blibble

it ceases to be a useful benchmark of general ability when you post it publicly for them to train against

Microsoft's products are also extremely successful

they're also total garbage

> We build Claude with Claude. Our engineers write code with Claude Code every day

well that explains quite a bit

it just has to look fraudulent

and then if you tell them it's not you doing the transactions: you will be immediately banned

"oh it's my agent" will not go down well

> An additional benefit of isolating the account is it would help to limit damage if it gets frozen and cancelled.

you end up on the fraudster list and it will follow you for the rest of your life

(CIFAS in the UK)

you can enable it for certain trusted websites

linux has a key api that works pretty well

man keyctl

if only you could put some sort of explosive charge on the top

I don't see any weird glitches there

chase did what they were asked for years

up to the point they were told there had fraud going on, at which point the walls went up

which is entirely as to be expected

presumably the UK could figure out how to remove the top of a trident missile and replace it with a load of ball bearings

as we're doing anecdotes: I work with quants too

their LLM "assisted" work seems to be the roughly the same quality (i.e. bad), but now there's much more of it

not an improvement

> Look at where America is today. Both are richer than they’ve ever been. More militarily potent than ever.

just don't look at the first derivative vs china

I moved from gmail to fastmail a few years ago

and being the cynical sort of person that I am, I didn't trust the fastmail importer

so I ran it, and also wrote my own implementation using the gmail api (NOT imap), and another using the fastmail jmap api, and reconciled them

100% match (bar the "Muted" folder, which fastmail ignored)

pretty much perfect

does it matter how long it takes if you're going to do it once?

last month I moved 20 years of email

I started offlineimap before I went to bed and it finished before I woke up

> though I do miss the fact that Waze shows you your current speed.

this is the only reason I use waze!

as much as I try to stay away from Google products: waze shows this on the usual driving map quite well

"my turds now contains 15% candyfloss!"

5 years? try 10

Windows 10 released with the ability for the user to not consent to updates REMOVED

the direction of travel from that point on was clear

consent was no longer necessary

the OS is purpose is no longer to serve the owner of the computer, it is there to serve Microslop's whims

and that was the point I went full linux everywhere

> But dollars to doughnuts someone will try something like this on a waymo taxi the minute it hits reddit front page.

and once this video gets posted to reddit, an hour later every waymo in the world will be in a ditch

> but whatsapp's marketing is pretty unequivocal that they can't read your messages.

well that's alright then

facebook's marketing and executives have always been completely above board and completely honest

no money in "AI" either

(unless you're nvidia/tsmc)

I don't think you could have paid me to go on a boeing airliner even before recent political events

> Instead the EU is engaging in increasingly protectionist activity to build more domestic industry.

yes, this is why it was created, it's why it exists!

I have absolutely no problem with the US deciding to re-balance its economy using tariffs, that is its sovereign right

but I have a problem with it using them as a tool of coercion against its "allies" to achieve foreign policy objectives

and not to mention the direct threats of annexation

> But if the EU "decouples" from the US, there's no incentive for the US to not, for example, take over Greenland.

if you assume the decoupling has completed, then the rest of the west would by definition be capable of defending itself without being subject to coercion/blackmail

(there's also the the two nuclear powers treaty bound to defend it)

> How good for the EU will it be if the US collapses into financial ruin (it won't)?

this isn't the aim

the aim is to decouple enough so you can't be blackmailed

which unfortunately is quite a herculean task, but hey, you've gotta start somewhere

> The EU can say well we're going to go sell all these treasuries, well they become worth less and less and collapse the global economy.

they won't sell them simultaneously, because that would be crazy

but they will change their portfolio allocations over time in response to these new risks made obvious from the hourly yelling out of the white house

which increases US funding costs, decreasing its competitiveness, which is a vicious circle

if it goes on long enough, other trading partners won't want to be paid in dollars at all

> Mainstream economists have broadly always said that the trade deficit is a good thing for the United States

yes, this is the traditional position

but the underlying assumption is that USD remains the world reserve currency

and there's now an entire western hemisphere no longer interested in maintaining that

after the threats of invasion: as far as I'm concerned the relationship is dead

to hell with the economic consequences

as a brit, I wouldn't be buying German products in 1939 either

it's their business model

it's free

but if you want the compliance paperwork, you pay for it

how much do you think of my £1 can of coke stays in the UK?

maybe a quarter?

the rest will be a "licensing fee", which goes straight to Atlanta, Georgia

(well, now it doesn't)

yes it seems to be win win, like just completely giving up soft drinks

I hadn't realised quite how many "UK" brands were owned by US conglomerates

a scarily high percentage

as a non-USian, I've been doing my part to increase the US trade deficit with my country

in the last year I've stopped buying any product from american companies if there is another viable supplier, even if it costs more

heinz, coca-cola, five guys, goodyear (I needed new tyres), aws/gcp, lays, mars, ... all removed entirely