float4 · HackerTrans

2 months agodiscuss

As someone who's in his late 20s and didn't (consciously) witness the dotcom crisis I want to ask the older people here: was this also part of the dotcom bubble era? Were people working in bookstores angry at Amazon, people working in retail fashion angry at fashion ecommerce stores, etc?

float4

5 months agodiscuss

Wouldn't you get >50% of the usefulness and 0% of the risk if you add read+draft permissions for the email connection through a proxy or oauth permissions? Then your claw can draft replies and you have to manually review+send. It's not a perfect PA that way, but could still be better than doing everything yourself for the vast majority of people who don't have a PA anyway?

It feels like, just like SWEs do with AI, we should treat the claw as an enthusiastic junior: let it do stuff, but always review before you merge (or in this case: send).

float4

5 years agodiscuss

> novice users are terrified of it. When they make a mistake, many would rather delete and re-clone the repository than try to fix it

In my experience most beginners use a GUI like Atlassian Sourcetree or the Github desktop client. It's a lot harder to make mistakes using the GUI in my experience.

I still really like this idea though; eventually a subset of the beginners wants to learn the git cli and that sure seems scary at first.

float4

5 years agodiscuss

This is sleazy from the NYT, but the person trying to cancel allowed the NYT employee to change the conversation to a negotiation.

They were talking to this NYT employee after 3 minutes (not too long IMO). The employee wrote in the very first message:

> [...] May I ask why you are canceling?

At that point you should say:

> No. Cancel my subscription.

Then, they'll always give you a counter offer nonetheless:

> Are you sure? We can offer you xyz.

Then you explicitly say that you won't negotiate:

> I won't negotiate. Cancel my subscription.

Maybe they'll give it one more try, but if you don't budge they'll back off. And then, at the end, you write:

> Thank you for helping me, have a nice day!

Because these people don't want to be sleazy. They would get a better job if they could.

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