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New comment by klrefg in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)"

klrefg — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:20:28 +0000

> subject to and follow the rules promulgated by the elected authorities of that country is normal and just

There are no laws or rules which require Google or any other private entity to use whatever names Trump came up with. That’s just not how it works

New comment by klrefg in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)"

klrefg — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:33:12 +0000

Well first the president has to have the actual legal power to “rename” a geographic area or a body of water. Which is not exactly the case. Same way he can’t redefine the meaning of words and such.

New comment by klrefg in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)"

klrefg — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:30:48 +0000

Street names are fundamentally different. You wait until the new name actually becomes commonly used and not just a deranged joke.

New comment by klrefg in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)"

klrefg — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:27:08 +0000

It’s commonly used to illustrate how absurd are some of the things the US government is doing. It’s not commonly used to refer to the actual bodies of water.

New comment by klrefg in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)"

klrefg — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:24:06 +0000

What rules? There are no laws that would require Google or other private entities (or for that matter the overwhelming majority of government organizations) to use any absurd name that the president came up with instead of the actual names. Obviously they feel coerced or are just generally into boot licking but its the opposite of “rules”.

New comment by klrefg in "Git for the US Code"

klrefg — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:08:32 +0000

> motivated to pay attention has the means to do so.

Yes, exactly, people who profit directly from certain decisions can afford to spend a lot more time and resources on this than ordinary voters.

New comment by klrefg in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

klrefg — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:38:47 +0000

Not at all, it’s just that those (i.e. sensible) people just think that this small step is in a direction that’s entirely orthogonal. Unless of course the goal is virtue signaling rather than solving actual problems.

New comment by klrefg in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

klrefg — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:31:24 +0000

This is not about personal accommodations, though? Usually its coming from people who are supposedly trying to enforce this stuff to “protect” broader groups of people who they perceive need saving or just engaging in general virtue signaling.

New comment by klrefg in "MiniMax M3.1 Flash"

klrefg — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:29:31 +0000

> a 10-100x increase in compute usage

What are these numbers based on? Seems hard to believe…

New comment by klrefg in "Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug"

klrefg — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:09:31 +0000

It’s more so zero customer support and no accountability that is the issue here, not the existence of that specific bug.

New comment by klrefg in "Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug"

klrefg — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:06:35 +0000

> This is what taking responsibility is

That is very generous considering their strategy is not having any type of customer support and entirely ignoring their users unless the complain on an online forum where thousands of others can see it.

New comment by klrefg in "The insider trading you're allowed to do"

klrefg — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:21:03 +0000

IMHO WP or alternatively their own OS (but Nokia famously sucked at software so hardly a viable option) was their only chance. They couldn’t compete with Samsung and later on Chinese manufacturers of Android phones. HTC, LG and a bunch of others failed despite of pivoting to Android “in time”, why would have Nokia done any better?

New comment by klrefg in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

klrefg — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:14:42 +0000

> when the sun is shining.

So no LLMs for 3-5 months a year in most of Europe?

New comment by klrefg in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

klrefg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:20:58 +0000

Well… I’m not arguing that the conditions weren’t terrible just that they were better than in most continental countries. US of course was on another level (yet there was plenty of squalor there as well)

New comment by klrefg in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

klrefg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:18:44 +0000

Well Erdogan has been the president of Turkey since 2014. Actually these days its pretty much a presidential republic just like the US.

And yes Orban is an exception, the average tenure of a prime minister in parliamentary democracies is considerably shorter than that of US presidents.

New comment by klrefg in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

klrefg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:40:00 +0000

Nope, the Swedish version of AfD is a lot more successful and is already well integrated into the political system (it’s the 3rd largest party in the parliament ).

New comment by klrefg in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

klrefg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:33:43 +0000

> mature attitude towards democracy.

It’s a bit silly to expect ordinary citizens to have a near infinitely more mature attitude towards democracy than their elected representatives though? It’s not like anybody could have ever expected until relatively recently that one of the (objectively) most immature public figures in the country would somehow end up its president

New comment by klrefg in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

klrefg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:29:35 +0000

It’s trivial to remove a prime minister from power, while it’s near impossible to get rid of an US president before the end of their term

New comment by klrefg in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say"

klrefg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:17:47 +0000

No, not really. It’s more like they parked 1000 cars on top of a hill and then just pushed them down to see what they do expecting that the cars will stop on their own before hitting anyone.

New comment by klrefg in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say"

klrefg — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:12:24 +0000

They know, they just don’t care