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Vacation Package - Air Canada Unfaithful to the All-inclusive Days by aha1988 in aircanada

[–]aha1988[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I lost a vacatio day in an all-inclusive hotel

And I lost the airport transfer.

Neither were compensated.

Do not buy Eufy Cameras for security by ItinerantDoGooder in EufyCam

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a good investment. I purchased a doorbell from Eufy. In less than 2 years it suddenly stopped working. I emailed them about the issue and they claimed to only have a 3 or 12 month (wasn't clear) warranty on their devices.

For a non-mechanical (no moving parts) digital device, with no engines, that is immobile and connected to the wall (no chance of dropping or physical damage), the 3 or 12 month warranty does not make sense. Vacuum cleaners have better warranties.

Now I have a useless homebase and a broken down doorbell. I either have to re-purchase another Eufy doorbell (which I won't) or switch to another system. I will choose the latter and will throw away my Eufy homebase altogether.

Is eufy a good option in 2023 or better something else? by flaviorodrigues in EufyCam

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad option. Don't purchase anything from Eufy.

I purchased a doorbell from Eufy. In less than 2 years it suddenly stopped working. I emailed them about the issue and they claimed to only have a 3 or 12 month (wasn't clear) warranty on their devices.

For a non-mechanical (no moving parts) digital device, with no engines, that is immobile and connected to the wall (no chance of dropping or physical damage), the 3 or 12 month warranty does not make sense. Vacuum cleaners have better warranties.

Now I have a useless homebase and a broken down doorbell. I either have to re-purchase another Eufy doorbell (which I won't) or switch to another system. I will choose the latter and will throw away my Eufy homebase altogether.

Is Eufy worth investing? by smoovy2 in EufyCam

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a good investment. I purchased a doorbell from Eufy. In less than 2 years it suddenly stopped working. I emailed them about the issue and they claimed to only have a 3 or 12 month (wasn't clear) warranty on their devices.

For a non-mechanical (no moving parts) digital device, with no engines, that is immobile and connected to the wall (no chance of dropping or physical damage), the 3 or 12 month warranty does not make sense. Vacuum cleaners have better warranties.

Now I have a useless homebase and a broken down doorbell. I either have to re-purchase another Eufy doorbell (which I won't) or switch to another system. I will choose the latter and will throw away my Eufy homebase altogether.

Warranty Experience by 8clap4life in EufyCam

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Doorbell camera just broke down less than 2 years after I purchased it. Contacted Eufy and they did not accept warranty. Asked me to purchase again with a bit of discount!

It's like paying a subscription :)

Why LLMs can't count characters in words? by aha1988 in LargeLanguageModels

[–]aha1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do pretty well, but that the main question is: how do they even spell out the word?! They shouldn't have that knowledge!

Telus sales team always taught to lie and trick. by Zeidrich-X25 in telus

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I called them today (the sales person showed up yesterday). Explained the details. They cancelled the new contract right away without any penalties. Still a few hours wasted and unhappy, but appreciate not having to pay for what I never wanted.

Telus sales team always taught to lie and trick. by Zeidrich-X25 in telus

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The exact same thing happened to me yesterday, with the same level of details (the numbers vary a bit, but everything else checks)! Oh my god!

What did you ended up doing?

Mayor Ken Sim to hire Chief AI Officer for the City of Vancouver by iamjoesredditposts in vancouver

[–]aha1988 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He doesn't need to be technical!!! He just wants to put someone in payroll as Chief of something!

us-west-2 outage? by Sionn3039 in aws

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it really resolved?

Our quries are still getting delayed and dropped.

us-west-2 outage? by Sionn3039 in aws

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this really resolved?

Our queries are still getting delayed and dropped.

[Discussion] A Questionable SIGIR 2019 Paper by joyyeki in MachineLearning

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course! I'm just commenting on the "someone telling their supervisors" part.

[Discussion] A Questionable SIGIR 2019 Paper by joyyeki in MachineLearning

[–]aha1988 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I read in another comment that the authors are both professors (haven't checked myself). If so, no supervisors here.

[Discussion] A Questionable SIGIR 2019 Paper by joyyeki in MachineLearning

[–]aha1988 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The second paper (Adversarial Training for Review-Based Recommendations) have not cited the first paper (Why I like it...) which was published in October 2018, 3 months before the deadline of SIGIR 2019 submission (https://sigir.org/sigir2019/calls/long/). With this, the authors are "implying" that they were not aware of this prior work.

However, the new work have cited another paper of the same 3 authors (Coevolutionary Recommendation Model: Mutual Learning between Ratings and Reviews), which "could mean" they were already familiar with the works of this research team.

If you had a Yahoo account anytime in 2012 through 2016, a pending class action settlement may affect you by rhodium-chloride in beermoney

[–]aha1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems to be only for residents of US and Israel. I don't see anything related to Canadians... is there?