For-profit insurance for most things isn't a scam. Insuring against the destruction of a house or car, for example is a calculated tradeoff; on average, you lose money (expected value is negative), but only a little at a time. In exchange, you get a guarantee that you won't lose an asset you can't afford to replace.
For-profit health insurance in the USA is a special sort of scam because they negotiate prices that aren't available to the public, often an order of magnitude lower.
If someone was going to reward me for burning a lot of tokens, I'd feed LLM output into the LLM input until they ran out of rewards.
Deathbeak XVII keeps coming up from behind the bench to nip at my butt
Of course he does. Your name is Grass. That's what they eat.
Using it as a laptop? In theory, a 10" screen thin and light laptop with the guts in the base instead of the screen is a better design. There aren't very many of those to be had, especially not for $90 on Ebay.
Watching videos during taxi, takeoff, and landing? The alternative is paying attention to the safety briefing. I think I won't.
Surface Go 2.
It wasn't a Linux tablet when it first arrived, but that was easy to fix.
Most models are just PCs. The cameras in my Surface Go 2 don't work out of the box on Linux, but everything else is fine.
The power supplies for those things showed up dirt cheap on Ebay at a time when 2A+ USB power supplies were premium items. I bought a bunch of them.
As the owner of a proper Linux tablet, tablets are for combining with keyboards for use as small laptops.
They're also good for watching videos during taxi, takeoff, and landing during which laptop use is forbidden.
That means if Google’s verification system gets widely adopted, browsing the web could become a headache.
Using a phone to scan a QR code in order to access a website on my desktop is a headache even if it has no dependencies in particular.
I enjoyed being able to safely ride my bike the 8 miles to school
Aside from the risk of the authorities treating it as child neglect, do you believe this would be less safe to do now? If so, why?
It seems very unlikely to me that the model itself has a list of banned words, and much more likely that a purported list is hallucinated.
If they did want to have a simple list like that, it would probably go in the harness rather than the model, and the model wouldn't have been trained on it, nor would a reasonably designed harness provide it to the model. Legitimate use cases, such as asking the model for a list of abusive words for use as a first pass in a filtering system could get tripped up.
As a test, I asked Perplexity to generate such a list. It did a bad job, including such words as abuse, hate, and threat which are far more likely to be innocuous than abusive. It did also include some highly offensive slurs that one would expect on any banned words list.
My Opus BT-C3100 smells like magic smoke and looks like this. I suppose I could change these resistors and it might be OK, but I could also buy things.
I'm looking for 2-4 slots; it should fit protected 21700s; it shouldn't have a noisy fan that runs all the time like the Opus; USB-C input is preferred, but not required.
I'm broadly aware of what's on the market, but I want to know if you love or hate yours.
The original comment references luxury assets like supercars. In the USA, the average adult needs a car of some sort to function in society, and often cannot afford the unplanned purchase of a reliable used car (let's call that $15K). Collision insurance that will cover most of the cost of a replacement car is a reasonable value for many people, and the insurance company doesn't have any special leverage like access to massive discounts on replacement cars (they may have access to modest discounts on repair services, but nothing like what health insurance has).
I think I made it pretty clear I understand that for-profit health insurance is a scam because providers overcharge anyone who doesn't have it to an extreme degree. That's not the case for pretty much anything else.