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Interesting and novel project. I don't have anything constructive to add, but well done.

Thanks :)

No better feeling to work on something and hear it is novel! So many projects that I think will be useful miss the mark.


Connect it to an AI talking head and you have a customer service center - users browsing a store can click to talk with 'someone'.

Optimism will get you through.... Humans have bumpy rides, but in the aggregate we figure it out and move on

In the aggregate we live miserable lives and then die.

That was true the last time we went to the Moon, but this time in the aggregate we live less miserable lives.

non sequitur ... less of a thing is still the thing.

Haha - I was going to add "so it's a shelf"?

^ Knowing this, I would believe the best course of action for a hospital administrator would be to implement a "blind workflow" to reduce risk & lawsuits.

A radiologist should separately review a scan, an AI separately review it, and then combine the 2 results for review.


Very interesting project.

From a product uptake perspective, I could suggest that since a user is still building trust when they begin use - to only require as few permissions as needed. I'd punt that profile update requirement out personally for another method later.

An example might be when a user has used your app for N sessions, or after N months.


They should prompt the user for permission when they use a feature that requires it, explain why, and allow them to cancel if desired. Have seen this pattern used many times elsewhere.

Good idea, will implement that! Maybe a button or something to refresh your permissions when/if you want to edit your profile via Colibri makes sense.

> and ended up reimplementing Perl with AI.

Man, I would have just learned Ruby.....


Ah - now I understand how this has 2k+ (supposedly legitimate) Github stars in less than a week. Thank you - I was more skeptical


As a gent born and raised in Texas, and has never seen the show - I am pleasantly surprised to see these comments about how popular WTR was internationally. If I had been asked to bet, I would have lost money on this one.


As others have said, WTR is very well-known in France while most people have never heard of Seinfeld.

Same with Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard.


Assuming this sort of phenomenon extends further than France, this quite well explains many of the misconceptions Europeans have about the US.

Thinking WTR, Dallas, or TDoH are representative of American culture is... hilarious.

But I guess shows that hit the big American cultural stereotypes hard are maybe the ones that do better abroad?


From my memory from the 90s: Baywatch, X-Files, that speaking car one, Beverly Hills 90210, Ninja Turtles. Some dumb sitcom named Step by Step? edit: oh and ALF

Oh and Married with Children, but it was always very late night and I was not allowed to watch it.

And our teacher always played us ET on VHS. (and that dog playing basketball.)

that's america for me when I was a kid


If you like MwC, look up episodes of Unhappily Ever After on Youtube, it's sort of the second-generation MwC. Same sort of humour but taken even further, I can easily re-watch Unhappily but MwC is sort of a once-you've-seen-it...


> that speaking car one

Knight Rider.

> that dog playing basketball

Air Bud.


I think Hazard didn't sound stereotype at all, like, nobody had a clue why the car was called General Lee, or what the confederate flag meant.

It was just a fun show. Magnum PI, Different Strokes, McGiver.. were just as popular.


> Thinking WTR, Dallas, or TDoH are representative of American culture is... hilarious.

I’m not aware of a single person who thinks that, and neither was that the claim of your parent comment.

People understand TV shows are fiction.


dallas was huge in dubai in the 80s. like to the extent that people would plan to sit home on the evening it was on.

(I didn't watch it; my parents believed soap operas were unsuitable for kids)


I've got the impression that the big US exports are ones that play into big American stereotypes, e.g WTR, Baywatch, Friends. Not even that they see these shows and get programmed with these stereotypes, but that they have these stereotypes (Texas, California, NYC) and shows like this feed their imaginations and give them detail.

Exported media is weird. Like the huge proportion of British/BBC output (usually period, but also often detective in a way redolent of Christie) that is made primarily for export to foreign consumers who think of British upper-class culture as aspirational.


Walker, Texas Ranger and Baywatch were both created by non-network studios as syndicated shows, they weren’t prime time network shows. The budgets for syndicated content is a lot lower than network produced content.

The rights to air these sorts of shows are dirt cheap compared to Friends or Seinfeld, so it makes sense that cheap syndicated garbage like Walker, Texas Ranger and Baywatch were popular internationally, the rights were cheap.


There is US exported media that just randomly becomes popular in a specific demographic. Case in point: Adventures of Ford Fairlane, a flick with Andrew Dice Clay that got a razzie the year it came out. IIRC it got a cult following in Norway because the voice over was done by a popular radio DJ.


It was a syndicated show, the goal is to license it to as many companies as possible. It was never a network TV show like Seinfeld, those syndication rights are way more expensive than created for syndication shows like WTR.


Yeah. As an American I would’ve absolutely never guessed it was that popular.


The show was also incredibly popular in Germany in the 90s.


If you do, you could protect yourself with a sell stop below $17.25... because if it breaks that on weekly candles, next are $14 and $10. Or you could buy some calls instead when the volatility calms down. If you do it now, the volcrush could happen even if you're correct.

Not investment advice, do you own research. I'm just someone on the Internet.


Thank you stock astrologist


In know you're in jest, but no worries. Strong support around $17 for lots of reasons - would be difficult to push it below that.

In fact there is an open gap that I'd expect it to close around $16.30 and another one around $19


I might go as this for Halloween.


How did you learn algotrading?


/r/wallstreetbets


Thank you for explaining this, I had always wondered how a carrier could tell a device was tethered if a router was not passing on tethered device details.


Another way to do it is to look for requests to domains that phones never access but desktops/laptops often do. Windows Update is the most common, but you could probably do apt package repositories or whatever.


If the hotspot is sourced from the phone, the phone tells the carrier


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