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Starring Mads Mikkelsen, no less?

Which you also might not have the license to do. I once licensed a Monotype typeface that prohibited its use in anything editable, including fillable PDF forms.

Ack, typo! I meant January 2029. That’s how far out the options chain goes.

This is not at all how share ownership works. You don’t have partial title to a corporation by owning shares.

The price of RAM does not need to come down in order for a way-out-of-the-money January 2027 put on NVDA to increase in value from its current purchase price.

The point of LEAPS is you don’t have to perfect the timing. You buy far enough out to avoid theta decay, and far enough out of the money to minimize risk.

They went bankrupt in part because although privately owned, they depended on a city charter to operate, and the City used that charter to force them to keep fares unsustainably low (I believe it was a nickel).

My EV could probably make a 3 hour highway trip without charging, but it would put me dangerously close to empty when I arrived.

Yes, but is making everyone learn information retrieval techniques, re-skilling as needed for new generations of systems, really a societal optimum? Prior to the Internet, this was a dedicated job done by librarians and paralegals. LLM-augmented search has gotten us over the temporary hump of it being everyone’s job.

But an AI that can turn “the blue thing yesterday” into that metadata search is a really useful thing for many users. Unfortunately a lot of those same users aren’t going to need or want to see the metadata query, so product designers might obscure it behind an opaque tool call.

LLMs can actually be a good fit in this application if a better search engine feeds them a list of candidate websites that might sell the thing, and the LLM drives a web browser to see if any of the websites have it.

Isn’t that a 50% success rate with a sample size of 2?

LLMs can in fact do arithmetic, just not reliably owing to how numbers are represented probabilistically: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21272

Yeah, but as you might expect they internally represent numbers probabilistically, so there’s always a nonzero possibility of confusing the inputs or outputs of any operation. Kind of like misremembering your multiplication tables.

Prior to Visual C++ (the first version of which shipped for Windows 3.x), Microsoft sold a “Microsoft C/C++” as well as Microsoft QuickC:

- https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-c-c/5x

- https://winworldpc.com/product/quick-c/10-for-windows

Given the user you are responding to is named “try-working” and is participating heavily in this post, arguing heavily on the side of “where there’s smoke there’s fire,” I think they might in fact be one such political opponent. Or at least politically opposed to the existence of Somali migrants in Sweden.

Because it makes in implicit comparison with a hypothetical transportation mode with zero dollars of government subsidy.

The automobile analogue to fares is gas taxes, so the first crack at a true comparison is to compare the Caltrans budget to gas tax receipts.

But the Bay Area’s highway networks are at saturation during peak hours. 101 and 280 are at least as bad as before the pandemic.

We have under-utilized transit corridors that could alleviate much of this strain if they weren’t so damn far away from where the people sitting in traffic want to go.

There was a nationwide catalytic converter theft ring for the first few years of the pandemic. Junkies around the country would steal cats and ship them off to New Jersey. The ringleader pleaded guilty last year: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-national-catalytic-con...

I believe this was a significant portion of the brazen daylight catalytic converter thefts in California in the early years of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, the 47 Muni bus that connects the Van Ness transit corridor to Caltrain has been “suspended” since 2020, and the extension of Caltrain to the transit center is still unfunded.

I appreciate solutions that meet us where we are, but it’s depressing that we don’t seem to actually have the will to make a sustainable, integrated mass transit plan.

Practically speaking, most of it would sit waiting for a buyer.

This is called string betting and will get you kicked off a table.

Apple cultivars are interesting because they are often developed by governments motivated to promote the existence of a healthy farming industry, not by private monopoly rights. Case in point, the Cripps Pink (aka Pink Lady) was developed by the Western Australia Department of Agriculture, and the Cosmic Crisp was developed by Washington State University.

(Honeycrisp is another fantastically successful government-funded cultivar, this time by the University of Minnesota. But it apparently led to the spontaneous breeding of the SugarBee, which is privately owned.)

Your opinion about the “validity” of such a case is not really at home in a thread about _legal standing_.

What you think you should be able to do with the data you get back from contacting Amazon’s servers doesn’t impact whether Amazon has standing to sue you over how and why you contacted their servers.

There’s a federal WARN act too. Neither the state nor federal versions gives the employees any legal right to try to change the business’s mind.

Amazon is a party to interactions with their website. That gives them standing to sue over those interactions. Whether they can sue Perplexity specifically is what was being debated in these motions.

Because David Ellison’s explicit plan is to run Warner Bros. Discovery (owners of CNN) and Paramount (owners of CBS) as two divisions within Skydance Media. He committed to keeping a 20-odd film slate at WBD as part of antitrust negotiations with the U.S. and other countries. So he has to keep the studio running while figuring out how to pay off the investors with depreciating Oracle assets.

This is over a month old, for anyone like me who was confused.

I’m saying that compiling Wi-Fi drivers from source is still representative of trying to run Linux on consumer hardware.

Desktop Linux is like a kit plane. You can pay to have someone assemble it for you, but you still need to know how to get in there and fix it.