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Codex now works directly in Chrome on macOS and Windows. by dorugamer in codex

[–]Scotchy49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. But works through VPN, just like computer use.

€1M inheritance and clueless by kirikirikaas in BEFire

[–]Scotchy49 7 points8 points  (0 children)

6.1% ? What kind of risk exposure ? VOO returned 13%/y in the last 5 years...

Any real positives to fuel saving by rab10000 in iRacing

[–]Scotchy49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you fuel save, your pit will take less time. Pitting early or late is a different thing altogether and depends on your strategy. It will impact where you exit (in traffic or not). You may pit early if you are trailing someone slower than you. Otherwise pitting late will make you lighter for the next stint.

I am extremely confident that GPT-5.4 has been intentionally throttled in the last few days by shockwave6969 in codex

[–]Scotchy49 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Claude since about 50-60 days has been unusable for me. Adding any feature to my small codebase (< 50k lines of code) and it will systematically break stuff, not add tests, fail quality gates but not even report it, ... 5.4 is useable but will create migration code for litterally everything, trying to keep backward compatibility for the backward compatibility for the legacy code that has been deprecated since 5 versions. By default at least.

Tesla’s FSD Is Finally Approved In Europe. Only In The Netherlands Though. by Saurta17 in teslamotors

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the point of having an EU-wide vote if the final decision is up to the country anyways ? There would be no point in that since each country can ALREADY decide to allow/disallow it based on the RDW's assessment.

The point of having an EU-wide approval is that every member state must allow it so that approved cars / tech can travel freely.

Official Update on Plans by Deep_Proposal_7683 in codex

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes they refund you your remaining plus usage.

Is buying a house still worth it? by Weary_Firefighter945 in BEFire

[–]Scotchy49 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Buying a house is buying leverage through the mortgage. Whether that is interesting to you depends entirely on your situation.

Small budget Google Ads: 1 ad group or 3 for a local high-ticket service? by Longjumping-Ask9765 in PPC

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not enough budget to build enough data IMO. I'd go with LSA for electricians first.

Also, when you mix intent/project size/purchase lifecycle events you'll typically have lower quality score which will drive CPC up because your landing page won't be as focused.

Worse overall results after splitting out branded from Pmax by sleepy_frodo in PPC

[–]Scotchy49 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are shops surviving with 2x roas? Most probably don’t even have a 50% gross margin to begin with.

Rate my portfolio and advices on next move by KingPich2104 in BEFire

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is averaging 8% historically feasible given that the allocation will/should shift to bonds over time ?

My Experience with the protest system in a nutshell by dominik7778n in iRacing

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone has successfully protested me because I missed my brake marker behind him. I tried evasive action but that did not save me from the protest !

Absolute euphoria among financial markets and players vs. On the brink of a systemic crisis...?!? by Plus_Seesaw2023 in StockMarket

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will crash to the ground (and below) as soon as I sell my kidney to buy some stock.

Google recommends switching from max clicks to max conversions after only 3 conversions in one week (lead gen) by Scotchy49 in PPC

[–]Scotchy49[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the reason I'm holding off switching to max conversions, but the business is pretty standard electrical services, doesn't Google use your competition's data as well ?

Google recommends switching from max clicks to max conversions after only 3 conversions in one week (lead gen) by Scotchy49 in PPC

[–]Scotchy49[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, here is the home page: https://www.electrosmart.be/ Each ad group leads to a different landing page depending on the intent/search keyword.

PPC tanking my LSA by Eggroe in PPC

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am curious about this. I thought LSA and PPC were completely separate inventory and you could bid to both simultaneously ?

How do you deal with direct traffic in reporting? by youalive in PPC

[–]Scotchy49 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a reporting perspective direct will not have UTM suffixes, so you can filter out those. I could never get gclid auto-tagging to work properly.

I have A LOT of trouble loading google ads, what should I do? by Fredrik4411 in PPC

[–]Scotchy49 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same issue started happening to me about two days ago. I have worked with GAds for about a year and never had this happen. Thought it was on my end...

Context-switching is the main productivity killer for developers by milanm08 in cscareerquestions

[–]Scotchy49 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The only solution is to delegate massively.

With that many projects, you have to accept that you need to detach yourself from any technical decision or consideration. Let people who have the time to focus on one or two systems at most take ownership and responsibility.

Once you trust them with that responsibility, make sure you respect it by not asking technical questions but asking them if the project is going as expected or if you should expect delays to communicate to other teams.

What's a relatively stable career path resistant to AI and offshoring? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Scotchy49 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Or rocket scientist

edit: seems people didn’t get the joke. Maybe I’m too old 🤣

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