but here's the closest I got [1]. The disdain and arrogance of this person is just incredible.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s


The second line. The video description for me says the following:

"HAWAIʻI VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - An incredible sight at the summit of Kilauea volcano on Saturday morning, as Episode 38 erupted enormous lava fountains across the caldera, destroying one of the webcams that was live streaming the event.

All images and video are courtesy the U.S. Geological Survey. A synthesized text-to-video voiceover was used in the narration for this story."


There is pretty heavy pressure to buy stash tabs once you hit the later parts of the game, but you get a LOT of time to figure out if you actually like the game before you feel it.


How long before they start deleting? I haven't logged in for 5 years and my account is still there.


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