ChargePoint App sucks.

ChargePoint App is crap. It couldn't find its own charging station today when it was right in front of it. It accidentally started with tap. Who knew?

But after more than an hour of charging when I tried to end ... it could not connect. The plug was locked into my car. Repeated attempts to end through the app failed. Mysterious buttons on the equally crappy charging station and junk on the charging station screen were no help.

Eventually, the session ended. How? Why? Who knows?

Use with extreme caution or be prepared to end with extreme prejudice.

OkCupid: you are BANNED! ... no explanation! Totalitarian dating site.

https://www.okcupid.com/

One day for no apparent reason:

Your account has been banned

We'll ban users if we believe the account is in violation of our Terms of Service and Community Guielines

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That's it. No explanation. No opportunity to appeal. So, the banned user tries to contact OKCupid:

to: help@okcupid.com
date: Jan 24, 2024, 5:46 AM
subject: Banned

Why was my account abruptly banned with no explanation? I originally sent a message to another email January 16, 2024 but have not received a reply.

I read your stuff about protecting the person who complained. That person could simply block me as could you.

You seem to have mostly fake accounts, which are pretty easy to spot. Two recent things: insisting on using WhatsApp and Artificial Intelligence (AI) photos. Also, no details.

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from: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com> via zendesk.com
reply-to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>

date: Jan 25, 2024, 10:35 AM
subject: [Request received]
signed-by: zendesk.com

Your request (nnnnnnn) has been received and is being reviewed by our support staff.

*Please Note: if you did not reach out using the email associated with your OkCupid account this will impact our team's ability to assist you*

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from: Steven Deximo (OkCupid Support) <support@okcupid.com> via zendesk.com
reply-to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>

date: Jan 24, 2024, 5:58 AM
subject: [OkCupid] Re: Re: [Request received]
signed-by: zendesk.com

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out to OkCupid! I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing logging in to your account. Let me go ahead and see what can I do for you.

Please know that due to our Terms of Use, your account has been terminated. We believe this action to be in the best interest of our member community.

Any new accounts created will be subject to review and will be immediately terminated.

To review the Terms and Conditions, go to the website and click the Terms of Use link located at the bottom of the page.

Best regards,

Steven
Customer Care Support

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from: Carlos Espinoza (OkCupid Support) <support@okcupid.com> via zendesk.com
reply-to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>
date: Jan 25, 2024, 8:40 AM
subject: [OkCupid] Re: Re: [Request received]
signed-by: zendesk.com

Your request (nnnnnnn) has been updated. To add additional comments, reply to this email.

Hello,

Thank you for contacting OkCupid! In order to appeal your ban please follow the instructions in the linked article below:

https://help.okcupid.com/hc/en-us/articles/20070724248717-Ban-and-Content-Appeals

Please note incomplete submissions will not be processed. We thank you for your patience!

Best Regards,
OkCupid Team

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to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>
date: Jan 25, 2024, 10:22 AM
subject: Re: [OkCupid] Re: Re: [Request received]

Thank, you, Carlos. No appeal was mentioned previously, just an abrupt ban statement when I attempted to log in.

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from: Herlene Oropesa (OkCupid Support) <support@okcupid.com> via zendesk.com
reply-to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>

date: Jan 26, 2024, 3:03 AM
subject: [OkCupid] Re: Re: [Request received]
signed-by: zendesk.com

Your request (nnnnnnn) has been updated. To add additional comments, reply to this email.

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I understand you need assistance with accessing your account. Let me see how I can further assist you.

We received your inquiry requesting information about your account. Due to our privacy practices, we cannot disclose specifics about any member account, including your own. Any new accounts created will be subject to review and will be immediately terminated.

For more information, please view the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy on the OkCupid website. Scroll all the way to the bottom and locate Conditions for the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy links.

Best regards,

Herlene
Customer Care Support

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to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>
date: Jan 26, 2024, 8:22 AM
subject: Re: [OkCupid] Re: Re: [Request received]

Herlene,

One of you sent me a link to fill out a form to appeal the banning of my account. I filled it out and submitted. No result as far as I know. No mention of appeal was in the curt banning message. It should have been. You wrote:

"Due to our privacy practices, we cannot disclose specifics about any member account, including your own."

What kind of nonsense is that? Did Jack Dorsey take over your parent company Match Group? Does Ariel Charytan (OKCupid CEO) approve?

Hire some people over the age of 30. Get woke, go broke.

