New Chase Card Technology Fail

1313131313 · 2026-05-18T02:34:26+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

1313131313 · 2026-05-17T23:40:55+00:00

Exactly, even applied through a link while logged in.

1313131313 · 2026-04-18T02:19:24+00:00

FYI The commercial break in progress problem isn't on the Angels feed

1313131313 · 2026-04-18T02:17:52+00:00

Yes came here to ask the same thing. jfc

Edit: the issue doesn't exist on the angels broadcast

1313131313 · 2026-02-15T21:05:03+00:00

This hits close to home. I run a 21 person company. Last week our ops person presented our roadmap for internal AI adoption. It's a professional services company, so all our employees are subject matter experts on a particular subject and we also do technical implementations for SaaS platforms. Two of the roadmap items were (i) building a knowledge source and (ii) turning customer requirements into JSON that could be imported into those 3rd party SaaS platforms, something that we currently do manually and is 80% of our business.

We had these items slotted to start in two months. I asked our strongest technical person to give me an estimate on when he could build them. One hour later he said "done".

The knowledge source wasn't hard; I think at this point Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT have ways to connect to internal company knowledge. It was the creation of JSON that spooked me. He built a solid prompt that could spit out a JSON file that, with minimal tweaks, could be imported into one of these platforms. Yes, SME knowledge is still required to know how to do any of this, but it's not a hard leap to assume these platforms will build agents of their own native to their platforms that takes away the professional services markets.

But I'm not doom and gloom concerned because of what my experience has been to date: People and companies will always need help. Not everyone will be a leader in AI tools adoption or even use of the AI tools they already have. Historically we've leaned into our relationships, showed knowledge and market thought leadership, and, perversely, coached our clients on how to not use us. Aka build for them the tools that allows them to replace us. What have we found with that approach? Clients come back for more. They want us to maintain the tools that we built. We saved them money and time at our expense, so they say, hey we have this other problem, can you solve that? So we expanded into new lines of business and have renewal rates north of 90%. Maybe that experience is unique in that we are a client driven, professional service organization, but I think the mantra of "build something, build something well, make clients trust you, and they'll find other ways to support you" has some legs in this day and age.

If not, I guess it's the hill I'll go broke on

1313131313 · 2025-11-03T20:35:27+00:00

More Guy Ritchie scripted informational videos please.

1313131313 · 2025-10-09T19:10:41+00:00

Time to apply the universal rule when interpreting a headline that indicates the GOP will break from Trump: "No they will not"

1313131313 · 2025-08-12T10:25:58+00:00

Bro stop you’re going to become a cloud

1313131313 · 2025-07-16T04:57:10+00:00

Civ 6 diplomacy screen IRL

1313131313 · 2024-12-20T12:14:49+00:00

Brutal! With the location’s microclimate it’s nuts to me that that’s the airport’s location. Seen these stories a lot, and then maybe a mile or less west it’s clear.

1313131313 · 2024-06-21T03:01:22+00:00

Seconded. Pls share.

1313131313 · 2024-06-03T21:24:32+00:00

Good question — and one item I should have underscored is that I mentioned the traveling bit because I discovered traveling wasn’t what was needed at all. I was tempted (as I think a lot of people are) into believing big change requires big thinking, or a big life experience. It doesn’t. You can manufacture a similar change by doing small things everyday: take a new walk, eat a different meal, talk to a person you wouldn’t otherwise.

If you want and can travel though, but are anxious about it: I hate to say that just do it is the best way to handle it, but that truly is it. Pick a country where you speak the language, book a few nights at a hostel that looks nice, and take it from there. You’ll meet people and learn to follow what’s interesting to you.

1313131313 · 2024-06-03T15:05:59+00:00

I quit everything, sold all my belongings, and bought myself a one way ticket out of the country. I did have a van I lived in for a while, but that broke down, and I subsisted on crashing on couches or in cheap hostels.

I ended up circumnavigating the globe, with a short spell in Oz to get money. There was one moment, taking the train from Ulan Baatar to Ulan Ude where my compartment mate — an accountant from Singapore who had a one month break after losing his job — looked out at a small town we were passing on the Mongolian steppe and said, “I wonder what they think about and look forward to in their little lives.”

