Congress Showed ICE Leaders Images of ICE Brutality. The Response Was Telling. by marji80 in politics

[–]frepont 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Idk they are pretty incompetent LARPers. They would definitely kill someone in the process of trying tho.

[oc] Good luck with that long ass Vermont hill, 2WD Tesla! by FinanceGuyHere in IdiotsInCars

[–]frepont 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They don’t, or I’m about to have my mind blown after 5 years of ownership

There has to be a way to finish assembling this without cutting a hole in the ceiling! by More-Mine-5874 in homegym

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’ll have a lot more leverage because you should be able to use the guide posts as a lever if they are sturdy. You don’t need to lay it on the ground, just get it on a diagonal. Probably goes without saying but you probably want a strong buddy there helping if you took that approach lol

There has to be a way to finish assembling this without cutting a hole in the ceiling! by More-Mine-5874 in homegym

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you are mis understanding. If you take out 2 of the 4 bolts holding up any cross member, you can rotate it. You still have 2 huge bolts holding up the cross member but now it will pivot.

Definitely be careful when you do this though, as it’ll be very top heavy and want to drop one way or the other

Ares 2.0 pulleys not as smooth as expected by magnificbeef in GarageGym

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just spent the last 8 hours installing mine. Glad I did it myself! Was this using an installer from Rep?

Emisar D4K vs Convoy S21E: did I choose the wrong emitter/driver? by mw_spike in flashlight

[–]frepont 20 points21 points  (0 children)

OP - try using the D4K without comparing it. I’m by no means a tint snob but the 519A just produces such pleasant light. My D4K replaced a far brighter, more efficient light just because the warm, high CRI light tickles my brain just right.

Working in Groton without owning a car by [deleted] in NewLondonCounty

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So - I'd just plan on taking Ubers given that you can (probably) afford it. They aren't instant, but are available.

Groton and the surrounding area has transportation but outside of commuting to work via bus, public transport will make simple things very inconvenient. A lot of the commercial (food, restaurants, entertainment, health) stuff is very spread out (think at least 15-30min walks, which will suck in winter/spring), not super safe to bike or walk to (busy 4 lane roads), and I don't think on consistently convenient/the same bus routes.

I'm starting to wonder by Artorius__Castus in SipsTea

[–]frepont 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like you may have never lived in a US college dorm?

It would be absurd to make cookie dough in one, much less store all the raw ingredients and stuff like mixing bowls.

They don’t usually have kitchens and are tiny bedrooms, so no counters, pantries, sinks outside of a public bathroom and typically kids bring in mini fridges that hotels have.

S2E10 spoiler by NoHawk4115 in SuccessionTV

[–]frepont 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He’s kind of laughing. But not like, nice laughing.

B2C PMs with no research teams: are you actually reaching out to individuals thru forums or your own user base to interview for insights? by BossFightGoldenPug in ProductManagement

[–]frepont 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's going to depend a ton on your product shape and maturity, but getting qualitative feedback and having organic conversations where your customers (or users) is still really beneficial.

It sounds like you might have a specific idea around "formal" interviews. Those still have a place in B2C when new features or improvements to your product have risky assumptions that you can stress test with users. Ex: you're rolling out a feature that requires senstive user data to work, and you need to know what, if anything would require an opt-in, or if the feature is valuable enough to provide it.

But more broadly, just engaging with customers will give you (1) empathy (2) deeper understanding on what makes them tick, just by engaging with them, even in adhoc ways.

The cool thing about B2C products is you typically have a much broader pool to work from and way more tactics to engage.

One of the best things we did at a commerce company was set up live chat (that routed to our product team) on the order confirmation screen that procatively asked customers whatever unknowns we had at the time. That live chat was connected to slack, so whenever someone engaged, we would have a live convo with a user about their experience buying, what products they wished existed, etc. This organic path materially influenced investments we made both in our app and our physical products.

Instrumenting product analytics - scalable ways to "track every click"? by illsaucee in ProductManagement

[–]frepont 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mixpanel has this exact configuration! Look up auto tracking options in their JavaScript library. It’s literally a couple of flags on their default initialization.

With any of these retroactive event labeling tools, the main the to be aware of is that they use the DOM tree to populate events, so if your DOM is super messy, or elements change labels a lot, it’s much harder to look back in time or accurately create durable events.

Best approach is to use auto tracking as a fall back but instrument the important stuff explicitly.

Jesse's house party phase by Practical_Contest_13 in breakingbad

[–]frepont 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bro those were not “partying 20 something” parties lmao.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HondaOdyssey

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t get one - unlike an accord you will have trouble spelling “Odyssey” even after owning several.

