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Comment · 29 days ago
> One of the most serious examples is her health insurance. Prost receives coverage through AXA, the French company that provides insurance for the court. She says the company has refused to pay her claims even though it is not legally required to follow the U.S. sanctions.

Then it is high time to make the company legally required not to follow the U.S. sanctions.

Comment · 29 days ago
And just last week they opened a store diagonally across from the museum where you can buy their surplus.
Comment · 1 month ago
Dating apps are a Cursed Problem: If they worked well, they’d be out of business. Therefore they must not work well.
Comment · 1 month ago
I just don’t understand why casino’s feel the need to do that. They already have the edge, they would still turn a profit.

Same goes for banning advantage players. Why? The people that can successfully do it are a vanishingly small group, and even if every single one of them picks your casino because it doesn’t ban advantage players, the sheer amount of incompetent advantage players that would try alongside those would make it so you still turn a profit.

Comment · 1 month ago
The name FM always bothered me. You're not modulating the frequency, you're modulating the phase. PM would be a better name.

If you were to modulate frequency, well first of all you'd have to define a reference point or you'd just get glitchy sound. In practice that means most FM implementations just have a highly oversampled single cycle of a sine wave in memory, and it's the speed at which the sample pointer consumes the looping sine that's set to correspond to some frequency, and then that value is modulated. In other words, phase modulation.

Comment · 1 month ago
No, just tried that. In this case it’s blocked on the recipient side, not on the sender side.
Comment · 1 month ago
Actually I didn’t sign anything. And I will watch online content however I want to. You’re free to paywall it or not put it online at all if you don’t like it, someone else will fill the gap.
Comment · 1 month ago
It’s actually trivially easy to detect if someone isn’t verified adult: If you DM them something normal it’ll go through, but if you try to send them any image marked as spoiler it’ll show you an error, and they don’t see anything.

So yes, it’s super easy for groomers to focus on children with this update.

Comment · 1 month ago
You simply do not say something like “we don’t record continuously” if the reality is that you only record when voice control or speech to text is active. Given the entire industry’s track record, the only sane thing to do when confronted with weasel wording is to assume the truth is the worst possible interpretation that isn’t a blatant lie, and even then, sometimes it is just a blatant lie.

Here’s some examples:

- We don’t record continuously -> We record nearly all the time, only stopping to upload the recording.

- We do not sell your data -> But we do “share” it.

- All your data is protected from unauthorized LLM scraping -> But we define all the big tech companies as authorized scraping.

Comment · 1 month ago
Of course you can. Stockfish plays very different compared to a human, and it never ever blunders or makes mistakes.
Comment · 1 month ago
That proves what data travels between your computer and the API server, not what data may or may not secretly get shared within processes at the API server.
Comment · 2 months ago
Valve has in the past given refunds for something that was changed to deliberately no longer work on certain systems. Given that this involves their own hardware devices in this case they're likely to do so here.
Comment · 2 months ago
Except nobody can prove that those subagents aren't secretly sharing information with the main agent in the backend, and frankly I don't trust Anthropic not to do exactly that to cheese benchmarks.
Comment · 2 months ago
Given how often dang replies to an @dang post, he clearly has a running search for it. Expecting us to go out of band is ridiculous and won't happen.
Comment · 2 months ago
There's already been one case where the prompts were allowed to as a subject of discovery, and lying about it is perjury. Lawyers really are probably safe.

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