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New comment by tqi in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

tqi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:21:42 +0000

That is my understanding as well, but I see it so often and stuff changes so quickly it's hard to tell what is real.

New comment by tqi in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

tqi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:51:43 +0000

Where would you put 24x7 political content?

New comment by tqi in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

tqi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:48:15 +0000

> When a caller asks something that isn’t in the knowledge base, the AI doesn’t guess.

I've seen a number of instances of this type of thing in wild, and under the hood it's usually some prompt that asks the llm to gauge confidence in its own answer. And from my admittedly naive understanding of how this all works, this seems extremely unlikely to be accurate. But I'm curious if that's still the case or if I'm operating under pre-2026 information?

New comment by tqi in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

tqi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:11:35 +0000

Yeah but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a company that thinks comms/collab are the only thing.

New comment by tqi in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

tqi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:47:00 +0000

> But there’s a huge difference between communication and collaboration as infrastructure to support individual, high-agency ownership, and communication and collaboration as the primary activity of an organisation.

that is a meaningless buzzword salad masquerading as a deep insight

New comment by tqi in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

tqi — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:33:20 +0000

I think it would be helpful to engage with the possibility that they are neither stupid nor ignorant, rather that they simply have different values and priorities than the early internet users.

New comment by tqi in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

tqi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:12:18 +0000

imo childcare is at most two of: low cost, high quality, low time commitment

New comment by tqi in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

tqi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:44:54 +0000

"I say whatever I want and people can't tell me to stfu" who is the insane individualist now?

New comment by tqi in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

tqi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:56:12 +0000

Well that's just like, my opinion man

New comment by tqi in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

tqi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:55:29 +0000

It's insane individualism to think other ppl don't get to dictate what kind of food people feed their kids?

New comment by tqi in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

tqi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:48:02 +0000

Lol iPad, social media, and processed food consumption is going to be your problem? OP was not talking about values, he was talking about the day to day specifics of child rearing.

New comment by tqi in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

tqi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:49:52 +0000

It's also objectively none of your business?

New comment by tqi in "Layoffs at Block"

tqi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:09:02 +0000

Bets on how long it takes to get back to 10k employees?

Imo companies cannot fucking help themselves but continue to grow. Meta is already back above 2021 headcount, after cutting 20k employees in 2022. Managers want to Senior Managers want to be Directors want to be VPs. The best way to do that is to grow "scope" aka people under you. And since Jack wants to be Elon and Elon wants to be God, they will happily buy that story...

New comment by tqi in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

tqi — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:38:04 +0000

> Persona extracts the mathematical geometry of your face from your selfie and from your passport photo. This isn’t just a picture — it’s a numerical map of the distances between your eyes, the shape of your jawline, the geometry of your features. It’s data that uniquely identifies you. And unlike a password, you can’t change your face if it gets compromised

Is there anything special about a passport photo, or can that be done from any photo of your face?

New comment by tqi in "Privilege is bad grammar"

tqi — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:49:23 +0000

Jesus no wonder 10% of Americans are on SSRIs, if this is the kind of petty stuff people are ruminating on...

New comment by tqi in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

tqi — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:37:14 +0000

Plus a chance to dunk on their biggest competitor for ad revenue and clicks (Facebook)

New comment by tqi in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

tqi — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:34:22 +0000

> Or is everyone just determined to be angry regardless of what they do?

People decide who they think are the good guys and who they think are the bad guys first, then view subsequent events through that lens.

New comment by tqi in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

tqi — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:30:20 +0000

There is no evidence presented that internally "vibe coded" products are the reason hubspot et al are struggling right now. If anything, the fact that the divergence from the broader index starts in April of last year (well before the current vibe coding moment got going) is evidence that this is something else.

New comment by tqi in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

tqi — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:43:48 +0000

Yes, that is the same because second degree kid noises also cause cancer.

New comment by tqi in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

tqi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:54:06 +0000

There's gotta be a Moore's law corollary for "Doom ported to [blank]" milestones. I wonder where this all ends? Doom ported to a mechanical pencil! Doom ported to a clipper card! To a lightbulb??