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oskarw85 commented on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/alecmuffett
aydyn · 2 months ago
Its cute that you think Europe has the ability to replace those services.
oskarw85 · 2 months ago
It's cute that you think anyone is going to kiss your American ass.
oskarw85 commented on Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure   perspectives.plus/p/micro... · Posted by u/jukkan
oskarw85 · 3 months ago
I am just a typical Office user in a small company environment. Copilot buttons started popping in various Office applications. When I asked Copilot in Outlook to summarise mails from one of my contacts it happily searched the Internet and said it found nothing. AAA experience.
oskarw85 commented on Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo   tempo.xyz... · Posted by u/_nvs
spir · 4 months ago
You are missing what many are missing, which is that a centralized stablecoin like USDC on a public blockchain is already much more useful and powerful than a dollar in a bank account, and that will only 100x from here.

The reasons why are left as an exercise to the reader :)

oskarw85 · 4 months ago
>The reasons why are left as an exercise to the reader :)

Tell me you are full of shit without telling you are full of shit

oskarw85 commented on Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code   anthes.is/font-comparison... · Posted by u/maybebyte
soneca · 5 months ago
Do you think Atkinson Hyperlegible specifically hurts readability?

I am thinking about the regular one on text, not mono on code.

oskarw85 · 5 months ago
Not OP but I set Atkinson Hyperlegible on my e-ink reader and it served me well. I feel my reading speed has improved. It is pretty wide though so to put more text on the page I decreased font height a bit.
oskarw85 commented on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files   anuraag2601.github.io/gem... · Posted by u/anuraag2601
godelski · 5 months ago

  > Why does the author feel confident that Claude won't do this?
I have a guess

  | (I have almost zero knowledge of how the Windows CLI tool actually works. What follows below was analyzed and written with the help of AI. If you are an expert reading this, would love to know if this is accurate)
I'm not sure why this doesn't make people distrust these systems.

Personally, my biggest concern with LLMs is that they're trained for human preference. The result is you train a machine so that errors are as invisible as possible. God tools need to make errors loud, not quiet. The less trust you have for them the more important this is. But I guess they really are like junior devs. Junior devs will make mistakes and then try to hide it and let no one know

oskarw85 · 5 months ago
This is a spot-on observation. All LLMs have that "fake it till you make it" attitude together with "failure is not an option" - exactly like junior devs on their first job.
oskarw85 commented on Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index   blog.ecosia.org/eusp/... · Posted by u/amarcheschi
oskarw85 · 9 months ago
Typical Murica.

Loud, stupid and self-obsessed

oskarw85 commented on Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index   blog.ecosia.org/eusp/... · Posted by u/amarcheschi
nottorp · 9 months ago
French and German results :)

That may work for finding a pizza near you, but most of the content on the web is in English and like it or not, English is the most common language even across the EU.

Separating the EU internet across languages doesn't look like such a good idea to me. Except for getting funding from the nazi parties.

oskarw85 · 9 months ago
I switched to Qwant 2 months ago after using DuckDuckGo for 4 years and Google before that. I live in Poland - and Qwant gives me the best search results of them all. Much more relevant than DuckDuckGo and much less sponsored content than Google. I'm really happy about how it works for me.
oskarw85 commented on When your last name is Null, nothing works   wsj.com/lifestyle/null-la... · Posted by u/impish9208
easton · 10 months ago
And first names, which causes some government agencies to put FNU in that field for "first name unknown".

My mom told me about a time they had someone with that situation at work, and people would call the person FNU until they were corrected.

oskarw85 · 10 months ago
FI²N sounds like a nice first name (Fuck If I Know)
oskarw85 commented on When your last name is Null, nothing works   wsj.com/lifestyle/null-la... · Posted by u/impish9208
kstrauser · 10 months ago
Hey, that's also relevant to me! I've checked my local laws, and where I live, your legal name is the one you consistently present yourself as. If you're Joe Frank Smith, and you go by Frank everywhere, that's your legal name.

I've gotten so tired of having this argument. Inevitably some clerk will insist on calling me by my first name, "you know, your legal name". No. My middle name is my legal name. It's what my mom, sisters, wife, friends, teachers, coworkers, doctors, and everyone else call me. My first name is an aka at best, except the only people who insist on using it are ones wrong about the law, so I'm not even really "known as" it.

I once closed a bank account 10 minutes after opening it because they insisted that my debit card be printed as "Joe Smith", not "Frank Smith". I told them I'd absolutely refuse to touch it because that's not my name. I find it interesting that it's mostly local orgs who are a pain in the neck about being wrong about this. You'd think a small local bank would know local law better than a huge multi-national, but the giant bank I opened a business account with was totally fine putting Frank Smith on my accounts. Go figure.

(Somewhat related: That's made me super sympathetic to trans people who want to be known as something other than what's written on their birth certificate. Yeah, I get it. It's nails on a chalkboard when someone calls me Joe, so if you don't want people calling you Tammy anymore, I'm on your side.)

oskarw85 · 10 months ago
But how are all those people supposed to know that beforehand? Call yourself whatever you want but don't expect anyone to deal with your name-fuckery. It's called first name for a reason.

u/oskarw85

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