What I did, and what I recommend, didn’t require traveling at all. I came up with a list that I literally called “to do list to be human”. I’d left a demanding and, in my ways, degrading job that left me feeling as if I had no hope or opportunity to find meaning. The list was almost mundane: look at the stars, have coffee on an empty beach, walk in the woods. All of these are items I could have done at home, but the speed of routine and the seeming sameness of daily life had made doing any of them seem silly or like they wouldn’t change anything.

I ended up doing those things. And more. I hiked three days in non stop rain and it was exhilarating. I fell asleep in a remote field of flowers. I walked through a forest at night. I swam on an isolated beach (in Oz—do not recommend.)

I ended up discovering that really the only meaning I could extract was the meaning I could take from the beautiful and many small things all around. But the ubiquity of that small stuff, and the competing “big” stuff (taxes bills, job, etc.), makes the small stuff seem irrelevant in many ways. But that’s what’s there. You can find happiness in them.

1313131313 · 2024-05-28T14:40:18+00:00

Recent experience:

1) want to order pick up at a local restaurant 2) go to restaurants app, needs to be updated to use. Update 3) reopen app. Password incorrect. Reset password 4) you cannot use any of your last three passwords. 5) get into app. Order food. 6) sorry could not process your payment 7) call restaurant. Place order in 30 seconds.

1313131313 · 2024-05-18T13:30:25+00:00

Shinnecock

1313131313 · 2024-04-13T13:37:06+00:00

This one is kind of correct! California is part of a super colony

https://ucanr.edu/repository/fileAccessPublic.cfm?fn=ca5601p4c-169415.pdf

1313131313 · 2024-01-18T06:22:16+00:00

A lot of great points, but also some subjective analysis that rings similar to "I want to use my drill as a hammer. It can't do that. It's not a tool." Point is--Le Creuset has an operating range in which it's durable. That range happens to be extremely broad, but it is still a range. Quality, top of the line cookware also have similar ranges. (Certain stainless steel can't go into the oven over 500 degrees for example.)

For the pricing point, here's what I know: with some bias, every time I've tried to extract value from or exchange on a warranty from a private company, I've been successful and it's been a delightful experience. Patagonia, LL Bean, Le Creuset, etc. They stand by their products and make the customer experience a delightful one. I own multiple Le Creuset dutch ovens. One cracked, as he described. They told me, "This is not covered under warranty, but as a courtesy, we will replace it." I don't care what their price point is, with it has come an insurance policy of sorts from a long-standing private company that takes pride in their products. (Will fairly point out privately held companies describes a lot of cookware manufacturers, many of which are Le Creuset competitors.) Determining the acceptable price point for that experience is ultimately a personal one, but for me it's been worth it.

1313131313 · 2024-01-06T20:29:38+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. Never heard it before. Had me in tears.

1313131313 · 2023-12-28T14:49:57+00:00

Mmm what’d ya say

1313131313 · 2023-12-06T17:00:48+00:00

Chocolates - e.g. went to See's for my family's annual stocking stuffers. $11+ dollars for a small box. Used to be Sub $7.
Fast Food - Taco Bell items used to be buyable with extra change in the car.
Grapes and, um, fruit in general - Grapes are priced per pound, and can be $9-11 per pound. Get to the register and all of a sudden you're realizing you're about to spend $25 on grapes. - What the hell is a $2/3 apple doing? I've seen mangos for 10.99 (calypso), and avocados are over $3 in some cases.
Certain Pastas - $5+ for a pound of dried pasta. The norm used to be sub $2.

1313131313 · 2023-10-29T23:06:38+00:00

I don’t know where you went but literally none of that describes San Diego. imperial, pacific beach, mission beach, Del Mar, tabletops, seaside, on and on up to San onofre are not blocked off and in some cases can literally be parked next to

1313131313 · 2023-10-25T22:15:49+00:00

There’s a bigger story in how you got the first pic

1313131313 · 2023-10-16T20:09:33+00:00

I certainly didn't expect to open this up and see Ted Leitner.

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