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You make it sound like a conspiracy theory but it's just rational behaviour. Large amount of leverage / shorting / concentrated bets in a single stock => increase probability of la…

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I've never heard of Maria Callas before. Especially ridiculous because she was born in the US and Wikipedia describes her as American and Greek .

I was downgraded to Opus after asking “how do fish get into mountain lakes”. Fable managed to get like half an answer through…

> The 25,000 is there to make sure you can cover some liability. Is this actually true? Can't the company just loan out the 25k immediately?

which is in fact a massive pain in the ass, because car rentals and hotels often require credit cards to make reservations (at least in my experience...)

Same. I no longer fix spelling mistakes (I never used auto-complete or "smart" keyboards).

The entire business model of "outsourced" developers / shops is to overbill people - "we have 4 engineers working on your project" (and also on 5 other projects). Even if the engin…

Melania Trump wasn't on "low wage immigrant worker" visa (H1B) but on a "exceptional ability" visa (O1). Didn't check the others...

FYI Google also hates OpenCV What used to be easily searchable (e.g. "opencv orb") now brings up pages and pages of spam sites (basically "learn opencv here!" blogspam). Literally …

ok so Claude says I was wrong, it's more subtle. (1) you can cast between any pointer types (no UB - assuming they're aligned), but accessing memory through a wrongly-typed pointer…

Casting to a pointer of incompatible type is UB. The exception is casting to char*.

I couldn't get Gemini nor ChatGPT to do OCR of children's books (I literally own the books, so there's no copyright issue - all just fair use!). The OCR was complex enough (bad qua…

I'm not sure about that. AFAIK it's just per km and not impacted by gas price. https://www.racunovodja.com/clanki.asp?clanek=232/kilometrin...

In Slovenia, fuel prices have been regulated since, like, forever. A few years ago (or last year? not sure) they were deregulated on the highways (i.e. to make tourists pay more) b…

Why are you lying? from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting > The centralized server must be trusted not to violate ballot secrecy,[7] this limitation can be mitigated agai…

A bit of a cop-out, don't you think? They still pay taxes, which fund the US government, which kills innocent human beings around the world...

Well they have no pain receptors, for one.

> We expect our agents, being flesh and blood humans, to have persistence, to socially respond indefinitely into the future due to our interactions, and to have some give-and-take …

It's simulating, there's no real substance, except the "homonculus soul" that its human maker/owner injectet into it. If you asked it to simulate a pirate, it would simulate a pira…

> was built to be addressed like a person for our convenience, and because that's how the tech seems to work, and because that's what makes it compelling to use. So were mannequins…

That would still be misleading. The agent has no "identity" . There's no "you" or "I" or "discrimination ". It's just a piece of software designed to output probable text given som…

Just to expand a bit on Zurich and comparing with Slovenia (another "very socialist" country). Childcare in/around Zurich is (was 2 years ago) 2500 - 3000 CHF / month (lower prices…

like Switzerland?