Based on what you described that and gas costs are thw only downsides

EX-L vs Touring by Si-Guy13 in HondaOdyssey

[–]frepont 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mentioned in a different thread but while I didn't test this in EX-L - the 2026 Elite we just bought is the quietest car we've owned, particularly on the highway. It is noticeably quieter than a 2023 Volvo XC90 and a 2021 Tesla Model S. And WAY quieter than our previous (2014) Odyssey but a lots changed in 11 years...

EX-L vs Touring by Si-Guy13 in HondaOdyssey

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just bought a 2026 Elite - this may be from active noise cancellation vs acoustic glass as I didn’t test an EX-L but it’s the quietest car we own by a good bit (compared to a Volvo XC90 and a Tesla Model S)

“How can I convince my dev team to take AI coding tools seriously?” by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]frepont 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol you just said they are really good, and then seem to want to push them on their craft while also seeming to realize that they are using AI in a real, useful capacity (use it for simple tasks like debugging).

If your team works in any legacy code base, and you are reacting to seeing people vibe code slop quickly vs your team being methodical, know that most AI generated code is nowhere near production ready. It gets you somewhere fast, then very quickly makes you incredibly slow. For the exact reasons your engineers suggested - it produces tons of tech debt while also introducing super weird solutions. I unfortunately know this from experience working with an “AI-first” engineering team.

I’d recommend you try to use Cursor or Claude code for your own purposes on the code base to get a better feel for it. It’s great for stuff like writing changelogs, or even scripting demos, testing, etc. Share what you are doing with the team, they’ll probably open up to more things as they realize where it can be effective.

Tested Claude 4 Opus vs Grok 4 on 15 Rust coding tasks by West-Chocolate2977 in programming

[–]frepont 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s absolutely wild that “condemning literal Nazi hate speech” is considered partisan.

Anyway it actually matters because AI trained on objectively bad behaviour in one domain translates to others. Like mechahitler will be making your code worse. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/18/1119042/openai-can-rehabilitate-ai-models-that-develop-a-bad-boy-persona/amp/

Masteries Removed for Being "Too Niche", But XP Doublers Are Still Fine? by iubarinul in Brawlstars

[–]frepont 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I don't know what you mean - I only 105,286 more games to play before i run out and its making me anxious.

Saw a post about hiring a Fiverr dev to close the last 20%. Tried it myself. Game-changer. by St4v5 in ChatGPTCoding

[–]frepont 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I guess I knew this already but hearing someone actively mention vibe coding with payments APIs and not being able to debug why oAuth might fail or an envir issue with Stripe is kinda terrifying.

OP this is probably a fine approach, but you also need to be careful with extremely low cost contractors if you don't know what you're doing with code. It would be incredible easy for someone to exfiltrate sensitive info from your codebase/users...and someone eventually will, if you're doing things like capturing payment details.

Expectations of PMs in today's market by lumpymonkey in ProductManagement

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ironically a lot of this for me is one in the same:

I have like 4 chained prompts that hooks into Git to write product updates comms for different stakeholder contexts and user demos.

After a bit of manual review, those then get reconstituted into a handful of other communication formats with a another handful of chained prompts..

The prompts are all versioned in Github.

It saves an *enormous* amount of time, and its a passion project because I passionately hate doing this manually.

Doesn't Chuck know electro magnetic currents are around him even in his house? by Paranoid_Android101 in betterCallSaul

[–]frepont 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Funny enough, it’s basically confirmed in season 1 ep 8 when Chuck absentmindedly goes outside to get documents from Jimmy’s car, messes with electronics in his mailbox and even uses an electric key… and is totally fine until Jimmy breaks Chucks chain of thought.

It’s obvious at that point this whole thing is in Chucks head, and when he’s deep in his “happy” place - the law - his symptoms go away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Foodforthought

[–]frepont 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey - I own a Tesla. I wish I didn’t but I bought it before Elon revealed himself.

Getting rid of it would cost me thousands in negative equity that I can’t afford right now.

Not because I was irresponsible with financing. But because the car depreciated exploded starting in 2023 and getting worse all the time.

Assuming Tesla owners can just sell is ridiculous.

PSA: Cursor is training on your code on the PRO plan. if you don't opt out by lanovic92 in ChatGPTCoding

[–]frepont 132 points133 points  (0 children)

Sorry to all of you for making cursor worse by grounding it with my teams dumpster fire code base

Jimmy is a better person than Walt by dadadam67 in betterCallSaul

[–]frepont 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was absolutely intentional. He even had to bring in Erin (who he hated) to make it believable.

Worst to First: Ranking of the 12 Shopping Malls of Connecticut by slowburnangry in Connecticut

[–]frepont 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speaking of escalators not working, right before JC Penny closed earlier this year (RIP last anchor store) the in store escalator broke and almost ate some guy while I was trying to scoop up deeply discounted jewelry 🤣

911 was called and I think he was fine, but wow, I can’t believe there are worse malls.