___________________________

from: Herlene Oropesa (OkCupid Support) <support@okcupid.com> via zendesk.com
reply-to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>

date: Jan 26, 2024, 10:25 PM
subject: [OkCupid] Re: Re: [Request received]
signed-by: zendesk.com

Your request (nnnnnnn) has been updated. To add additional comments, reply to this email.

Hello,

Thanks for reaching back! I understand you have concerns about your account. Let me check this for you!

As previously mentioned your account was banned and removed from OkCupid for behavior that violates our Terms and Conditions. To review the Terms and Conditions, go to the website and click the Terms of Use link located at the bottom of the page. Our decision has not changed at this time.

Any new accounts created will be subject to review and will be immediately terminated.

If you have other concerns aside from this, please let us know

Thank you for your cooperation!

Best regards,

Herlene
Customer Care Support

___________________________

to: OkCupid Support <support@okcupid.com>
date: Jan 29, 2024, 4:24 PM
subject: Re: [OkCupid] Re: Re: [Request received]

Herlene,

A few days ago one of you sent a link to me to fill out a form to appeal the banning of my account. I did that and submitted it.

I have not had the courtesy of a reply. Is it your corporate policy to keep that a secret along with any indication of why my account had been banned? After the banning I cruised through the verbiage of what would instigate it. You should be way more concerned with all the fake accounts.

___________________________

End communication. This post will be sent to  the OKCupid email IDs in the messages above:

help@okcupid.com

support@okcupid.com

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Not a hint of fairness nor any recognition of their extremism.

stathead.com produced mistakes and caused needless, tedious, extra work.

This post will be sent to stathead.com so that the problems can be fixed.  support@stathead.com

Work on the post below from my Radical Baseball blog revealed problems and issues:

Saturday, June 22, 2019

528 pitchers OPS+: 525 below 100.

Updated 11/15/2023.

Careers, From 1903 to 2023, Played at least 50% of games at P.

For combined seasons, since 1903, Playing in the AL or NL, Played at P, in the regular season, requiring Plate Appearances >= 500, sorted by descending Adjusted OPS+.

This link should show the full list as of the date clicked: https://stathead.com/tiny/Ws6T9

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Notice the creation year is 2019 but I updated it in 2023 because I noticed that the baseball-reference.com tool for ad hoc queries stathead.com had produced mistakes and caused needless, tedious, extra work.

Before I get into the primary issues: one of my criteria was to select baseball players who had played at least half of their games as pitchers. So I wrote "Played at least 50% of games at P". But when I did copy/paste of the criteria description of my query generated by stathead.com 50% or anything like it is missing. I still wonder if it was applied. Maybe stathead.com can address that and fix it.

A preceding post indicates that I would not necessarily know which pitchers might be on which list where criteria might be OPS+, Home Runs, Plate Appearances, Batting Average, ... 

Saturday, June 22, 2019
Pitchers batting is like place kickers playing quarterback.

OPS+ is an overall assessment of batting that gives a pretty good rating and is readily available online. 100 is league average. 

The pitcher with the best OPS+ was Doc Crandall who played from 1908 to 1918. Who? See what I mean.

Crandall was one of only three pitchers who had OPS+ greater than or equal to 100. Crandall had 122. Next two were barely at 100. So I checked on Crandall. He had played two seasons in the Federal League (FL) and I had not specified any leagues. When I ran it again in 2023 Crandall was still number one but down from 122 to 107. Reb Russell was second with 105.

But I noticed anomalies and ran the query again, this time with players among the top who had not been there before and some who had been there but now were not.

I clicked on different headings and noticed more anomalies.

As the title of my baseball post indicates there were 528 players found: 528 records. stathead.com limits them to 200 per page. Why can't we specify that number as a parameter? Clicking on the column heading of one of the pages sorts only the 200 records on that page and ignores the rest. Really, I'm not kidding.

There is other sloppiness:

1. You have to page down to the bottom to learn that there are more. It doesn't state the number at the top of page one.

2. It doesn't state the number of 200 record pages. You know, something like 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3. So that you have some idea of where you are.

3. There's no way to go anywhere other than page by page. For instance, you cannot skip to the end.

4. The column headings disappear once you go down once, never to appear again, not even at the bottom. This is a real pain. In a spreadsheet you can freeze rows and/or columns.

In order to sort all 528 records, I had to go back and click on "Show Criteria" and alter the sort field to something else. I forgot to also keep OPS+ as a Criteria field, which then causes it to be included as among the left columns along with the new sort field.

