Received several orders that were returned items, with broken open packaging and sometimes the item was something else entirely, purely put there for weight by whoever returned it.

When I went to return some things at a major Amazon distribution center, the return area was closed for the week for some sort of construction or renovation, with no indication of that anywhere on the site. The only messaging was a piece of paper in the window once you got there.

At another separate major distribution center, the return area was a small room with pieces of paper taped to a door with an arrow pointing to the Amazon lockers where the returns are accepted.

Orders are now often so delayed that it makes the Prime subscription pointless. Have had multiple orders over the past year that didn't ship for 3 or 4 days.

Amazon listings are almost half Sponsored listings now, and there are unrelated ads on the side of listings.

Half of the listings are some random made-up brand name, like XIJGNU, which is just a Chinese seller selling low-quality products, and when the reviews get bad enough, they re-list the product under another made-up brand name.

Fake reviews were already rampant before LLMs, but now reviews are effectively useless because they are so easy to fake.

No inconvenience at all.

Why have the agents redo all of that if it's not absolutely necessary? Which it probably isn't for ~98% of cases.

Also, the models are trained on code which predominantly uses frameworks, so it'll probably trend toward the average anyway and produce a variant of what already exists in frameworks.

In the cases where it might make sense, maybe the benefit then is the ability to take and use piecemeal parts of a framework or library and tailor it to your specific case, without importing the entire framework/library.

Can't tell you how many times I've seen product managers making decisions based on a few hundred analytics events, trying to glean insight where there is none.

The details in the bill mention inserting a "firearms blueprint detection algorithm" in either the firmware of the printer, or in the slicer, which can detect a file based on its presence in a database of known downloadable firearm files.

Are the people who drafted this bill aware that firearm parts can be modeled relatively easily in any flavor of CAD software, which would make a known list of files essentially pointless? Even someone who doesn't have CAD skills can just download another file in the endless stream of possible files, all with small modifications to differentiate the file hash.

And then there's the whole open-source side of 3D printing, which involves a significant share of machines, where this approach would essentially be completely unenforceable.

This is one of those pieces of regulation that doesn't actually prevent criminals from acquiring firearms, it just makes regular people's lives more difficult.

Executives/product managers/sales often only really care about getting the product working well enough to sell it.

Illinois gets about half its power from nuclear (we have 6 plants and 11 reactors), followed by natural gas at around 20%, and then about equal amounts of coal and wind, at around 10-15%.

So Illinois is actually a pretty decent place to build datacenters, from a clean power generation perspective.

https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=IL

Back in my day (when we walked to school uphill both ways), we weren't allowed to carry around basic flip phones. They had to be in our locker and only used before or after school.

When and why did it become acceptable for much more distracting and stimulating devices to be allowed in class?