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phailyoor
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phailyoor
1mo ago
And we do have salaries that go up and down. They are limited to either 1) low-end jobs where the effective salary varies because of tips, but the jobs are undesirable in general, such as odd working hours, bad conditions, and low pay; or 2) high end jobs where the salary doesn't matter, i.e. executives getting bonuses.
Lots of midrange jobs have pay that effectively goes up or down. It takes many forms, the most common is a bonus, but also fixed period equity grants, incentives based on company performance, and taxable fringe benefits. Most big companies have a big chunk of comp in these areas over the base pay.
Equity grants work especially well because they automagically go down if the company is doing bad, but the company can always top them up. And if the company wants to cut pay even more than the drop in stonk price, they can decline refreshers.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Are you saying you didn't like doing the job, or was the content actually bad?
phailyoor
1mo ago
A good LLM may give an answer that's more technically accurate and thorough, but I'd have to read all the glazing and em-dashes. The human slop is more entertaining and pleasurable to read.
phailyoor
1mo ago
It could not. It tried to make massive, architecture-level changes to two different subsystems in our codebase rather than just fix a classloader problem.
RIP in pepeloni. But to be fair most agentic ai loves to do this unless you prompt it correctly.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Pre-AI slop was actually good - and AI ruined it
I've seen many claims that "Slop existed before AI" and that means AI isn't destroying the internet. I believe that is absolutely false. The OG slop was actually good, and now it's gone.
Let's define exactly what we're talking about. The slop is web content created by marketing teams, at the absolute lowest cost possible, in order to improve search engine ranking. Let's look at a specific example: when looking up a term mentioned in another post I came across slop created by the same company and same marketing team, but years apart. Let's see if you can tell which slop is worthless garbage ruined by AI, and which is slop that despite being slop may actually be slightly useful.
Critical Insights into Hostile Witness Designation: What It Means When a Lawyer Asks for Permission to Treat the Witness as Hostile
In today's hypercompetitive legal landscape, every advantage matters—especially when it comes to managing witness testimony. A seemingly simple request by a lawyer to treat a witness as hostile can fundamentally change the dynamics of a trial and even determine its outcome. Research indicates that strategic use of this tactic can help uncover inconsistencies, expose bias, and ultimately strengthen a case. This comprehensive guide is designed for legal professionals, law students, and litigators who want to delve into the complexities of hostile witness designations and understand the full strategic, procedural, and ethical dimensions of this courtroom tool. We have optimized this article using high-ranking keywords such as “hostile witness designation,” “treat witness as hostile,” and “litigation strategies” to ensure it not only provides unmatched value but also performs strongly in search engine rankings.
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What Does It Mean When A Lawyer Says “Permission To Treat The Witness As Hostile?”
We asked attorneys throughout the United States what it means when a lawyer says “Permission to treat the witness as hostile?” Several attorneys responded and our readers might find what they said interesting. We hope you enjoy their answers.
It means that the witness you call to testify is not on your side, i.e., is ‘hostile’ to your client’s position. Nevertheless, you want to call that witness to testify in your case (in which you’re trying to prove your case, not disprove the other side’s) for other reasons, i.e., to fill in some facts that need to be stated for you to satisfy your burden of putting into evidence all of the facts necessary to demonstrate your entitlement to bring the claims your client has asserted. If the Judge accepts your assertion that the witness is hostile to your case, you are permitted to ‘lead’ the witness with questions like, ‘isn’t it true that the light was red when you first observed the blue car?’ If the witness is not ‘hostile’ the lawyer is not permitted to ‘lead’ the witness, i.e., to suggest the answer to the question. All you’re allowed to do is to ask open-ended questions like ‘where were you on the 20th of March? Who, if anyone else, was also there?’
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Both of these articles were created with the exact same intention: to enhance search engine ranking at the lowest cost possible. Yet one of them makes the internet a better place, and the other one ruins it. I might even contend that when a human is tasked with writing worthless fluff, that human can't help but to try to insert some nuggets of truth into that fluff. It's simply human nature. AI has no such compulsion.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Ohhh you got access to the gemini.com app not access to the api wrapper. Yeah the app sucks, idk how google screwed it up so much.
Also the gemini bundled with the $25 google workspace accounts is especially gimped, it's much worse than thr $20 plan that normal users get.
3.1 pro high is good in antigravity, aistudio, and api.
phailyoor
1mo ago
The market liquidity is low, appraisals are inflated, and valuations can be anihilated at the whim of a random guy at a game company
phailyoor
1mo ago
I'm actually a huge fan or 3.1 pro (high) personally. Opus and 5.x xhigh are definitely better at difficult problem solving but 3.1 pro can handle most things and is much more chill and less anal about many things.
