I've met hundreds of celebs, and 99.9% of them are unbelievably nice and kind. The only two that have ever been gruff were Bill Shatner and Dean Stockwell, and honestly, they could have just been sick/tired/having a bad day.
I would say "meet your heroes"; most of them are probably going to be better than your expectations.
Absolutely agree. There's an insane "feature" of Claude Design which means you can only share the link to the design with other users on your account?! You can export the design, though, but then you need somewhere to quickly drop a bunch of HTML + assets. This would be perfect for that.
When I was living in the city of Chicago only a couple of years ago the best wired connection I could get was 1.5Mbps AT&T (the tech said it might push 3Mbps if I was lucky, but would only guarantee the slower speed).
Comcast said they'd run a cable for $71,000 as long as I agreed to a multi-year $800/month contract on top.
Ended up with a $40/month T-Mobile 5G hub which got me ~800Mbps.
I would highly recommend getting a laser, especially if she isn't doing a huge amount of printing. You can leave them forever without printing and they'll just spin up and work in an instant. Both B+W and color ones are really decently priced these days.
That's strange. I've never seen that set of circumstances. Pop me an email on my profile and I can try to put you in touch with someone who might be able to help.
I don't think this is what is happening, IMO. The models can genuinely "read" the text off the images, but usually at a less-than-perfect ratio, and it uses less tokens for the model on visual input than it does actually using OCR to convert them into text and then sending that in. I do not think there is any intermediate stage where they are applying a free OCR in this situation. (I realize that happens in some situations)
I am trying to get rough summaries of long PDFs of scanned pages of text. At first I was doing OCR and passing the (tens of thousands of) characters into the LLM, which works, but it's expensive.
I asked Gemini how to save costs and it said just send in all the images of the pages instead. Instinctively, as a developer, it's hard to fathom how sending 200 images is cheaper than sending the text, but it definitely works.
The ACT Sirius 1 (Victor 9000) was amazing for its time.
The other Apricot PCs were great, but so many of their machines were sidelined because they were only DOS-compatible and not generally IBM PC-compatible, and so could only run certain software.
Yes. IIRC Congress paid for a study in the early 20th century to try to nail a definition of the word "poison" by injecting mice with different quantities of bleach. The conclusion was that everything is a poison at the right dose. Most medicines are great at low doses, but then kill you when you take too much of them. Heck, even water is a poison.
Same. Lost my 2004 Gmail because they silently enabled 2FA and the phone number on the account is a long lost one. I have the username/password and the recovery email is set to me. The account also forwards all emails to me, so I still get the mail, but I can't log into the account.
Not yet found someone to do a SIM swap for me and get the 2FA code...
You can definitely get it to make a custom 3D engine easily. I asked Gemini 3.1 Deepthink (or whatever the Ultra version is called) to make me a 3D engine that ran in CGA on 8086 XT in x86 assembler, and it one shot it perfectly with filled polys, backface culling etc.