Any tips for lefties? I find in very difficult to avoid complete smudgification of everything I write with a fountain pen, since it takes so much longer for the ink to dry.
Try writing right to left!
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tenuousemphasis commented on OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500B nytimes.com/2025/08/19/te... · Posted by u/xnx
Surely we can say that we have artificial intelligence. Even now reasoning models are able to pattern match well enough to solve IQ tests that have been turned into text for them.
But we can certainly say that we don't have artificial intelligences. There's nothing with coherent, total beliefs, something able to have actual knowledge (as a pet example I like, if you ask an LLM about a situation in the abstract it might respond correctly, but in another context it fails to use what it 'knows' in another context). I actually think much can be done about this, but we don't have it.
No, because reasoning models don't actually reason.
Nothing to see here, just the most moral military in the world casually murdering a tent full of reporters.
I renewed my license 4 years ago and got an enhanced license with no special request.
OK now we just need to find out how well it works for thousands of other people from different states, social classes, and skin colors and then we'll have some real data.
I think there is also
3. Transient homeless that tried to get back on their feet but was met with the notion that all the options were eventually exhausted (they lived on their friend's couch until he got married). They even had dishwasher jobs, but inevitably, because rent was $2000 more than they would ever have - they decided to do drugs and live on the street because no amount of work at the wage they would be paid would ever make their life meaningful.
Yes, absolutely. They aren't two separate groups, there's essentially a pipeline from group 2 to 1.
Imagine struggling with addiction or mental health issues. Now imagine doing it without a safe and secure place to even sleep at night.
tenuousemphasis commented on Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny techcrunch.com/2025/08/02... · Posted by u/bingden
I wonder if a simpler solution to all this regulartion would be something like imposing a tax (fee?) when larger companies acquire smaller companies? So something like, "For every order of magnitude difference between the acquirer and the aquiree, there will be a 100% tax on the acquisition price paid to the US Federal government."
So this would basically encourage companies to either have their own IPO (no fee at all) or be acquired (merged really) by a company of equivalent size. If you are acquired by a much larger company, that company will have to pay a (logarithmicaly) large fee relative to the acquisition price. If they really want it, no problem, but it will be "cheaper" for a more correctly sized company to acquire them.
Chesterton's Fence:
>In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
tenuousemphasis commented on Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat mistral.ai/news/le-chat-d... · Posted by u/pember
What a luxury!
One way to avoid this: stick with one LLM and bet on the company behind it (meaning, over time, they’ll always have the best offering). I’ve bet on OpenAI. Others can make different conclusions.
When the medicine is worse than the disease...
tenuousemphasis commented on Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal andrewsteele.co.uk/blog/2... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Really needs a chat history function across devices. I just find is unusable without it.
For a while now it has synced your recent history when you link a new device.
tenuousemphasis commented on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon blog.thenewoil.org/the-pr... · Posted by u/DanAtC
I guess, but Amazon gets me stuff tomorrow or the next day, reliably, week in and week out. Yeah, I could find this stuff elsewhere on the internet. But not for Tuesday delivery. And not without opening another account. Also, right now, often only by paying a tariff-adjacent fee to cover the import costs of the vendors that didn't have the foresight to pre-stock imports like Amazon did.
People who want to write stuff like this really need to reckon with the fact that Amazon is and remains the superior product, and by a very significant degree.
They're not winning because they "hate democracy" or are "full-stop evil" or whatever. They're winning because they're the best.
Humans survived up until about 20 years ago without free 2-day shipping. You'll be fine.
Or you could compromise your morals for convenience, I guess.
I see organisations with thousands of SSL certificates, and their struggle is real. Even reputable companies with huge teams have their certificates expire or served badly. Some serve expired certificates for years!
Plus, enterprise alternatives are extremely costly and rigid.