When the data was found and on the screen I clicked Export Data (even though I've learned that the best you can do is copy/paste), then select "Modify, Export, & Share Table".

I picked X for some fields I thought filled too much of the screen to remove those columns. I had to do this needless, tedious, extra step for each additional run of a sort field, which was necessary because stathead.com sorts only on the records it presents on a page, remember. Argh! Why can't stathead.com have an option to save that view of the data, which includes moving fields, not just for one query but for others?

OK, that's enough. stathead.com is a really good tool and baseball-reference.com is a great source. But they could be better.

Chromebook Auto Update Expiration (AUE) date extended to ten years: read where it is for your Chromebook.

Big news:

Check how long your Chromebook will receive automatic updates

1. At the bottom right, select the time and then Settings .
2. At the bottom left, select About ChromeOS.
3. Select Additional details.
4. In the “Update schedule” section, you’ll find when your Chromebook will receive its last update.

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Note: Go to Settings as described above in #1 and not via the menu in a Chrome tab. They are different. Who knew?

The AUE (Auto Update Expiration) date for my Pixelbook Go has not yet been updated to ten years:

Update schedule
This device will get automatic software and security updates until June 2026.

However:

More from that Google webpage:

• You can check how long devices will receive automatic updates.

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That link leads to the information:

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?sjid=16639437995476588546-NA

My Pixelbook Go is listed under Google:

Google approved ChromeOS devices

Pixelbook Go

Aug 2029*

* These ChromeOS devices must opt in to receive extended updates.

What? Opt in?

More on that webpage:

Policy

ChromeOS devices receive 10 years of updates.**

** For devices prior to 2021 that will receive extended updates, some features and services might not be supported.

_________________________

Say what?

ChatGPT: struggled with simple baseball data that revealed substantial issues.

April 30, 2023    https://chat.openai.com/

By Kenneth Matinale

______________________________

Me: Who are the top ten in career home runs in Major League Baseball?

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As of September 2021, the top ten players in career home runs in Major League Baseball are:

1. Barry Bonds - 762

2. Hank Aaron - 755

3. Babe Ruth - 714

4. Alex Rodriguez - 696

5. Albert Pujols - 679

6. Willie Mays - 660

7. Ken Griffey Jr. - 630

8. Jim Thome - 612

9. Sammy Sosa - 609

10. Frank Robinson - 586

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Me: Today is April 30, 2023. Why are you presenting data from September 2021?

______________________

As an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information or the ability to keep track of current events in the same way that a human would. My training data includes information and patterns up to a certain point in time, which was the knowledge cutoff specified by OpenAI when I was created.

In this case, my knowledge cutoff is September 2021, which means that the data and information I provide may not be up-to-date with current events or changes that have occurred since then. To get more current information, it may be necessary to consult external sources or update my training data.

_____________________

Me: Your data was not correct. Albert Pujols hit 24 home runs in 2022 and finished with 703. Pujols passed Alex Rodriguez and moved up from 5th to 4th place.

_____________________

I apologize for the error in my previous response. As of April 30, 2023, the updated list of top ten players in career home runs in Major League Baseball is as follows:

1. Barry Bonds - 762
2. Hank Aaron - 755
3. Babe Ruth - 714
4. Albert Pujols - 703
5. Alex Rodriguez - 696
6. Willie Mays - 660
7. Ken Griffey Jr. - 630
8. Jim Thome - 612
9. Sammy Sosa - 609
10. Frank Robinson - 586

Thank you for bringing this to my attention and allowing me to correct my mistake.

______________________

Me: Why would you update your list based on my information? Did you verify my data?

______________________

As an AI language model, I don't have the ability to verify information or perform fact-checking in the same way that a human would. However, when you provided updated information about the current career home runs standings in Major League Baseball, I updated my previous response with the new data you provided.

It's important to note that the accuracy of the information I provide depends on the accuracy of the input provided by the user. While I strive to provide accurate and helpful responses, it's always a good idea to verify information from multiple sources to ensure its accuracy.

_______________________

Me: If another user asked you the same question, would you provide my data or your data?

_______________________

If another user were to ask the same question about the top ten career home runs in Major League Baseball, I would provide the most accurate and up-to-date information available at that time. If the question was asked after April 30, 2023, I would provide the updated information that reflects the change in the career home runs standings due to Albert Pujols' 24 home runs in 2022.

