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staticman2··on GPT-5.4
If you had created a project with custom instructions and/ or custom style I think you could have gotten Claude to respond the way you wanted just fine.
staticman2··on US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters
This is exhausting. Claude read the article.

Said article is not about a loan backed by a security agreement. That eliminates law.com definition 1.

Law.com definition 2 is silent on whether pledges are binding.

Thus ended your research.

I don't know why you care if Claude.com is authoritative. Law.com isn't either, the authoritative legal references are paywalled. A law dictionary, as we've demonstrated by law.com's second definition's vagueness, isn't necessarily even the correct reference to consult.

Your failure, I suppose, is that you provided worse information than Claude. I suppose you should have typed "Don't cite Claude please" and moved on.

staticman2··on US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters
Your goal seemed to be to fact check Claude. I'm not sure why your failure to do so should be taken up with law.com?

Law.com's first definition is inapplicable. That leaves us with the second definition, which says nothing about whether a pledge is legally binding.

staticman2··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
> If I recall correctly, the OAI-Microsoft deal just defined it as “AI-shaped tech that can generate $100 billion in annual profits”, which I think is actually close to the correct answer

So if they hit 100 billion annual then it's AGI but if Kellogg's launches “FrostedFlakes-GPT" and steals 30% of the market it's no longer AGI at 70 billion?

staticman2··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
By illegal I mean contrary to American law.

Legal fees are literally not damages. A court granting legal fees would be doing that in addition to damages.

In most cases the jury will never even be told what your attorneys fees are, and they are not permitted to award them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_fe...

staticman2··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
> Under what statute is it illegal to request legal fees?

You can request anything you want? Granting it would be illegal.

An attorney asking the judge to break the law and award attorney fees is literally asking for something illegal in most circumstances. There are exceptions. (By illegal I mean contrary to law.)

It's funny that 4 people downvoted me instead of bothering to check Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_fe...

staticman2··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Legal fees are not something you are usually legally entitled to.

Your attorney can push for whatever illegal thing they can think of, it doesn't mean you will get it.

staticman2··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
If your work computer is taking 10 seconds to open the calculator something is very odd since my windows 11 work computer opens it just fine.
staticman2··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
It is not. Legal fees are rarely awarded in the U.S.
staticman2··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
I'm not familiar with Openclaw and but the trick to solve this would be to embed a style reminder at the bottom of each user message and ideally hide that from the user with the UI.

This is how roleplay apps like Sillytavern customize the experience for power users by allowing hidden style reminders as part of the user message that accompany each chat message.

staticman2··on After 800 episodes, 'The Simpsons' creators look back and ahead
> I often think about how much of a given it was that they own a house on a single income

I don't relate to this comment. I was Bart's age and both my parents worked.

My mom and the majority of her woman friends were teachers.

The generation before us, Gen X was the one stereotyped as "latchkey kids" due to stereotypically having two working parents.

staticman2··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
> Anthropic was the first to spam reddit with fake users and posts, flooding and controlling their subreddit to be a giant sycophant.

Is the Claude subreddit less authentic than the ChatGPT one?

I remember for a while the Claude subreddit was filled with people saying "I asked Claude if it was conscious and the answer was soooo fascinating you guys."

I think the ChatGPT one was filled with posts like "I had ChatGPT write my resume and now I'm rolling in cash!"

I found both subreddits unreadable.

staticman2··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
> was supposed to be an AI LLM

Are you claiming Bard wasn't an LLM???

staticman2··on How to make a living as an artist
Encyclopedia Brittanica defines "popular art" as art that resonates with ordinary people in modern urban society. I'm sure we could point to examples of people earning a living at non popular art.
staticman2··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
> Contrary to your point, a brain is in fact a computer.

Whether a brain is a computer is entirely resolved by your definition of computer. And being definitional in nature, this assertion is banal.

staticman2··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
That's odd considering 3.0 is still labeled a "preview" release.
staticman2··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Sorry, this doesn't make sense to me.

Any human contributor can also plagiarize closed source code they have access to. And they cannot "transfer" said code to an open source project as they do not own it. So it's not clear what "elephant in the room" you are highlighting that is unique to A.I. The copyrightability isn't the issue as an open source project can never obtain copyright of plagiarized code regardless of whether the person who contributed it is human or an A.I.

staticman2··on GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding
I've been doing small PDFs- usually 5 or 6 pages in length.

I never tested Gemini 3 PDF OCR compared to individual images but I can say it processes a small 6 page PDF better than the retired Gemini 1.5 or 2 did individual images.

I agree that OCR and analysis should be two separate steps.

staticman2··on GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding
Gemini Pro 3 seems to be built for handling multiple page PDFs.

I can feed it a multiple page PDF and tell it to convert it to markdown and it does this well. I don't need to load the pages one at a time as long as I use the PDF format. (This was tested on A.i. studio but I think the API works the same way).

staticman2··on Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead
> The weirdest part is it says Epstein was "found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter."

What says that? I don't see the document linked to in that article at all. The article seems to essentially be spam.

staticman2··on MIT Living Wage Calculator
It seems the government data does not agree with you that people don't drive far in rural areas:

https://www.bts.gov/data-spotlight/household-cost-transporta...

staticman2··on MIT Living Wage Calculator
It would not surprise me to learn their methodology is flawed however under the affordable care act people below 400 percent of the poverty line pay less due to tax subsidies so we can't assume 5 percent of the population pays what you pay.
staticman2··on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
You seem to think grandparents too cognitively declined to use windows safely can be taught to use Chromebooks and IPADs instead.

What you are missing is it isn't always easy to teach a new operating system to someone with cognitive decline.

(And if we are picturing a grandparent without cognitive decline your suggestions makes even less sense.)

staticman2··on Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off
>its literally cheaper to make an entire new chipset than it is to fix AMd

Is it? Or does AMD expect to make a profit and it's cheaper to make your own chips at cost?

staticman2··on Claude Opus 4.6
For fun I've asked Gemini Pro to answer open ended questions about obscure books like "Read this novel and tell me what the hell is this book, do a deep reading and analyze" and I've gotten insightful/ enjoyable answers but I've never asked it to make lists of spells or anything like that.
staticman2··on Claude Opus 4.6
Any obscure work of fiction or fanfiction would likely be fine as a casual test.

If you ask a model to discuss an obscure work it'll have no clue what it's about.

This is very different than asking about Harry Potter.

staticman2··on Why The Jetsons still matters (2012)
>George is the family's breadwinner and works only two days a week for one hour a day in the show.

That really seems to go against the premise of the show as shown on the opening (typically modern day 1960s nuclear family but in the future).

I looked into this and Wikipedia cites this fact as being from the 1985 version not the original cartoon.

I suspect taking a joke about George's workday from the 85 version as "canon" kind of misses the point of the show.

staticman2··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
I don't think it's inevitable often the AI will just keep looping again and again. It can happily without frustration loop forever.
staticman2··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
Author thinks he's cute to do things like mention Google without typing Google but I wouldn't call him unhinged.
staticman2··on Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
I'm not gonna watch a video but did you even read that article before you linked to it?

"Fink is still a big believer in the U.S. economy and argues things are looking mostly constructive at this point. He feels the bull story is still intact, but its durability matters a lot more."

It's the human equivilent of AI slop.

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