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Comment · 16 days ago
This is an article about documented & acknowledged issues in the BRAZILIAN election. Try reading the actual article before bringing your favorite fascist dictator into the conversation.
Comment · 4 months ago
LOL. In their SEC filing, 93% of all future earnings are from Grok. In 2026, Grok has 2% market share, chiefly driven by X usage.
Comment · 8 months ago
Background: for decades the water management was handled by local govt, disastrously. Previous govt. (Ardern) fought like hell to wrestle this back to national govt, pushed it through as more systems were found to be on the verge of collapse. The trumpkins that got elected next rolled this back immediately (“big bad central govt!”) and so now these water systems are collapsing, and the right wing is doing the GOP-style “oh yeah WE are FINALLY going to fix this”. Thanks Luxon you f’ing idiot.
Comment · 9 months ago
How do I disable this across an org?
Comment · 9 months ago
I can see why Anthropic would like this idea...
Comment · 11 months ago
Historically it was targeted at already captive clients building on Windows, so there was no incentive to innovate or break eggs. This persisted just long enough for the industry to evolve (web & Linux) and create much better solutions, making MS’s dev tools largely irrelevant. Today, seeing .net in a shop is a red flag for me at least (choosing .net for Web work, to clarify)
Comment · 11 months ago
I would def use this if there was a return “select …” option. There are heaps of scenarios where sql is modified based on parameters. If no doc string just use the return value maybe?

Our queries are typically large, not 3-5 liners.

(Filter view queries where you might add additional CTA’s to provide the necessary filter conditions, but aren’t desirable if particular filter parameter is nill, etc.)

Comment · 1 year ago
At the very least, these folks need to have their names permanently attached to this atrocity. These weren’t decisions made by “a corporation” - these people sat across a meeting room table and actually concluded that targeting breast cancer patients was an acceptable means to an end.

Lori A. Beer was the CIO at the time. Now at JP Morgan.

Comment · 1 year ago
In 2010 WellPoint was found to be automatically targeting insurance policies of women with breast cancer for cancellation, using any pretext. Angela Braly was the CEO at the time, now at ExxonMobile. WellPoint was the second largest health insurer in the US at the time. This required a lot of business analysis and software development - and people had to realize what this code was doing. I’m guessing bonuses were paid on the back of the “savings” this generated.
Comment · 1 year ago
Your problem isn't AML, it's chain of title. Different things. And yes, you have to show they aren't stolen. Get an indemnity bond if possible.
Comment · 1 year ago
Seriously, why would you have a problem explaining where a $5M came from?

In most places this is "proceeds of crime", requiring associated convictions.

In places that have unexplained wealth statutes, the bar is also pretty high - "balance of probabilities" is not hard to argue IF YOU HAVE LEGITIMATE SOURCES OF MONEY.

Comment · 1 year ago
Most of the commenters here have zero connection to reality eh.

For the uninformed: if you cannot complete KYC or proof of wealth checks, you do not lose your money.

The institution you're trying to transact will just will not work with you. They might not for any number of other reasons: adverse media, dodgy transaction history, etc. etc. etc.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is if you want to launder 50k. If you want to launder 500k, not so much, and if you have 50M, not at all.
Comment · 1 year ago
Doesn’t work in Safari :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Actually, my experience at least that when dealing with novel problems LLMs fail miserably. Try accessing uncommon API’s - or areas where you’re unsure an API actually exists (REST against Exchange for admin stuff!). Both ChatGPT and Claude produce nice looking solutions dependent on non-existent libraries. Repeatedly.

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