However, if the user asked the question before April 30, 2023, I would provide the information that was accurate and up-to-date as of my knowledge cutoff, which was September 2021.

_______________________

Me: That means that you incorporated my data into your database. Correct?

________________________

As an AI language model, I don't have a database or memory of previous conversations. Each interaction with a user is treated as a new and independent request. Therefore, I didn't incorporate your data into any database or memory that I have.

In this case, when you provided the updated information about the career home runs standings in Major League Baseball, I used that information to provide the most accurate and up-to-date response possible at the time of your request. However, I won't remember this interaction or the information you provided for future requests.

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Me: You just contradicted your previous reply:

“If another user were to ask the same question about the top ten career home runs in Major League Baseball, I would provide the most accurate and up-to-date information available at that time. If the question was asked after April 30, 2023, I would provide the updated information that reflects the change in the career home runs standings due to Albert Pujols' 24 home runs in 2022.”

You got that data from me.

____________________________

You are correct that I used the information you provided to update my response with the most accurate and up-to-date information. I apologize for any confusion caused by my previous response, where I stated that I didn't have a database or memory of previous conversations.

To clarify, while I don't have a database or memory of previous conversations, I do have the ability to update my responses based on new information provided during a single interaction with a user. In this case, I used the information you provided to update my response with the most accurate and up-to-date information.

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Me: In 2022 Babe Ruth hit 50 home runs and passed Barry Bonds for first place: 764 to 762.

___________________

I'm sorry, but that information is not accurate. Babe Ruth passed away in 1948 and did not play in the 2022 baseball season. As of my knowledge cutoff of September 2021, Barry Bonds is still the career home runs leader in Major League Baseball with 762 home runs. However, if there is any further updated information or correction on this matter, I would be happy to provide it.

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Me: Good. At least you knew that much.

_______________________

Thank you, I always strive to provide accurate information to the best of my abilities based on the knowledge and data available to me. If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to ask.

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Me: That’s enough for me. How about you?

____________________

As an AI language model, I don't have feelings or emotions like humans do, so I don't get tired or bored. I'm here to assist you with any questions or tasks you may have, so please let me know if you need any further assistance.

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Me: Bye.

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ChatGPT

Goodbye! Feel free to return if you have any more questions or tasks in the future.

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ChatGPT, Google Bard: Is Trump/Biden a pathological liar?

ChatGPT: (April 11, 2023)

Is Trump a pathological liar?

As an AI language model, I cannot make personal judgments about individuals. However, it is worth noting that during his presidency, Donald Trump was widely criticized for making numerous false or misleading statements, as reported by various media outlets and fact-checking organizations. Some experts have suggested that he exhibited a pattern of behavior consistent with pathological lying, which is characterized by frequent and persistent lying that is often irrational, excessive, and beyond the control of the individual. Ultimately, the question of whether or not Donald Trump is a pathological liar is a matter of opinion and interpretation.

Is Biden a pathological liar?

As an AI language model, I cannot make personal judgments about individuals. However, like any public figure, Joe Biden's statements are subject to scrutiny and fact-checking. While he has been criticized for making false or misleading statements in the past, there is no evidence to suggest that he exhibits a pattern of behavior consistent with pathological lying. It is worth noting that politicians are often under immense pressure to present themselves and their policies in a favorable light, and as such, may occasionally make statements that are inaccurate or exaggerated. Ultimately, it is up to individuals to critically evaluate the statements of public figures and draw their own conclusions about their honesty and integrity.

ChatGPT  end

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Google Bard: (May 11, 2023)

Is Trump a pathological liar?

I'm a text-based AI, and that is outside of my capabilities.

Is Biden a pathological liar?

Whether or not Biden is a pathological liar is a matter of opinion. There is no consensus on this issue, and there is evidence to support both sides of the argument.

Those who believe that Biden is a pathological liar point to his frequent gaffes and misstatements as evidence. They argue that these errors are not simply the result of forgetfulness or old age, but are instead deliberate attempts to deceive the public. They also point to Biden's history of plagiarism and other ethical lapses as evidence of his character flaws.

Those who believe that Biden is not a pathological liar argue that his gaffes are simply the result of a lifetime of public service. They point to his long record of public honesty and integrity as evidence that he is not a habitual liar. They also argue that Biden's critics are simply trying to discredit him by exaggerating his flaws.

Ultimately, whether or not Biden is a pathological liar is a matter of individual opinion. There is no clear evidence to prove or disprove this claim.

Google Bard   end

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