ratherbefuddled

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Comment · 14 days ago
Probably a blessing not having an account with Barclays. Try Allica.
Comment · 4 months ago
Turning this on by default is insane.
Comment · 4 months ago
I read this as "Claude integration to Slack is now billed as API usage". Is that wrong?
Comment · 6 months ago
Sometimes I wonder if people understand what "non-deterministic" means?

These things are generators of pleasing words. They are random and not at all thinking.

Why would anybody think that prompt guardrails would be effective?

Comment · 6 months ago
Typing ten extra characters is an investment that pays off vs the overhead of doing any piece of work in the future. There's no real downside here, it doesn't make the code more complex, it gives less surprising results.

I think you are conflating YAGNI and premature optimisation and neither apply in this case.

Comment · 9 months ago
It's not that it must be registered (incorporated) in Germany. It's that for tax purposes if the company is run from Germany it will be considered "permanently established" and treated as resident there. Permanent establishment laws are often quite surprising to people doing business across different territories.
Comment · 1 year ago
> If I've got a long, random, unique, securely-stored password, I don't actually care about having a second factor

I'm not comfortable with my entire online identity being protected by a single line of defence which is a company that I'm paying a few dollars a month to. Not having to type 6 digits off a phone is a pretty minor convenience for me.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm more than happy to pay for DRM free epubs. I won't pay for a crippled rental of a book that only works on amazon or adobe blessed devices and can be confiscated on the whim of a corporation who won't be answerable for it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks very much.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you, that's really useful.
Comment · 1 year ago
Having just had solar and a battery fitted by Octopus I'm interested - would you mind sharing what you use for automation here please?
Comment · 1 year ago
We are talking about an extremely powerful corporation in an antitrust case not a person. It does not need to be defended in this way, which is a level of protection rarely afforded to individuals.

There is a definite public interest in understanding how Google conducts itself given the reach and impact it has.

There is no way for the public to have confidence in the trial process if it is conducted in secret, and given the outcome every reason to question the process.

I'm surprised anybody objective would defend this.

Comment · 1 year ago
There's very little reason that Google should have been protected from the evidence of its wrongdoing being made public. That's not extrajudicial punishment, that is public record. Justice should be seen to be done as well as done.

Who can know how appropriate or not the remedy was when the evidence is hidden?

For full disclosure: I'm neither a google employee nor a US citizen.

Comment · 1 year ago
I read it as "stop asking me the same thing over and over again, I've already told you". It's a shame that the no doubt hundreds of UX people at Netflix are so sloppy.
Comment · 1 year ago
It wouldn't be surprising that de-regulation is good for innovation in the US, because "regulation" in the US almost always means corporate capture of a market through political bribery.

Regulation in territories where it is harder for corporations to buy politicians seems to be far more successful at driving improvements.

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