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New comment by mepiethree in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

mepiethree — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:22:22 +0000

Yes exclusivity with venues. Live Nation owns and operates or invests in many many many large venues

New comment by mepiethree in "How uv got so fast"

mepiethree — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:32:24 +0000

I definitely found the thesis insightful. The actual content stopped feeling insightful to me in the “What uv drops” section, where cut features were all listed as if they had equal weight, all in the same breathless LLM style

New comment by mepiethree in "Sora 2"

mepiethree — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 03:40:57 +0000

Deepfakes require zero work now

New comment by mepiethree in "Sora 2"

mepiethree — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 03:39:05 +0000

It seems like 99% of apartment listings in the city of New York are virtually staged with AR furniture

New comment by mepiethree in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

mepiethree — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:35:55 +0000

It’s explicitly not testing if you can synthesize insulin in a crisis, it’s a general aptitude test for “if we tell you you need to cram this textbook on how to synthesize insulin by next week and then ask you how to do it on a call, can you coherently repeat that back to us?”

New comment by mepiethree in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

mepiethree — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:42:29 +0000

I don’t see the value in condescending here. I think the person you’re responding to highlighted an interesting question/point of confusion of whether digital exhibits are on average more or less expensive than physical exhibits in both the short and long term.

New comment by mepiethree in "This website is for humans"

mepiethree — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 03:47:25 +0000

Yep I own a rocking chair that my great great grandfather built on a lathe and a dining table my grandfather built. Meanwhile I’ve eventually had to replace almost everything I’ve bought from IKEA.

New comment by mepiethree in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

mepiethree — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 03:55:39 +0000

Not OP but one is kind of interesting. It’s the “I said yes” posts with picture of engagement ring that are a 0 to me

New comment by mepiethree in "GPT-5"

mepiethree — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 03:14:19 +0000

This was a fun prompt. I learned things from the models. Gemini 2.5 was wayy better than gpt5 here even though quite incomplete in the first response

New comment by mepiethree in "Vibechart"

mepiethree — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:26:20 +0000

They all got $1.5 million today so I’m not too worried about the poor workers.

New comment by mepiethree in "How Anthropic teams use Claude Code"

mepiethree — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:10:33 +0000

Yeah this is kind of a stunning amount of information to provide but also basically like polished bullet points

New comment by mepiethree in "Death by AI"

mepiethree — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:29:45 +0000

Are we sure these billions of queries are “successful” for the actual user journey? Maybe this is particular to my circle, but as the only “tech guy” most of my friends and family know, I am regularly asked if I know how to turn off Google AI overviews because many people find them to be garbage

New comment by mepiethree in "Zuck's Haul: Tracking Meta's AI Talent Acquisitions"

mepiethree — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 05:19:43 +0000

Because the app is vibe coded

New comment by mepiethree in "Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia"

mepiethree — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:19:11 +0000

Tough crowd. I would say >50% of the time I try to use a water fountain, it’s broken. Does that mean that humans have only brute forces a way to build water fountains sometimes?

New comment by mepiethree in "Why Triplebyte Failed"

mepiethree — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:40:30 +0000

This is especially true because the (very good) post addresses both points that this commenter raises and _so much_ more. It's really shocking how few people in this comment section seem to have read the (again, very good) OP. It's like I'm on Reddit.

New comment by mepiethree in "Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”"

mepiethree — Tue, 28 May 2024 03:46:42 +0000

Okay fair enough about it not being a perfect analogy.

I think the reason junior devs get them confused is that many junior devs are never taught anything about either in school. But then you just tell the junior dev that they mean different things and in my experience they only need to be told that once.

Ultimately I think it’s fine to use vocabulary.

New comment by mepiethree in "Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”"

mepiethree — Mon, 27 May 2024 17:12:37 +0000

I don’t think they are almost identical, they just have the same prefix. “Login” and “permission” each have the same problem: “login” is very similar to “logging”, and “permission” shares a prefix with “persistence” (or permanent). Ultimately software engineering is a broad enough field that we will necessarily have to use similar words to describe the many, many concepts

New comment by mepiethree in "Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging"

mepiethree — Mon, 27 May 2024 14:50:36 +0000

Yes it does. Whiteboarding requires a free add-on (e.g. FigJam, Miro) but you can add that in-call

New comment by mepiethree in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

mepiethree — Wed, 22 May 2024 01:35:19 +0000

Thanks for being open to adjusting your opinion when given new information!

New comment by mepiethree in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

mepiethree — Wed, 22 May 2024 01:26:38 +0000

I don’t think that I would call every AI feature an AI Assistant, but sure, if that’s how you define “AI Assistant,” then you’re correct that I do in fact know people who use/want one. But I think that Google+AI or a music player is a pretty different product experience/design/market fit than a “personal AI Assistant” like an AI-powered Siri or Alexa or Google Assistant. I don’t know anyone who uses (or wants to use) the latter group for anything other than “Alexa, play XYZ”, or “Siri, set an alarm” which I wouldn’t really call GPT-4-level AI