> I think their shipping took 2 days

Yeah, it was fast. And yet, for it to work financially, they were still using plain old USPS. The trick (which required the levels of volume they had at the time) was to have a bunch of distribution centers positioned all throughout their service area. For a modern day service trying to do the same with significantly less volume, they won't be able to afford the extra distribution centers.

They also had an agreement with the post office to register the disk as returned the moment USPS scanned it.

We also (I worked there at the time) had software that basically said, "Joe watches all of his disks every weekend and drops them in the mail on Tuesdays, let's just assume he's going to do that and ship his new disks Monday morning". And other such predictions.

If you had a very regular viewing behavior you could have your new disks the same day as you shipped your old ones. To the customer, it was magical.

Fin is actually Intercom’s branded agent, so if Anthropic is using their own model for support at all isn’t clear.

I was curious so I looked into it. Seems like my issues were encountered when Fin AI was running on Sonnet 4.0, though Fin AI's new model (Fin Apex 1.0) was rolled out ~2 weeks ago. https://www.intercom.com/blog/announcing-fin-apex-the-age-of...

Love it! I appreciate the ethos of doing more with existing hardware. Adding an actual touchscreen would add real COGs to a macbook, and many potential failure points. Using the existing camera hardware + software seems to produce a "good enough" result for most people for casual use. I'm sure with some time and eng, Apple could make the "hack" shippable. But it doesn't earn product managers the big big bonuses, so it'll never happen.

I am tempted to get a cat as an accessory for a cat aquarium

Great read. While I admire the spite, I question the wisdom of pissing off a government employee with the power to deny your benefits.

And a government employee, who was only explaining in a polite, matter of fact way, what their department policy and government legislation allowed them to do.

If the story is true (I know it's labelled 'nonfiction' but c'mon) then likely the only reason the fax spamming worked is because the department policy prevented them from blocking numbers outside of very narrow circumstances.

It actually doesn't say that.

Not a direct competitor but another YC company I use and enjoy for PR reviews is cubic.dev. I like your focus on automated tests.

Thanks! We believe executing the scenarios and showing what actually broke closes the loop

Looks interesting! Looks like perhaps no support for Flutter apps yet?

Yes we currently support web apps but plan to extend the foundation to test mobile applications on device emulators

Actions as it were, speak louder than words.

Not just Google. This seems to be the default for most tech giants. I was banned on Facebook for an unknown reason, not provided any explanation, and given zero recourse. Had to resort to reaching out to a friend who worked there.