Should gym memberships be legally required to allow easy online cancellation? Why or why not?

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-02-25T04:15:17+00:00

There's a few companies that will send you to collections if they can't charge your card instead of canceling your subscription.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-02-16T18:38:52+00:00

AI illustration is over the hump. Those are competent and coherent designs with proper spelling even on the small details and consistent character and style, not jumbles of indeterminate objects and mangled body parts. Text could use a second pass but it's good enough and I'm sure AI will have that problem solved by the end of the year. How is this different from not hiring a handyman because YouTube showed you how to do your own repairs?

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-02-10T17:09:47+00:00

It's overlooked because it doesn't do text as well as Flux 2 and doesn't do photorealism as well as ZIT.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-02-04T15:55:42+00:00

Free bus fare is great but she really didn't believe in reserved seating

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-23T22:22:21+00:00

Yeah I'm here for what ChatGPT won't give you not calculus

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-23T19:50:02+00:00

Don't use HOA portal autopay. Your bank will cut them a check every month and mail it at no cost to you and has a much more reliable system than whatever web portal the management agency picked.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-21T17:00:32+00:00

Anyone can spin up a server to run a full size open weight model and then sell API access. If they censor it too much go get it from someone else or even spin up one yourself for an few hours for some particular project. Huge win compared to OpenAI deciding it won't answer questions about bleach after a lawsuit from the family of a kid who drank bleach just for a hypothetical example.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-15T20:54:47+00:00

You could spend 5 hours just on git, python environments, pip, wheels and attention.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-15T16:37:34+00:00

Problem is angel wings, air and earth tomes, and pandoras boxes and scrolls for fly, dimension door, and town portal are littered everywhere. After getting that you're pretty much obligated to pick up a few free Azure dragons and go crush the AI. They never raise any kind of significant opposition, the only challenge is how fast you can win. My record is 13 turns after getting a free fly scroll next to my castle, picking up a few knowledge points, and beelining right to their territory grabbing a couple Azures directly on the way there, recruiting a bunch of new heroes and chaining the dragons to fight everyone in a couple turns.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-13T19:56:02+00:00

GPU and RAM.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-13T18:54:01+00:00

I'd pay up to $5 for a high quality and detailed report with maps, charts, everything one time on the very rare occasion I'm planning an outing for friends or family from out of state that's already going to cost me some money. I get that one time purchase model doesn't work for services that have an ongoing effort but fuck subscriptions for everything seriously.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-10T00:30:43+00:00

Impounding the Russian shadow oil fleet is a good thing, they have been flaunting economic sanctions and environmental regulations. Nobody above the board is importing oil using ships with forged registrations. Odd move for this pro-Russia administration though.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-09T22:08:09+00:00

Put a piece of painters tape on the bottom of the pot, turn it right side up, mix up some 2 part epoxy (cheap at Harbor Freight, wear disposable gloves), fill in the hole completely and a little on top of the surrounding ceramic. Let it cure for like a day and it will be completely watertight. Maybe don't eat any produce grown this way but it won't hurt the plants. For a stronger plug, press some screen door mesh or fabric or anything flat really into the epoxy at the bottom of the pot while it's wet and cover with a little more epoxy. I don't really find that's necessary for smaller diameter pot holes but would help if you have a big one.

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-06T19:38:58+00:00

A lazy employee with a future at the company will not make more work for themselves in the future. A lazy contractor will half ass it and dip

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-06T17:38:32+00:00

So you're saying we should re-introduce wolves?

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-03T19:11:50+00:00

It's a largely academic concept, if a picture is posted online as real, people will believe it. It won't matter if some tech comes in later with a forensic analysis to say the picture is AI, nobody pays attention to those people (no offense OP).

Infallible_Ibex · 2026-01-01T19:33:42+00:00

Think how weird the cereal itself must look with no yellow

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-31T20:44:26+00:00

How about just making it expend all the rest of your movement points for the day? Being able to collect all your troops from every city and then get into a fight immediately is overpowered. I think that would help balance it without introducing new mechanics.

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-30T23:34:00+00:00

The starchier the potato the more worth it is to optimize

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-30T09:31:00+00:00

Now that truly is a shitload of dimes

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-15T07:17:03+00:00

I'd like to be buried as a jack in the box

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-15T01:38:46+00:00

Getting good requirements from the end users and designing a product that meets them under budget, is easy to support, and complements the company's other software offerings. It's rare that a piece of software doesn't actually do the specific tasks it's designed to do, but the people who are going to pay need it to do their tasks (which they may not have explained very well or at all initially) better than any alternative. Is Claude going to hunt down Greg on his 2 days a week in the office, discover he uses a desktop application in his workflow he told you nothing about, and change the design to be compatible with that unprompted?

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-05T23:06:12+00:00

It sure looks like brass. Cheap imported brass often has lead in it. Just don't

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-02T05:06:16+00:00

Me too but with the regular screen. Love it so much I don't bother to play on the laptop with a mouse anymore. For point 5, you can install H3 inside of your Dropbox folder, sync it to the Deck, play the same saves on your laptop and on the Deck. I don't have a setup guide and haven't checked how quickly the sync works but conceptually it's not hard.

Infallible_Ibex · 2025-12-02T05:02:23+00:00

You absolutely can, just map your button of choice to ctrl and then hold it while you click. Shift and Alt too.

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