In any fight, circumstances are king. You need far, far more variables defined in order to be able to answer this question, and even then it won’t be a certain outcome. Who has the element of surprise? What’s the age, weight, and sex of the tiger (and the wolves)? How recently have the tiger/wolves eaten? Does anyone slip on a banana peel during the encounter?

Maybe we’re going about this wrong. Are you trying to make sure the tiger is dead or are you trying to use as few wolves as possible?

Hey, I didn’t violate any rules. I just suggested an apparently-legal activity 🤷

I’m quite certain these are completely separate times and places, how the hell has someone tried this more than once?

Stripe simply passes through communications between merchants and banks, Stripe has nothing to do with deciding disputes. Source: I deal with this every weekday and sometimes on weekends.

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What’s really going on here? Why do banks completely ignore the terms customers agreed to when they subscribed or in cases where they’re clearly making false claims?

Because they can. There’s no incentive to side with the merchant - from their perspective, “what are you gonna do, not accept cards from a certain issuer?”. I’ve thought in the past that it might be a numbers game - the real problem customers do it a lot and get caught. I don’t know if that’s true though, I suspect it’s got more to do with keeping penalty fees.

And why aren’t customers required to provide any proof at all?

Because that would mean the bank would have to verify the proof, and there are no consequences for not.

What actually prevents someone from using a SaaS product, filing chargebacks every time they cancel their subscription, and essentially getting refunded for the last several months of usage?

I can answer this one as a consumer, because I’ve reflected on it frequently while fighting disputes.

• not having energy
• forgetting when you do have energy
• not having time
• not wanting the confrontation
• thinking you won’t get a refund so it’s a waste of time you don’t have anyway
• illness

A lot of reasons can come up. It’s not really relevant though, I think card companies should spend the resources we do validating our evidence for chargebacks, but then they’d have to pay people to do that and they don’t keep the penalty fees. Big hit to their bottom line.

“Funnyman” so famously “funny” he’s been regularly lampooned for decades as being formulaic, bland, and predictable. Quite literally the source of the

What’s the deal with…

meme. He’s popular like pop music, and his comedy is about as deep. This kind of dullness tracks with Zionism and genocide apologia, so I suppose these comments aren’t that surprising.

I would honestly expect them to base it on percentage of video watched, and count that per watch session. But, that would mean they couldn’t stiff creators when the majority of people watch the video sped up, which I bet is more common than slowed down by quite a margin.

So yeah, I guess it does make sense 😅

Iiiinteresting. How does it “freak out” - in favour of the video, or against it? I’d guess in favour?

If eating meat is barbaric, then he clearly still does it because he is a barbarian. Looking at his political views, that does track, strongly indicative of the model here being consistent with reality.

It can do that for school level stuff because that material is present in it’s input dataset in a redundant manner. For anything niche or domain-specific, it will hallucinate or fail.

I typically don’t have an issue getting a grasp on fundamentals, so most of the things I want to ask it about might be beyond school-level. My main way of learning is to ask questions to make sure I understand the material - which means more potential hallucination points, and maybe worse impact because I’ll think I get it, but I’ve just been confidently lied to that I understood.

For example, I’ve wondered for a while if patches of space with less gravitational curvature “age” faster than patches that are more heavily distorted by gravity wells, and what the implications of that might be. Makes sense, we know that gravity slows down subjective time. But I can’t get a productive answer out of an LLM because I can’t trust it, and it’s not worth bothering my physicist friends about.

Ah-ha, now there’s an interesting use case. I’ve had occasion in the past to work on PCB design - to be clear I didn’t do the design myself, I have no idea wtf I’m doing there, but I’m capable of reading spec sheets and soldering - and when I had to sub in components, I managed to find what I needed by filtering down for specs on DigiKey using their search. I think an LLM could have saved me a bit of time there if I could’ve just fed it the BOM and asked for alternatives, and over the course of all the subs I had to do for the particular project I’m thinking of (it was during Chinese New Year so it was tough getting answers from suppliers) that would have added up.

“I only ask questions to LLMs if I already know the answer”

Not a developer here. I’ve been thinking about this because I hoped LLMs would be able to help me learn things at first, like a patient tutor I can ask all my stupid questions and it’ll never get annoyed with me. Since it can’t do that though, because it lies all the time, I don’t think I have a use case for it at all… About all it can do for me is rewrite or summarise English, and it doesn’t even do a particularly good job of that most of the time so I end up saving time by doing that work myself anyway. I suppose it’s pretty good at translating, but I haven’t tried it for that as I don’t have a lot of call to speak foreign languages.

Well, okay, I understand what you mean and why, but you stated “water is a mineral according to the dictionary” in your post, so I was just clarifying that bit. So yeah, Merriam-Webster is wrong.

Edit: Again, sorry. This is the internet and pedants like me thrive here 😅

Sorry, no, water is not a mineral because it doesn’t have a characteristic crystalline structure, and if a dictionary says otherwise it’s wrong: https://geology.com/articles/water-mineral/

However ice can be, if it forms naturally - the definition of mineral is:

A naturally occurring, homogeneous inorganic solid substance having a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystalline structure, color, and hardness.

And yes, this means that if you grow a crystal like a diamond for example in a lab, technically it’s not a mineral (it’s just sparkling rock).

There’s a golden business opportunity here, it’s a proven model with proven demand. If you can work Boxed.com into the model too (subscription delivery of paper, sanitation, and plastic goods) you’ll be rich AF.

I’m working on my own thing at the moment, but… Anyone know someone with a logistics company?

TIL 😱 Poor little kitties, why are humans so thoughtlessly monstrous?

Just here to echo the sentiment that you’re still pretty young, so if you decide that’s what you want then absolutely go for it. But also I’d like to ask: I know you said the relationship cooled off, but how do you actually feel about her? Would you lose her entirely in the divorce, and would that make you sad/does that really matter (maybe not)? Just trying to get a better picture of your feelings for her and if that’s shifted.

It’s pretty telling that she’s okay with you having “a woman on the side”, that’s a pretty big change if it wasn’t okay before, and I wonder why that changed. Did you get any clarification on how exactly her “outlook on life has changed”?

“Better living through chemistry!”, I call it.

Congratulations, you understood it from the get-go. You’re clearly not the target audience for the comment.

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Do you brag about passing cognitive tests, too?