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it's common, they reserve an amount, and then update towards the final payment. These are not payments as such, and almost always take 48 hours to clear. Same at hotel rooms usually etc..

Many banks only show payments (so only after cleared) and not reserved funds. They will just show that you don't have the full credit available

wait, people can just do that? How does that even work? Does Visa not supposedly protect both the seller and the buyer?

In Western Europe, a chargeback is not that unheard of, but it still requires you to make your case and follow a procedure and review. It's not that lengthy or difficult, but you cant just buy something online and then do a chargeback, unless you can clearly show that the download is not working and tried the helpdesk or you were mislead or something

Yaah I feel the same way. Gemini is great at and Django and AI backends, OpenAI better at making something visually pleasing in React and Claude for everything else or across frontend and backend.

At least, that's my heuristic that tends to work for my workflow. I use a combination of Gemini-CLI, Claude Code, and Github Copilot, but across those, the underlying model choice works best according to which part of the applicaiton I am messing with

yeah I thought that was the USP of Legora and Harvey, so this is not the same thing at all, just surfing the brand recognition

I think it was a lot less restrictive, as far as I understood, the only limit was Microsoft not being allowed to launch competing Microsoft-developed LLMs.

the M line of macbook pro's are beautiful, well crafted, long lasting machines.

MacOS might not be your preferred way of working, and you might prefer cheaper options or USB-A ports, but there is really nothing you could arguably call bad craftmanship in those machines.

weird how its 0 to 15, and no in between.

I went in hoping to set it to 5 minutes. I don't see that as a problem. However, suddenly losing 15 minutes, yeah that's an issue

thank you, I had this debate at work so many times.

Sure it's not a security measure as such, but it's still a worthwile component to the overall defense system.

I love the irony on seeing the contribution counter at 0

Who'd have thought, the audience who doesn't want to give back to the opensource community, giving 0 contributions...

also, let's not conflate easy to repair with cheap to repair.

The macbook is quite easy to repair, it's just insanely expensive because they made the choice that, for user experience, they attach the keyboard to the machines body.

You can have ease of repair and build quality, but then you give up portability I guess (bulky and heavy). And also cost goes up

you need a ton of third party tools to make it behave like Windows, that's what you mean.

I'm perfectly happy with my "vanilla" macbook. Runs Baldurs Gate 3 and my final fantasy ps2 emulator just fine, and even trackmania was quite easy to get installed and runs well.

Can't comment on that hash thing, but I don't see why that would be a problem? It's not linked to your name or something. Windows does a ton of things too that I find inexcusable, such as changing settings or permissions after updates, those have an actual impact on my daily experience with these things

no, the big news is that finally they have the intention to do it

6k would be a no-brainer.

In our office, we'd definitely need the enterprise version for compliance reasons, not because of the features. That's about 14/user/month.

At a workforce of roughly 2500, that's a 4million+ yearly cost for something that is comparable to something you can get without that pricetag. It's no competition at all at that point. Think about it, would you be willing to ask your boss to pay 4 million so you can have a different chat app? No matter how much more ergonomic and friendly and intuitive it is.

yeah I don't understand how this isn't blatant market abuse through their monopoly position

Regulators should be all over it. EU has tried, but unsuccesfully, since it was lawyers who came up with the mitigation.

When you get to partner level, you also get profit sharing on top of you salary.

Partners get 300-400k and senior partners get closer to 600-800

is this the same at quantumblack? They at least give the impression their assets on Brix are somewhat up to date and uesable

I would like to counteract your statement that each token adds a distraction.

In our experiments, we see a surprising benefit to rewriting blocks to use more tokens, especially long lists etc..

E.g. compare these two options

"The following conditions are excluded from your contract - condition A - condition B ... - condition Z"

The next one works better for us:

"The following conditions are excluded from your contract - condition A is excluded - condition B is excluded ... - condition Z is excluded"

And we now have scripts to rewrite long documents like this, explicitly adding more tokens. Would you have any opinion on this?

I saw a demo of parloa (or maybe it was a different provider), and no joke, they insert sound of typing on a keyboard or stuff like that during an LLM tool call, its weird but surprisingly effective lol

Benefit of mcp is that it exists and kinda works, and a lot of tools are available on it. I guess it's all about adoption. But inherently yeah it's a discovery service thingy. Google will never embrace mcp since it's invented by anthropic

I consider it a good first attempt, but indeed hope for a sort of mcp2.0

I've actively started to use outlook and teams through chrome to free up some of my ram, easily saves 3-4gb. It's gotten ridiculous how much ram basic tools are using, leaving nothing for doing actually real work

not necessarily, if openai managed to monetize free users. Could be through advertising, or integrations with marketplaces on commission (e.g. order your next Hello Fresh through ChatGPT? Get recommended a hotel?)

They could succeed where Alexa failed. A free user can even bring in more than a paid user if you look at some platforms like spotify, where apparently there is a large chunk of free users generating more income through ads than if they would pay

not true at all, onboarding is complex too. E.g. you cant just connect claude to your outlook, or have it automate stuff in your CRM. As a office drone, you don't have the admin permissions to setup those connections at all.

And that's the point here: value is handicapped by the web interface, and we are stuck there for the foreseeable future until the tech teams get their priorities straight and build decent data integration layers, and workflow management platforms.

Gemini on fast also tells me to walk...

On Thinking it tells me I should drive if I want to wash it, or walk if it's because I work there or if I want to buy something at the car wash shop.

On Pro it's like a sarcastic teenager: Cars are notoriously difficult to wash by dragging a bucket back and forth.

Technically correct, but did catch me offguard lol.

We already require all relevant and referenced documents to be uploaded in a contract lifecycle management system.

Yes we have hundreds of identical Microsoft and Aws policies, but it's the only way. Checksum the full zip and sign it as part of the contract, that's literally how we do it

and there is a huge overlap between those people, and those who slow down to 60 to save on fuel.

If they'd just drive 70 on cruise control, they'd be faster, less traffic jams and less fuel use...

I really would like to see some mandatory use of cruise control on some stretches of highway, even if just as an experiment

weirdly enough, we asked microsoft to help us build these reports and give us insights into these numbers. The ones in our country were utterly incapable and just send screenshots of powerbi reports from the US team.

So yeah, it really is completely broken internally. monopoly abuse to the fullest, we weren't even allowed by our CTO to do an RFP with potential copilot competitors, and the license cost for 5000 users is insane

why? I don't base my youtube subscription or my drive subscription based on my AI subscriptions

Sure I get gemini for free now for a year since I have bought a pixel, but I have no intention to renew, I'll likely just leech of the ones my employer pays for

even Gemini is better with powerpoint, and they are the nr 1 competitor

they somehow made it worse and use a less capable version with smaller context window.

The only potential upside for businesses it that it can crawl onedrive/sharepoint, and acts as a glorious search machine in your mailbox and files.

That's the only thing really valuable to me, everything else is not working as it should. The outlook integration sucks, the powerpoint integration is laughably bad to being worthless, and the excel integration is less useful than Clippy.

I actually prefer using the "ask" function of github copilot through visual studio code over using the company provided microsoft copilot portal

If I look at my personal work situation, working from home would mean I can't do it immediately, but would have to remember to do it the next day. Or just do it digitally right now in a few minutes and have it off my to-do list

Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to laziness, these are government workers