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New comment by greenpresident in "Agents for financial services and insurance"

greenpresident — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:30:36 +0000

My experience has been quite the opposite. Some bank processes remain oral traditions about clicking excel filters by hand because any code would have to be extensively documented and tested.

New comment by greenpresident in "iPhone 17e"

greenpresident — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:36:12 +0000

They will be bought in bulk by businesses. The same for some of the laptops what you might find in a strange place within the lineup.

New comment by greenpresident in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

greenpresident — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:25:22 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/mercedes_benz/comments/1oq9xum/acti...

This is an example of what I am talking about.

New comment by greenpresident in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

greenpresident — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:14:01 +0000

It’s built in. There is a dedicated button for it. Hard to justify imho.

New comment by greenpresident in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

greenpresident — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:01:23 +0000

Pressing the lane assistant button on a Mercedes steering wheel and getting a “you’ll need to activate your subscription first” message really drove up my blood pressure.

New comment by greenpresident in "FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools"

greenpresident — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:55:20 +0000

List prices are not real when it comes to the kitchen. They exist to be „limited time“-offered.

New comment by greenpresident in "M5 MacBook Pro"

greenpresident — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:07:27 +0000

Baldurs Gate 3 runs great on m4 pro at 1080p (I’m on a Mac mini though).

New comment by greenpresident in "Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers"

greenpresident — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:43:09 +0000

Ifixit score of 7 plus best parts availability of any phone makes for a great combination in my mind.

New comment by greenpresident in "Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises"

greenpresident — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:04:56 +0000

That would ideal, yet we still got things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

Woman at a cotton swab factory was identified after being considered a serial killer.

New comment by greenpresident in "A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)"

greenpresident — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:01:37 +0000

That’s the engineering solution.

You could also hire two interns to do it layer by layer, call it the consultant‘s solution.

New comment by greenpresident in "New Mac Mini with M4"

greenpresident — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:10:53 +0000

There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.

New comment by greenpresident in "Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE"

greenpresident — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:30:24 +0000

This has been my impression in social science academia: a lot of ready to run methods are released as R packages.

New comment by greenpresident in "Ball: A ball that lives in your dock"

greenpresident — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:18:20 +0000

Not OP but for everyone I know the desktop is mostly either empty or a messy “temp” folder.

New comment by greenpresident in "Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)"

greenpresident — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:28:27 +0000

Also important: When asked to peer-review, tell editors that you won’t be doing free work for for-profit publications that land behind a paywall.

New comment by greenpresident in "Multimillion-dollar L.A. heist was seamless, sophisticated, stealthy"

greenpresident — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:27:55 +0000

A leaky microwave would do the trick.

New comment by greenpresident in "Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create 'European Yellowstone'"

greenpresident — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:01:37 +0000

I randomly know some people who did research on the relationships between the stakeholders that are involved here. See:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2021.1...

I find the whole thing facinating.

New comment by greenpresident in "Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age"

greenpresident — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:52:04 +0000

How much are people typically tipping ChatGPT these days?

New comment by greenpresident in "Pandoc"

greenpresident — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:35:12 +0000

For documents that require a longer process, I prefer formats that I can use comments and TODO in, with a text editor that feels familiar.

Other than that, I strongly agree. Word is also de facto standard when you want others to open and edit your document.

New comment by greenpresident in "Samsung forecasts 85% drop in profit as chip sales falter"

greenpresident — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:15:35 +0000

Buy something (semi-)professional like the Panasonic NE 1840. There should be smaller, cheaper variants. The NE 1027 EYG will most likely work for home use. Commercial appliances are made to last and then be repaired.

New comment by greenpresident in "Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?"

greenpresident — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 13:21:36 +0000

A playlist destroys the magic of the monumental achievement that this represents but visualizes the quantity pretty well:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jjc7SCCeXZ0PmvnKZgjpx?si=...

750 performers contributed to 260 hours of recordings. The three hours I rounded up would represent a major part of some other‘s work.