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New comment by janderson215 in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B"

janderson215 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:54:07 +0000

I’m not affiliated with Starlink nor trying to defend them, but I would argue the shipping estimate comes from a black box and is totally unrelated to the AI agent. My shipping estimate in the app said expected to ship between June 22 and July 2, but it’s actually arriving tomorrow. I’m happy with it in my case, it I could understand if coming outside of the window (either early or late) is frustrating.

New comment by janderson215 in "CrankGPT"

janderson215 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:30:24 +0000

Now that iPhone has switched to USB-C, I can plug in my Apple Extended Keyboard directly without needing a dongle. It’s like magic.

New comment by janderson215 in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B"

janderson215 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:19:29 +0000

I see a lot of negativity in regards to using AI as a customer service agent. I have only spoken with 1 and that was calling Starlink customer support. It was easily better than 95% of customer support experiences I’ve had. My guess is the bad experiences have to do with bad execution. I’m sure some companies think they can just plug in AI and their job is done. Obviously that is wrong, but done right, the experience is far better than the situation we have today. I never have to repeat myself and if it’s tied in with your account specifically, it’s like getting escalated to a level 3 support rep immediately.

New comment by janderson215 in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

janderson215 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:07:20 +0000

I know someone who has called it “The Ecommunist” for 20 years, so not everybody has the opinion that is is prestigious, but some see it as elitist.

New comment by janderson215 in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

janderson215 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:49:08 +0000

hell yes

New comment by janderson215 in "Experts sound alarm over Elon Musk's 'coup' that's 'about to rob your 401k'"

janderson215 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:12:23 +0000

Very legit source and definitely not sensationalist.

New comment by janderson215 in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

janderson215 — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:08:44 +0000

That would be very interesting. I would love to see how that would play out (particularly with California and DC), but it would kill the political balance in both countries. I think having to consider opposing viewpoints is probably paramount to how we have both flourished historically.

New comment by janderson215 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

janderson215 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:39:53 +0000

During the “winter”, sure, but it dumps rain during the same and there are flash floods occasionally. I agree with the parent comment that Miami is a great area to test - especially given that the bad weather is seasonal. They can run 24/7 during the good weather seasons.

Also, the drivers in Miami are a bit more unpredictable than the average driver around the country in my experience, so good challenge cases for self-driving development.

New comment by janderson215 in "Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails"

janderson215 — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:09:29 +0000

Would be interesting to see if widespread (or at least high volume) adoption that is trading based on these signals leads to a more efficient market on net. Of course there will be plenty more attempts at manipulation, but maybe orders of magnitude good players over bad players once the dust settles.

New comment by janderson215 in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

janderson215 — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:41:39 +0000

I heard they started a hardware unit operating in stealth, but the rumor is they’re working on a box.

New comment by janderson215 in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

janderson215 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:38:34 +0000

Nice try attributing it to racism.

> Therefore, the term banana republic is a pejorative descriptor for a servile oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.

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

New comment by janderson215 in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

janderson215 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:35:43 +0000

Isn’t electricity a prerequisite for computing?

New comment by janderson215 in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

janderson215 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:31:34 +0000

This is a ridiculous false equivalence and muddies the waters of any serious dissent.

New comment by janderson215 in "Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact"

janderson215 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:31:58 +0000

“Are you wearing gloves? That’s disgusting. Use your bare hands, you animal.”

New comment by janderson215 in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

janderson215 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:03:20 +0000

This is great. Any other dynamics in which The Stooges Effect is present?

New comment by janderson215 in "Data center drains 30M gals of water — until residents complained of pressure"

janderson215 — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:57:46 +0000

Economics are not the main concern if nobody wants them on Earth.

New comment by janderson215 in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

janderson215 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:32:09 +0000

Can’t be made out of cardboard either.

The Front Fell Off: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=DprOulmmDK-H76LX

New comment by janderson215 in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

janderson215 — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:48:34 +0000

Possibly didn’t want to accept the additional risk that comes with rolling your own auth as well.

New comment by janderson215 in "Grok 4.3"

janderson215 — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:14:38 +0000

Navigating tough conversations takes time, attention, and mental energy. I’d rather a pharmacist spend that time on catching another dangerous contraindicated combo of drugs for a different patient. Actually, AI should soon be checking for that, too.

New comment by janderson215 in "Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper"

janderson215 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:44:48 +0000

“That’s a risk we were willing to take.” -Dumb and Dumber