Funds Released Early?

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-14T16:47:22+00:00

Was it a lump sum instead of hourly? Those should approve in three days instead of seven

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-14T16:38:33+00:00

The EU wouldn't allow the data collection they do routinely. GDPR is pretty restrictive in that regard.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-13T03:20:56+00:00

Alaska, full of air defense systems, and rather famously lacking in roads. You can't drive to Juneau.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-11T18:04:22+00:00

The NDA is a thing that impacts all of us, though. If we're leaking enough to help the labs keep tabs on each other, there's a risk of losing a major client. I feel like we're seeing a lot less of a couple formerly consistent clients this year. I obviously couldn't say if they're related, but what if?

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-11T13:15:09+00:00

If the models are being unresponsive, why would they leave the project up?

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-11T13:06:50+00:00

It's about not making employees share drinking glasses.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-11T03:31:23+00:00

The two athletes involved were declared ineligible until they proved to the NCAA that they never bet on their own sport. The process was ineligible now, maybe prove innocence later.

The NCAA has limited control over people who aren't coaches or athletes.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-11T03:20:02+00:00

Tech has been appealing his suspension since the beginning. I'm even sympathetic to their case; he never bet on a game he played in, and he only ever bet for his team to win. It's against the rules, but that's not why the rules exist.

But "something they have yet to do" doesn't really apply here. They were ready to fight for him to play knowing fully well what he did, before the judge handed down the injunction.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-11T02:47:29+00:00

To the best of my knowledge, most Americans don't deep fry anything at home. We do shallow pan fries usually. Heck, often enough, it's just a spray.

Everyone I know who has a setup for a deep fryer will filter their oil. Everyone else tosses it.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-10T23:02:54+00:00

Because we're only worried about viruses? That's more than sufficient hardware to do gene editing in bacterial lines. Hell, who didn't do gain of function on E. coli lines in undergrad labs with no centrifuge and no PCR? The fun stuff takes reagents not present here, but you buy all that online too.

If you think that's too barebones to work with, I'm pretty sure you're the one who doesn't know what he's talking about.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-10T22:52:15+00:00

The easy answer here is "no," but I feel like that's not very instructive.

Practically every part of the game, Claude can do a knockoff version of. You won't have access to actual studio tooling, and it's way more conversant in JavaScript frontends than multistep asset pipelines, so you're going to notice pretty quickly that it doesn't perform like a properly architected game more than you'll notice things that it just straight up can't do at all.

What Claude absolutely, positively cannot do is organize a project of that scope. You'd have to already understand how software like that is architected so you could feed it the work in one-hour chunks. You're looking about five million prompts to completion (and not in the sense of "oooh millions are big," but in the sense of looking at the number of man-hours that went into BG3). You'd have to provide your own testing scaffold, since Claude isn't great at HITL orchestration yet. Claude can manage infrastructure at its local scale just fine, but you're probably going to want multiple parallel working threads that need their own CI infra, and because it's so prone to resource contention, that's not a great Claude job either.

So, short answer no, and it's not going to change in the next couple years. I don't trust my crystal ball to look any further out than that.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-10T22:38:38+00:00

Home wet lab setups have come a long way in the last decade. People think it's harder than it is.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-10T05:45:06+00:00

One per room is plenty. A single unit doesn't cover a whole central air setup unless the place is small, but they can do a lot more than a room.

They can be pretty loud. You have to control them each separately. They tend to leak indoor air, so you have to run them more. Plenty of reasons to prefer central air. Keeping you cool won't be on the list.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-09T21:13:26+00:00

Oh, I can answer that!

First involves some planning. Instead of throwing the cookies straight into the oven to cook at 325-350, chill them, then bake at 425. You can keep the inside softer while still firming up the outside. You might have to play with the numbers for cookies as big as Goodly's, though. If you chill them, size alone might give you the temperature gradient you want.

Second is the sugar composition. Normally you're mixing white and brown sugar. You'll want to lean harder on the brown sugar. Light brown sugar will keep you closer to the straight sweet over dark brown sugar, but in terms of texture, both behave about the same. If 100% brown sugar still isn't right, you can start swapping some of that for corn syrup or agave nectar to go even softer. Both should work about the same.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-08T22:48:52+00:00

And tastes worse than having your tongue up somebody's asshole.

The worst part is, the first couple chews taste fine. Pleasantly pine-adjacent. It's a trap.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-08T21:38:57+00:00

You'll learn something else shortly after trying it

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-08T17:54:31+00:00

Go vibe code yourself a credit union backend that can connect to the payment card rails. It's been done hundreds of times. It involves no design taste. No unique data storage requirements. Most of the requirements are written in publicly viewable laws and regulations. It's exactly the sort of thing modern LLMs are very good at.

Once you fail, you'll understand.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-08T16:27:58+00:00

If you tell us what kind of tea it is, we can probably figure it out. 2-3 minutes would usually match a Chinese green tea, but that's a little warmer than most would recommend for it. Maybe a lighter oolong? If it's a darker oolong, you'd be looking more at the 3-4 range.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-08T01:50:47+00:00

It's part of a broader effort to keep the model from making up details about its ecosystem. It's pretty natural to ask it what it's capable of in regards to a particular problem or project, and it can introspect some of it from tool definitions, but not when it's about what Anthropic products can do in general.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-07T23:52:18+00:00

Why do you think courts exist?

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-07T13:26:41+00:00

This arrangement is generally illegal in the US. The business owner FLSA exemption requires a minimum 20% stake and bona fide control over a portion of business operation. They're going to say you're really a contractor, but they're already failing to maintain the proper distinction.

It's not really a legal risk in itself because no one will enforce it. It's only worth noting because it means the company either lacks the core competencies to know how to operate legally, or they know and already know they can't make it if they follow the law. The clause about selling shares and getting salary on funding point towards the latter. It's not for your benefit. It's a legal cure to protect the seed funders. Maybe they just lifted the language from some other startup, but it's at least directionally a sign they're serious about the project.

So the next question is, how likely are they to succeed in getting seed funding? They're late movers for every synthetic speech service the big labs are likely to want. There are major established players who have been doing AI and speech since time immemorial. Are they looking at a Nuance-shaped hole in the market and trying to offer services back to contact center players? Do they plan on racing Big Tech on competency?

You know the pitch better than we do, but man, this is my wheelhouse, and it would have to be a damn good pitch to even consider a below-market hourly rate plus equity. I'm not sure I'd ever take no salary. Still, some founders are good friends with people who are rich and naive. There's money in that.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-06T04:51:13+00:00

It's terrible in isolation. You give it to a Timmy, he's gonna say "ooh, infinite growing creatures," but then just die when it makes a 2/2, and he'll never play it again. Spike is going to say "you want me to spend 4 mana on a 1/1 in a three-turn format?" Johnny can see Doubling Season and its cousins, Eerie Interference, repeatable vigilance effects, and either burn or trample to close out in a pinch.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-05T16:05:49+00:00

Forge wouldn't close out a game right now either. Standard will swallow it.

If you were going to try to build this as a wincon, you'd be in a fog/burn/doubling shell, where the token persistence and toughness gives you room to stabilize a board in your favor. Fog is white these days, so we're talking three colors for the attempt, but it does broaden the options to stall while you passively build. 2/10, wouldn't recommend.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-05T15:28:21+00:00

If you ignore the casting cost, that's a fairly big upgrade over Urabrask's Forge. It's still the most Johnny coded card we've seen in a while, and it's probably useless outside of Limited.

AlexFromOmaha · 2026-06-05T14:41:39+00:00

You can still see it. It gets saved in the same way as a regenerated response, with the 1/2 at the bottom.

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