Would be interesting to hear what specific tasks 3.1 pro underperforms on that opus can take care of
phailyoor
1mo ago
they're making unlimited usage of a newer model, 5.6 Luna, available to the masses for free.
In my ime, all cost optimized models are absolute worthless dogshit. A current gen cost optimized model is not as useful as early gen normal models (llama3 70b, gpt-4o).
My understanding is that current chatgpt free is 5.5 real with thinking=0 which is still a decent model. Luna (equivalent to nano, much worse than even mini), is a maaaasive step down. I think it's criminal to even let the masses have access to this piece of hot garbage, as it will provide negative information to a 100iq midwit.
The other guy's post claims it was a specific plane, not just any plane.
I did also assume usd but another poster helpfully pointed out that there are other currencies with bigger bills
phailyoor
1mo ago
Parent's linked article claims it was transported on a specific plane with a capacity ofuch less than 30 tons
phailyoor
1mo ago
Hmm I assumed it would be usd because that's what the reuters mentioned. (That's a problem with my human meat not the robot though)
I'm the most rabid anti AI luddide on this forum and I can tell you that LLMs can do perfect basic arithmetic.
I'm ready to wager $50 right now that you can't demonstrate a single example of gpt 5.x, gemini pro 3.x, claude opus 4.x making an error of more than 10% of basic arithmetic (plus minus multiply divide) for any 2 numbers up to 10^10. Just share the chat link and I will PP you the money.
Justification for 10% margin: since we are talking back of the envelope calculation, a trivial error does not change the answer
Not that I am not asking for the latest models, but I am ruling out cost optimized models (gpt mini, gemini flash) as they are intentionally compromising capability heavily to lower cost.
phailyoor
1mo ago
LLMs are perfectly capable of looking up simple values such as the cargo capacity of an airplane, and the weight of money, and doing the simple arithmetic based on this.
If you disagree you are more than capable of performing the back of the envelope calculation by hand.
phailyoor
1mo ago
More realistically it would be to sign papers over the deal and shake hands
phailyoor
1mo ago
agreed to release
That means they didn't release it yet. And given that Iran kept blowing stuff up, I think it's highly likely that Iran never got to smell it at all.
had already been made available.
This is deliberately vague but the most straightforward interpretation is that these accounts were unfrozen, giving Iran the on-paper ability to spend those funds, but they would still remain within the UAE banking system. Hard to say though, as the other source says "delivered".
phailyoor
1mo ago
The UAE paid Iran $10-20bil to stop its attacks
Read the article again please.
phailyoor
1mo ago
they literally flew a cargo plane loaded with billions of dollars in cold hard cash to Tehran to pay the Mullahgeld.
Mr. Chatgpt and Mr. Gemini both agree that it's physically impossible for that plane to transport remotely close to the claimed amount. Maybe there was a bribe in that plane but the overall claim is not credible.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Nearly 100% of ATACMS and PrSM
I think these claims were a hidden message that the entire thing is fake an a joke. There aren't many places these missiles can be fired from and hit Iran, and osint sources were pretty obviously reporting when they were used. And based on osint they were only used in a limited capacity in the latest round of strikes.
So either the US was firing off thousands of these from some secret place for most of the war, then all of a sudden decided to launch a few volleys from obvious and observable places, or the claims are complete bs.
phailyoor
1mo ago
A few months ago war critics told me that Iran was winning outright and would emerge stronger than ever.
Delusional Iran simps will claim that Iran's position is better than every, and America is much more on the ropes than before. I think this is not true, but it's also not true that Iran is in a corner either. The truth is more complicated.
phailyoor
1mo ago
It does, it's generally referred to as "period of authorized stay" but it takes a bit more work to get than simply filing an application. And applicants need to carefully make sure that "period of authorized stay" actually starts before the previous visa expires.
phailyoor
1mo ago
UAE numbers are believable, they have a bypass pipeline, plus allegations that they made a backhanded bribe to get Iran to go easy on their blockade running ships.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Yeah, if America surrenders for no good reason Iran would technically win. Why would America do that?
Because Trump is a cowardly fool. He's done great domestically but he's cucked to iran and chickened out too many times to have any faith in him right now.
phailyoor
1mo ago
Trump won. Iran lost.
This is insane cope. It's at best a draw considering that very few us goals were achieved. If destroying Iran's proxies was really a big deal, then it would have been much easier to pick them apart one at a time, isolated and alone, instead of having to deal with this entire regional mess.
I'm sure ai's own idiosyncratic apprach can figure out how to slip in a few emdashes, and some not x, but y into each output
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